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by kragen 26d ago
This is not correct, and the experiment has been done a number of times with no real effect, most memorably in 01961, when Project West Ford put 480 million copper needles in 3500-km-high medium Earth orbit (MEO); but it's a little bit
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by kragen 27d ago
(insert standard anthropic-principle counterargument)
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by kragen 28d ago
If his wishes were to shut down the LCM+L, fire all its staff, and auction off its collection, why didn't he do that while he was still alive? To me it seems like the actions of a vindictive family member who wanted to destroy the bes
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by kragen 28d ago
Possibly to go to the shooting range, or to your job as a security guard? Or, in the cases of less conspicuous ghost guns than the AK-47 purportedly involved in this case, to carry on you for self-defense? All of these are common and lega
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by kragen 28d ago
Oh, that's a good point. I didn't know about the NORC.
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by kragen 29d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing#64-bit_data_t... names Stretch from 01961 as the first natively 64-bit CPU, but maybe there are some that are even older?
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by kragen 29d ago
I have the impression that you could also use it for accessing desktops of real machines remotely, too, but that's only because I keep running into it when I'm looking for information about the real SPICE, a 50-year-old open-sourc
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by kragen 29d ago
In the US, the term is used to mean firearms that are legal to manufacture but not to sell, because they do not have serial numbers for tracing. The misdetection would be if the Waymo cameras did not have sufficient resolution to see the s
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by kragen 29d ago
You're absolutely fucking right. Ngspice is okay but it's a bit clumsy switching between it and xschem.
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by kragen 29d ago
SPICE is not in any danger of dying; it's the thing every analog EE uses to simulate their circuits, and has been for 40 years. This remote desktop thing needs to change its name.
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by kragen 1mo ago
The Web is HTTPS now, so that can only happen if either the origin server or the user trusts the proxy.
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by kragen 1mo ago
There should not be an HTTP header indicating that the client is a child-locked device. That puts the onus on the server to respect the header, and HTTP doesn't require any action on unrecognized headers. Also, it reveals to the se
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by kragen 1mo ago
It seems relevant that Terence Tao is the author of the paper that just about convinced everyone that the Navier-Stokes equations blow up in finite time, 12 years ago: http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0290
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by kragen 1mo ago
Generally speaking, Linux doesn't suffer from ELF-executable-file-infecting viruses in practice, because most random executables aren't run with root permissions, so they don't have permission to write to widely-executed exec
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by kragen 1mo ago
LADSPA sounds pretty critical; did they really ship with that missing?
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by kragen 1mo ago
> being disappointed that the Pro tier was opt-in to training on prompts by default "Opt-in" means that the default is non-participation, for example, not training on your prompts. Is it possible that you intended to say &qu
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by kragen 1mo ago
This is the major theme of Funes, el memorioso as well. Borges may have been correct; Jill Price describes her near-Funes-level memory as a curse. It's somewhat of a disability for her. Like the fictional Funes, she lives with her
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by kragen 1mo ago
People normally do this by scanning a 10mW 832nm laser with a mirror, according to Dan Gelbart in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MtRxX0crjU . The lecture is 77 minutes, covering nonlinear junction detectors, digital calip
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by kragen 2mo ago
I thought the same thing 10 years ago.
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by kragen 2mo ago
Yeah, me too. I hear Ada has something really weird, but I don't know anything about it. Smalltalk and especially Gemstone also have some really different approaches, and OS/400 also does some pretty strange stuff. Mostly I&#x27
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by kragen 2mo ago
So how does this hypothetical client find out what non-big relays have been set by the other users whose notes its user wants to receive, if not by receiving notes from those other users via one of the big common relays?
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by kragen 2mo ago
Can you elaborate on this? What can you do with this client, and how does it find the relays to use to get notified of new notes? I don't know very much about Nostr, so I don't know the answers to these questions, or even if they
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by kragen 2mo ago
> People really want decentralization of power— let's just replace the word with a better word: accountability. One should be able to enjoy economies of scale (centralized infrastructure) Let's not. Decentralization of p
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by kragen 2mo ago
How unfortunate that glibc has removed support for unexec. Although it wasn't a very widely used feature, it seems like the kind of orthogonal powerful feature that distinguishes one platform from another, like Unix's fork(), or
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by kragen 2mo ago
Not knowing you, I would not claim that you are suffering from AI psychosis. You seem to imply that I have made such a claim, but I have not.
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by kragen 2mo ago
That would be a justifiable inference in that case. But you didn't get to this point on your own. You haven't learned the knowledge you would have learned getting to this point on your own. Claude didn't either; generall
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by kragen 2mo ago
The one time I got locked out of the university's computers, around 01994, it was for doing this. Someone, I think ncftp's Mike Gleason, had written a program called `ison` which would run in the background, fingering a given user
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by kragen 2mo ago
Can you fillet unions? Like, if I union a cube with a smaller cube sticking out of its side, can I make a fillet so that the edge where the two cubes' faces intersect doesn't become a stress concentration point for cracks to star
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by kragen 3mo ago
Your response comment saying "I have now read all of that" was posted 11 hours after I linked you to a bit over 120,000 words of notes on the topic you were asking about (according to 150 * [...document.body.innerText.matchAll(&#x
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by kragen 3mo ago
Yeah, I do have some ideas: https://dernocua.github.io/topics/digital-fabrication.html https://dernocua.github.io/topics/self-replication.html https://dercuano.github.io/topics&#x2

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