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by gattr 2y ago
I wonder if Elon Musk is of the Red or the Green mindset.
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by gattr 2y ago
On a related note: for a more realistic portrayal of VX-like-agent-in-a-terror-plot, see Michael Crichton's novel "Binary".
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by gattr 2y ago
I like Inkscape very much and use it for all my (usually quite simple) vector drawing needs. From the get go, it was quite intuitive to use - my first vector editor experience was with CorelDRAW 3 in the early 90s.
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by gattr 2y ago
Surely a 1.21-GW datacenter would suffice!
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by gattr 2y ago
Similarly, you normally don't see any imperfections/dust specks on your cornea - but you will if you look into a very narrow (0.1-0.2 mm) beam of light (e.g., when using a telescope pushed to a very high magnification = very small
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by gattr 2y ago
One could wear a paper mask/visor to only show the eyes. (Though the eye extraction feature might malfunction then?)
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by gattr 2y ago
On a related note: C. Limb, R. Limb, C. Limb, D. Limb "Nominative determinism in hospital medicine: Can our surnames influence our choice of career, and even specialty?" https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/pdf
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by gattr 2y ago
I normally rebuild my workstation every ~4 years (recently more for fun than out of actual need for more processing power), might finally do it again (preferably a recent 8-/12-core Ryzen). My most recent major upgrade was in 2017 (Cor
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by gattr 2y ago
Wait, but in "Independence Day" they uploaded human-made computer virus into alien computer and it just worked™!
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by gattr 2y ago
Also "Space Force" has an "Enhance!" scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVOydVwOO4M
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by gattr 2y ago
That, and also, as pointed out in e.g [1], a "boomer" submarine can launch all its SLBMs in 60-90 s. Faster than it could be torpedoed. And even if you manage to disable it very quickly, just a few launched missiles mean multiple
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by gattr 2y ago
I've read someone mentioning that in the UK such matters often resolve themselves by means of an accidental fire.
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by gattr 2y ago
But hey, at least we finally got the motorcycle chase (kind of) in "Jurassic World"! (It's my favourite entry in the series, BTW.)
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by gattr 2y ago
It was SO annoying when it turned out Crysis 3 does not respect this setting in the VTOL-flying sections.
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by gattr 3y ago
Related XKCD: "How close would you have to be to a supernova to get a lethal dose of neutrino radiation?" https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/
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by gattr 3y ago
I remember reading somewhere that the Tierra ecosystem/evolutionary simulation ([1]) readily produced such higher-order parasites of parasites. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)
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by gattr 3y ago
In Greg Bear's novel "Quantico" terrorists use inkjets to produce their biological weapon's deliverable particles.
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by gattr 3y ago
I remember that! (On my uncle's 286+Hercules PC).
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by gattr 3y ago
As already mentioned, bounds checks won't necessarily cause that much overhead. When I rewrote my small image processing library from C to Rust ([1]), I only had to use unchecked array access in one hot loop to get overall performance
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by gattr 3y ago
But, but, Your Honor, at the time I was traveling at 0.5 c and in my hyperplane of simultaneity transaction A happened after transaction B!
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by gattr 3y ago
I have one as well, using btrfs+RAID1.
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by gattr 3y ago
They still make a lot of noise.
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by gattr 3y ago
I love both The Laundry Files and Merchant Princes / Empire Games , and wouldn't mind seeing a high-budget TV adaptation of them. mild spoiler At some point there's a bloody Project Orion-type spaceship taking off the E
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by gattr 3y ago
More specifically, in Permutation City mind uploading is in its infancy, while in Diaspora it's a run-of-the-mill tech. I'll add Schild's Ladder to the recommendations.
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by gattr 3y ago
I'm waiting for a "monitor-replacement glasses" - show me a device which simulates an equivalent of my current 24"/4K/60 Hz monitor (same amount of pixels, same angular size in my FOV). Since I can touch type,
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by gattr 3y ago
> The concrete prediction is that the internet will become filled with AI written crap, and that anyone wanting to use it will have to filter out an enormous amount of AI nonsense, before they reach any useful information. The same point
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by gattr 3y ago
It's more stable (and structurally leaner, I think) to instead have the engines at the front in tractor configuration, as in the interstellar ships in Avatar movies.
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by gattr 3y ago
And Unreal Commander (freeware), also compatible with TC plugins. I'm usually on Fedora, I use Krusader there.
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by gattr 3y ago
On a related note: Cold War-era Polish military maps of the British Isles, in case of a Warsaw Pact invasion thereof: https://earthlymission.com/map-of-britain-teach-invading-pol... > This Cold War era map was created to
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by gattr 3y ago
I read about them elsewhere; one of the details I remembered is how at some point they started noticing fast-moving "stars" in the night sky and the father realized they must be man-made artificial objects (satellites).

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