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by campground 7y ago
Plucked string instruments are one of the simpler classes of instruments for physical modelling. Waveguide synthesis uses delay lines and filters to model a wave propagating along a string and reflecting off the bridge and nut. The famous K
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by campground 7y ago
Micah Elizabeth Scott (scanlime) talks about using a similar trick as a first step into reverse engineering firmware: https://youtu.be/UTUYl-2g-r4?t=328
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by campground 8y ago
There were a number of similar quotes in a recent review of Bruce Cannon Gibney’s book on Boomers: ‘And way, way before that, a letter published in a 1771 issue of Town and Country manages to sound laughably familiar, in sentiment at least:
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by campground 8y ago
The thing is there is a global power structure now, it's just not accountable. This is always my problem with anarchism. There's never not a power structure. The difference is whether or not the power structure has been designed w
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by campground 8y ago
I have felt, increasingly, like the only way to deal with this and many similar problems (global warming, growing wealth inequality) is a legitimate global government with real authority. Unfortunately, it feels like the public appetite fo
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by campground 9y ago
It's like simulated annealing over the gene space.
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by campground 9y ago
This idea of justifying military buildup by it's beneficial trickle down into civilian technology always struck me as very odd. It seems like an absurdly inefficient and roundabout way of funding R&D. If the government wants to inv
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by campground 9y ago
From the article: > GPS receivers will benefit from onboard clocks. This is perhaps surprising, given that the GPS signal itself carries time information, but it happens because the signal from the satellite is weak—comparable to the pow
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by campground 9y ago
I believe this is only necessary for salmon. Because they spawn inland they host parasites whose life cycle includes terrestrial animals, like bears and humans.
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by campground 9y ago
This is only tangentially related, but the story of Kiidk'yaas, the Golden Spruce, cut down in 1997 as an act of protest, is fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiidk%27yaas https://thetyee.ca&#x
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by campground 9y ago
I always assumed that the revenue was going to come from selling the bags of fruit. The machine is easily and cheaply cloned, but a network for distributing prepackaged produce would be much harder to copy and provide the recurring revenue
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by campground 9y ago
Maybe it was automatically generated.
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by campground 9y ago
This is interesting. If Danes don't care about growth, then in what sense does Denmark care about growth?
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by campground 10y ago
"Happiness is for idiots" -DeGaulle (maybe)
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by campground 10y ago
This is similar to a thought I've had for some time now; That artificial intelligence is most likely to emerge - rather than be explicitly designed - from our increasingly complex, interconnected, self-regulating systems and institutio
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by campground 10y ago
Can I just buy my own password? I forgot it ages ago and the email address I registered with no longer exists.