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by choeger 5y ago
You either don't get it or you are trolling. Einstein's elevator metaphor did not at all draw any important bits from the impossible construction. A spaceship under constant acceleration works just as well. A thought experiment th
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by choeger 5y ago
You really ought to read up on the matter. Kursk was, on the onset, impossible odds. Yet the Wehrmacht inflicted massive casualties with relatively small own losses. If I am not mistaken, the level of destruction was not reached on a batt
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by choeger 5y ago
But you wouldn't measure the living body. You would measure a frozen (that is, dead) one. And even then your level of precision wouldn't be exact but subject to errors. Regardless how small your measurement errors might be, there
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by choeger 5y ago
To the contrary, it postulates the existence of an impossible device. It's like asking questions about time paradoxes.
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by choeger 5y ago
The premise is already wrong. Any kind of copy mechanism will be imperfect. Even if we just consider classical physics (which is obviously a very coarse approximation), there is no mechanism that could scan every atom of your body at precis
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by choeger 5y ago
That's a really interesting read. I bet the DIND pattern is very common because it is a) common to run CI jobs in containers, b) common (and a good idea) to describe testing environments in containers inside the source code repo and c)
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by choeger 5y ago
You should read up on modern (not Soviet) accounts of the battle of Kursk. The effect of the Luftwaffe was huge.
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by choeger 5y ago
This has nothing to do with contemporary officers being incompetent or illogical (Although precisely this kind of officers seems to exist in each war. At least at the beginning...) I think the main problem here is that new doctrines are har
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by choeger 5y ago
While that article rightfully points to the operational advantages of the defender (coordinated counter attacks with unhindered artillery support) it leaves out some of the options that could have changed the situation: Air force, tanks, an
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by choeger 5y ago
> makes the city hostile to all except automobiles. That's simply not true. I saw that working extremely well in downtown Vancouver nearly a decade ago. Parking can easily coexist with apartments and shopping and it can get the ca
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by choeger 5y ago
That's simply not true. There needs to be a balance, not a priority. If you build a city that is made for pedestrians, how do you leave it from the center? City design nowadays has this "we are only a 500m across plaza" vibe
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by choeger 5y ago
Did you ever consider why the town is jammed with cars? Or why big cities are filled with them? Cars are enormously expensive right now. Owning a decent-sized family car costs around 400€ every month right now, a used one, mind you. The
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by choeger 5y ago
Actually that idea is intuitively easy to understand once you consider how large Siberia is. It's hard to imagine humans could extinguish any species there, even one that's so hard to miss. But if course, we don't really know
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by choeger 5y ago
That thread points out some interesting observations about typical Star Trek inconsistencies (another one would be to think about why someone should move to a colony in the first place or rather about why not everyone can simply travel be
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by choeger 5y ago
It's funny that you ask, but I have this flashlight that I found in my weird neighbor's garage/machine shop...
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by choeger 5y ago
What I take from this approach is that you might want to leave an option for automatic merge/change application after CI green lighting. So a documentation change could be tagged as such and go live directly. But do you really need a f
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by choeger 5y ago
To the contrary, I don't think that's plausible. In the whole COVID-19 decision the question of the initial load has not been discussed well enough, IMO. If you think about the virus passing your various layers of protection it is
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by choeger 5y ago
I think comparison functions are a prime "use case" for this kind of error because it will pass the type check easily and comparison is often somewhat symmetric, so you will do a lot of copy and paste. Only unit or property tests
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by choeger 5y ago
But road usage by cars is not the problem, CO2 emissions is. By doing this kind of punishment-by-proxy the whole taxation becomes ideological (car too big, car too foreign) and loses legitimacy. Keep in mind that in a democracy you shouldn
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by choeger 5y ago
This is Germany. I think the 20M is a legal requirement or derived from a legal requirement (by adding something on top). This car insurance costs me around 40€/month, but there's a steep curve based on how many years you've
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by choeger 5y ago
"Just handed the money", my ass. Did you ever work in science? How to you even think that money should be distributed in scientific institutions? Everyone gets a share based on ... what? Their degree? Number of publications? Conse
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by choeger 5y ago
ITER plans first plasma for 2025 - do you think it is a coincidence that SPARC is planned for 2025 as well in that release? I think both projects will hit delays, but ITER is much further in construction, so I wouldn't bet on SPARC to
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by choeger 5y ago
That's some hating BS right there. ITER might fail to produce economically viable fusion energy, but it certainly won't fail to produce a massive amount of scientific and engineering innovation. The sole fact that such a scientifi
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by choeger 5y ago
There are certain risks you simply cannot pay out-of-pocket: Car accidents (my car is insured to 20M in damages p.p.), house destruction (you usually already have one mortgage), or inability to work in your profession (e.g., by becoming bli
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by choeger 5y ago
So if I want to create real mayhem I just need to have two suicide attackers starting a firefight in roughly opposite directions in a crowded open place and wait for dozens of bystanders to join in?
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by choeger 5y ago
This. It's nuts to build infrastructure and then punish its use. Overuse or non-propertional damage should be punished, of course. Infrastructure costs should be divided by its users (or society as a whole) and then users should be en
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by choeger 5y ago
Language reform ain't language control. Reforming a language can have negative impact, for sure, but it normally has a positive goal that lies in the language itself: Simplified orthography (latest German reform), reviving a dead langu
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by choeger 5y ago
As someone who lives in a formerly fascist country and was born in a socialist country that borrowed many fascist tools, I can tell you all one thing: Taking control of the language is a telltale sign of a fascist movement. Whoever tries
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by choeger 5y ago
You should be able to create an unbounded for loop as well. After all, a python process has mutable state, so it should be fairly simple to increment the length of your loop inside the loop body.
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by choeger 5y ago
Yeah right. Because banksters would never all run the same scheme, right? They are so "competitive", you would never find the same conditions on every bank account nation-wide.

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