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by jhayward 7y ago
> Often the downsides do outweigh their utility. More like, "almost never do the down sides outweigh their utility, because they aren't designed by idiots".
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by jhayward 7y ago
> extremely low rates may lead to slower growth by increasing market concentration and thus weakening firms' incentive to boost productivity At the very least, low rates have shifted all of the income growth from labor to capital.
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by jhayward 7y ago
The glyph pattern in the link looks similar to the location grid that the Neo Smartpen [1] uses to encode page ID and location. [1] https://www.neosmartpen.com/
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by jhayward 7y ago
I'm not questioning that the behavior happens, or that it is detrimental and the addict knows that to some extent. I'm objecting to using the word "choose", which has moralistic implications in addition to being of quest
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by jhayward 7y ago
> an addict will chose behavior that negatively impacts their life I think that "addict will choose" is a problematic way to say what you are saying. There is a lot of very gray area about the concept of choice when the organ
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by jhayward 7y ago
> Latency kills: memory latency, network latency, and storage latency. I think the point of the article is that > memory latency Is actually a hierarchy of its own, and non-linear depending on access patterns. Instruction fetch la
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by jhayward 7y ago
I have some bad news. We used to put tetraethyl lead in automobile fuel and then burn it in cities next to homes and schools.
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by jhayward 7y ago
Pyiodide is the CPython interpreter compiled for WASM rather than e.g. X86. So it's not going to be faster than any other CPython build.
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by jhayward 7y ago
According to the DecWave web site [1] the anchors time stamp the arrival of the tag's beacon and pass it to a central host for trilateration. So the network is single-tasking, essentially. [1] https://www.decawave.com/
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by jhayward 7y ago
What noun would you suggest be used?
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by jhayward 7y ago
Here we see that there is indeed a subtextual reason for posting content from this site. It's not about discussing the Carrington event, it's about promoting disinformation.
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by jhayward 7y ago
In today's media environment it is a known attack to build credibility using small or occasional truths (or at least, not easily disproven statements) to then support a larger, more widely and thinly spread disinformation campaign. Thu
553.
by jhayward 7y ago
This site, wattsupwiththat.com, is a major source of climate denialism misinformation and manipulation. I don't recommend anyone use anything found on it for any purpose other than documenting denialism of global warm.ing
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by jhayward 7y ago
The Balcones Escarpment [1]. I used to tell people that I lived on the first hill in the Texas hill country. [1] https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/texas-primer-the-ba...
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by jhayward 7y ago
I'm aware of the refit effort, as well as safety improvements required and under-funded decommissioning costs, which as I understand it requires on the order of 100 billion euros in new financing. My understanding has been that it (the
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by jhayward 7y ago
France is in the process of phasing out 35% of their nuclear fleet, and the remaining fleet will need to be retired within a few decades. With one exception (Flammanville, 11 years over schedule and 400% over budget) no new plants are plann
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by jhayward 7y ago
> More people are killed with hammers and clubs each year in the US than with guns This is blatantly false. You appear to be repeating a sound bite from far-right web sites that claims that "more people are killed each year by ham
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by jhayward 7y ago
Answering that question would take a detailed analysis which I am not aware of. It would be less than the instant load of the Eaton Socon - Wymondley transmission circuit that was struck by lightning. It is basically a question of providin
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by jhayward 7y ago
> This is the lazy and ignorant method of dismissing other people's arguments. First, please observe the principle of charity when posting. > Shill or not, what does it matter if what they state are facts? Because it is entir
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by jhayward 7y ago
FISA courts issue warrants, which are court orders. All US courts have the power of the writ which means they can issue further orders to effectuate an order or ruling. So a court can order a company to assist the government in the execut
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by jhayward 7y ago
I would be interested in a review of applicable law which would limit the effect of a US FISA court order. I'm not aware of anything that would prevent the court from ordering a vendor to implement features to effectuate surveillance o
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by jhayward 7y ago
Trillions of cycles isn't that "limited", compared to e.g. Flash.
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by jhayward 7y ago
The point is to avoid the generator trip in the first place.
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by jhayward 7y ago
> but that battery in South Australia is only 100MW and the grid lost over 1400 MW I hear this kind of misconception fairly often and so it is worth noting that you don't need 1400 MW of battery to protect from this event. The ini
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by jhayward 7y ago
I'll hazard a guess that it takes less than 4 other data points, gathered without your knowledge or consent (but very commonly gathered nonetheless), to associate your credit card with your google activity. And 4 data points would be a
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by jhayward 7y ago
> Sadly most of what you read by googling these problems is misinformation Thanks for such a detailed account. Unfortunately, it will be added to the trove of otherwise categorized -information that Google returns. Thanks also, very m
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by jhayward 7y ago
If you google for "apollo 1201 or 1202 alarm" you'll find several good magazine-length articles on the design of the landing guidance computer systems. The TLDR is: a switch misconfiguration was tasking the computer to proces
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by jhayward 7y ago
I would be interested in a list of the tools you use daily and your list of research publications that prove that those specific tools improve productivity, reliability, or whatever metric you have named in selecting them.
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by jhayward 7y ago
I second the recommendation for The Making of the Atomic Bomb . That books more or less defined the category of "narrative history" for me. So much better than any other history I had ever read at the time.
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by jhayward 7y ago
> The US is able to block GPS signal to a specific area The GPS system does not have any area denial capability. If the US wants to block it in a certain area they have to deploy terrestrial jammers just like anyone else. Allies get

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