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by Steuard 10y ago
Yeah, I remember this vulnerability getting a lot of attention back when that bug was filed. I don't remember how the browsers decided to fix it, but there was some kind of fix. What happened in the last decade that changed that? A
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by Steuard 10y ago
Do you know families that really do this every day? Because honestly, I'm dubious that many parents would be so out of touch that consistently. I can imagine some folks resorting to this sort of thing periodically, no question: I thi
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by Steuard 10y ago
Slow can certainly be a negative signal, I agree (though if the content is mostly just HTML and CSS without much media then speed only means so much). But depending on the topic, "stale" may not mean much about quality at all. I&#
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by Steuard 10y ago
General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are two astonishingly successful theories. They don't really have any massive gaps waiting to be filled. Individually, you're entirely right about this: both general relativity (GR) and q
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by Steuard 10y ago
Treating someone as a liar, however tentatively, can also severely damage reputations, livelihoods, and lives. There is not a neutral option here. (Or at least, a neutral balance is very delicate and hard to find, and your approach is emp
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by Steuard 10y ago
If Party A accuses Party B of misconduct and Party B claims that the accusation is false (explicitly or implicitly), then someone is lying. If you aim to be nobly impartial until compelling evidence is available, the logically appropriate
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by Steuard 10y ago
I thought so, too. But the advice I've seen, quite strongly, is that you do not want to lie to federal officials about anything, ever. Even if you're just using a hidden volume on principle rather than hiding some terrible wrong
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by Steuard 10y ago
I don't know if this is a WebGL issue, a Mac issue, a Firefox issue (I use NoScript, but I've allowed scripts for the site and the rest of the game seems to work fine), or what, but I'm having absolutely no success in getting
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by Steuard 10y ago
Probably not. :) (Is it a redirect now, or is it an actual mirror?) My understanding is that they switched to the new domain after people noticed the original was being blocked as porn by a bunch of automatic content filters.
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by Steuard 10y ago
I haven't read the paper yet (too much to do). But I wonder why it's posted in the "General Physics (physics.gen-ph)" category rather than under "General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)" where most pap
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by Steuard 10y ago
This isn't entirely true: near the surface of a neutron star, there's a coexistence of neutrons, protons, and electrons in a type of thermal equilibrium. (I'm embarrassed to say that I don't remember offhand how to estim
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by Steuard 10y ago
Every automatic car I've ever seen has had the ability to downshift to engage engine braking. (Even the CVT in cars like the Prius has an engine braking mode.) I've seen advocates of manual transmissions cite a lack of engine brak
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by Steuard 10y ago
The arguments against boil down to "Any reactionless drive must by definition violate conservation of momentum." We shouldn't reject any scientific conclusion as unquestionable gospel, of course, but off the top of my head I&
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by Steuard 10y ago
I really enjoyed learning the details from Lamport's own book: LaTeX: A Document Preparation System. It covers most of the essential features, but maybe just as importantly it describes the philosophy behind LaTeX (which is rather diff
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by Steuard 10y ago
I went into this article expecting to cheer it on: I'm grateful for everyone who's pushing back against our modern insistence on overprotective parenting, all too often backed by the brute force of law. But barely a page into it (
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by Steuard 10y ago
Each fall I teach a mini-course for our physics majors who want to take the Physics GRE. The trouble is that you can't do well on the test if you just go in and try to solve as many questions as you can: it's 100 questions in 170
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by Steuard 10y ago
Going north means changing latitude to approach 90 degrees north latitude at the pole. Those degrees of latitude are evenly spaced in distance (s=r theta, if theta is angle north of the equator). Going east means changing longitude, rising
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by Steuard 10y ago
My understanding is that scientists believed it was tidally locked for quite some time (until the mid-1960s, and not confirmed until Mariner 10 in 1974-5): the resonance between its rotation and its orbit (together with limitations of where
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by Steuard 10y ago
Those emoticons seem to have been in many ways better than :-) and its relatives, but it sounds like they 1) relied on details of the platform, and (related) 2) never caught on more broadly. So I think it's still reasonable to celebr
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by Steuard 10y ago
This is a review of a massive epic that was written very shortly after its last installment was published. Yes, the reviewer got some details wrong, but there simply hadn't been time for him (or just about anyone else) to have read it
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by Steuard 10y ago
I'd had exactly that thought. (Of course, the danger is that it might also lead to the LED taking a few moments to light up.)
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by Steuard 10y ago
Yeah, I was pretty sure I was being a little sloppy by using the term "series" (for shame, physics prof, for shame!), but I was hoping to evoke the general sense of "if current doesn't flow through the LED for any reason
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by Steuard 10y ago
In addition to the attacks that others have mentioned here, I've also heard folks comment previously on the possibility of turning on the camera very briefly, just long enough for a single still shot. If it was done fast enough, the br
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by Steuard 10y ago
That doesn't really help, though. With "marks on paper" voting, you don't have to deal with the hanging chad problem, but you get whole crops of people who don't fill the bubbles completely, or who partially mark tw
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by Steuard 10y ago
I didn't hear anyone say that a trigger warning means "shutting down topics and discussions". Isn't the whole point that it is a warning : that the topic is going to be discussed, and that you're giving a heads u
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by Steuard 10y ago
"No risk" seems a bit strong here. (Or maybe I'm just paranoid. But I was definitely in charge of the litter box when my wife was pregnant). Could an indoor cat who has at some point shared a litter box with an outdoor cat ha
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by Steuard 10y ago
Yikes! Are there really index funds with 1% expense ratios? I think my Vanguard funds are all under 0.2%, some way under. (I've got the impression that Vanguard's ETF expense ratios are similar or identical to the corresponding
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by Steuard 10y ago
Ignorant question: Why ETFs rather than the equivalent mutual funds (which I think are usually available)? I have some sense of the differences, but I've never taken the time to figure out the pros and cons. (I've been investing
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by Steuard 10y ago
e^(i tau) - 1 = 0 Seems pretty comparable to me: this one elegantly demonstrates the full periodicity of complex exponentials, while the original elegantly demonstrates how complex exponentials can produce pure negative numbers.
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by Steuard 10y ago
What polynomials are being derived, and from what premises? Are you thinking of how to derive series solutions to differential equations or something? I'm unclear on what you're getting at here. (Or, oh: did you mean "differe

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