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From my earlier post: > Ironically, because of the advent of drone attacks, a small aircraft like the Embraer 190 is more likely to be mistaken for hostile, compared to a full-size airliner. From CNN today ( https://www.cnn.com
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> " ... as the Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft was approaching to land as scheduled." Not as scheduled. The aircraft was diverted because of unacceptable weather at its primary destination -- https://www.bbc.com/ne
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> I find it a sad thing that often great achievements and ruthlessness go hand in hand. That may be true (plenty of examples), but it may also be an outlier. It might be more common for talented individuals to work cooperatively, in a wa
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From the linked Gitlab writeup: "Some changes to OpenSSH are used from Arachnoid's SSHelper." I'm very glad to see this port of open-source code I wrote years ago, especially now that Google has removed SSHelper from the
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> This is a standard English idiom ... Certainly true. > ... but that doesn't make it incorrect. Also true, and not a claim I made.
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> ... snipped their cash in half ... Actually, they snipped their cash in two , not in half . This is one of several afflictions that lurk in modern language, ignored by nearly all. Another is the use of phrases like "similar effe
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> Is it only one direction or does it work the same from the other side? The relationship is (must be) symmetrical. Were this not so, it would violate a principle called "Maxwell's Daemon" ( https://en.wikipedia.
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> ... "in a way where" ... ... so that ... The elements of Style ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style ) : "Make every word count." > ... "acts as a compound lens&q
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> [...] after two weeks of not feeling any positive effect, she decided to start taking additional supplements of the vitamin in question on her own next to the study tablets to “be sure”. If unrecorded, that would be fatal to the study&
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> You’re ignoring the mass-transmission losses of moving heavy panels to the Moon. I passed on that because both options require a lot of mass transfer -- either solar panels or microwave antennas.
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> I would love someone with more knowledge to fully explore what a similar sized space station could achieve compared to the arduous task of going down martian gravity well that has half the solar energy and on top of that a night cycle
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> I expect solar infrastructure for Mars would be done in orbit and beamed down. Remember that Mars' atmospheric pressure is a tiny fraction of that on Earth, so the performance difference between a solar panel in orbit, and on the
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> This man has 2 small self published books on the topic of mars colonisation. He is obviously a serious expert to listen Well, (a) self-publishing is free, and (b) expertise cannot be established by proclamation, it requires evidence. J
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> [ ... ] The second reveals that beaming power to the lunar base region with microwaves from Earth is by far the cheapest, most flexible option – for operations on the Earth facing side of the Moon. Sorry, this fails several tests of co
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Never too late ... https://arachnoid.com/morse_code
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I also suffer from this geriatric malady -- once a technology goes dormant, becomes a throwback museum piece, my interest increases. When I was 12 (1957) and really needed to practice code, talk to friends on my primitive homebrew ham radi
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Modern-day human evolution can be less obvious. My favorite example are those born with six fingers on each hand ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyly ). This uncommon mutation grants a subtle calculation advantage
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> "... and similar speed to the previous generation of Haiku." To me this is the most annoying grammatical error. I can't wait for AI to take over all prose writing so this egregious construction finally vanishes from publ
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It's my hope that people will take the hint: "Wait ... if Rust is a better way to compile C than C itself, maybe I should learn Rust."
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One key to acquiring thinking skill (a skill like any other) is to learn how to decode the world using your own abilities and resources. Start by asking about a new idea, "How would I prove this idea false?" This is the key to sci
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> I love your boating articles. I've read every one on your website. Thanks -- this means a lot to me ( https://arachnoid.com/alaska2018 ). One might call pages like mine the "geriatric Web". :)
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For some mysterious reason I have a much easier time sending accurate Morse code than receiving it. This was true when I first acquired a ham license in the 1950s and it's still true today (KE7ZZ). I was able to solve a game example at
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I must add this second reply: > The "repressed memory" was an embarrassing controversy It was not an "embarrassing controversy". Innocent people were thrown in jail based on the imaginary claims of witnesses -- then j
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>> neuroscience will replace psychology > That seems like say that hardware engineers should be the ones debugging software. Perhaps at first glance, but neuroscience will eventually deal with "software" issues in much th
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> You keep repeating the same things over and over, but it doesn't make it true. A worthwhile argument must have some depth. This fails the test. > Read this book. This is not how online fora work. If you want to make an argument
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> You have not ever specified how a model of memory, for example, cannot be falsified. Wait ... did I read that right? It's up to psychology's critics to identify unfalsifiable claims, as well as face the classic impossibility
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>> Psychology studies the mind. > Wrong. Wikipedia: Psychology ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology ): "Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior." Do avoid pointless contradictions
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> Popperism is not a universally accepted definition of science. Not even by scientists themselves. Well, false, but you would already know this if you had scientific training. It's discouraging to see so many young people trying to
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> Some valid empirical questions are not testable in the Popperian sense. If by "valid" you mean "scientific", no, not true. As long as such questions cannot be tested and potentially falsified, they aren't scien
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> If we cannot agree that the mind is materialistic then there is no way forward for us, except to note that since you earlier stated that you think basic neuroscience has a chance, then the mind body problem is not that important after

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