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by grkvlt 10y ago
I have a cube that I got as conference swag which they made unintentionally harder to solve. There are two sides where the three middle pieces (number 4, 5 and 6 if you think of the arrangement of numbers on a numeric keypad) have a logo pr
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by grkvlt 10y ago
So, you (the scammer) does this but leaves the bottom of the box open, and then remove the item, and glue the box back together, with a brick inside... This is the same (sort of) reason that mailing yourself something is not proof of anyt
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> Recreational drugs affect the brain in a very different manner when compared to medication Chemicals are chemicals, and have exactly the same effect (at equivalent dosages, etc.) whether they are produced by a large pharmaceutical comp
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Reading that code and seeing the multi-disk (non) support [0] brought back awful memories of .zip files spanning ten or twenty disks which you would feed in, one by one, until you god the dreaded 'zip file corrupted' error on disk
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Yes. Step 4, specifically "the remaining comment length matches the recorded length" will fail in the presence of appended data, as there is no end of comment or end of record marker. This is exactly how the file failed in the
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by grkvlt 10y ago
This is basically what we do at Cloudsoft. For the Kubernetes cluster deployment in Clocker [1] we use the features of Apache jclouds [2] and Brooklyn to support pretty much any cloud, public or private. At the moment, Clocker can deploy a
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Thanks for this explanation - it makes more sense now! I still think 'Strange Atoms' would be a great handwavium type plot device in an SF novel ;)
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I have always wondered about whether there might be some kind of similar 'island of stability' with strange particles. Since particles come in three flavours, the normal kind, then ones made of strange/charm quarks and then t
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Sure, that's why you use the surname instead. In interviews I can see the need for informality, so first names are fine there, but when commenting on an interview or story I think it's better to return to the formal, surname only,
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I was expecting something more like the 'A Subway Named Mobius' short story [1] - it's one of my favourite topology related bits of SF - OK, possibly the only topology related SF? 1. http://www.rioranchomathcamp.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Would the train not need to lurch to the right for the thumb to slide to the left? Since, based on the sentence structure, it is obvious that the writer always sits facing the direction of travel in a train... ;)
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Off topic, sorry; but why do you use his first name only here? Normally we would refer to minor public figures like him as 'Elon Musk' or just 'Musk'. Using someone's first name is reserved for personal friends. I h
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by grkvlt 10y ago
For one thing, if we (meaning you, i.e. the USA) stopped 'interfering' in the middle east the F-35 program would be completely unaffected. The F-35 is not being used in Afghanistan, and was nowhere near combat ready during the Ira
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Yes, but 'attractive nuisance' laws are there to stop you escaping liability this way. If you make a super-dangerous thing, which is likely to attract idiots or small children, and then kill them, you can't just say 'it
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by grkvlt 10y ago
If it really was a large search engine, then I imagine they would be hosted at multiple locations, so not surprising that they were mentioned at both places?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
One of my hobbies when bored is to look at (unusually) expensive items on Amazon (say, a GBP 40K Hasselblad camera) and all their reviews. 99% of the reviews are jokes, all of the same predictable form: 'I spent my life savings on this
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by grkvlt 10y ago
No, those are not comparable. Next time someone says they have nothing to hide, ask them to send their bank account details and PIN, or naked photographs of themselves, to their countries law enforcement or intelligent services. The questio
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Nominative determinism in action? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism ;)
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Well, of course there's an open question. Nobody has yet shown that a simulated neuron is exactly equivalent to a biological one; its generally assumed this is the case, but even simulating c. elegans brain won't show this 100
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by grkvlt 10y ago
It's actually an essay of his: "Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Careenium" [1] discussing a marble-based conciousness (with the marbles 'careening' around the 'cranium' generating the awful pun...) [1]
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I just read a copy of his latest, "Dissidence" which is part one of the corporation wars series, part two "Insurgence" will be out at the start of December. I thought it was a great return to his harder post-singularity
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I guess you're referring to Brian Josephson, who went from superconductors (Nobel prize) to things like telepathy etc. but I'm interested if there are other examples. A quick search turns up Kary Mullis as a possible other example
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Well, for one thing, that srticle describes a future warship and ammunition that is not yet in service, so it is incorrect to suggest anyone is 'currently shooting [...] at people in caves' with it. However, the justification (O
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by grkvlt 10y ago
There is a wiki [1] dedicated to persona management topics that explains more. A company called Ntrepid [2] for example was contracted by the US Army to use persona management in the middle east. I'm sure that it would also work fine i
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I believe the meridian line in a church was a plot point in 'The Da Vinci Code' so I'm surprised they are not more common knowledge. Yep, described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Line Well, the
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by grkvlt 10y ago
So, torque is defined as Tau = P / omega where P is power, omega is angular velocity and Tau is torque. In an ICE, P varies a lot with rpm (i.e. angular velocity) giving a sort of inverse-bathtub curve whereas in an electric motor th
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by grkvlt 10y ago
What if you're not logged in on the console, but have an SSH session open over the network? Does that count as 'logged in' or not? Imagine a server under a desk with no monitor attached. Or, a thin-client situation, where I a
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> examples of outright lies A lie is a false statement made with the intent to deceive . I believe CNN is merely wrong . The difference is the intent, but people are far too quick to throw out the accusation of lying every time someone
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Yes, people do spend that much. I'm not sure what kind of virtue signalling people think they are achieving when they fake this kind of incredulity. People will spend a fuck ton of money on things they think are pretty, or unique. But
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> Good lord, people do this? People spend ten thousand dollars on a ring? No, of course not - why would you think that? Those 'high priced' rings are like the wax fruit in a greengrocer, or plastic lobsters at the fishmongers -

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