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by blincoln 2y ago
That reads more like surviving extreme hypothermia than being frozen and thawed in the sense of cryogenic preservation. The greater the percentage of water in their body that was frozen, the less likely they were to survive, with some preci
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by blincoln 2y ago
I briefly installed Life360 when some members of a group trip tried to sell the rest of us on it as a sort of emergency personal location beacon, like the colonists had in Aliens. It's one of the most domestic-abuser-friendly apps I&#x
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by blincoln 2y ago
I'm also surprised by that claim. Every time I've flown with a thick book in my carryon, it's been flagged for inspection. One of the staff told me once that it's because thick stacks of paper look a lot like plastic exp
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by blincoln 2y ago
If one is going to do that, I'd strongly recommend putting them in some kind of basin that can hold the water if it escapes from the jugs, or sturdier containers, or both. At least in the US, water jugs are generally very flimsy. An at
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by blincoln 2y ago
Why did the researchers use ML models to do the reconstruction and risk getting completely incorrect, hallucinated results when reconstructing a 3D volume accurately using 2D slices is a well-researched field already?
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by blincoln 2y ago
I'm disappointed that their test didn't include a comparison to traditional drip coffee made using the same beans, then chilled to match the temperature of the cold brew. I haven't looked into ultrasonic cavitation in years,
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by blincoln 2y ago
This still generally works with SVGs.
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by blincoln 2y ago
Significantly reducing the maximum speed of passenger vehicles would cause millions of Americans to suddenly have untenable commute times. There are a handful of cities here with mass transit systems that aren't an absolute joke. Every
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by blincoln 2y ago
There are freeways in Texas with speed limits of 85 MPH. 5 MPH of wiggle room for emergencies seems like a bad idea IMO.
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by blincoln 2y ago
Since mining is only concerned with material that's within maybe 0.1% of the distance from the surface to the core, seems like you'd just need to move the sensor around and make sure the signal changes about where you'd expec
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by blincoln 2y ago
It's not speculation. Bee eyes have receptors for green, blue, and UV-A light, for example. But as BenjiWiebe mentioned, that's not the same as being sensitive to UV-C. I'm sure there would be some value in seeing others part
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by blincoln 2y ago
At least some PLA hackers are explicitly required to avoid giving away that they're operating from China[1], so the information the article cites about IP addresses and other forensic information makes me wonder if this was a false fla
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by blincoln 3y ago
I don't know how much Descent 3 shares with the original in terms of AI code, but Descent 3 seems to give NPCs a dynamic list of goals that's initialized based on their class ("stalker", "evader", etc.).[1] Eac
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by blincoln 3y ago
I've never felt nauseated from VR either. Tried it as a teenager in the 90s with an old-school Lawnmower-Man-style HMD, several generations of Oculus goggles, two different commercial HMDs in immersive gaming venues, etc. I do remember
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by blincoln 3y ago
Laser handguns are probably never going to be a thing. How many places are there on a human body where a cauterized hole a few mm across will kill or incapacitate someone? How likely is someone going to be to hit those places accurately wit
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by blincoln 3y ago
Unfortunately, this was almost the same time that the Debian devs also pushed the ill-conceived Nvidia-driver-breaking kernel patch, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people had disabled kernel updates.
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by blincoln 3y ago
> The act of planting trees, in itself, is carbon neutral. Not good, not bad, just irrelevant to the presence of carbon: the carbon is still in the cycle of life within the biosphere. Isn't this a little like saying that humans in a
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by blincoln 3y ago
3M's mysterious 1980 repulsion field? [1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectroBOOM/comments/9jig1l/can_you...
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by blincoln 3y ago
Sorry if I was unclear. I wasn't trying to imply that it did or didn't directly involve the retina, just that it seemed suspiciously related to the arrangement of receptors on the retina, and I was curious why. If you had a spread
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by blincoln 3y ago
I've only had the experience once, years ago, but I thought it was my retina detaching (based on the vague descriptions opthalmologists have given me my entire life). It was the middle of the night, so I went to the ER. They thought I
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by blincoln 3y ago
That's handy, and you can almost certainly hook the TLS send/receive functions in other ways, like with Frida, but being able to bypass pinning instead means that the researcher can route the traffic through existing tools like Bu
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by blincoln 3y ago
I think the implication is that bypassing cert pinning could be considered a violation of the anti-circumvention provisions in the DMCA and WIPO Copyright Treaty, because it results in decryption of copyrighted content without the permissio
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by blincoln 3y ago
I think you'd be surprised. How many organizations have their "encrypted at rest" data in a cloud provider account that's set up to give all developers (or at least all production support engineers) access to decrypt the
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by blincoln 3y ago
That's a very valid concern, but the larger one for me is that it implies that their IMAP servers are sitting right on the internet (no firewall/load-balancer/reverse proxy/whatever), or that they've automated their
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by blincoln 3y ago
If the screenshot in the article isn't edited, this was an HTTP service exposed to the internet on an unusual port (81). I'd propose the following test cases: 1) Are there any unexpected internet-facing services? * Once per week (
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by blincoln 3y ago
Seems like a less controversial solution would be to allow the same tax write-off if the studio releases the film for free distribution (e.g. via the Internet Archive), either into the public domain, or under a license like Creative Commons
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by blincoln 3y ago
> Snow Crash is satire of more "serious" cyberpunk Agree 100%. If anyone has trouble seeing that <i>Snow Crash</i> is satire, I recommend reading <i>Headcrash</i>, by Bruce Bethke, then going b
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by blincoln 3y ago
It took many years for Spectre and Meltdown to be discovered, and that was for CPUs affordable for individuals. How many security researchers are even familiar enough with the concept of a mainframe to consider looking for an LPAR breakout,
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by blincoln 3y ago
Having one's tonsils and adenoids removed and getting palette-hardening RF treatment seems like it would be a lot easier and more permanent than this rigamarole. Worked for me, and I suspect it would for a lot of other folks too.
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by blincoln 3y ago
Look at the forehead and arms. The processed version looks like it's been run through a posterization filter.

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