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by azernik 5y ago
Yup, exact same thing - annulus being the Latin diminutive
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by azernik 5y ago
Space is... special. And national security is even more special. Regulating Earth observation is a standard bureaucratized function [1], and checks lots of boxes for getting leniency from the courts [1] https://www.nesdis.noaa.go
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by azernik 5y ago
Most countries only want this for specific places: https://fas.org/blogs/security/2018/12/widespread-blurring-o... Letting Israel have something more extreme was a concession that cost the US very little
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by azernik 5y ago
Has to be particularly sensitive ones, apparently - and more common for US bases in Europe? See https://fas.org/blogs/security/2018/12/widespread-blurring-o... and https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by azernik 5y ago
Note I said "at a similar latitude". A satellite at a given inclination will trace out a ground path oscillating back and forth between D degrees north and D degrees south, where D is its inclination, with latitude varying sinusoi
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by azernik 5y ago
Most of the article spends its time on the results. For people looking for the actual answer to the headline question: ==================================================== Until last year, the US government restricted the quality of satelli
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by azernik 5y ago
This is the result of historical blurring of all of Israel and all of the Territories , by US law. The goal was preventing intelligence gathering against Israel in general, not anything specific to Israeli action in Gaza and the West Ban
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by azernik 5y ago
In Gaza? There are no takeovers there, just a DMZ and periodic shooting. The original Israeli ask, accepted by the US Congress, was for all of Israel , including the Territories, to have degraded satellite imagery - as a defensive measure
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by azernik 5y ago
Look here. The pin is at the western side of the base. It's IDF headquarters, used to be bigger (from an old British camp, back when Tel Aviv hadn't grown to swallow it up), but the army has been steadily selling off the valuable
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by azernik 5y ago
Blurring military bases is pretty common - also done in the US, for example.
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by azernik 5y ago
If the data exists for one place at a similar latitude, then it exists for every other place at a similar latitude, by the simple laws of orbital dynamics.
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by azernik 5y ago
Note the "more importantly" - one of the reasons the conversion machinery is bulky is because you need all that space for radiation shielding anyway, and the conversion stuff tends to serve dual purpose. Active nuclear (fission or
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by azernik 5y ago
"Restore" is reboot. Usually these are called "watchdog circuits", which you may have heard of from more mundane embedded applications. Once you've rebooted, yeah, you need to copy over the shared state from another
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by azernik 5y ago
Quite far - miniaturization of nuclear reactors is generally quite hard. We haven't put much effort into miniaturizing terrestrial reactors, and naval reactors have other design concerns which limit, but space reactors are a good gauge
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by azernik 5y ago
Kilometers. If they're writing for a US audience and absolutely need miles, put one or the other in parens after the "main" one.
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by azernik 5y ago
Essentially: They have one address range for shared (i.e. subject to syncing across all replicas) memory, and a separate one for non-shared (single-replica) memory. Cross-replica data is presumably subject to their agreement algorithm, chec
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by azernik 5y ago
> And speaking of universal heuristic, in my experience, the quality and relevance of content is strongly inversely correlated with the quality of design. The prettiest websites out there are ones that deliver negative value. The best de
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by azernik 5y ago
Oh I wish I'd heard of this 2 years ago, would have saved me a lot of trial and error.
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by azernik 5y ago
AFAIU this is a fork of caniuse.com; the features it tracks are probably a strict subset of those. The feature definitions seem to be maintained manually, at https://github.com/hteumeuleu/caniemail/tree/master
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by azernik 5y ago
This is absolutely not my experience. Spam uses HTML formatting, sure, but it's not "nicely designed". "Nicely designed" emails are things like flight confirmations, invoices, shipping notices, and that kind of tran
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by azernik 5y ago
And in many states, your car is one of the things that cannot be repossessed in case of bankruptcy.
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by azernik 5y ago
Even people in good condition make mistakes and miss things. That's why airplanes have stall-warning stick shakers and pull-up alerts even for trained professionals.
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by azernik 5y ago
And in fact many of those disastrous attempts to modify the ecosystem have also been aimed at killing mosquitos, notably the draining of swamps in Northern Israel. Having more precise mechanisms will not only allow the same interventions
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by azernik 5y ago
Given the cartridge pricing, the machine itself is likely a loss leader, or at best sold at low margins.
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by azernik 6y ago
They generally state that this was found with so-and-so static analysis tool. And, as GKH pointed out in the thread, the resulting patches generally make changes that match a certain pattern, not the random uselessness that Aditya's pa
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by azernik 6y ago
Note from the reader: said associate department head, Loren Terveen, is one of the two signers of the CS&E statement.
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by azernik 6y ago
And then immediately on the addition of a hydrogen, the resulting nucleus is suddenly in a higher-energy (lower binding energy) state than some non-hydrogen splitting of it. And since most of the results of hydrogen hitting something are un
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by azernik 6y ago
We observe this process by noting the over-abundance of nuclides with masses that are a multiple of four.
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by azernik 6y ago
Fusing into iron is different from fusing with iron. Binding energy is a negative energy value; iron having a high binding energy means it is a low energy state, so adding zero-binding-energy hydrogen to that system and decreasing
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by azernik 6y ago
> Smaller nuclides have higher total binding energy than the large nuclides i.e. total binding energy literally goes down as you get to larger nuclides. > That doesn't contradict every step inbetween being favorable. Yes, it does

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