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by gorkish 3y ago
No problem at all with your analogy for a child, but the dirty truth of the universe is that hugs are finite and infinity can be counted (sometimes)
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by gorkish 3y ago
They dont usually know formal arithmetic multiplication but they well understand the concepts of repeated addition and subtraction. Most places in the world do start teaching multiplication at age 6/7.
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by gorkish 3y ago
I explained basically this to my 4 year old nephew recently. He wanted to count to infinity. I asked him what is the biggest problem with counting to infinity? It's too slow. I said ok let's take bigger steps. We counted by 2&#x27
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by gorkish 3y ago
Starship getting high on 4/20 was truly a crime of opportunity. The only victim, however, may be the poor bastard who was forced to write an article explaining the gag.
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by gorkish 3y ago
It's not inevitable in the slightest. Making big changes and receiving approvals to build everything in Canaveral would be brought with the same challenges; maybe even more since the risk to adjacent infrastructure in Canaveral is unqu
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by gorkish 3y ago
SpaceX is heavily incentivized to launch ASAP after any license is granted precisely because it mitigates the risk that any of the inevitable lawsuits will result in a legal order to suspend it. Expectations of legal interference are accoun
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by gorkish 4y ago
Once there was this kid who got into an accident and couldn't come to school, but when he finally came back his hair had turned from black into bright white. He said that it was from when the cars had smashed so hard.
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by gorkish 4y ago
There are means to offset, defer, and reduce tax burden that you also get from doing R&D, so honestly the change in the way the salary is treated is somewhat balancing these other tax benefits that startups are also taking. It's a
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by gorkish 4y ago
Your call minded me that I had a nice QSO once with KJ2U. Will let anyone curious look that one up… The nice thing about having even a simple card is that you can build up a pretty neat collection, even if you only send them selectively. I
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by gorkish 4y ago
I found an error/omission in the PDF spec 20 years ago and it's still there despite my efforts to characterize and report it to the grand overlords of PDF. (There is no security implication, hence I am nobody.) When Apple eventual
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by gorkish 4y ago
> standards that had to be paid for. I am extremely skeptical that everyone who has ever designed a glass bottle cap has paid for the glass packaging neck thread specifications. I know I sure as shit didn't the last time I had to ma
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by gorkish 4y ago
MoCA 2.5 is 2.5gbps; works great and inexpensive. It's not at all like HomePNA in that it does not shit all over the RF spectrum. Please do not use these powerline bridges; they are awful in all respects and should never have been allo
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by gorkish 4y ago
They work exactly the same way. All of the popular quadraphonic formats work modulating or encoding the four channels together into two signals which are cut just like a stereo record. There were/are a great many schemes for achieving
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by gorkish 4y ago
adaptive optics cant change the diffraction limit. The only way to overcome that is with a bigger lens or synthetic aperture post-processing. SAR at optical wavelengths from orbital distances and velocities? Yeah, good luck
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by gorkish 4y ago
With due respect, everybody's got a story. Stamp "Classified" on something and you can bet your ass the tall tales are going to flow. From orbit, no it wasn't and still isn't for that matter. It's beyond the di
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by gorkish 4y ago
Downside is having to use LTSB which often hangs onto its bugs a lot longer than it ought to.
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by gorkish 4y ago
I don't think it's an absurd metric at all. I think it's terribly unfortunate. Software optimization on the whole would be a lot better off if developers took a lot more time to think about the scale of the products they work
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by gorkish 4y ago
Power supplies in all GE bulbs are total horseshit. Their new bulbs with the selectable color temperature gutted the product of its remaining redeeming features. The cost of the extra LEDs in the bulb is coming out of the quality of the rem
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by gorkish 4y ago
> The same light quality is vastly more expensive to achieve with LEDs, even if you account for high electricity prices. Good indoor lighting is now something only people with plenty of disposable income can afford. Where? How? I can no
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by gorkish 4y ago
Average human lifespan = 2.3 billion seconds. With 280 million teams users, a human life's worth of time is needlessly consumed every 8 seconds that Teams spends yanking its own chain.
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by gorkish 4y ago
Windows Enterprise LTSB with some GPOs
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by gorkish 4y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=piggy+bank+icon&tbm=isch
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by gorkish 4y ago
The OpenHPSDR project implements a good chunk of basic networking without a soft core at 100mbps and 1gbps; ARP, DHCP, and UDP are in there. TCP is not implemented.
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by gorkish 4y ago
With all due respect, the citations aren't helping your preposterous argument.
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by gorkish 4y ago
Apple Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter plugged into Apple Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 adapter cable is more or less the only way to do it. You have to have Thunderbolt PCIe on the USB-C port to support the hardware requirements of firewir
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by gorkish 4y ago
Flying a manned aircraft into a collision with an unmanned aircraft is pilot incompetence. Ordering a human pilot to fly into a collision with an unmanned aircraft is command incompetence. The attempts here to backsplain this ridiculousness
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by gorkish 4y ago
Whether or not the MQ-9 was armed is so far down the list of logical arguments about why a Russian pilot would go kamikaze on and collide with an unmanned aircraft, it's not even a sensible question to ask. A better question to ask is
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by gorkish 4y ago
One would think the pilot would be professional enough not to fly a manned aircraft into a collision with an unmanned aircraft. Such an extreme display of ineptitude speaks enough on its own; the USAF statement reads pretty tongue-in-cheek
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by gorkish 4y ago
The repo was literally hosting assets and code ripped straight from the commercial release of Minecraft. The author's current approach of publishing tools to extract the information from your own copy of Minecraft is totally fine and o
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by gorkish 4y ago
Summary: Due to the complexity and recursive nature of modern digital authentication, it turns out that often all that is really really actually protecting a user's identity at the end of the day is a 4 digit PIN code that they happily

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