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by greenbit 1y ago
Link is messed up. Goes to something about printing a book, but if you hit the 'back' button at the top, you get the previous blog post, which is in fact about EM vs health This seems to get you there: https://huijzer.x
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by greenbit 1y ago
I've developed the habit of checking the end of the page, because that's where the examples are, when there are any.
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by greenbit 1y ago
Could use a way to set some friction
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by greenbit 1y ago
Sure, that's true for single connections, the state of the switchboard when you have exactly one patch plugged in. If there are 5000 phones, there would be 5000 possible starting points and 4999 possible ending points, and as you say,
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by greenbit 1y ago
"Now the company wants users to watch ads before viewing their time-shifted content. TiVo plans to roll out so-called "pre-roll" ads on all recorded content…" Nope. It was nice while it lasted, but just look where it end
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by greenbit 1y ago
Maybe it's just my browser didn't render something right, but I don't think it was meant to say 1020 eV, but rather 10^20 eV. The rest mass of a proton alone is on the order of 938,000,000 eV.
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by greenbit 1y ago
Well, on further consideration, I arrived at N!/((2^(N/2)*(N/2)!) Still, pretty astronomical.
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by greenbit 1y ago
Thank you for surfacing that info, was wondering if I seriously had to go start opening files to find out. Btw, that's a 256 pin BGA part, grandad's Weller cannot help.
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by greenbit 1y ago
You'd think that at least initially, individual towns would stand up fully connected (albeit small) but isolated networks. That before very long, the idea of connecting one town to the next would occur, and it would be realized that yo
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by greenbit 1y ago
Does this mean that probably somewhere below that tower, there were operator stations that would have allowed any of the 5500 lines to connect to any of the other lines? How many simultaneous calls would that even be? Correct me if I borked
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by greenbit 1y ago
"use two fingers to move map" WHY? Afaict the only thing that one finger drag is bound to, is an obnoxious message to use two fingers to do that.
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by greenbit 1y ago
Seek out strange new worlds?
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by greenbit 1y ago
The photons created in the core are some seriously energetic gama rays. Sure, gama rays are very penetrating, but the solar core is dense, and it's about half a million miles to the surface, so these mostly get absorbed right there in
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by greenbit 1y ago
I.e., that bit they refer to as the photosphere, effectively the radiating 'surface' of the sun, is the source of the solar photons that strike us here. That trip takes about 8 minutes.
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by greenbit 1y ago
It'd have to be pretty darned big, to sustain a population large enough to remain viable for a couple of centuries. You'd then have to figure out how to get enough delta-v on it to escape the solar system, but then you'd also
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by greenbit 1y ago
Are we nearly there yet?
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by greenbit 1y ago
You certainly could simulate time dilation, I'd be surprised if that isn't already an element of some game out there. If you go close enough to the speed of light, what you actually see is that space appears to shrink (in the dire
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by greenbit 1y ago
Yes, that second law is kind of a sticking point, isn't it. You'd think they could make an exception for ice cream. And maybe beer.
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by greenbit 1y ago
Doesn't this imply ice cream that could conceivably be presented in a not-cold state? Call me old fashioned, but isn't the point of ice cream that it's cold? Wouldn't be preferable to develop ice cream that doesn'
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by greenbit 1y ago
Drat, I forgot to wish my son "happy zeroeth birthday" when he was born.
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by greenbit 1y ago
I find it impossible to properly follow two dissimilar tunes at the same time, or to imagine one tune while physically hearing another. So my trick for banishing earworms is to find something else to physically listen to, and then actively
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by greenbit 1y ago
I recall those being easily half an inch thick on a regular basis, with a definite squared-up binding.
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by greenbit 1y ago
Read this thinking there was some new kind of material, but came away with the strong but not quite certain sense that they were only talking about the under publicized properties of the "high temperature" (LN2-ish) superconductor
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by greenbit 1y ago
Perhaps .. but then try the same thing with drywall
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by greenbit 1y ago
It kind of is. If your SWR is 1.09, in theory you could do better, but in practice, there's generally nowhere to go but up.
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by greenbit 2y ago
So .. a superposition of states would really just be a point in time during which the state variable takes no specific value? Or, it isn't so much that Schrodinger's famous cat is both alive and dead at the same time, as that it&#
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by greenbit 2y ago
I wondered this as well. Thinking about it, if all you have is "invert some (N>1?) bits somewhere and jump to somewhere" .. I could see maybe it might work if you use self modifying code and there's really a 2nd instruct
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by greenbit 2y ago
Noticed that too, but it has a '9' in it. Best guess is, he's not about to let the Y10K problem catch him napping.
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by greenbit 2y ago
.inputrc can be used to adjust the behavior of autocompletion, at least with bash. It's possible to get TAB and shift+TAB to cycle forward & back through the possibles.
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by greenbit 2y ago
.. and their hardware breakpoint!

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