nick238

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by nick238 1y ago
Fixed wireless (11/24/60 GHz point-to-point antennas) is pretty good, and the hardware would be a few thousand, but I wonder if there's an issue with the funding where it needs to be actual fiber for some reason.
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by nick238 2y ago
Sure, a loom works anywhere, but a banana plant doesn't. Raw materials are sometimes only available in some regions too, though this is a weaker argument because sometimes that is just because labor and complying with dumping regulatio
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by nick238 2y ago
Does seem strange in retrospect that if looking for 'invalids' is so paramount, just install Hoover air curtains everywhere.
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by nick238 2y ago
Some people love shooting guns into the air, why is that so bad?
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by nick238 2y ago
In the "just because everyone else is jumping off a bridge, should you do it": > Pfizer Asks White House for Relief From FDA Drug Human Testing Rules > Pfizer has asked the Trump administration to help shield pharmaceutical
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by nick238 2y ago
Cody's Lab on YouTube drank 17 mg of cyanide for a video, but not surprisingly it's now private. Quotes include: * It tastes like baking soda * I've got a tremor [in my arm] and my breathing is slightly more rapid Cyanide for
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by nick238 2y ago
The entire shoreline of the Great Lakes counts as an international border, so literally 100% of Michigan is in the CBP special enforcement zone, and Chicago is basically the same as San Diego or El Paso. I think international airports can a
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by nick238 2y ago
A site [1] mentions that student visas (F-1) may alter the protections of the first amendment, but doesn't go into any specific detail. Legal or not, if you're deported, it's ruinous, and forcing people to try to litigate aga
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by nick238 2y ago
Someone else ( future you being a distinct person) will also need to grok what's going on when they maintain the code later. By living purely in a high-dimensional trans-enlightenment state and coding that way, means you may as well b
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by nick238 2y ago
and Linear A [1]. To be fair, whatever model would require data about the context of where the texts were found unless the corpus is massive . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A
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by nick238 2y ago
I haven't worked FAANG, but a Fortune 100 tech company who's been hiring a ton of ex-Amazon management. Interviews 100% remote, even though there's an office in Chicago. No option.
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by nick238 2y ago
Standards are nice, but the large standards organizations like ISO annoyingly charge a bit to view them. I suppose this is because some businesses/industries require "real" standards by those orgs rather than the IETF or othe
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by nick238 2y ago
I'm actually kinda curious what SG-1's production company setup was for moving around the gate to all of British Columbia's quarries and forests.
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by nick238 2y ago
The ice clearly moves, as Europa's surface isn't just same as an airless, solid ball-of-rock's default: craters, but has all sorts of features that reshape the surface, so given enough time, it'll equilibrate. (What &#x2
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by nick238 2y ago
Wire-guided torpedos[1] and missiles[2] are fairly common, and the wire pays out from the projectile-side so it's not progressively dragging more and more. The more recent DM2A4 Seehecht torpedo[3] has a fiber-optic link, probably to r
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by nick238 2y ago
A mini nuclear-reactor-as-a-heat-source might be appropriate for a melt-drill. RTGs are a bit unfortunate as they'll exponentially decay from the time of manufacturing, and you'll need to both 1. deliver high enough power at Europ
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by nick238 2y ago
I thought reading closed-source code is a very bad idea, as if you wind up writing something similar, then you're possibly guilty of copyright infringement. If you have one team look at the design, catalog the features, and describe
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by nick238 2y ago
The page is timing out for me, but is it the inverse problem of the time when Steve Mould/Matt Parker measured the unknown quantity π, but already assuming a size of the molecules? Presumably Lord Rayleigh already had a at least a good
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by nick238 2y ago
While biological structures are ultimately 'DNA-controlled', the translation of the ACTGs to codons to proteins to structures explodes in complexity. Even within that simple molecular (i.e. no microstructures, let alone macrostruc
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by nick238 2y ago
Double your compression ratio for the low, low price of 100,000x slower decompression (zstd: 215GB, 2.2 ns/byte vs. nncp: 106GB, 230 µs/byte)! The neural network architectures are technically impressive, but unless there's so
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by nick238 2y ago
I get that all dicts are now effectively an `collections.OrderedDict`, but I've never seen practical code that uses the insertion order. You can't do much with that info (no `.pop()`, can't sort a dict without recreating it)
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by nick238 2y ago
Diamonds are forever, but they fare poorly when they meet a hydraulic press (source: Hydraulic Press Channel) or a chemist who wants "real diamond water" (source: NileRed).
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by nick238 2y ago
The following are identical fractions.Fraction(numerator=1, denominator=3) fractions.Fraction(1) / 3 ChainMap is maybe better described/used as inheritance for dicts, where something like settings = ChainMap(ins
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by nick238 2y ago
I think rockets are insanely simple compared to silicon. The amount of research and development it takes to build a light source (hot tin plasma[1]) is extraordinary, and fabs are also probably the most complicated manufacturing facilit
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by nick238 2y ago
I wonder if the ideal way to expose this would have been to approach some law firm showing that you (just you) were wronged by the City, here's the data, some basic auditing showing where it was from, statements by the city, hackers, e
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by nick238 2y ago
I mean, if the city keeps saying, "no, there wasn't any data released", then maybe backs up and says "there wasn't any sensitive data released", and keeps backing up, at some point you need to cut to the chas
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by nick238 2y ago
What are the keywords to search for to find these Celerons? I assume they're ye'olde business pseudo-light terminals? Laptops are not bad, but desktop machines have easier connectivity.
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by nick238 2y ago
The RPi secondary market is a bit nuts; there's minor scarcity at times, plus the fairly strong brand, so people list them at their original MSRP all the time. No idea how many move at that vs. get low-balled. At some point, dealing wi
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by nick238 2y ago
So the solution is "more speech?" I don't know how that will unhook minors from the feedback loop of recommendation algorithms and their plastic brains. It's like saying 'we don't need to put laws in place to c
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by nick238 2y ago
If I'm in the position of that lifeguard, I A) don't want to deal with any actual or near-drownings because I generally like people, B) am going to tell people to comply with the posted rules or I'll get fired. If I'm th

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