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by derstander 2y ago
I'm going to step back to a meta level and make a couple points: - Several times in the context of this discussion you've made negative assumptions about someone or their motives replying to you (e.g. "I wanted to give a seri
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by derstander 2y ago
> No. You are still ignoring that the mathematics of the Greeks and the mathematics of the Mesopotamians were radically different. This doesn't matter. We're talking about 0. Whether mathematics are conceptualized as a tool o
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by derstander 2y ago
> No. They weren't even in the same category, even the comparison doesn't make sense. The comparison does make sense if you interpret the parent’s post simply to state that Babylonian mathematics (in Mesopotamia) were developed
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by derstander 2y ago
> If it were true free market forces would already gone 100% solar because the purpose of energy companies is to make money. I’m not going to speak on whether solar truly is the cheapest form of energy as I have no idea whether or not th
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by derstander 2y ago
> My real, true first exposure to programming was Qbasic on a Windows XP machine, followed by real BASIC on a Commodore 64, then Java. What’s the story behind your starting with Windows XP and then moving back to a Commodore 64? For me,
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by derstander 2y ago
> Anything that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic on HN :) Yeah — sure. But I’m with the parent comment to which you replied. Sometimes I’m not sure if I’m just coming across one of todays “lucky 10,000
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by derstander 3y ago
Your analogy is flawed. Maple syrup is not to jam or honey as XXO Cognac is to regular brandy. A better analogy is that maple syrup is to jam or honey as brandy is to beer. Yeah — they have the same sort of fundamental purpose but if your r
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by derstander 3y ago
> I mean... most European countries (modulo some exceptions like Germany) existed (non-continuously) for at least a thousand years. This is interesting to me. What does it mean for a country to exist non-continuously? I can understand
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by derstander 3y ago
To be fair AMD has a graphics card with the model name 7900XT so the names aren’t that far apart in Levenshtein distance.
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by derstander 3y ago
This appears to be the correct link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/silicon... (When I read the title, I thought the story was going to be about Rome — it is not)
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by derstander 3y ago
As the sibling comment from zeeed mentioned, yes — in this case. More generally maybe but not always. If you wanted to use a DRFM jammer to insert false targets in an imaging radar, the bandwidths required may be a challenge. There are comm
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by derstander 3y ago
> Spoofing radar signals isn't exactly new, and the ability to do it on the ground (so to speak) shouldn't be surprising. The military has been doing it for decades. People who are interested in finding out more can look up Dig
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by derstander 3y ago
> I am conflicted on this because I like to speak my mind. > However, I do worry that there is too much criticism these days when someone speaks their mind. You don’t need to feel conflicted. Just think of that “too much criticism” as
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by derstander 3y ago
Alternatively you could think of the value added as the general contractor is you loaning the subcontractor your reputation. Certainly that reputation should be on the line if the sub (and by extension the general) fails to deliver. Though
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by derstander 3y ago
Vouched for this. Not sure why it was flagged. Maybe because it was an article originally from arstechnica rather than pocket. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/the-most-important-c...
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by derstander 3y ago
> In addition, point 4 in the article does not make much sense. Why would a Russian victory 'encourage' mainland China to invade Taiwan, for instance? It wouldn't change anything there. Point 4 makes sense to me — though I
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by derstander 3y ago
> it's based on the logic of taking away from people who have, and giving to those who don't, which means taking away from those people who found purpose, and giving to those who don't and usually don't seek purpose b
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by derstander 3y ago
I disagree. Science would suggest that separating a human from their emotions (like via emotional suppression) is illogical — a one-way ticket to mental health disorder. Thus, to obey reason, one must feel enough (and regulate vs suppress
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by derstander 3y ago
> Do we really need to be using up government resources doing drug approvals for dogs? It takes so long to get human drugs approved. Let's use the resources there and let the market sort out what works for animals. Let’s leave aside
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Playstation is erasing seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries(arstechnica.com)
225 points by derstander 3y ago|526 comments
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by derstander 3y ago
The two antennas on the desk are set up as an array (Input A and Input B). The beamformer (that little disc) creates two outputs, a sum channel (A+B) and a delta channel (A-B). Where the -B part is essentially inverting the phase of B and
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by derstander 3y ago
I was under the impression that Starlink satellites were Ku/Ka band (and E-band, apparently) according to Wikipedia. Isn’t LTE in L-/S-band? Is the plan to launch new satellites that also have LTE band or do previously launched sa
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by derstander 3y ago
For me the link just went to that site’s homepage which aggregates all of the stories there. This link seems to be what the poster may have intended? https://news.artnet.com/opinion/devon-rodriguez-parasocial-a...
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by derstander 3y ago
> I feel sorry for Jake. This post is titled "The patient's perspective" but the only part that referred to his view was him saying he was too worn out to do more than a couple of flights. I'm not on the inside of the
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by derstander 3y ago
> Because their primary purpose was to provide open access to literature and information, which is now widely available thanks to the internet. Even if you reduce a library to this primary purpose (and maintain that’s it purpose must be
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by derstander 3y ago
> How much do libraries matter now? Hard to say they matter as much as several decades ago. Why wouldn’t they? Is the idea that a person can get any content a library might offer online (and for free, if willing to pirate it)? I can’t di
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by derstander 3y ago
I found a related journal article about sandfly distribution but I am in no position to evaluate it (I’m neither a climatologist nor an entomologist — and I have no desire to play one on the internet). https://journals.plos.org&#
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by derstander 3y ago
> Can you elaborate on how climate change caused this as opposed to it having very obviously been inevitably sourced from typical travel and immigration across decades? This quote is directly from the article: “ One factor driving the di
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by derstander 3y ago
You’re in good company misinterpreting Truman’s famous desk sign: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/10/buck-stops-here-clin... Or directly from Truman’s library: “In his farewell address to the American pe
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by derstander 3y ago
> It's truly pathetic how Congress and the media are giving the Biden administration a free pass on refusing to acknowledge that the endless interest-rate hikes AREN'T WORKING. The President doesn’t control interest rates, the

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