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by avian 8y ago
I doubt any metric in Formula 1 doubles every 2 years. To get something like Moore’s law you need a breakthrough that opens up possibilities for many orders of magnitude in improvements. Baring new physics there’s just nothing like that ava
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by avian 8y ago
Dismal? I find the resulting videos very pretty and I find it amazing that they were done mechanically, not using ray tracing.
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by avian 8y ago
Are you seriously proposing that I expose my printers to the public Internet just so that they can use HTTPS on a local LAN? If I must choose between the possibility that an attacker with local access might snoop/change my printed docu
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Investigating the timer on a Hoover washing machine(tablix.org)
2 points by avian 8y ago|0 comments
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by avian 8y ago
Just note that this friendly graph employs the bad practice of not having the vertical axis origin at 0, which visually exaggerates the change.
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by avian 8y ago
> If you're in sales then I see another tactic used instead, which is to memorize the talk Majority of my talks in the last years have been in academic settings, but I'm definitely on the side of "over-rehearsing" on
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by avian 8y ago
Is it strictly a tech talk? As someone else said here, skip the cruft and get to the point. I came to your talk to learn about the technology, not your life story. Some people are good at wrapping tech talks into interesting stories. But th
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by avian 8y ago
> Do a live demo, people love live demo's It really depends on the topic of the talk. If it's something that can be demonstrated in a quick and straightforward way, do a demo by all means. But I've seen talks where people
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by avian 8y ago
> I'm pretty sure there's no known, theoretical, or speculated material or process that can contain and capture the results of fusing some elements to, say, uranium. Producing heavy elements in a lab is most certainly possible
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by avian 8y ago
I regularly see new IP addresses added by GitHub via ssh messages like yours.
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by avian 8y ago
Does anyone have a good reference on the physics behind the "single point iron receiver"? It seems similar to a crystal detector, but the description here suggests that both the needle and the "crystal" are the same mate
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New South African Telescope Releases Image of the Galactic Center(gizmodo.com)
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by avian 8y ago
I haven't been to the site in a while, so maybe they changed now. What turned me off the first few times I clicked a link on HN was the constant stream of "subscribe-to-our-newsletter" pop-ups and "hey-add-your-comment-h
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by avian 8y ago
My gripe with GTK3 are tiny, auto-hiding scroll bars. After a long day at work they become impossible to use even with a mouse. Hitting them with a Wacom is basically impossible. What’s worse is that you can find many different recipes on t
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by avian 8y ago
Perhaps the most well known product of Ferranti for a somewhat younger generation of computer enthusiasts is the infamous "ULA" chip in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
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by avian 8y ago
I got a copyright strike once for a video with no apparent reason. After closer inspection, I could in fact hear a radio playing somewhere in the background if I really turned up the volume. I found it incredible that YouTube’s algorithm wa
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by avian 8y ago
Not hot enough to melt, but heat definitely reduces structural integrity of materials. And pressures on the rock so deep are immense. This article linked from Wikipedia seems to confirm that the hole tended to close itself when they were dr
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by avian 8y ago
How stable are abandoned holes like that? I would imagine that at those temperatures and pressures, the rock would slowly flow and refill the hole after a while.
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by avian 8y ago
I don’t find it surprising at all that we found traveling through a vacuum easier than traveling through solid granite. Imagine how much mass that drillbit had to go through and now translate that into the density of interstellar medium. Yo
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by avian 8y ago
Can you encrypt gasoline, so that only authorized people can burn it? This question does not make sense. Electrical power is not information. It can’t be encrypted. You can have power switches that only switch on when a valid key is present
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by avian 8y ago
I don't see how this improves privacy. Yes, my local ISP, whose DNS I'm using, knows the domains I'm connecting with. They most likely can also access this info in cleartext in other ways, if they care enough. For instance th
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by avian 8y ago
It happens I'm a bit familiar with this circuit. I think the author misread the schematic. The burned-out component is more likely the current-sense resistor R2 (4.64 ohms). In any case, it's unlikely that a 1.5 Mohm resistor woul
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by avian 8y ago
> Is the fact that photons are (in a sense) "bigger" than atoms responsible for the fact that we can have shiny surfaces? Yes, if you simplify things a bit, this is true. "size of the photons" is in this case their wa
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by avian 8y ago
It makes sense to me. They are saying that there is a bug in the way PGP (software) handles S/MIME (standard). People that are using both (the software and the standard) are at risk.
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by avian 8y ago
For Google, something similar can be found under My account -> Personal info & privacy -> Ads settings.
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by avian 8y ago
I found weird alien physics tricks in later books well beyond realism. The “spaceship speed limit” thing in particular. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I remember it was kind of inconsistent, applying to some objects and not the others as it
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by avian 8y ago
"Test-Driven Development for Embedded C" by James W. Grenning. https://pragprog.com/book/jgade/test-driven-development-for-... It's very well written and I've used the unit testing approaches d
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by avian 8y ago
Fascinating. A copy of Netware 3.11 on 14 3.5" floppies goes for $699 on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Novell-Netware-3-11-1000-User-Unreg...
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by avian 9y ago
One more thing to add to the mess: PyBOMBS [1] A while back GNU Radio went and reinvented the whole package manager thing on their own. Since then I constantly have problems integrating anything GNU Radio-related with the rest of the Python
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by avian 9y ago
No. If pi would contain itself it would be a rational number. We have a proof that pi is irrational, hence it cannot contain itself.

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