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691.
by marshray 8y ago
> requires a person to drive it but assures the human can't crash the car? Because the 'not crashing' part is the hard part, the rest is just navigation.
692.
by marshray 8y ago
> Warp via Tor via Warp Warp would see all your incoming packets and all your outgoing packets, so why bother with Tor?
693.
by marshray 8y ago
> the idea that something so expensive and complicated could be considered one-use disposable is amazing So much about the Cold War era makes more sense if you keep in mind that a big part of the US strategy was to turn it into a cash-bu
694.
by marshray 8y ago
Fine dust gets lofted high in the atmosphere. Some bacteria can handle being dried out for long periods and act as fine particles. As I recall, one of the victims of the anthrax terror attacks was a woman who lived several miles downwind of
695.
by marshray 8y ago
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/eh-exce...
696.
by marshray 8y ago
In my 1972 Ford Maverick, I could turn on the headlights and the lighting in the interior console would adjust accordingly.
697.
by marshray 8y ago
Sure, restating what someone just told you about how they are feeling "What I hear you saying is ..." can start to sound mechanical. But consider the alternative: most people never actually get any acknowledgement of their thought
698.
by marshray 8y ago
Sometimes what people really want is old-fashioned give-and-take, or to engage you in open conflict. When you make it clear by your actions you're not interested in that game, it will throw them off balance. Not many people are prepare
699.
by marshray 8y ago
Well, considering that it's the official position of the U.S. Army Research Office Aberdeen Proving Ground that "Homotopy Type Theory and its applications are such an area that is of significant interest in military applications&q
700.
by marshray 8y ago
That book was from 2003. This is Schneier in 2016: https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_t... Data Is a Toxic Asset, So Why Not Throw It Out? "All this makes data a toxic asset,
701.
by marshray 8y ago
Yeah I bet the 300+ year history of Ancient Greece has several examples of famous artists being well paid.
702.
by marshray 8y ago
Are you kidding? Nukes are great at: 1. Producing large quantities of power 2. Continuously, for several decades 3. Hiding most of the costs until long after those responsible have become unaccountable
703.
by marshray 8y ago
It will _always_ possible after an major airliner crash to say that one particular thing that would have prevented it would have been worth the cost. But investing in just the specific mitigation needed to prevent the next disaster is not a
704.
by marshray 8y ago
I have the same reaction as most people to want to jump to "well safety features shouldn't be optional". But in practice such a policy translates into "no one is allowed to invest in better safety." Different partie
705.
by marshray 8y ago
> that method of attacking the assets under protection almost certainly exceeds their value This was most likely the reasoning Sony had used (prior to 2012) when deciding how to safeguard the account info of users who had registered for
706.
by marshray 8y ago
> ask the battery chemists you know what the best-case storage is for a particular chemistry and cathode material It's entirely possible that with an exponential increase in production volume (i.e., funding) we could see some new ch
707.
by marshray 8y ago
Lithium is one of the more common elements in the Earth's crust. More abundant than many familiar everyday materials like copper. Sure, extracting copper has costs too, but I don't see the same handwringing about that.
708.
by marshray 8y ago
I'd never heard of it, a web search turns up only a handful of mentions, and it's not even the only thing in crypto to be called 'seal'.
709.
by marshray 8y ago
Choice of language is a critical design decision for a real world crypto implementation. One can prove the math is correct, but proving that in actual use it doesn't leave secrets behind in memory or leak information in timing variatio
710.
by marshray 8y ago
The reasoning I heard was that since most gladiators were unlikely to make it past the first few fights, why waste expensive food on them? For celebrity gladiators I imagine the calculation was different.
711.
by marshray 8y ago
Different diets are practiced by all manner of different communities in the US for many different reasons. There are more possible variations than we could ever agree upon terms for. Some people consider honey non-vegetarian because it come
712.
by marshray 8y ago
> `cat` without any options Interestingly, the `raw_cat()` function is 37 lines long. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/e511976db9f51bae1a59...
713.
by marshray 8y ago
Disclosure: Works for MS but not on anything related to the topic of discussion here. These are my personal opinions from experiences at multiple companies. Any user-facing names obviously get reviewed by the whole departments that are dedi
714.
by marshray 8y ago
I nominate the latest Ubuntu Desktop or Windows install DVD for title of the most complex item in the known universe. (For comparison, the human genome is under a GiB.)
715.
by marshray 8y ago
To be fair, there are plenty of professionally managed funds that haven't beaten the index over the last several decades.
716.
by marshray 8y ago
It also draws from the book 'Soul of a New Machine' about Data General's a few years before Compaq. The 'adventure addiction' scene, for example.
717.
by marshray 8y ago
You might like this documentary on the origins of National Semiconductor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbRZGDV-ws
718.
by marshray 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil
719.
by marshray 8y ago
Having gone through a couple pairs of the Bose QC35, I am currently happy with the Sennheiser PXC 550. The noise cancellation is comparable and I feel like the sound quality is just a tiny bit better. But perhaps the best part is they protr
720.
by marshray 8y ago
I don't recall seeing a board-mounted Ethernet jack that didn't have metal sides. Reasons for an Ethernet jack to include a small metal enclosure: 1. The jack is subject to physical strain as we insert, remove, and tug on the ca

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