Rhinobird

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by Rhinobird 6mo ago
And pgp certificate signing
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by Rhinobird 1y ago
I just assumed they were tapping them on their phone and had some kind of app, or website something
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by Rhinobird 2y ago
>In addition to that, there are strong political incentives for ‘distributing’ contracts widely, Government/Defense contractors can track their suppliers and tell Congress exactly how many jobs are in which districts per project.
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by Rhinobird 2y ago
The space shuttle was refurbishable. It needed an army of 5000 engineers a few months to get it flight worthy after each launch. And ultimately that wasn't enough for safety.
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by Rhinobird 2y ago
No. Once moving an object keeps moving unless there is force that pushes it. There is nothing in space to apply force on particles. One would also presume these tachyons don't interact much with regular matter, like neutrinos
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by Rhinobird 3y ago
That reminds me of Pak Protectors from Larry Niven's Known Space stories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Protector
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by Rhinobird 5y ago
Yeah. Think teleporter instead of warp drive
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by Rhinobird 5y ago
that's probably true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...
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by Rhinobird 5y ago
My question is, how long until we have automatically dubbed anime?
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by Rhinobird 5y ago
It might be because the radio DJ in the town and the songs he plays after waxing philosophic.
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by Rhinobird 5y ago
You don't happen to work for Setec Astronomy, do you?
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by Rhinobird 5y ago
The bit towards the end with Millie and Wolfwood makes me cry.
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by Rhinobird 6y ago
double a letter to add ephasis or indicate a long vowel. Reefuse / refuse, Permit / Permmit, Record / Reecord
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by Rhinobird 6y ago
Lord of the Rings is boring until they get out of Rivendell. Once they actually start their journey it's a fun read.
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by Rhinobird 6y ago
a small amount. Not the obscene amounts we eat here in America
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by Rhinobird 6y ago
by 'vector' they just mean a list of numbers (ex. [32,5,8,11]). By dimension they mean the number of items in the list. In the above example it's a 4 dimensional vector. Make the numbers binary digits and voila. By hyperdime
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by Rhinobird 6y ago
Spherical cows in a vaccuum
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by Rhinobird 7y ago
28*13(+1)=365 (or +2 on leap years)
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by Rhinobird 7y ago
Holy shit, Litestep! That takes me back.
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by Rhinobird 7y ago
The main Proton-Boron reaction produces charged particles instead of neutrons. You can capture the charged particles directly as a source of voltage with no intermediate step. Just stick a piece of metal in the way and hook up wires. Conv
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by Rhinobird 7y ago
all fun and games until some jack-ass spoofs the GPS and moves a road 20 feet to the left. https://www.wired.com/2012/07/drone-hijacking/
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by Rhinobird 7y ago
Can any of this be beaten into a way to verify group membership? Say you want to prove you are a member of the AMA or IEEE, or Bar? Could you set up a large group for the association and their communications, and then when asked provide ve
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by Rhinobird 7y ago
To help keep proprietary company communications from getting out?
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by Rhinobird 7y ago
You can buy the here: https://knowm.org/product/
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by Rhinobird 7y ago
like an audio PDF or something.
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by Rhinobird 7y ago
and, these: 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLYz2vWv1wg 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsbrEOxVPcg
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by Rhinobird 7y ago
1a - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac&t=327s 1b - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPM3GqjMR4 1c - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGKbRcvIZT8 1d - https://www.you
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by Rhinobird 7y ago
For x⋅0=a (i.e. 1/0) no number fits. It's like a database search that finds nothing. It's a null. A point that is not in the set. For x⋅0=0 (i.e. 0/0) any number fits. Is there such a thing as an anti-null? In the i
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by Rhinobird 7y ago
Like going back to the original 14 years?
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by Rhinobird 7y ago
What if you walked an indeterminate length for an Airline mile?

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