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by blincoln 3y ago
At least one of the videos linked from the references in that article is pretty dramatic, with frequent pulses of blue light from different locations near the ground.[1] If there is a link between cosmic radiation and earthquakes (and that&
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by blincoln 3y ago
As a former systems engineer who was still in that role when DevOps became a thing, I think there's a a more fundamental difference. The team I was on was made up of ops/engineering[1] people who knew how to code. We built tools t
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by blincoln 3y ago
I think the connection is that US cities were growing rapidly at that time, but built without modern safety practices.
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by blincoln 3y ago
How well does the concrete end up mixed? I'd be really concerned that it would be a big pile of hollow concrete shells around powder that never came in contact with water.
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by blincoln 3y ago
There are trade-offs, but as someone who's been working in technology since the mid-90s and spent 10+ years as a systems engineer for a large corporation, "we have all of the backup tapes, and all of the production data is on them
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by blincoln 3y ago
50GB was an enormous amount of space in the late 90s. Why wouldn't each file on the tape have something like begin/end sentinels and metadata about the file so that the current catalogue could be rebuilt in a DR scenario by just s
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by blincoln 3y ago
The synthetic voder output sounds more or less exactly like the output of a vocoder where the input is a human voice and the carrier is a sawtooth. Not surprising, given that the voder was made by the same people. But I'm still unsure
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by blincoln 3y ago
Thank you! Seems like that project was incredibly far ahead of its time. The physical-modelling aspect is super interesting. Does that mean that the similarity in sound to formant-based speech synthesis is because they're both using a
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by blincoln 3y ago
Are there any detailed descriptions available of how the music and voice were synthesized? Based on the recording, the information I could find, and imagining how I'd try to do the same thing using the technology of the era, I assume t
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by blincoln 3y ago
> my longtermist leanings. I do value the species over the individual Do you think the essay misrepresents "big L" Longtermist beliefs? My reading of it makes it seem that "value the species over the individual" maybe
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by blincoln 3y ago
Yes. In my experience, the scenarios where NIR picks up a difference due to heat are very limited. Years ago, I did a test and there was no visible difference with an electric stovetop until it was set to medium[1], which would be more than
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by blincoln 3y ago
If you haven't already, you should check to see if you have rot or some kind of insect infestation. Around here, at least, they typically only go after wood with bugs inside.
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by blincoln 3y ago
Thank you for all of your comments on this article. Getting so see high-quality images of this foundational artifact of modern computing was a pleasant enough surprise on its own. Getting actual historical commentary from someone who worked
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by blincoln 3y ago
The window doesn't need to be cracked open to use a "slim jim", at least on older vehicles. I once accidentally locked myself out of the 2000 Honda Civic I used to own. The engine was still running, and I didn't want it
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by blincoln 3y ago
The way it's been described to me, the ancient Egyptians viewed dung beetles sort of like a phoenix (phoenices?) or an ouroborous, because they believed the beetles to have the power of self-creation (from the mistaken assumption that
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by blincoln 3y ago
Rate-limit the number of different source IPs that the token can be used from within a given period of time, or the number of requests per second that can use that token without having to re-verify?
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by blincoln 3y ago
It could still be a good way to differentiate between different UI elements, especially when UI style skews toward the "is this an integrative element or not?" end of the spectrum, as it has currently. Are there any phone/tab
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by blincoln 3y ago
As mentioned later in the thread, this has been documented for at least 30 years, although I'd never heard of it before: https://emcesd.com/pdf/eos93.pdf
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by blincoln 3y ago
I've seen a decent number of agricultural areas where the crops are covered with a vast mesh tent supported by a wood or metal framework. Lets sunlight in, keeps insects out. That seems a lot more economical than building a vertical fa
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by blincoln 3y ago
Does "WIMPS don't explain observed data" also exclude "matter in other M-Theory branes exerts a gravitational influence on matter in our own" as an explanation for dark matter? The main argument I've seen again
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by blincoln 3y ago
If you wanted to be really cautious, you could diff the original and cracked binaries and reverse engineer the difference. We did that on a project for a client once (a major software corporation) and the cracked version of their software l
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by blincoln 3y ago
The article mentions that limited agriculture could be conducted at the rectenna sites. I wonder if it could have actually been beneficial. A lot of middle America (where most of the sites would have been located) gets VERY cold in the wint
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by blincoln 4y ago
When I bought my Xperia Pro-1, I hacked together a custom case for it that has a 67-72mm step ring grafted over a circular hole where the cameras and flash are. Normally I just have a clear glass ("UV protector") filter there.[1]
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by blincoln 4y ago
Nitpick: the author claims there hasn't been a camera-style grip available for phones since 2013, but Sony's Xperia Pro-1(I?)[1] can be used with their Bluetooth grip.[2] The Pro-1 was designed with a similar goal - try to make a
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by blincoln 4y ago
I don't know about Monet specifically, but the ability to see UV light after having cornea replacements that aren't tinted is pretty well-documented.[1] Our retinas don't have dedicated UV receptors, though, so it's not
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by blincoln 4y ago
How well-supported is it? Looks like the last release was almost a year ago. Replacing the Windows shell, especially in Windows 10/11, with their constant updates, isn't something I'd recommend for non-experts, but I don&#x27
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by blincoln 4y ago
I was a systems engineer supporting Windows and software running on Windows at a large corporation for a decade. My only complaint at the time was that the CLI was so inferior to Unix/Linux. MS' increasingly poor UI/UX decisi
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by blincoln 4y ago
Are there any areas in the maps where a lower area extends beneath a higher area? If not, could you use a single block of acrylic and just laser-ablate to different depths instead of cutting each layer separately and then gluing? I don&#x27
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by blincoln 4y ago
I see you've been to several aviation museums, but if you're ever anywhere near Ohio, may I suggest the Air Force museum? There are so many aircraft there that one can't see anywhere else, like the only remaining XB-70. Some
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by blincoln 4y ago
Could it not also be the problematic traffic getting routed to a Cloudfront node that's overloaded or otherwise misbehaving? Years ago, I had to troubleshoot a very mysterious issue where sometimes a huge percentage of the PCs in the c

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