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by ajarmst 9y ago
Sigh. Yeah. I know. I guess Poe's Law applies, but I thought the smiley at the end was sufficient to let everyone know that I was just being playful with unit substitution. I regret my error.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Hmmm. A kiloton is pretty close to 1000 tonne, or a gigagram. So kilotons per kilogram is a fancy way of saying "about one million". :-)
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Things I Won’t Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride(blogs.sciencemag.org)
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The Nuclear Potato Cannon, Part 2 (2006)(nfttu.blogspot.com)
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by ajarmst 9y ago
The only evidence given that the firing was due to pressure from Google is Lynn's statement (which seems to just be his assumption, because he's a critic of Google). There are at least two official statements that it was in fact
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The Particle That Broke a Cosmic Speed Limit(quantamagazine.org)
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by ajarmst 9y ago
I've been a C++ developer for a couple of decades. It's funny and nicer than a lot of things we say about the language ourselves. And waaaaay nicer than what the C guys say. :-)
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On the Edge of Eclipses and P=NP(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
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Norbert Blum on P vs. NP(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
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New Proof that P =/= NP(i-programmer.info)
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Aaronson has commented on this particular proof. He's, to say the least, skeptical, based on an observed polynomial circuit in section 7: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3389
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by ajarmst 9y ago
I remain optimistic, but some potential holes are starting to show. Scott Aaronson: ( http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3389 ) "To everyone who keeps asking me about the “new” P≠NP proof: I’d again bet $200,000
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by ajarmst 9y ago
This is definitely one of those "I'm going to wait for the peer review" claims, but it is pretty exciting. Pros: The author is not a dilettante, and is actively researching in the area ( http://theory.cs.uni-bonn.de
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by ajarmst 9y ago
YouTube does not seem to me to be an appropriate medium for "war crimes evidence". Evidence needs documented provenance, chain-of-custody, storage integrity, affidavits, etc etc. Why does this evidence need a high-bandwidth publi
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Fair enough. But I was just accepting the OP's conflation of DMCA takedowns and cease-and-desist orders. The concern remains valid in the latter case (I'm not sure the DMCA could even legitimately be used in this rather odd, inver
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by ajarmst 9y ago
This seems to beg an important question: are people who use legal means to remedy their inclusion on a blocklist necessarily doing so for nefarious reasons? Not everyone who's used a cease-and-desist or the DMCA process is a bad actor
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by ajarmst 9y ago
There are many abstract concepts that need to be realized before we can usefully call a particular device a 'computer'. Many, but certainly not all, of these, are gathered up into things like Turing Completeness, Von Neumann Arch
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by ajarmst 9y ago
I'm convinced that the only useful definition of a Software Engineer is "someone who has 'Software Engineer' in their job title". Most other Engineering disciplines are far more rigorously defined. That said, obse
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Both my kids enjoyed Mastermind ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game) ) from a young age. Deductive logic game.
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Turing Tumble: Gaming on a Mechanical Computer(kickstarter.com)
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by ajarmst 9y ago
A kickstarted I supported is Turing Tumble, a simple Turing-complete mechanical computer. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/871405126/turing-tumble...
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by ajarmst 9y ago
There's lots of possible reasons that aren't nefarious. Could be training of pilot or crew (I once watched a passenger aircraft orbitting the base I was stationed at for most of a day. Turned out it was commercial pilot training a
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Why Quantum Entanglement Doesn't Allow Faster-Than-Light Communication (2016)(forbes.com)
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by ajarmst 9y ago
I'd expect all Windows kernel development jobs would be at Microsoft. Driver development jobs would often be at hardware companies. However, I think you're looking for too narrow a subfield---search instead for jobs in areas like
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The Leprechauns of Software Engineering(leanpub.com)
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by ajarmst 9y ago
There's also a weight issue. The longer the shaft, the longer and heavier the cable must be, and the more tension and stretch. In some buildings, there may also be structural issues militating against an open shaft running the entire h
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Poor choice of title. It may be the first direct-drive or non-linear elevator, but rope and cable-free hydraulic elevators have been in service for decades.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
I think some dislike agile because its adherents so often write articles like this. Pompous, dismissive, assuming facts without providing real measurable evidence and implying that people who disagree only do so because they're just no
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Whether or not Hutchins' friends are concerned isn't the question. Whether or not the entire security research community are or should be "chilled" is. There's no evidence that he was arrested for being a security r
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Postscript: another issue is time. Very often, you have n hours to cover m topics, and n always seems to be too small. This is unlikely to change. Active learning exercises tend to consume a great deal of time, to prepare, to run, to give

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