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by _xerces_ 2y ago
From my admittedly limited knowledge gleaned from occasional PopSci articles posted here on HN over the years, don't they use plasma trapped in magnetic fields to contain the reaction and not a particular metal?
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
I'm still waiting to see any (net) value to society from our current AI. So far I believe it is negative despite being a paid ChatGPT user myself.
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Maybe static vs. dynamic have different meanings when talking about celestial objects that are billions of years old, 864,000 miles across and a million times the size of the planet you're living on?
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
If enough of these crazies move to Greenbank it will at least help keep the area a radio quiet zone, so good for the observatory!
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
I personally just can't be productive on a tiny 13" laptop, though perhaps a lot of people just plug in a monitor and keyboard. I much prefer the 15" XPS with more screen real-estate, upgradable memory (at least when I purcha
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Not impossible they modified the firmware to improve battery life - look how sophisticated Stuxnet was.
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Interesting idea, maybe created a medieval-monk Terry Davis. Had he been born 600 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
That isn't a launcher, just a launchpad.
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
I hate the changes to the regular Paint app. They added stuff like layers and now it is really hard to do simple things like cut and paste and move parts of the image around because now you get a transparent hole in the image. I used to use
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Cahokia Mounds are great, but I had to pass through the scariest, sketchiest, most bombed-out looking neighborhoods I have ever seen to get to them. This was 20 years ago, so maybe things are much better now, but I never thought I would see
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
That's what the article states, though it emphasizes the influence of banks on those companies wanting to do business with Russia. It is worth a read!
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Cutting-Edge Technology Could Reduce Energy Used for Air Conditioning(wired.com)
1 points by _xerces_ 2y ago|0 comments
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
It is as ridiculous as this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk The main danger is from people losing their jobs and the societal upheaval that could arise from that. AI isn't going to take over the w
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Why would I do that unless I have a strong reason to use it rather than just move on with my day? A link is posted on HN for some cool software, it is already annoying to install it due to Microsoft complaining about it, then when I first r
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
It is hard to find the link for Windows download, most people (especially us dumb Windows users) want to find a link and download, not scroll a bunch then go to another page then scroll some more and make a decision about which one of 20 li
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Aerial Telescope(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by _xerces_ 2y ago|0 comments
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
A more accurate following of the Chinese model would be for the US to insist that DJI builds its drones for the US market in the US, insist on a partnership with a US company who would then siphon off the knowhow and IP to start building co
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Interesting how expensive non-household, portable solar panels on Amazon are where you pay between $1-$2 per watt.
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Adobe is terrified that people will start using AI to generate and modify their images and not want/need Photoshop and other tools anymore. There is already a lot of competition in that space with free or lower-cost image editors. Eith
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
The title seems a little misleading, the support page makes it sound more like they scan incoming, potentially unsolicited images for nudity. I guess if you are in the habit of sending people dick pics, then I can see the title being "
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Only things I have seen are items sold by third parties such as used books and Amazon offering to ship same day/overnight for an extra $2.99 (unless you spend over $35). I have had issues in the past though where you get "Prime Fr
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Not that stunning because: A) Planets all move along the same apparent line called the ecliptic which is the direction of the plane in which all planets move, so they will often appear together. B) Whether you can see this before dawn and t
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
People post random stuff on here all the time. Often it is just a Wikipedia link to some topic with no context, no discussion or anything. I think it is lazy karma whoring and it works because people upvote it if they know what it is an lik
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
I think of it in terms of degrees of freedom and statistical likelihood. If I throw a bunch of marbles on the floor and a few of them form a interesting shape that is one thing as they can only move on a plane. If I throw them in the air i
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Defender is a real irritant when doing security research and is near impossible to turn off completely and permanently. Even using the Group Policy Editor or regedits is not reliable. If you do get it to stop, it will randomly reenable itse
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
They should charge by vehicle weight as well as miles driven as this has an impact on the amount of wear to roads. Heavier vehicles also produce more waste from tire wear. It would be interesting to see what effects all this would have on o
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Reminds me about an article on ECMO machines I read where they are researching hooking them up to single organs and not just people. If you can keep the organ alive for some time it opens the possibility of making transplants easier, or eve
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
Examining binaries for firmware images I built when writing embedded software and for reverse engineering binaries by others to see how they work, make modifications. Fixing corrupted image files or figuring out how they work, examining Win
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
HxD is a fantastic editor for those using Windows.
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by _xerces_ 2y ago
You're right, these proteins could be associated with conditions that can later lead to mutations that cause cells to become cancerous, but they don't point to a specific cancer. Interestingly they hint at modifying the proteins t

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