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by fpoling 7y ago
I wonder if reduced air traffic contributed to the success? I.e. could it be that favorite conditions are not that rare if not due to disturbance from all the flights?
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Feynman's Nobel Lecture (1965) [pdf](feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)
2 points by fpoling 7y ago|0 comments
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by fpoling 7y ago
Derivation of Maxwell equations from the corresponding Lagrange form does not require to know differential geometry. But some understanding of that is useful to realize that it is the Maxwell equations that sort-of follows from the constnes
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by fpoling 7y ago
That is what was implied. The person needs help until time has chance to work.
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by fpoling 7y ago
I was skeptical about depression until I saw it in my son. This is a terrible condition with bad side-effects even in a mild form. And the only effective treatment is time.
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by fpoling 7y ago
It is a bad analogy. We do not know even if dark matter exists as it is one of many possible explanations of a particular phenomenon. So the depression is like a galaxy rotation speed anomaly.
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by fpoling 7y ago
Strictly speaking real computers are finite state machines and are trivially decidable from the halting problem point of view. The problem is that it just takes long long time.
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by fpoling 7y ago
That is a very nice summary! By then I recently discovered utility of a special bag to bake potatoes in the microwave . It does work even if takes longer than promised 5 minutes, but the result is very tasty and I have no idea how I would r
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by fpoling 7y ago
It does not matter. Propaganda is a nice way to get money from the state. It is easy to show immediate results and blaming external factors is always possible when asked about long-term effects.
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by fpoling 7y ago
time_t is also used in code for relative time and that has to be signed.
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by fpoling 7y ago
In Norway if one has a copper phone line into house, then the speed is typically bound by 40 Mbit/s. And it is not just rural areas. The apartment I live in is close to the center of Oslo. But as it is an old building with few flats it
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by fpoling 7y ago
Yet non-default browsers on Android are non-existent. So in practice Android has the same web-engine mono-culture as iPhone. Given how successfully Google was able to ensure Blink domination on desktop and even more so on Android it is very
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by fpoling 7y ago
This change does not remove the user agent. In practice it just hides OS and the version but the user may opt-in to send those to a particular site.
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by fpoling 7y ago
The things that replaces the user agent will still be enough to differentiate Chrome from Firefox and Safari.
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by fpoling 7y ago
The current situation implies that not holding cash for 6 months and using loans for day-to-day operations was a premature optimization. Essentially corporations assumed that in the time of prolonged crises they would be bailed out by taxpa
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by fpoling 7y ago
Apple disallows third-party web rendering engines. Google Chrome on iOS uses own networking stack. It is still a significant restriction, but it is rather understandable. Without it it could be just Blink everywhere at this point.
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by fpoling 7y ago
Web apps brings nothing in revenue to Apple.
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by fpoling 7y ago
Apple requires that all code-related assets for an app should be included into the app. So the app cannot just be a launcher that show a browser with a website.
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by fpoling 7y ago
Like a saying, don't bail out corporations so shareholders learn. Bail out people so they can can quickly start new businesses.
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by fpoling 7y ago
I meant all our fundamental physical models are fully-deterministic globally. The only exceptions are singularities of General Relativity, but even for those the believe is that a proper accounting of quantum effects should resolve this. We
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by fpoling 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARYP83yNAWk mentioned that the notion that C++ could handle out-of-memory was a purely theoretical wishful thinking. In practice it could not.
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A Simple Fusion Recipe(nature.com)
15 points by fpoling 7y ago|6 comments
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by fpoling 7y ago
Saudi Arabia oil is the cheapest in the world. They have massive oil fields. So in principle they can bankrupt anybody unless somebody can come up with a cheaper way to get oil.
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by fpoling 7y ago
Except we do not know that immunity from Covid is long-lasting. Based on similarity with other corona viruses one cannot expect that. It could be just few months. The best hope that virus mutates to a milder form. But that requires the lon
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by fpoling 7y ago
Physics cannot address the question of free will at all, as all our experiences tell that at least globally universe is 100% deterministic. So one need to go beyond physics to address that. This is similar with the notion of time. A typical
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by fpoling 7y ago
Then stilling the hash is enough to login.
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by fpoling 7y ago
I can try for grandparent. In physics all equations including quantum mechanics are deterministic in the sense that if one knows the initial state of the universe then one knows evolution of the universe after and before. Moreover, in class
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by fpoling 7y ago
Yep. Superdeterminism as a particular physical hypothesis has nothing to do with a philosophical notion of determinism or debates about free will. The latter is really the subject of metaphysics which by definition is not physics. It is lik
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by fpoling 7y ago
In Oslo, Norway the city builds a lot of bike lines . It narrowed streets for cars or removed parking places. I talked with a few folks with cars in the city and their typical response that it made them to get work faster with a car. Surely
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by fpoling 7y ago
Writing exceptions-safe code is not free in itself. Surely one can do it, but it requires more mental energy to write and even more efforts to review the code.

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