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by cperciva 3y ago
When I was subpoenaed in a case where I was working as an expert, "my side" paid for the time I spent responding to the subpoena. Seems to me that the author's complaint should be with the California AG, not worth Amazon&#x2
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by cperciva 3y ago
A NAND gate doesn't erase information; you still have the inputs. In Quantum computers it's more a matter of "overwriting" a qubit with a new value.
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by cperciva 3y ago
I'm bothered by the characterization of "erasing" information. Black holes notwithstanding, you can't erase information. If you rephrase it as transmitting information to your environment it makes far more sense (an
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by cperciva 3y ago
Energy packets precisely measure energy transfer, independent of frequency or phase angle, and update at a fixed rate with a common time reference such as every millisecond There's a call for you on line 1, someone calling himself Al
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by cperciva 3y ago
Never going back to a gas car. We've been driving a Kona EV since 2019 but decided that we need two cars now.
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by cperciva 3y ago
I recently bought a Polestar 2. For people who aren't familiar with the brand, I describe it as "Volvo makes a Model 3". Is it less high tech than a Tesla? Absolutely: Volvo is a car company. Is it better constructed than
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by cperciva 3y ago
feels much more spacious thanks to the glass roof. My Polestar 2 has a glass roof too. I think it's part of the "plus" pack?
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by cperciva 3y ago
I would probably go with "status quo bias".
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by cperciva 3y ago
I think the idea is that you notice heating and maneuver before you heat up too much. Whether that works depends on how long the laser burst is.
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by cperciva 3y ago
It is, in vacuum. Less so in the atmosphere -- especially if you're aerodynamically unstable to begin with.
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by cperciva 3y ago
You probably know when in the flight you should expect to be a target based on the locations of laser batteries -- given atmospheric absorption and dispersion they're going to have limited range. Worst case, make your entire flight pa
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by cperciva 3y ago
Once a line of sight is established from the DE platform to the warhead, it is impossible to outrun this “speed of light interceptor.” No high G maneuver will work. The speed of light isn't infinite. Between a satellite seeing the l
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by cperciva 3y ago
I'm inclined to give food photographers a pass on the "non-food ingredients" thing. Most of these fall into the category of "make something which looks like food but lasts longer" -- fake ice cream which doesn&#x27
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by cperciva 3y ago
Yes, talks are being recorded, should be up on YouTube in a month or two depending on how busy the (volunteer) video editors are.
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by cperciva 3y ago
AWS Lambda does not support FreeBSD. It would be great if that changed though...
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by cperciva 3y ago
We might end up doing that. A quicksort takes it from 2 ms down to 40 us though, and doing the sorting at build time would take a lot of linker magic. (The SYSINITs are records in separate object files which are marked as going into a part
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by cperciva 3y ago
Sure. In this case though the list doesn't change from boot to boot, or for that matter from system to system; if we hit a worst-case we would notice before the release shipped. Also, the worst case would be "systems take 2 ms ex
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by cperciva 3y ago
I haven't recovered from jetlag yet. Sorry, my snark went overboard.
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by cperciva 3y ago
2.031 ms, I rounded down.
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by cperciva 3y ago
[Deleted, humour doesn't come through in text.]
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by cperciva 3y ago
In that particular case, 620 ms for the entire boot process. 28 ms for the kernel boot (of which 7% or 2 ms is the bubblesort).
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by cperciva 3y ago
In US and Canada, we've decided that the suburbs are untouchable Not in Metro Vancouver! Of buildings >= 500' in height, 7 are in Burnaby, 4 are in Vancouver, and 1 each are in Coquitlam and Surrey; under construction are an
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by cperciva 3y ago
A construction consortium is a true finite-life operating company. These are companies established to build some big project, and shut down when it's finished. The first big one was Six Companies, created to build Hoover Dam. Not jus
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by cperciva 3y ago
I have yet to read about a proposed solution to Argentina's economy. It's not that complicated. The government needs to balance its budget. Continually borrowing money -- from the central bank when nobody else wants to lend an
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by cperciva 3y ago
Doesn't kerosene burn more cleanly than diesel though? You might save lives from fires but lose them from poor air quality.
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by cperciva 3y ago
The S in BMC stands for "Security".
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by cperciva 3y ago
They might be right that spinning rust isn't going to be used for online storage due to the energy cost, but that doesn't mean it can't still be useful for offline storage. I'm not buying this.
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by cperciva 3y ago
Moving from spinning rust to solid-state storage dramatically improved the performance of random reads , but random writes still carry a penalty compared to sequential writes. So sequential I/O is perhaps half-dead; there's no
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by cperciva 4y ago
The S&L crisis started before the deregulation. In fact, the deregulation of S&Ls was an attempt to address the fact that many of them were already insolvent due to holding long-term fixed-rate mortgages in a rising-interest-rate e
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by cperciva 4y ago
The model you describe is exactly why S&L happened . Small banks with highly correlated deposits holding their own loan books is a recipe for maximizing vulnerability to economic shocks. Interest rates go up and the loan book loses v

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