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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
There are quite a few things in physics which didn't have direct experimental evidence, while most are convinced because the theoretical results and incomplete evidence are persuasive enough. If this Science article is accurate, there
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
Interesting, I didn't know the existence of the quote or the mail. So... if what Satoshi claimed is true, this choice was actually a pure coincidence and doesn't really have any significance, hmm. I don't know what to say - y
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
Yes, it's another way to interpret his choice. "Satoshi being a member of the Cypherpunk" is only one possibility. It's entirely possible that he wasn't active at all, and his familiarity of Cypherpunks was from his
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
Sometimes, people can make wrong assumptions by reading one's words alone. First, not everything is carefully worded, sometimes you choose the wrong words and didn't realize until someone responded. Also, not all context/info
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Explosively pumped flux compression generator(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago|0 comments
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ER=EPR(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago|0 comments
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
Pseudorandom parameter selection of NIST P-curves, including secp256r1 has created much controversy within the cypherpunk community in the early 2000s. the theory is that the NSA discovered a class of secret curves with an unknown special w
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Peak Copper(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago|0 comments
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Pulse Power Switching Devices – An Overview (1996)(nuclearweaponarchive.org)
11 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago|0 comments
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
Yes, this is not what FCC means by interference, and no Part 15 regulation is violated here. But there's no need to downvote. If we review the terms of Part 15, > (1) This device may not cause harmful interference > (2) this devi
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List of Banana and Plantain Diseases(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago|0 comments
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Fitts's Law(en.wikipedia.org)
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
Because 50 ohms is an universal standard for most radio frequency equipment, not just microwave. It (often) doesn't make sense to invent your own coax, connectors, transformers, and chips. At the end of the day, the selection had its
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Alcubierre Drive(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago|0 comments
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
> responded in under 2 hours and gave 3 different proofs!
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
It's also why ZFS requires the use of ECC memory in the official documentation - ZFS spent great efforts building redundancy and error-checking capabilities as part of the filesystem, especially for guarding against silent data corru
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Radio Jamming and the Law of International Communications (1984)(repository.law.umich.edu)
1 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago|0 comments
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List of Assassination Attempts on Adolf Hitler(en.wikipedia.org)
55 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago|30 comments
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
I didn't realize how broken Windows 10 is, until I tried it on someone else's computer... At this point, it's unsuitable for any computer without a SSD: M$ has made a huge amount of background system update & housekeeping
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
The inevitable cost is zero security. Most desktop OS are not designed with security in mind and are vulnerable in different ways, but it's safe to say that Windows XP's security is effectively zero at this point. Personally, I on
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
Yes, one shouldn't use Windows XP. But it's still handy to keep a working XP virtual machine with some basic tools to run ancient programs that one encounters from time to time get the job done...
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Unofficial Windows XP SP4(ryanvm.net)
169 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago|107 comments
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
This is the wisdom from the old days, and it's still true in many cases. But I believe compiler developers are trying to keep -O3/-Os working as advertised by their literal meaning, especially when it's combined with -march a
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
-Ofast enables unsafe floating-point optimizations that might give a performance boost for applications which don't need strict compliance. For example, FP operations cannot be optimized by using the association rule due to various con
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
Age of Empires 2 works under Wine, it just needs some minor hacks. Last time I checked, the game launcher has an embedded webpage, and if it doesn't load, the "game start" button won't be laid out properly. Installing In
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
Thanks for the tip. I forgot the USB-FDD mode completely...
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
Consider the huge number of legacy industrial systems that are still using floppies today, the existence of floppy emulators is not a coincidence.
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
> Could a usb floppy drive work? I don't have one. What kind of device interface do USB floppy drives use, and does Windows XP have drivers? I highly doubt it ( edit: others have pointed out that they use USB-FDD mode and is support
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
Yes. I did mention this possibility in my original comment, however, don't expect to find a floppy drive on modern machines with AHCI...
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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y ago
Windows XP installation CD doesn't have AHCI driver and cannot recognize hard drives on most computers since 2008, and only allows you to load an external device driver via a floppy disk, which is obviously not helpful. You can set you

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