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by dguest 2y ago
That's also why I use emacs. It was the first text editor I learned.
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Seems like a solvable problem, the trivial solution is to have the dealership program multiple fobs identically. I guess maybe not solved yet because: - The trivial solution also means multiple cars respond to e.g. "unlock" if the
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by dguest 2y ago
Come in 2nd place. Without the entrant in 2nd place, a lot of the people / companies / products in 1nd place would be much worse. Without the entrant in 1st place, 2nd place would be the best. If the two are close it's still
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by dguest 2y ago
Yeah it's a 2d geometry, of course some of the cables will cross. The other reason that overlapping would be an issue is if they need to pull up a section to repair it and it's directly under another cable. But the ocean is really
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by dguest 2y ago
It might not be complete nonsense. If you map energy -> power the paragraph actually says something sensible. It could have been worse: if they'd said something like "500 megawatts per week" it would be completely unclea
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I don't doubt it was in the works, but on what time frame? Timing probably matters: when most of the market already agrees you can't wait for the last group, you have to strike before everyone defuses again. And while I can imagin
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by dguest 2y ago
I'm confused about how Europe didn't have anything to do with the timing. Apple switched exactly when Europe mandated it and criticized the mandate.
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Another take on this: what do you expect the cutting edge of science to look like? Of course it's going to be "these things work, we're not quite sure why", once you know why they work it's no longer the cutting edg
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by dguest 2y ago
The technology really is not up to it, though. To give some numbers: - The LHC has 40M "events" (bunch of collisions) a second. - The experiments can afford to save around 2000 of them. This is a factor of 20k between what they co
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Which is actually very reasonable, it ends with > In any event, I use irreverence (i.e., shitposting) to engage with tricky philosophical questions. I know that people unfamiliar with my schtick might read me as just being an asshole. Th
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by dguest 2y ago
what I showed is the squared 4 momentum when you use the Minkowski metric [1], assuming "squared" means "self-dot product". The formulation above is just another way to illustrate the Minkowski dot product. [1]: https
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I think the gigantic bumps that Kyle pointed to "discovered" the higgs. The statistical interpretation showing a 5 sigma signal was certainly essential, but I suspect it would have taken the collaborations much longer to publish
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the math is m^2 c^4 = E^2 - p^2 c^2 where m is mass, E is the total energy in the decay products and p is the 3-vector sum of the momentum. Those units should work out (they certainly do if you set c = 1).
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More positive spin: every "kludge" you add puts more constraints on what dark matter could be. If we can verify that the angular momentum transfer under this theory is consistent with other dark matter models, we can build a bette
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link to papers: - https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14450 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03412 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18228v1
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I think people have different definitions of "reading": - Skimming: In my day job this is 95% of "reading". I think this is unavoidable, since (even if the material is well written) there's very little chance that t
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We used ML to discover the Higgs. Whether or not the original Higgs discovery decay channels used ML, confirming that it was in fact the Higgs required measuring the decay to b-quarks, which has used ML since the LHC started taking data. Ov
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What does this look like on an M. C. Escher drawing, e.g. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/00/f4/8c/00f48c6b443c0ce14b51... ?
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by dguest 2y ago
It's not all the way back as long as solid encryption exists: Tim Cook could digitally sign his announcements, and assuming we can establish his signature (we had signatures and stamps 200 years ago) video proof still works. So we&#x27
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The important point here is that (I believe) the 1.4 billion above doesn't account for all the work done directly by institutes. Institutes pay CERN, but they also channel government grants to fund a huge amount of work directly. Most
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by dguest 2y ago
Most of the people who make CERN work aren't working for CERN. The IT department is under CERN, but there are many thousands of "users" who don't get payed by CERN at all. Quite a lot of the fabrication and most of the p
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by dguest 2y ago
There was a huge initiative at CERN to move to non-MS products. It was great actually: suddenly we were leaving behind a bunch of bloated MS cruft and working with nice stuff. As someone working at CERN I was really inspired, not just by th
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Direct link to source https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63b.html#passwordver
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This surprised me: ...the rock era unfolded as ... a series of begats (Elvis begat the Beatles, the Beatles begat Jann Wenner, etc.) involving identity-famished teenagers and their heroes ... Cohen is absent from this narrative for on
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by dguest 2y ago
I all fairness, I don't think the grandparent post disagrees with anything that is in the parent post here. Yes, academia has tried to quantify prestige via impact factor and peer-reviewed journals. Yes, lots of people (even in Academi
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Yeah this title is pretty terrible. The HN guidelines [1] state please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. This title smells pretty linkbait to me. Especially since "no smoking i
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Some scientific collaborations put thousands of people on every paper, publish around 100 papers a year, and cite at least 10 of their own papers in each one. To some, that might be "a fraudulent citation ring". To others it'
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How will number theory help us build spears and clubs?
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Best similar case I can think of is the EU regulating charging cables (and mandating USB-C for a lot of devices). It was a common consumer good with a problem that really annoyed some people so much that they made a law to "fix" i
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I think people might miss how rules like this can be nice if you are a game developer. As someone who writes software, I'm honestly happy when someone is requiring that the source be open, that my results be reproducible, that my cha

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