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by khuey 2y ago
> If GCP is helping, stay tuned for a blog post from google some time around the completion of the migration with a title like "Reaffirming our commitment to science" or something similarly self affirming. "Google pays to
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by khuey 2y ago
The 50s and 60s were a wild time.
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by khuey 2y ago
Why does it matter how long it took to count all the votes? If you want to allege election fraud, don't beat around the bush.
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by khuey 2y ago
Even if we set aside for the moment the question of whether or not they're actually right about their claims that have no public evidence, there's also the question of materiality. When multibillion dollar businesses are audited t
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by khuey 2y ago
> The problem is that gdb will sometimes take 5 minutes to start debugging If you run gdb-add-index on the relevant binaries ahead of time it should start up much faster.
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by khuey 2y ago
rr should work on any remotely modern Intel system, and generally on AMD's Zen CPUs too. Unless you're in a virtualized environment (some of which are supported) or a more esoteric architecture rr probably works on your silicon.
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by khuey 2y ago
They succeeded in the sense that Chamath Palihapitiya et al made a shitload of money out of hawking them.
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by khuey 2y ago
EMAS is designed to crush under the pressure of all of the aircraft's weight pushing down on the relatively narrow contact area of the tires. There were no tires in this case. I am unaware of an EMAS that has been designed or tested fo
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by khuey 2y ago
Now account for the fact that the plane had no brakes since the landing gear were not deployed ...
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by khuey 2y ago
Or Burlington, VT, which doesn't even have scheduled international service.
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by khuey 2y ago
Except they are and they do. The quoted "air safety expert" in the BBC article essentially says the landing was "as good as can be" and that most or all of the people onboard would have survived if the localizer berm was
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by khuey 2y ago
> We modernized and rationalized the Space Shuttle to make the SLS and each SLS costs > $4B. Except we didn't, because we took absurdly high-end engines (RS-25s) that were designed for reuse and refurbishment and now we drop them
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by khuey 2y ago
> A rule is proposed to require customers to be able to cancel any subscription on the vendor's website. Except that's not the proposed rule. The way this works in California (and the way the rule the FTC recently published wor
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by khuey 2y ago
The elected government isn't making this decision anyways, this is in a court in front of a judge (one previously appointed by the president-elect, no less).
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by khuey 2y ago
> All of this can happen via quantum processes at zero temperature. So they end as lumps of indefinitely stable cold iron. Assuming no proton decay, of course.
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by khuey 2y ago
> 2. If by some miracle the fraudulent founder does manage to "make it" before their "fake it" is discovered, well then, honestly good for them I guess. VCs tend not to get too angry if you make them a ton of money. F
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by khuey 2y ago
> even trying to understand the argument, I don't get it. It's not that hard to understand: The proponents of the proposal own bitcoin, if a big whale buys bitcoin the price of bitcoin will go up since the supply is fixed, and
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by khuey 2y ago
Singapore is rather famously not a liberal democracy.
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by khuey 2y ago
To a person not familiar with the minutiae of government structure "TSA" is a job position as much as an organization, and CAS does have the former.
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by khuey 2y ago
As always, Neal Stephenson's Mother Earth Mother Board from 1996 is the must-read classic of this subject. https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
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by khuey 2y ago
> They all had nicer cars and more beer money than me until I graduated. It's not exactly surprising that someone working full time has a higher standard of living than a college student. The question is what happens after graduat
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by khuey 2y ago
> Isn't using EV certificates legally required for e-commerce web sites at least in parts of the world Not in any jurisdiction I'm aware of, though it's a big world so it wouldn't shock me if some small corner of it h
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by khuey 2y ago
In the US that kind of nurse is specifically known as a "travel nurse" because they work on short term contracts and travel from hospital to hospital but in general describing these sorts of workers as "temps" is accurat
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by khuey 2y ago
> The alignment was important because it allowed visiting four planets with one spacecraft. So you only had to launch one spacecraft. (We launched two anyway.) IIRC the second probe was mainly intended as a backup to the first one, but v
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by khuey 2y ago
split-debuginfo = "unpacked" (-gsplit-dwarf for C/C++) is the way. Your tools (debuggers, profilers, etc) probably support it by now.
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by khuey 2y ago
That doesn't really surprise me. Here in San Francisco some of the city transit system's bus tracking equipment that they use for real time arrival predictions was still using 2G when the 2G network shut down in 2017. Then a diffe
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by khuey 2y ago
Ohm Laboratories appears to be a subsidiary of Sun Pharma which is one of the largest generic drug manufacturers in the world. This looks like a pretty standard generic drug with store branding package to me.
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by khuey 2y ago
Aneutronic fusion is even harder than regular fusion so it's not a realistic solution in any near-term scenario.
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by khuey 2y ago
Major index funds don't follow the DJIA. $DIA has 5% of $SPY's assets under management.
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by khuey 2y ago
I could definitely picture achieving it with a metal spatula.

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