l33tman

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by l33tman 6y ago
But then you could just subscribe to some peoples RSS feeds (or .plans for the archaic people ;). At some point you want to "listen" to a group/forum where you don't have personal control over every member and as soon as
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by l33tman 6y ago
On a (somewhat) related matter, I find the experimental search for inconsistencies in measurements in different directions in space and quantization of length scales very interesting as well. There are some experiments done constraining the
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by l33tman 6y ago
It truly is. In early medschool we had a group student session on the adaptive immune system where we had to brainstorm on antibody generation and nobody in the group even came up with an idea remotely close to how it actually works. Robust
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by l33tman 6y ago
Yeah I guess we're thinking similarly in that case :) It IS annoying though that it seems like the "last step" to produce measurable results requires a global integration though even though all the field interactions are loca
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by l33tman 6y ago
This is not meant as a snarky comment - but I would be happy to hear how many worlds is a local theory (as I guess it isn't a fully operational theory in the sense that QM+Born rule is). Even if you assume the independent, local evolut
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by l33tman 6y ago
You're treading down a well worn path here, Einstein was down this road as well as you note and got stuck there for the rest of his life. Everybody in the field would WELCOME something we can measure but can't explain with QM. But
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by l33tman 6y ago
This joke is not just applicable to the ZX81, in fact the general idea of a RAM shared as video RAM and CPU RAM lives on today, just much less noticeable. And as an older example, the Commodore Amiga performed much worse CPU-wise if you use
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by l33tman 6y ago
I'm not sure that video helps anything. At the very least it confuses the QFT level description of light and electrons with the EM classical description. The "waves" you mention add up because each photon sent in through the
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The analogy is more like: what if your pool table is the only "computer" in the world, could you map any real other problems you have onto that "computer"? I'm pretty sure you would come up with some clever mappings
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by l33tman 6y ago
I guess neuroscience mostly compares to the condensed matter / semiconductor field, in the computer analogy. They know everything about the transistors but guess at why they're connected like they are. And some in their respective
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by l33tman 6y ago
Very interesting - "digital" quantum computers are certainly not the only useful quantum computing devices possible. This somewhat related physics stackexchange question and various answers came to mind: https://physics
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by l33tman 6y ago
It's so uncommon to see "owned" spelled with just alphabetics that I had to read the sentence a few times to figure out what you meant :)
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Travel doesn't cost any energy, only acceleration and decceleration, so if you accept a slow travel this isn't particularly expensive. Especially with drones you wouldn't need a huge spaceship with environmental systems for s
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It's extremely anthropocentric reasoning, like "the cost is too large", "you lose control of the hegemony" etc. And that there are "colonists" that "die off". I'm not sure any of these ass
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by l33tman 6y ago
Their global ad revenue is a public figure right? It should be easy to estimate an average. If they have a billion users, do they actually have $100B in monthly revenue? I highly suspect the distribution is not flat in any way though (some
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by l33tman 6y ago
I never click on their ad links so it would be a pure bonus for them if I pay :) But yeah I don't know... sometimes the supply/demand curves never meet. Still think the business opportunity for a really good paid-for search engine
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by l33tman 6y ago
Yes the security guard that comes out of the elevator with the card you have to loot, can fall down the elevator shaft (800m down actually!). Classic! :) This is one of the (relatively few) documented bugs that I'm sure they've al
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by l33tman 6y ago
I went through this, as I tried the game first on my Windows 7 PC (it had stated support for Win7). Crashfest. After I upgraded to the latest Windows 10, latest Nvidia drivers etc. I've played 40 hours without a single crash or bug. It
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by l33tman 6y ago
According to the article, altavista switched owners 3 times during the last 3 years of its life. I assume one of these had the bright idea to fill the results with crappy paid-for links. Google has these geniuses to thank for priming the pl
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by l33tman 6y ago
I only browsed the article but had fond memories of how revolutionary AltaVista was when it launched. Suddenly you could browse the web without following links. This started a trend where you provided lesser and lesser value by stuffing lin
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by l33tman 6y ago
I'm not a virologist but this is clickbait I think, it does not take long to synthesis fragments of the spike protein for a traditional vaccine either or program the rhinovirus vector in a more modern vaccine. I don't think that r
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by l33tman 6y ago
Services are not restored. Some came up again, some not. My Gsuite business mail is still completely down, while youtube started working again. I'm pretty sure there will be some internal conferences at Google after this to make sure i
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Isn't this built into all modern Wifi routers? Asus has had this for 10 years or so, and they also had their share of security issues that comes with the territory :/
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Actually the retinal anisotropy is a feature distinct from attention. You can fixate on a point in a scene and then attend any other point in the scene. This is indeed how both animal and human attention experiments in the field is setup to
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by l33tman 6y ago
That's true but the lingering issue is that if Boeing and the FAA collaborated in pushing the broken design through certification, how many other issues can and will they cover up that the pilots don't know about? I think most wan
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by l33tman 6y ago
This PBS SpaceTime episode has a good catchup of this and ways to measure this over longer scales: https://youtu.be/YJzoelANL_Y
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by l33tman 6y ago
You might end up playing a cheater at some point (though it's uncommon). But you're much more probable to end up playing someone better and you'll think they're a cheater.. Look at this livestream where Magnus Carlsen, t
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by l33tman 6y ago
In my test (umatrix, but no other preventions), the main sources of uniqueness were the fonts installed, the HTTP-ACCEPT header, and WebGL fingerprinting. Especially the fonts installed was very interesting and I hadn't thought of that
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by l33tman 6y ago
I use umatrix all the time and there are multiple sites where it doesn't work. I think part of the problem is that not all requests are actually shown in the drop-down for you to enable them. Maybe a popup or frame causes umatrix to mi
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by l33tman 6y ago
Something that can help thinking about Euclidean and Minkowski metrics as a programmer, is thinking of how to write a low-level physics sim, and you have a 4D array of values describing some aspect of your simulated world corresponding to s

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