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721.
by bell-cot 7mo ago
Or, if one is uncertain whether to trust the courier between you and your spy - one can send two different one time pads by two different couriers. If the spy is trained to xor those pads together before using, an enemy must intercept both
722.
by bell-cot 7mo ago
If you look at a list of known superconductors and their transition temperatures - it appears that the difficulty of getting a material to superconduct is proportional some unfriendly power of the absolute temperature. Superconducting does
723.
by bell-cot 7mo ago
Is "Why not pay people to do their jobs correctly?" a way of voicing frustration with massive gov't incompetence? Or a way of saying that organizational incompetence is top-down?
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
The comparison I'd make is between a small section of an inactive salt mine with some people in it, and a "modern" city from a century or two ago . The damp (salt is hydrophilic) walls of the mine could, over time, act as pr
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Maybe? The article only seems to note buoyancy assistance for the mother whale - not that whales have prehensile tails or anything, to do a lot more. Vs. elephants have trunks. They normally use those to handle their young. The action ba
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
> From what I understand the UK allowed it because ... I'd say "severe post-WWII money shortage". After wartime expansion, the global copper industry could physically meet peacetime demands. But the UK was very close to
727.
by bell-cot 7mo ago
Conceptually - yes, easily. But to do it literally - I'm not a low-level motherboard EE, but I'd bet you're looking at 5 to 7 figures (US $) of engineering work, to get around all the ways in which that would violate assump
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
> I think GP was saying... Agree. The article's 2nd para notes "AMD relies on its driver software to make sure that software that benefits from the extra cache is run on the V-Cache-enabled CPU cores, which usually works well
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
The article notes that cetaceans and primates are the only mammals known to provide assistance during birth. I would also have expected elephants. Anyone know more?
730.
by bell-cot 7mo ago
(The article's title seemed opaque, so I rearranged the article's subtitle and used that.)
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Leadership – Bold Visionary, Technocratic Expert, or Trimmer(theatlantic.com)
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732.
by bell-cot 7mo ago
Yeah. But with a finite lifetime, and an effectively infinite supply of content on the internet - quick & dirty attention-rationing algorithms are unavoidable.
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
While factually wrong, "spectrum" descriptions are extremely useful in a couple situations: - Easing people who view autism as a T/F boolean into viewing autism as a more complex, case-by-case thing. - Describing how well var
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
This is why I try to look at the HN comments first. Then, maybe look at the article.
735.
by bell-cot 7mo ago
I'd read "Microsoft lost their way" as a description of how the speaker's worldview has changed, as they've gained experience and perspective. Microsoft is often good to their customers. Generally in situations w
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
tl;dr; Nobody actually knows... but 60 = 2 * 2 * 3 * 5. Making it very easy to sub-divide into halves, quarters, thirds, etc. In a low-tech society with minimal education standards - yeah . Measurement and monetary systems have to be c
737.
by bell-cot 7mo ago
So ever-more vulture capitalists and lawyers, and ever-fewer actual honest workers?
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
"Advantages" are often to the individual's benefit, but the species' detriment.
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
> The client has not had to pay a cent for ... From human society's PoV, you sound like a 10X engineer and wonderful person. But from the C-suite's PoV ...yeah. You might want to keep quite about this.
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
> (I'm sure the old timers ... Something along the lines of "we fought tooth and nail to save LA from development"?
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Those are the few countries that France needs to worry about. Doesn't matter whether Estonia, Honduras, Laos, and Luxembourg can track their carrier, or not. EDIT: In confined waters (like the Mediterranean), many more countries could
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
If you're referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_a_Velvet_Cloak - note that it was written a couple decades after the prior books of the series, for a different publisher, to a different length. Those
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Rome once ruled the greatest empire on earth. Vs. look at the last few centuries of Italian history. Regression to mediocrity seems an inescapable part of human endeavor.
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
tl;dr; - > This initial robot is a low TRL prototype, made to demonstrate how a robot can harness wind power to move. The next step will be to increase the maneuverability, giving WANDER-bot the ability to change directions and tackle mo
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Point on the issue with grape juice, or other sources of such nutrients. "short and glib" was a description of the Nautilus article. In the ACC article you linked - notice all the disclaimers in the 5th-to-last paragraph. Plus, i
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
It feels like this should have been obvious a century or few ago. Marsh gas and sewer gas have been things for millennia.
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
You don't get too far up the career ladder if you don't understand "Nobody ever got fired for buying X".
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Sounds way too short and glib to establish any useful causality. And once a belief that drinking red wine is good for you has been around for a while, that habit will correlate with many healthy behaviors.
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Low-functioning politicians and bureaucrats keep their jobs by doing things that sound good. Do they understand the futility? I suspect most do. But trying to be high-functioning, in a low-functioning system, is also a good way to lose yo
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
I'd figure they need training data for their AI-detecting AI. Or - I've heard anecdotes of audience disengagement, which the departed or cut-back users explain in terms of content quality falling off an AI-generated cliff. If tha

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