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by alephnil 11y ago
I actually think it is meant as a joke. The paper and code he made available seems be something he actually made, and that without looking into the gory details seems to be doing what the video says it does. That said, the conference it sup
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by alephnil 11y ago
Norway is certainly one of these. In 2011, only 6% payments were with cash. Norwegians younger than 40-50 often even don't have a wallet with space for cash, but rely on their debit card for everything. It would be quite realistic to m
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by alephnil 11y ago
You could not make it with a 3-axis CNC machine in one piece, but you could modify the design to make it possible without too much trouble. One way could be to make the base separately, and then insert the "blinds" that makes the
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by alephnil 11y ago
> IMO if you take away mathematics from Science, the only thing left are novel ideas (which you can also find in sci-fi novels). Math is an important part of nearly all scientific fields, but to say that there is nothing left but ideas w
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by alephnil 11y ago
What is well documented beyond any doubt is that nutrition is more important for your health than nearly anything else in life, so there is no doubt that getting his patients to eat more helthy food is one of the most important things a doc
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by alephnil 11y ago
The "many eyes makes all bugs shallow" quote was never said in the context of security vulnerabilities, and I would argue that they are different in nature. Normally, a bug means that something that I want to work doesn't. T
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by alephnil 11y ago
In several other Asian countries (e.g. the Philipines, Indonesia, Thailand), a much larger percentage say they are on Facebook than the portion that say they are on Internet [1]. Of cause they can't be on Facebook without being on Inte
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by alephnil 11y ago
For the crypto ban, I was unable to find reputable references. I found only one from the Register, which I consider less than reputable (and the article in question is quite inaccurate, for example they managed to call Minister of Finance a
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by alephnil 11y ago
It is not the first time France has done things like this. In the 90s, France outlawed encryption completely, with prison sentence for breaking the ban. As tools like ssh became common, this became less and less practical. For example the s
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by alephnil 11y ago
It is a matter of perspective to some extent. If what they say is "if you add this extra functionality without our permission, we will sue you", it is not OK. This cripples peoples ability to innovate. If they on the other hand sa
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by alephnil 11y ago
Interesting article, but the author often seems to be carried away. Like below: > Quite honestly, I’d take things a step further. I would argue that well-designed streaming systems actually provide a strict superset of batch functionalit
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by alephnil 11y ago
One thing this article shows, is how different solar is on high vs low latitudes. Up to around 40 degrees, solar is practical, and you only need to take the nights and possibly cloud cover into account, at 60 degrees, the seasonal variation
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by alephnil 11y ago
The time-limiting step in molecular dynamics is a gigantic 3D fourier transform of the space containing the simulated atoms. This is relatively easy to parallelize provided you have fast communication between processors to synchronize data
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by alephnil 11y ago
I agree that actually measuring the real emission is a good idea, but there is a way of checking that the binary and the source does not match, at least in theory. The way is to require reproducible builds. If the source is built with a sp
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by alephnil 11y ago
> "Any sufficiently complicated company w/o management contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of management." That include companies with management as well. I have yet to work a place wh
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by alephnil 11y ago
Once you have electricity, you will soon discover two things. First that a thin conductor will be heated when you pass electricity through resistive heating, and secondly, that it will soon burn, melt or vaporize after a short time if you h
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by alephnil 11y ago
There are several reasons why cancer is so difficult to treat, but the main one is simply that cancer cells is the patients own cells that have a couple of mutations, so most things that kill cancer cells also kill healthy cells. Thus succe
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by alephnil 11y ago
What have happened the last 20 years is that the total amount of arithmetic that can be done has increased tremendously, while communication has not to the same extent. That means that more problems than before is communication bound (even
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by alephnil 11y ago
Pre-registration would not hinder them doing that discovery, but they would have had to do another registration and study to get it to the market with the new use. They would likely still be able to use the outcome of the original study to
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by alephnil 11y ago
Bellona is a Norwegian environmental organization. They have worked quite a lot with nuclear safety in former Soviet union from the early nineties and onward, that got very problematic after the fall of the Soviet union (and really was befo
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by alephnil 11y ago
Although, if you are a Phd-student or postdoc, you really need to be first author on some papers if you want to make a further career in science, at least in the biomedical fields. The monster author lists seem to be most common in physics
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by alephnil 11y ago
I guess that much of the resistance against the binary logs of systemd is the unfamiliarity and to some extent lack of well known tools for dealing with them. Sysadmins that have years of experience with traditional Unix tools now suddenly
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by alephnil 12y ago
And to some extent it did end there. Before that time it was assumed by many that Moore's law indicated the sequential processing power would double every two years as well, which ended around that time. After that most increase in pro
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by alephnil 12y ago
Youtube can do this becuase they have the whole video before they transcode it, and by then they know its average loudness. TV sets receive the content as they play it, so they can only do this if they play the content with some delay, sinc
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by alephnil 12y ago
There is a whole class of memory leaks that is possible in C but not in Java. You can leak memory by forgetting to deallocate it. This class is not possible in typical Java code, because the garbage collector collects it. Then you have memo
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by alephnil 12y ago
I like the Norwegian one at yr.no quite well (In general that is a great weather forecast site). http://www.yr.no/radar/norden.html
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by alephnil 12y ago
Rare earth metals are not that rare. Most of them are about as abundant as copper. The problem is their extraction. While copper is present in relative high concentration in sulfide ores that are easy to extract, rare earths are usually pre
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by alephnil 12y ago
He does not raise that topic, but as I see it, that's a strength of the article. It questions the utility of fuel cell hydrogen cars entirely on technical grounds, providing good arguments for why that is not a good technology to bet o
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by alephnil 12y ago
It is more subtle than that. The original code ran on the Ariane 4 rocket, and there the engineers had proved that the error could never happen with the first 80 seconds of the trajectory of that rocket, which was the period this code ran.
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by alephnil 12y ago
During the first Iraq war, the partiot missiles was presented as a great success that prevented Israel and Saudi Arabia to be hit by Scud missiles. The facts was very different. Not a single Patriot missile manage to hit a Scud during that

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