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by dublin 4y ago
Well, it lasts for several years, but considerably less than even a human lifetime: Tritium's half-life is only about 11 years, so gun sights, dark-proof glow-in-the-dark signage (usually reserved for critical industrial plants, ships
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by dublin 4y ago
Of course, Popular Science established back in 1930 that Mars is home to the most evolutionarily advanced beavers in the Solar system: https://www.popsci.com/science/do-beavers-rule-on-mars/ And then there's
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by dublin 4y ago
Chevron ran tens of thousands of Unix workstations and servers doing billions of dollars worth of work each year with fewer than a dozen admins. In 1994. (BTW, Chevron's non-Unix IT is a complete train wreck, but that setup from last
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by dublin 4y ago
Given that they're going to be making substantial (and long-needed) changes to Twitter's architecture anyway, I'm not sure that the existing staff has a lot more value than hiring afresh. New features will need to take into
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Did you ever look in detail at Common Ground? IIRC, it was not only an Adobe PDF alternative, but the format was considerably more modern and powerful. Sadly, it seems like it lost just because PDF was similar to PostScript, a fact that n
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by dublin 4y ago
The Ars article on Alexa's financial crash-and-burn inside Amazon missed a lot of the reason people aren't willing to engage with Alexa as much as they could or would, if things were different. First, the privacy aspects are sign
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I learned this from a bibliophile minister many years ago: Any book worth reading is worth keeping. Any book worth keeping is worth having in hardback, if at all possible. Buy hardbacks (used if possible) and keep them. Bookcases aren&#x2
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by dublin 4y ago
No, he's right. Your comment was bullshit. Even really poor quality books will last at least many decades longer than any ebook reader and format. Good books last centuries to millennia. (And the ones with really good content te
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by dublin 4y ago
I've got a dozen or so paperbacks from the 1930s on my shelf that I read from time to time, and hundreds from later decades. Most (> 90%) are only slightly yellowed and stiff. The remaining 10% vary from crispy around the edges to
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by dublin 4y ago
Like others, not entirely sure what you mean here. May all-purpose "DB" or info store is OneNote, but I am making an effort to move as much as possible to TiddlyWiki this coming year. TW is relatively future-proof, as it's j
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by dublin 4y ago
And once upon a now long time ago, when I was a boy, the food was actually hot, quite tasty, prepared by actual chefs, and served on real china dishes with metal silverware. (Even in Coach - it was many years before I travelled enough to g
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by dublin 4y ago
The expensive part of composite aerostructures isn't making them, per se, it's the molds and tooling you have to build first, and you need a lot more of those when contours are constantly changing. (This isn't new though - co
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by dublin 4y ago
That's called a "coordinated turn", and it's what airline pilots should be aiming at whenever possible. In a coordinated turn, "down" remains aimed at the floor, regardless of actual bank angle. There's
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The DC-9 and MD-[89]X were great airplanes. One of the great tragedies of unchecked American corporate consolidation/acquisition is that Boeing was allowed to borg McDonnell-Douglas. (Although some climed the opposite was closer to t
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by dublin 4y ago
And a correct one. There is a reason these things did not develop until when and where they did...
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by dublin 4y ago
Given that even our first-tier colleges and universities still have no real idea how to teach math in a way that ensures that students will internalize and understand it, this isn't surprising. I think one of the most curious things a
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<quote>Some have spent millions or tens of millions trying to make SAP fit their business and failed.</quote> Any business that tries to make SAP fit their needs will fail to some degree (usually to a large degree, and expe
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Ridiculous. 20-ish years ago, a fair fraction of the comments on Slashdot involved Natalie Portman and hot grits... And Cowboy Neal.
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That doesn't work unless you also eliminate all cars under direct human control, which is not practical, possible, or desirable. And BTW, forcing adoption of automated cars only will quickly lead to situations like the one where you ca
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by dublin 4y ago
Three things remain true about AI driving: 1) Artificial Intelligence has a LOOONG way to go to catch up with natural stupidity - even really stupid people are better drivers in the corner cases than most AIs. 2) The first 98-99% or so of A
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Could have fooled me: It certainly looks as though Harari's developed quite a detailed and viable plan for getting rid of civilization for Klaus Schwab and the execrable World Economic Forum and its private jet setting supporters...
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Now THAT'S funny, I don't care who you are. (Although it will certainly gag pretty much any content filter that can't buffer more than a few dozen F-bombs...)
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Read the Bruen opinion - it's well-written and actually pretty clear that recent (really, meaning the last two centuries) gun restrictions are unconstitutional. Any restrictions have to be ones that would have been commonly in place w
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Tcl is kinda the same in that regard, hence some expanding that acronym as "try coding less". It's hard to make a powerful language that offers more power in such a small amount of simple, understandable code than these. (T
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A little-known fact is that the entire preboot environment in Sun's UltraSPARC machines was really just Forth. It was possible to modify that Forth code to do more or different things than what the factory intended, and Sun actually h
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by dublin 4y ago
I have yet to find ANY EV owners who are willing to let the power company slash their car's already pitiful range by draining their battery (at the grid's convenience) to power the grid. The greediest people I know are EV owners,
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by dublin 4y ago
I call B.S. There is NO reason to believe this. Unrealistic confidence in the progress of battery technology is not new - it's been the state of things for well over a century now. (See Edison's Nickel-Iron battery, for one...)
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by dublin 4y ago
It appears you haven't taken a thermodynamics or heat transfer class: Heat has a property called "quality", and low quality (roughly, low-temperature) heat such as you're describing is not really useful for much outside
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Of course they can. It's the only thing they've ever done. I honestly can't think of a company that thinks less of its users than Google does - that's because in their view, they have no users - they only have eyeballs
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But real books on real topics have been getting purged from libraries (especially school libraries) for well over a decade now. In many school districts, older books containing actual truths, are destroyed rather than marked as removed f

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