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by fernly 11y ago
Cute & impressive, but about as far from application as any research can get. Basically using an entire scanning-tunneling microscope (STM) as the source lead of a single transistor. This does not scale well.
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by fernly 11y ago
Craters, or lack thereof. They assume some rate of impacts, validate against other parts of the surface, other planets, and Chiron. No craters, the surface has been remodeled too recently for impacts to mark it.
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by fernly 11y ago
> If a shadow biosphere were ever found... ...it would automatically become part of the biosphere. Note that an entire kingdom of life, the Archaea, was only identified in 1977[1]. That was a "shadow biosphere" if you like: a
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by fernly 11y ago
Kudos for having their hearts in the right place. No kudos for presentation. I've tried to look at two works, typewritten MSS by Vachel Lindsay and Sara Teasdale, and the text display is awkward. The initial presentation is too small t
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by fernly 11y ago
Yeah, case in point, I was jogging on Cowper st (wide, 2-lane residential) Tuesday morning and noticed a self-drive Lexus had come to a stop behind a Palo Alto garbage truck that was making its usual stop-go-stop way down the street. After
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by fernly 11y ago
Two quick comments. One, there's been a lot of primitives added since I knew APL some decades ago, some of which would be rather hard to type with a 2741 selectric (equals underbar slash?), and some like jot-dieresis and tilde-dieresis
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by fernly 11y ago
Late reply... can you estimate the number of hours per week you put into planning, shopping, cooking, and cleanup? If so, and if you can you assign a $ value to that time, it would be an interesting exercise to compare such _total_ costs (a
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by fernly 11y ago
Meat of the Conclusions section: >To date and according to the clinical trials conducted so far, it is becoming evident that RES exerts cardioprotective benefits through the improvement of inflammatory markers, atherogenic profile, gluco
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by fernly 11y ago
Gave it a pic of tip-off of a basketball game. It offered "Instrumentation".
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by fernly 11y ago
Nice thing about podcasts, you can drag the timeline slider to skip the ads. If you think you know enough about Squarespace already.
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by fernly 11y ago
"Dhalgren" -- what? Why? What do you think are the links between such vastly different works, produced in vastly different eras by authors who could hardly be more unlike each other? Seriously, I'd love to know how you'd
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by fernly 12y ago
Right right right. Shockwave Rider (as the wiki page notes) describes a world of ubiquitous networked computers -- its publication date, 1975, was also the year that Darpanet went operational -- and introduced the idea of a self-propagating
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by fernly 12y ago
Would it not take as long to upload to iCloud?
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by fernly 12y ago
The computer history museum in mountain view has a new lobby exhibit on this machine. But then <snerk> there isn't a lot to see.
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by fernly 12y ago
The site is obviously a labor of love by a dedicated & clever experimenter. However it is frustrating for the casual visitor because (as far as I could see in 10 minutes browsing) there's no way to tell if any of these coilguns are
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by fernly 12y ago
You are correct about the 029. However in the 1401 machine room at CHM there is an 026 which was the correct keypunch for the era. OP could have used that but would have had to punch it manually -- not fun! The 029 used is, as noted in the
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by fernly 12y ago
It's a hodge-podge of semi-accurate statements about very minor trends (minor in employment terms) and inaccurate statements that it's hard to critique. Check this partial paragraph with my thoughts as I read it: "Meanwhile,
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by fernly 12y ago
True. And I think that's the point of the subject essay: that "work" is surrounded by attitudes and mythologies that distort everyone's perceptions of its value.
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by fernly 12y ago
I find the analysis of the popular attitudes toward work very resonant. We (as a society) do treat the unemployed or unemployable as morally suspect. We do punish people for needing welfare. Many receive the idea of Basic Income with suspic
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by fernly 12y ago
I want to think you made that reference -- arbeit macht frei -- knowingly, and if so, nice sting!
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by fernly 12y ago
Big-ass induction coil... bet it would do a quick number on a credit card. Or a thumb-drive... or a phone... "Oh, is that one of those induction battery chargers?" fzzzzt!
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by fernly 12y ago
I enjoyed that video but it also confused me a bit. It is useful in that it clearly makes the point that what's different about the PSD is that, unlike the planetary gear system in the Ford Model T and many others, at no time is any of
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by fernly 12y ago
What about reinforcement? Is there any way to use rebar or mesh to make a stronger structure? It appears they can make a self-supporting arched roof shell, but surely these things can't make a bridge that would take even light traffic.
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by fernly 12y ago
Interesting. They are implementing, in effect, an LRU cache algorithm: scanning books as they are requested. The next person to request that book gets an email in 30 seconds, not two days.
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by fernly 12y ago
Say more about "couldn't even turn [it] on"? Because it didn't work then (not a good sign)? Or because they, or somebody, thought the vortex would detach and go rogue?
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by fernly 12y ago
Many Worlds is one concept; this is another and quite different.
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by fernly 12y ago
Ever since I first saw one of these -- several years ago, near the Googleplex [1] -- I have had this idea for a real-estate venture. You're welcome to take it on, because I'll never get around to it. Step 1, go into AZ, somewhere
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by fernly 12y ago
I thought it was meant to be ironic, the white and magenta text on black so repelled my eye. But no, some (not all) of the other pages on the site are like that.
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by fernly 12y ago
SSSS book 1 was funded by an indiegogo campaign[1] in October 2014, which pulled 500% of the target. Book should be available fairly soon. [1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/stand-still-stay-silent-b...
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Webkit, a never-failing source of laughs(thispageintentionally.blogspot.com)
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