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by geenew 5y ago
FWIW the ET Legacy[0] project remains active, and exists because the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory code was GPL'd. I don't know if that's a good example of the 'best aspects of the GPL' that Carmack was talking about
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by geenew 5y ago
From the article, “U.S. gravitational wave physicists welcomed the announcement, too, as they think it may bolster their plans to build a pair of detectors even bigger than the Einstein Telescope in a project called Cosmic Explorer.”
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by geenew 5y ago
This is worth a read: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-can-no... “ Using a climate model, the researchers compared simulations accounting for climate change with scenarios in which human-caused glo
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by geenew 5y ago
There's a Russian movie about this, called Salyut-7. It's basically the Russian Apollo 13. I won't pretend it's perfect, there's some drama thrown in, but it's well worth watching if you're a space fan. Lo
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by geenew 5y ago
Could there be some energy advantage to being in orbit around it? I'm thinking of a scenario where you spend a large amount of energy once get into orbit around the object, but then gain a small amount of energy continuously through so
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by geenew 5y ago
My god, it's full of pithy remarks!
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by geenew 5y ago
I include a read receipt with each reply :)
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by geenew 5y ago
There was a good Futurama episode about that. The Professor got ahold of a new microscope that let him see down to the smallest particle, and from that he discovered the unified theory. He won the Nobel prize, but was tremendously unhappy.
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by geenew 5y ago
I thought that was interesting too. Looks like the research on it came out 10 years ago. A couple of links from some quick searching. The second link has some charts and graphs, though it limits its estimates to 65+ age groups. https:&#x2F
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by geenew 5y ago
Dalhousie used to have an Academic Computing Services department within IT, which was designed to provide computing expertise to researchers - development of software, hosting, and related services to support research projects. I was told i
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by geenew 5y ago
This seems related, it's from 1001 Nights, which is fairly old, and is the same type of joke as the one in the article: http://www.tomthumb.org/422/the-tale-of-abu-hasan-and-the-fa...
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by geenew 5y ago
You've lost me.
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by geenew 5y ago
Relativity matters in GNSS in general, but it doesn't really matter for the issue of spoof detection; relativistic effects would be solved for by both the attacker and receiver. There's no uncertainty in them.
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by geenew 5y ago
I don't want to carry this on forever, but I will add this: the interference from the ionosphere is large, yes, but the difference in error is related to geographic location. For example, the error from the ionosphere at two points on
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by geenew 5y ago
I understand what you mean. The fact remains that having a local and accurate source of time reduces the ability for an attacker to move a target off course through spoofing. At each frame the attacker has to add to the error in the victim&
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by geenew 5y ago
Reading this again I wasn't as complete as I should have been. Any introduction of a false timing signal whose time offset from the existing measurements is greater than the local clock's uncertainty can be flagged as false. If
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by geenew 5y ago
[Reposting a response written above] Any introduction of a false timing signal whose time offset from the true signal is greater than the local clock's uncertainty can be flagged as false. Higher-accuracy local clocks reduce the amount
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by geenew 5y ago
Relativity doesn't really factor into this issue; the core of the issue is false timing signals. Any introduction of a false timing signal whose time offset from the true signal is greater than the local clock's uncertainty can be
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by geenew 5y ago
s/weary/wary
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by geenew 5y ago
I'm not sure how much you know about GPS, but position in GPS is intrinsically linked to time. You know a satellite's orbit from its orbital elements, so, a given moment in time, you know where it is. The satellite emits signals w
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by geenew 5y ago
I agree, inactive tabs need to have a border around them. At the same time I like how the tab bar is separated from the address/bookmark bar. Makes it much easier to identify the active tab.
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by geenew 5y ago
These can help against GPS spoofing / jamming by identifying false signals and allowing rapid resynchronization: https://www.army.mil/article/88361/Miniaturized_atomic_clock... Also related, NASA has a spaceb
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by geenew 5y ago
This is a kind of spooky comment that could be made in a future where war has already broken out. Not to be melodramatic, but we should all keep in mind how terrible a war would be.
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by geenew 5y ago
“ the WMF is launching a for-profit company named Wikimedia, LLC. This will sell API services to big tech companies, making it easier for them to process Wikimedia content, which powers voice assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa
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by geenew 5y ago
* and glue Title should be "Lovely small escalator of mostly cardboard"
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by geenew 5y ago
Interesting related bit of info: Charanjit Singh made arguably the first acid house music album, 'Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat', in large part due to the fact that he bought one of the first synths while shopping in Singapore: https
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by geenew 5y ago
As one of that number I was glad to see this: a single shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine is 80% effective in preventing infection (vs the ~90% of two shots): https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/29/cdc-study-shows
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by geenew 5y ago
I've understood it similarly, as a statement made after introducing a piece of evidence or an arguable assertion. The meaning of the phrase itself being a demand that the listener reconsider their position in light of the newly introdu
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by geenew 5y ago
Didn’t extended ASCII cover that and make text terminals usable with non-English character sets? Genuinely curious.
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When the RAF Buzzed over Germany to Drown Out Nazi Broadcasts(smithsonianmag.com)
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