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by brians 1y ago
He was a titan for more than half of the twentieth century. His shadow will extend far into human influence beyond that of many names that won prizes.
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by brians 1y ago
They’re not using a $10 sensor. They’re being very careful which $40 sensor they use. And they’re calibrating the rest of the device to produce an accurate reading across its range.
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by brians 2y ago
Yeah. He’s not even the richest African emmigrant… because Mansa Musa tipped so heavily he broke intercontinental trade dynamics.
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by brians 2y ago
Also Marketplace airs on NPR stations. I have Windows on a Dell, and I hear Marketplace on NPR.
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by brians 2y ago
Thank you for mentioning this, because—not having followed the link—I thought someone was using Mercury for a backend. And... I wasn't sure I was prepared to follow that link.
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by brians 2y ago
It works if you use the Photos app to look at any image with a geo EXIF tag. But thank you for one more demonstration that even the HN crowd can’t reliably give or deny informed consent here.
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by brians 2y ago
Every TCP session leaks some PRNG state for the ISN. That might leak information about key material. Every NTP session leaks time desync information, which reveals—on modern hardware—relativistic travel, including long airplane trips. Every
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by brians 2y ago
I used to agree. But—Part of what they’re working towards is a demonstration that librarians are gonna do stuff like this, and shouldn’t have to do defensive organizational engineering about their archival projects.
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by brians 2y ago
There is only one sort of person who signs up to check internal passports and search innocent people, and I don’t care what color shirt they’re wearing these days.
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by brians 2y ago
It’s a management limit . I’m not sure it’s a failing. I’m a pretty good manager and I’ve worked with some great ones. All of us are better with access to frequent informal communication, shared meals, and walking. This isn’t about punishm
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by brians 2y ago
If you like this sort of thing, it’s part of a subgenre called HFY: Humanity, Fuck Yeah. Lots to find from Baen—March Upcountry is one good start, Hymn Before Battle another. Lots of shorts at https://old.reddit.com/r/h
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by brians 2y ago
Yes, but we have to be careful about double-taxing mortgages for ordinary home-buyers. Those home purchases are already taxed by local municipalities—and in many places that hits the SALT cap.
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by brians 2y ago
The consensus is clear from the article but doesn’t support the headline: rapid weight loss changes the skin, which recovers over more time.
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by brians 2y ago
It’s trying to highlight a different idea. A robust system can endure damage. An antifragile system grows stronger from damage.
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by brians 2y ago
Because the cubit is a measure of what a body can reach
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by brians 2y ago
I like that framing! Alternately, they did not ever test the ability of their code to accept arbitrary configurations. That totally could have been done, allowing fast config pushes. But it wasn’t. So as a reliability engineer, I’d point a
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by brians 2y ago
I was all set to defend Scheme, which has several extremely high performance implementations—and then realized you probably just meant Smalltalk, an entirely different language, and picked the wrong 1970s minimalist language starting with S
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by brians 2y ago
It later turned out Target sent some of those ads to all families, blindly—it wasn’t causally related to the daughter’s pregnancy. Whoops. But this way makes a better story.
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by brians 3y ago
It sounds like you would prefer evidence of something like Kahneman’s System II as evidence of high intelligence? That is, an abstract general purpose thinking system, even if it is slower and in many ways weaker than the instinctive/
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by brians 3y ago
Ah, you’ve brought me back to the first time I saw a Mac LC with those options in the Monitors panel, after years with monochrome IIcx, IIsi, and SE/30s. The color bloom, the beautiful gradients—indeed, it was an age of miracle and wo
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by brians 3y ago
Simulation hypothesis: all this may be much younger than we expect. Nonuniform physics—call it colliding universes or whatever, but the processes that gave rise to life on Earth may not be possible anywhere in this universe now. Including l
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by brians 3y ago
“The new jewel for the new millennium—the Krieg Light.“ That’s probably the one episode I remember. Thanks for the reminder!
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by brians 3y ago
I’ve routinely had pallets of servers messed with while in Mexican customs lockup; RAM and drives were replaced. Badly. Until that sort of thing is fixed, it’s not helpful for manufacturing trustworthy devices.
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by brians 3y ago
Ham radios. The weather. Space weather, because that affects ham radios. Growing old sucks; it's a hobby dominated by the aged. Antennas. Kids these days. We avoid religion and politics, mostly , though there's an increasing
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by brians 4y ago
I don’t see this. If somebody’s scraped just the recipes from all these long winded sites, I’d be thrilled! Adding the extra nonsense and narrative doesn’t prevent that. The reason is SEO; this is Google’s fault.
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by brians 4y ago
Well, yes. There are plenty of takes on this. The "Traveller" RPG has a nice one: distributed feudal confederation. There's a nominal emperor, but it's hugely important that he never do almost anything , because &quo
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by brians 4y ago
Perhaps your interlocutor was confused with Roget.
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by brians 4y ago
Most Secret War, a tale of the Battle of the Beams and the nascent technical intelligence groups that set the context for the Battle of Britain.
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by brians 4y ago
That’s to balance out Traveller.
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by brians 4y ago
Ah, but the trick is to get the low tolerance ones. Two reasons: A) then it’s +/- 20%, right? Which means you bucket them and resell the + ones, using the rest to mine crypto, and B) you save money because 5% of 0 is no more than 20%

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