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by namirez 7y ago
> If Gates is found to have done something wrong, I'll be the first to call him a scumbag. I guess people here, and across the press, are asking questions to figure out if he has done anything wrong. Unless you're suggesting t
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by namirez 7y ago
You would be right if this were an honest mistake, but a malicious actor can take advantage of this for all kinds of heap-based attacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap_overflow
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by namirez 7y ago
I think the target audience here are the FreeBSD users, not the all Unix users. Mind you, installing Linux on Thinkpads is usually hassel-free, but again it's only useful for someone who wants Linux.
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by namirez 7y ago
Yes, it's possible but it requires a thick jacket. the formula for a thin-shell cylindrical pressure vessel is \sigma = rp/t, where sigma is tensile strength of the material, p is pressure, r is radius, and t is wall thickness. Fo
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by namirez 7y ago
I feel kind of uncomfortable commenting on HN, especially after reading this answer by Jacques Mattheij [1] with regard to deleting accounts: > If this is to ‘unsay’ stuff that you wrote in the past then that’s a good reminder to think t
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by namirez 7y ago
Is this problematic because of the links? Because FOSS is funded by donations and it's common for non-profits to acknowledge their sponsors. For example EFF does the same thing [1], but FSF displays only the logos with no links [2]. Ar
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by namirez 7y ago
Could you elaborate on it please? It seems vapes create particles of comparable size to what is reported here. Also inhaling H2O2 can be toxic beyond a certain concentration. But I'm not sure what is the concentration here. The last pa
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by namirez 7y ago
This is fascinating. Does it mean vaping, or more generally inhaling pure water vapor, can be unsafe?
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by namirez 7y ago
> Listen to any child’s tantrum and you’ll hear echos of foucault’s whining about the unfairness of power. No offense but it appears you've never read Foucault. He never said power is unfair. It's like saying gravity is unfair
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by namirez 7y ago
> She's right, but it really upsets many academics for someone to say that. Good. Is it "good" just because it upsets academics? Is she "right" just because you agree with her? To me, her comment sounds like a v
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by namirez 7y ago
The report that you've cited is more than 10 days old which is like an eternity for a spreading wildfire. Here is a more recent report from the same source [1], published on Aug 19th. Here is the relevant part: > At this point in th
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Neuroscientists make major breakthrough in 200-year-old puzzle(magazine.ar.fchampalimaud.org)
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by namirez 7y ago
I always use valid but fictitious names. For example my mother's maiden name could be Roberts or my first car could be Chevy. Of course I use different and more obscure answers on different websites and save them all in a password mana
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by namirez 7y ago
> Define why it is a problem: Biodiversity is an indicator for healthy ecologies. The extinction of endangered animals threatens the stability of ecology $Y which humans rely on for food, health, and resources. I take huge issue with t
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by namirez 7y ago
Here is one option: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/where-can-i-get-elevation-data?qt-...
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by namirez 7y ago
I think there are some proposals based on geoengineering. A widely discussed one is the stratospheric aerosol injection [1]. The concern is that no one knows the unintended consequences of this approach. Generally speaking, it's not po
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by namirez 7y ago
It'a plausible but not very probable, at least as far as policy positions are concerned. With the current campaign financing laws, there are legal ways to coerce politicians into voting a certain way. It's more risky to blackmail
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by namirez 7y ago
The author is equating "capitalism" with "free market" with "Western values". These are different and for the most part, unrelated concepts.
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by namirez 7y ago
Not sure about the details of this picture, but hypersonic wind tunnels look very different than subsonic wind tunnels. The cross section of a hypersonic tunnel is usually small and there are not many moving parts. The high Mach number is a
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by namirez 7y ago
If Brin lived in Russia, spoke Russian, and wrote books in Russian we wouldn't call him American just because he wrote a few books in English too. Perhaps you're not familiar with the history of that part of the world, but the ind
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by namirez 7y ago
Title is slightly misleading! Most of them are Islamic but not Arabic. Khawrazmi [1], Karaji [2], Khayyam [3], and Tusi [4] were all Persian. Ibn Haytham wrote only in Arabic though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu
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by namirez 7y ago
Agreed! Eventually, some form of carbon sequestration is necessary.
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by namirez 7y ago
This can be helpful, but it's still a shortsighted solution. There are two types of carbon cycle on the planet: the short-term and the long-term [1]. The only natural mechanisms to transfer carbon between the two cycles are the planet&
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Man learns mom's body was sold for 'blast testing'(abc15.com)
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by namirez 7y ago
Fixed-point vs floating-point arithmetic! In scientific applications, you want to preserve precision regardless of the system of units (i.e. scale). For example, 1.23 meters is 1.23e2 cm or 1.23e-3 km. The side effect of this is the roundof
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by namirez 7y ago
> I’m really struggling to believe that an anti-war stance is now considered controversial on HN I Don't know about HN, but I don't think an anti-war stance is controversial. Having said that, I believe, presenting economic s
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by namirez 7y ago
False dichotomy! Economic sanctions are not the only alternative to actual wars. In fact, they are a form of collective punishment that harm average citizens of these countries more than their governments. And this is not just about some in
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by namirez 7y ago
"If not today then soon, gray clouds will gather. Let it come so I might hear leaf splats, watch the wet blotch, taste on my tongue, feel on my face the pentecost of petrichor." --Above the Waterfall, Ron Rash
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by namirez 7y ago
This is very important! A few years ago I was reading about UC Berkeley grad students who were homeless. They slept in their office on campus. When people talk about homelessness, usually their talking about being visibly homeless without k
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by namirez 7y ago
Shallow copy is the general concept. Move semantics is a special case where the unique ownership is enforced. Here is simple example of the idea: Widget::Widget(Widget&& w) { this->ptr = w.ptr; // shallow copy

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