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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The article you link disagrees with you. The chain reaction can be shut down in a matter of seconds. However, the reactor continues to generate a huge amount of heat for weeks afterwards. It's not as much heat as a fully-running chain
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
They already did sign such a treaty with Ukraine.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Disposition doesn't necessarily mean wins and losses - in this case it means where the forces are located, their strengths and capabilities, and what they are planning to do. It is entirely appropriate that this kind of information is
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The very best scientific breakthroughs are announced with the words "Huh? That's weird!"
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
There are several problems with this idea. The first is that of scale - the list of companies along with their associated products and proven-correct official web site(s) would be a nightmare to maintain. I would not trust it to be accurate
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Checksumming isn't enough to make something a good archival format. You need to go beyond being able to detect data corruption to being able to correct or cope with data corruption. For a FLAC file, if you flip a bit in the file, then
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The simplest answer is that the journal size isn't infinite, and not everything goes into the journal (like often actual file data). Therefore, stuff must be removed from the journal at some point. The filesystem only removes stuff fro
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Hasn't happened yet. A regular job at work involves kicking off a process that spreads itself across 100 nodes and takes a week, munching through tens of terabytes of data. Even at home I'm processing 30GB-sized datasets, which un
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
It should be noted that we actually use this method to work out the size/shape of small asteroids that are too distant to clearly make out in a telescope. If you line up a few astronomers with telescopes over an area approximately the
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
They fill the comment sections with spam to improve the ranking of a different site that they are linking to in the spam.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The reason for the immunosuppressants is not the same as for a classic organ transplant. For a normal organ transplant, you need immunosuppressants because otherwise the body will recognise the new organ as being a foreign body that it does
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
One of the slightly scary things about T1D is that at first you get a weird feeling when your blood sugar is too low, and you can notice when that happens. But if it happens too often, those warning signs stop, and you can get into a really
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
I think it was set up beforehand. Also, I think nobody really wanted to go as far as setting any precedents, in case they ended up being precedents that they didn't want.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Hang on, I thought we were talking about Linux here.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Microsoft has seen this one - they have a subsidiary in the EU that holds the EU data. Yes, the US-based parent company is legally bound to provide the data at the request of the US gov agencies. However, the only way that they can get hold
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
If you walk into a shop and the cameras record what you do, then there has to be a mechanism in place to ensure that the data is only able to be used for the purpose it was collected for (that is, crime prevention and law enforcement), and
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Could you detail how you block apps adjusting the device volume? I'm utterly fed up with Zoom changing the volume to 100% for everything except itself.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Meta Platforms Inc.’s veiled threat to quit Europe because of blocked talks over privacy rules was more like music to the ears of two top German and French politicians. “After being hacked I’ve lived without Facebook and Twitter for four ye
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
And they can look at the IP address and see if that matches their list of streaming servers.
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s/where/were/
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Most of the places where miniaturisation is key to low power consumption are where power is used to process information. In that case, you're trying to get the amount of energy required to handle a bit flying past as small as possible.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The one good thing about having a file/directory called "--help" lying around is that it protects you against running "rm -rf *".
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The home secretary has a lot of control over laws, using a thing in the British law system called a "statutory instrument". That is, a law passed by parliament that says that a named person (usually the home secretary) has the pow
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
You need to be able to modify the contents of the disc, which implies that either you have managed to boot your own OS or you have been able to temporarily plug the storage into something else. This is as you say a much lower bar to clear t
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
If you go to https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html then there are repeated statements about how the rocket did such a good accurate job launching Webb onto its intended trajectory that the tele
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
This link definitely deserves to be referenced here: https://qntm.org/destroy "You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
It's missing capacitors and inductors. Did you know - a boost switching regulator was used to pump water up to the top of a garden in Victorian times. The regulator uses the water pipe analogy to electricity, except electricity hadn&#x
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Agreed. Banning it has been tried at least once, in the USA, and apparently it didn't work very well. There were too many people that wanted alcohol and were willing to defy government to have it. Government is at least partially (more
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
> Everything was legal until a law was passed criminalizing it. Many things are illegal not because a law has been passed against it, but because something seemed bad, was brought before a judge, and the judge made a judgment that set a
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
It's not just subtitles - it's all the login information stored there as well. Email addresses to send spam to, passwords that have likely been reused on another site.

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