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by bsdetector 5y ago
Cars are too slow, airplanes too inconvenient, long-distance high-speed rail too expensive. Why not all three? Ground-effect airplanes should only take about 4x more energy than a car at the same speed, the track is just cement or even dirt
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by bsdetector 6y ago
Ada was designed a few years before C and it could do much more than C and without the problems you mentioned. So we don't have to wonder at all, it would have turned out exactly the way it did and the reason is because things like und
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by bsdetector 6y ago
Complicated to exploit bugs often rely on specific code and data being in particular places or even the number of cycles a code block takes so even if the same bug had existed for years you might have to write a separate exploit for each ve
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by bsdetector 6y ago
More like farther away. Put a spy satellite in a high orbit like traditional satellite internet and it'll be able to see half of Starlink simultaneously with essentially no distortion. If they were strongly encrypted there may be no r
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by bsdetector 6y ago
Like Conway's Game of Life. I'm sure actual physicists have a thousand observations that prove it's not a possible explanation. But to me the concept is interesting in that it explains why there's time dilation, refere
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by bsdetector 6y ago
Or gravity is constant but time is not. If 'time' is not continuous and gravity and other effects share 'time quanta' then the more gravity from any source a thing experiences the less of other change can occur - just li
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by bsdetector 6y ago
Get wired headphones, attach a $10 bluetooth to wired adapter, bundle up the wires onto the head strap. It's in some ways lesser than AirPods Max, but it's hundreds of dollars cheaper, you can choose the ear shape and quality that
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by bsdetector 6y ago
> alternative theories of gravity To me it all just sounds like quantum vs continuous. Like at our scales we normally see only the continuous averages and we'd expect that to be even more so at galactic scales. But what if at the fr
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by bsdetector 6y ago
Perhaps it's merely coincidental, but Google created this TCP connection tracking data where it wasn't there before or was of much lower fidelity; they made a specific exception for GA to reuse one connection across domains for 6
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by bsdetector 6y ago
> The above quote is a bit misleading. Google Analytics by default uses first party cookies, the data associated with which isn't used for targeting. My understanding is that in Chrome all the GA data from a browsing session is sent
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by bsdetector 6y ago
Squashfs has a sorted order to files and LZ compression is stable (change a byte and everything will be the same after the dictionary window if not sooner). So it should be really easy to make very small update deltas for snaps without any
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by bsdetector 7y ago
All that would happen is the platform and the moderation would be separated, and the moderation optional. There would be a 4chan-like hacker news platform, and hacker news modlist that hides problematic comments. Hacker news already operat
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by bsdetector 7y ago
> I'm not even sure the client would benefit much from pipelining versus concurrent requests Microsoft studied this when they evaluated SPDY and the found that pipelining does benefit, and scored nearly identically with SPDY (aka HT
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by bsdetector 7y ago
I think you're really making my point for me. There were hundreds of millions of Opera and mobile Safari users with pipelining enabled, and the only problems you can point to are a few small things, in this case in something that doesn
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by bsdetector 7y ago
These are bugs in Firefox. There were bugs in their HTTP/2 implementation as well. The comments show that Mozilla was frozen by fear of some unknown problems happening if they enabled pipelining.
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by bsdetector 7y ago
It paints a misleading picture. When this demo first came out, it didn't have the right reply header to enable pipelining in the browser. Now it does, but browsers have removed pipelining support. Pipelining is a part of HTTP/1.
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by bsdetector 7y ago
Has anybody ever given any even halfway compelling evidence of pipelining breaking websites? Google didn't, Mozilla didn't. I believe there was one small banking site using a ten year old IIS that didn't load - but maybe pi
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by bsdetector 7y ago
What if these stars are disappearing as part of an orderly shut down procedure of some grand simulation, taking millennia from our perspective. Civilizations would get to a level of science where they find out and even if they could reach u
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by bsdetector 7y ago
Self-reporting can be a fine measure. For example, these participants who were amused by people they disagree with being beaten up self-reported low empathy. They just didn't know that's what they were doing, which is why they we
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by bsdetector 7y ago
When Watson won Jeopardy, its lead designer thought a 5 ms reaction time was fair because one time a human anticipating the buzzer light got 2 ms. Of course to any reasonable person a consistent 5 ms is obviously vastly superior to once in
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by bsdetector 7y ago
Yes, I expect it was very interesting indeed - I mean, who programmed these women and how did they even do that? And what did programming the women have to do with chaos theory, was chaos theory part of that process?! That sounds like som
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by bsdetector 7y ago
If the problems you have with UK and USA government are you don't like that people yell at each other and the representatives don't look the way you feel they should look, then you're right and they should change to a more &#
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by bsdetector 7y ago
> That is, except "first past the post" which is the system in the UK and US. ... I'm sure you can see how this is a problem? The two longest lasting, largest, most successful democracies of all time - I don't see the
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by bsdetector 8y ago
No we're talking about every website having to make this work because the default is to not require loading the resources or else be blamed for not being compliant with a spec forced on them by Google through their browser monopoly. Go
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by bsdetector 8y ago
Their own customers are using less than 15 GB per month, how much battery could they possibly save on the radio? A single video will use more radio time than days of image downloads in the browser. Furthermore, Google themselves didn&#x27
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by bsdetector 8y ago
Why they say they are pushing this: * "Speed up the load of above-the-fold content, since there will be less competition for network resources during the initial page load" Why don't they just set a low priority for offscreen
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by bsdetector 8y ago
It would be a huge privacy/tracking violation to send every URL you visit to the arbiter to find out if it's fake news. What they could do is have a "fake news?" button that you press to find out if a particular article
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by bsdetector 8y ago
If somebody believes that Broward county made up 80,000 votes to rig the election what evidence can you show that they didn't? As far as I can tell there's no evidence in Florida to differentiate fraud from incompetence. And if
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by bsdetector 8y ago
That's because Smalltalk's real invention was the term "object oriented". The C++/Java/C# family of objects favoring encapsulation and interfaces started with Simula 67 before Smalltalk. It's actually a
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by bsdetector 8y ago
> and only a few bugs died on my windshield. Smoother airflow around the windshield means fewer bugs smashing into it and more glancing hits that don't leave a mess. Traditional hard edged cars like Jeep Wrangler seem to get a lot o

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