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by kragen 1y ago
Not just doctors, but everyone. The epistemic humility to change your mind when confronted with evidence you were wrong is rare and fragile.
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by kragen 1y ago
Sewers and toilets are very, very expensive. Indoor plumbing malfunctions regularly destroy houses even when they are protected by well-enforced building codes, and porcelain toilets basically require industrial mass production. Internet
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by kragen 1y ago
Desiccated skyscrapers? I take it you prefer your skyscrapers to be moist?
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by kragen 1y ago
Reasoning is hard, and the medical establishment didn't consist of biologists, any more than the computer-programming establishment consists of computer scientists. It still doesn't today.
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by kragen 1y ago
People have lived in multi-story buildings without indoor flush toilets for much longer than there have been elevators or cars. Indoor flush toilets only became widespread less than 200 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by kragen 1y ago
I see, thanks!
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by kragen 1y ago
I see, thanks! That clarifies things a lot.
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by kragen 1y ago
I see, thanks! Is cc installed by default? I remember when my ex-wife had a Mac she had to sign up for Apple's developer program to get compilers installed.
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by kragen 1y ago
Can any random person build things from source, or do they need to be blessed by Apple?
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by kragen 1y ago
Copper pennies weigh 3.11 grams. Copper is currently US$10987 per tonne https://www.metal.com/en/prices/LME_CA_3M so a copper penny is worth 3.4¢. This is a surprisingly low number to me; I would have expected i
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by kragen 1y ago
I don't understand what this means, although I've read the whole thread. Does this mean people won't be able to use Homebrew to compile software from source (and run it)? Does it mean that they'll be able to use Homebr
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by kragen 1y ago
What's a "YTP"?
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by kragen 1y ago
*a good suggestion.
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by kragen 1y ago
Officially he's an employee of the US government now, of course.
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by kragen 1y ago
Narya was a Thiel investment vehicle; Vance is a Thiel employee.
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by kragen 1y ago
If your random bit streams are generated by deterministic processes such as LFSRs, and you're combining them with things like NAND gates, you should easily be able to get the bit error rate down below 10⁻²⁰, I'd think? (And cross
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by kragen 1y ago
We'll see. Video codec experts won't materialize out of thin air just because there's money.
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by kragen 1y ago
Yes, but what keystrokes and which packages are you using? Elpa versions or a fork from elsewhere?
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by kragen 1y ago
Use-after-free bugs (such as the vulnerability in question, https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/440183164 ) usually can be exploited to result in remote code execution, but not always . It wouldn't be pruden
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by kragen 1y ago
If widely deployed infrastructure software is so full of vulnerabilities that its maintainers can't fix them as fast as they're found, maybe it shouldn't be widely deployed, or they shouldn't be its maintainers. Disabli
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by kragen 1y ago
It doesn't matter how obscure it is if it's a vulnerability that's enabled in default builds.
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by kragen 1y ago
I think it's sort of subjective. The fact that the invalidation mechanism doesn't extend further downstream is a problem with it, from my point of view, but maybe not yours. It's difficult to provide indisputable proofs of
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by kragen 1y ago
Windows didn't exist in 01985. I mean, Microsoft did release a product by that name at the end of the year, but it wasn't an operating system. I remember that in 01998 or 01999 I asked Andrew Tanenbaum, a different European CS p
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by kragen 1y ago
> > and the vast majority of casualties on both sides are from drones. > Who told you that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfNUM2CbbM #video from May 19: #interview with #drones developer Sergey Tovkach from
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by kragen 1y ago
I guess getting shot down is just as good as missing.
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by kragen 1y ago
Scarcity is not some kind of minor detail; it's damned near the whole story. Logistics win wars. Scarce weapons usually lose wars against abundant weapons. That doesn't always happen—the Zulus' abundant spears and arrows
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by kragen 1y ago
Erlang isn't even that obscure.
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by kragen 1y ago
Mortars do not have a 30m kill radius against tanks and trenches.
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by kragen 1y ago
Sure, I'd love for quality journalism to be sustainable, but that's no reason to keep ourselves ignorant while it isn't sustainable, a situation which may or may not end in our lifetimes. Also, this is the NYT we're talk
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by kragen 1y ago
I imagine that the same procedure Kossow is using for the V4 tape would work, although you might need a few passes to get the tracks aligned properly with the heads. Once you have the analog waveforms digitized, decoding the data is just a

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