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What happens is that all machines that matter are little endian but network works always in Big Endian.
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What killed rock n roll is the same thing that "killed" every other music genre before: Demographics. People get older and young people want to differentiate themselves from older people, so they just do different things, includin
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It is very easy to understand. People like Bill Gates who is a big investor in artificial meta are lobbing for normal eat and fish to be banned one way or another. That it, people eating the way they always had eaten have other people wanti
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>But, given that Linux is a community-supported operating system that does not need to make a profit, I see no valid reason for it not supporting every computer that can still be useful. In other words, because it is a community project
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Patents are monopolies give by States. In fact in the past, in countries like France, patents were sold to the highest bidder, like the patent for manufacturing straw baskets or ceramic containers. Basically, if you did not pay the King,or
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BTW: Multiple CPUs cores are not parallel programming in the sense fpgas or ASICS (or even GPUs) are. Multiple cores work like multiple machines, but parallel units work choreographically in sync at lower speeds(with quadratic energy consum
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That doesn't look so excessive to me. We get hundred or thousand times more efficiency and performance regularly using custom electronics for things like 3d or audio recognition. But programming fixed electronics in parallel is also wa
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The main difference in focus is that sports is a "game". In a game the rules do not change. If rules can not change your subconscious start doing it if you repeat it again and again, leaving the conscious free to just focus on imp
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A very important thing is the topology of the infection. I had COVID last year and it progressed linearly over time, from the back of my nose(probably from a big water droplet I breathed)forwards(towards my nose) and downwards towards my lu
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Muse Group hires Audacity team is simpler and much better said, nobody can acquire Audacity.
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You are mixing two things that have nothing to do with each other. They are orthogonal or linearly independent. Authoritarian has nothing to do with conservatism, in fact communist countries are the more authoritarian in the world. Conserva
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It is the most common thing to do. What happens is a small percentage of flu cases get complications and need to go to the doctor, like for example you get it with other virus and your immune system overreacts. This is the reason doctors kn
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The Wright brothers did not create from the void, they copied lots of things from other innovators, specially Otto Liliental, whom they admired a lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal This is important bec
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I am always surprised by how a significant part of the population are purist or religious mindset about everything, specially tools. They take a rigid hard stand,idealized to Totem status and don't move from that as they consider anyth
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I had a girlfriend that was from Ukraine and visited the country in summer. Ukraine has probably the most fertile soil in the world. Like Egypt it has fed Europe and then Russia for a long time. It is also one of the most corrupt countries
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There is a nominalization here, very typical of US people: Talking about success like it is one thing, and the same thing for everybody. The fact is that there are as many different definitions of success as different people in the world. F
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1. Because before WWII they(together with the UK) received with open arms the Jews that were expelled by Nazism and were half the Nobel prices in science. 2. Because they won the WWII and took by force the best scientist in Germany that was
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Technology is going to make it possible to follow all the people all the time. Cheap satellites and drones means a camera or antenna following you every second, whenever you want it or not. Cheap cameras and AI means you are tracked in the
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I also did that with my friends all the time with early smartphones. Then in the University we started giving signals to computers using missed calls before using SMSs later, as they became cheap or even free in bulk.
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>Corruption is a natural consequence of a world governed by profit. Profit is no necessary for corruption to happen. Lenin and Stalin did prosecute profit(and millions starved as a consequence) and their country was extremely corrupt. It
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That is because States are most of the time the dirtiest of all launderers. For example the US financed its South America operations with drugs for a long time. US, Israel, Germany or Russia sells weapons under the table to other countries.
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In countries like Denmark or Norway things like Universal health care are not free, they are paid by high taxes and gas/oil from Greenland/North sea that most countries do not have, and lots of things in Hospitals need a family me
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I had a different experience solving similar problems. When I started working in Spain as an engineer I solved problems like that in the article, very hard, requiring people with very high technical skills. Companies creating big problems b
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The travels of Marco Polo(1300) talks about books in China so cheap that people could actually buy them as they are made from woodblocks. But "cheap" here is not the price of a book today. A book requires someone spending at least
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I spent most of the article thinking how little sense the article made, über confused. AI controlling rockets? AI controlling the Space Shuttle? In 2021? Which Space Shuttle they are referring to? Controlling a rocket being that good? ( I m
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I don't understand the Interface, can't use it.
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>The only thing constraining Xi Xinping from going the route of Putin or Kim is his own self control. I believe you have been brainwashed by American Media if you believe Putin is on par with Kim Jong-il. There is hysteria in US media be
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>Why doesn't China answer back with similar sanctions? They want to, but they can't, yet. If you listen to CCP officials the long term plan is very clear: To transform China from an export driven economy to a internal market ec
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I recommend that you read about flow then. The original idea of flow(in the zone) comes from this book and author, but is obsolete now: https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-... I recommend this book a
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>And I've yet to see an SE or any other human that can wake up in the zone every single day. It's impossible. I wake up in the zone every single time because I sleep what I need. I also do exercise and eat well. It is that simp
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