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by ajb 2y ago
I have heard two theories on how to treat anxiety: 1) Paul Gilbert's theory that the brain's 'threat system' is overdeveloped and the 'soothing system' underdeveloped, and the right treatment is to stimulate th
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by ajb 2y ago
Hmm sounds like it's using something like a SQUID ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID ) but as far as I know they all need to be cooled with liquid nitrogen; would be cool if they've invented one that does
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by ajb 2y ago
That particular one, only TCP. There is a different one for UDP applications: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8899 Because UDP is only a very thin layer, each layer on top (eg, QUIC) has to implement PLPMTUD; altho
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by ajb 2y ago
I'm glad to see this article because this topic is very much worth thinking about right now - by both sides of the Atlantic :-). But history is more difficult to do well than this. A lot of this article just assumes its conclusions. Yo
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by ajb 2y ago
There are orders of magnitude more patents in the private sector, but most are either not licensed or are licensed as part of huge 'pools' as private sector patenting is driven by the arms race between companies to have a large en
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by ajb 2y ago
I'm not a lawyer either, but I suspect the technical structure is not determinative. Contract law has certain features. These technical constructs purport to enable contracts to be written and executed such that subsequently the courts
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by ajb 2y ago
Fair enough.
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by ajb 2y ago
Because you don't know what the lighting is, what the sensor is, and what kind of shit the camera app and ISP are doing to the image without telling you I recently tried to show some images to a vet. Something in my phone fucked up the
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by ajb 2y ago
Displays are not made of paint, though - they use light. There are two models of combination: - subtractive, which applies to paint, since the more you mix in the more frequencies are absorbed - additive, which applies to light, as mixing a
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by ajb 2y ago
Puzzled by why anyone would downvote a pure question. Wide distribution of guns is an obvious commonality between the US and Switzerland; if that's offensive observation please let me know why!
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by ajb 2y ago
The fact is that spying on trade negotiations has been commonly done between the Western states, well before Trump. They should have been doing this already.
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by ajb 2y ago
Must do. I wonder if that's because of the wide access to weapons? Although I thought I'd heard that there still wasn't much gun violence in Switzerland.
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by ajb 2y ago
There are companies that support billions of economic output in countries which require a notice period. If they thought it was a risk that they would be taken down be a rogue employee, they have the option of putting them on 'gardenin
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by ajb 2y ago
Well, that's just what I read... I'm no longer sure it is accurate. Looking at their website APOPO now actually use dogs as well. They say that rats and dogs are complementary, but they give an advantage of the dogs but not of the
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by ajb 2y ago
Because rats will keep at it for longer. These particular rats are probably bigger than some tiny dogs, but a rat is a forager, so it can be motivated to keep this up for hours. This behaviour is not so close to what a dog needs to do to ea
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by ajb 2y ago
I like the way this doesn't rule out challenges that aren't known to be possible I would look at ways to increase the fraction of human thinking that is directly incentivised to improve the lives of individuals, as opposed to bein
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by ajb 2y ago
That depends how you count. If you think of a generation as 20 years then that's the 80's which were fairly complex. If you think of it in terms of 'my grandparents life', well in many cases that was a lot simpler. Mine
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by ajb 2y ago
Interesting idea! Although, maybe you just want to be able to run the configuration language in a reversible debugger? This issue becomes even harder when you have some kind of solver involved, like a constraint solver or unification. As a
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by ajb 2y ago
I'm not convinced by reducing this to a single dimension. There are differences in both 'what can be expressed' and 'what validation can be done' which are somewhat independent of each other
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by ajb 2y ago
This sort of thing has happened before in the US: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/05/how-the-robber-b...
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by ajb 2y ago
For a 1kw appliance, with 220v it should be 48 ohms, but for 110v it needs to be only 12 ohms. So if you have a bad wire or connector, which has say 5ohms resistance, more of the voltage will drop across it. At 220v it will have 21v across
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by ajb 2y ago
UK central fuse boxes don't have a fuse/RCD per socket. For example, mine has common ones for the kitchen, downstairs sockets, upstairs sockets, and all lighting -separate ones only for the boiler and cooker. The wiring system was
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by ajb 2y ago
Ironically the older BS546† had smaller plugs for lower powered appliances. But each different size of plug needed a different socket, because the fuse was in the socket. This system is still used in India, but I'm not sure how widespr
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by ajb 2y ago
Fair. I'm not a fan of Brexit and I think it's been both driven and implemented more listening to nostalgia than strategy.
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by ajb 2y ago
There are two parts to the fishing thing. From a pure economic perspective, fishing is insignificant. But within living memory obtaining food was a national security issue for the UK (during world war II). In a world in which states look no
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by ajb 2y ago
Fascinating. I wonder if there will soon be a way to culture your mitochondria externally in order to give you extra, maybe it could help with diseases like chronic fatigue.
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by ajb 2y ago
This sort of thing doesn't happen because of just one person. The situation reminds me of the (fictionalised) account of the Roman Empire in "I Claudius": the narrator remarks that corruption had well set in in the centre und
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by ajb 2y ago
Not completely buying this. He's claiming that it's better to do vector based feathering, but it's not at all clear that his approach isn't just as computationally expensive, or more. Filters do require a lot of calculat
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by ajb 2y ago
He did, but the light blue touchpaper website is still up for me. It is the collective blog of the security group at Cambridge university, so I would guess likely to continue.
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by ajb 2y ago
You're right; it looks like SD cards implement a protocol on top of SPI. They don't just map the content to SPI addresses. So a flash chip won't look like an SD card to the OS

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