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by not2b 2y ago
We are speaking a language that is a similar monstrosity, borrowing both words and structure from so many other languages, pronouncing the vowels differently from everyone else because of the Great Vowel Shift, never having a spelling refor
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by not2b 2y ago
Akkademia is a great name.
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by not2b 2y ago
Nice try, but: "According to The Original Series (TOS) writers' guide, the effective range of a transporter is 40,000 kilometers." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter_(Star_Trek)
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by not2b 2y ago
But to fly so low as to slow the ship down if unpowered, they'd generate enormous heat from atmospheric friction. They could use shields but then the ship would glow, alerting the natives below and violating the Prime Directive. And th
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by not2b 2y ago
And in old Trek it seemed that if the engines ever lost power the ship was in danger of deorbiting and crashing within hours for some reason.
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by not2b 2y ago
Back in the 1980s, long distance couples sometimes wound up paying more in long distance phone calls than rent, and 30 miles away counted as long distance. No one could attach anything to the precious network, so acoustic coupler modems had
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by not2b 2y ago
I do a lot of solo hiking and use a Garmin with InReach in case of emergency and to reassure my wife, it can also send my position every N minutes (I usually set it for 20 when on the trails in an area with limited or no cell phone coverage
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by not2b 2y ago
Yes, I see how direct conversion could work with alpha and beta radiation, but it seems the gamma and the neutrons would just blast through everything and you'd capture only a tiny percent of the energy.
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by not2b 2y ago
This sounds like the leasehold concept in the UK.
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by not2b 2y ago
Two cats is the right number of cats to have, at least for us. Two are much happier than one, and more than two is hard to deal with.
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by not2b 2y ago
We had a very similar experience when one of our two cats who had been together for many years died. The survivor was miserable to the point that we were worried about her. After a few months we adopted a kitten, and after a period of adjus
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by not2b 2y ago
I think it's going to shift. Airlines in particular are probably going to decide that they can't afford to take another hit like this, and come up with a way to limit the damage if a software update (even from Microsoft) is broken
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by not2b 2y ago
Only those sites that continue to allow every CrowdStrike update to go instantly to every device without any sanity testing would be hit by the next one. Competent IT departments will recognize that they can't risk their business in th
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by not2b 2y ago
It's specifically mentioned in the dissents.
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That is how the SC used to work: they would decide cases on the narrowest possible grounds. If they don't have to decide a tough question, but they can finesse it with something simpler, good enough. More recently they have been willin
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by not2b 2y ago
While some currencies from developing nations fail, it just doesn't happen with those from rich countries, because the country has the assets to intervene if there's trouble. With stablecoins, when things get bad it just dies and
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by not2b 2y ago
"stablecoin" is a misnomer. Perhaps they should be called temporarily stable coins, because they tend to fail under pressure. https://chainsec.io/failed-stablecoins/
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by not2b 2y ago
It doesn't appear to be, though it was speculated that it might be. Companies keep all that data in the hope of making money by mining it.
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by not2b 2y ago
"It remains unclear why so many major corporations persist in the belief that it is somehow acceptable to store so much sensitive customer data with so few security protections." It's because there are almost no consequences
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by not2b 2y ago
This is a link to a five year old issue, when Zoom was a much smaller operation and their quality was far worse than it is now. They implemented a convenience feature in an incredibly stupid and insure way, in 2019. Do you have any evidence
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by not2b 2y ago
You have a competitor, Zoom. They have an in-browser version. Can they use this API for troubleshooting performance issues? No? The European regulators might be interested in that. Perhaps this is one reason why Meet performs well in the br
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by not2b 2y ago
My main concern about Copilot use is that, unless you're in a race to quickly produce a minimum viable product, it doesn't optimize the hard part. The initial coding is a very small piece of the work. Code has to be designed, main
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by not2b 2y ago
-ffast-math can be read as -fwrong-math if the accuracy if the answers matters. For some applications accuracy might not matter much. But the differences you get by pretending that floating point math is associative can be enormous, and sci
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by not2b 2y ago
This comment suggests a lack of understanding of the role of references in papers. They aren't like lemmas in proofs. Often an author will reference a work that tried a different approach to solve the same problem the authors are tryin
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by not2b 2y ago
The management types who think they love this, because they can monitor their employees more effectively, will change their minds in a hurry when a competitor sues them, discovery starts, and the competitors' lawyers get to go through
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by not2b 2y ago
It's a no-win situation. Sure, disabling firmware updates would have prevented this attack, but it would also prevent security fixes that keep the routers from being turned into a botnet. But what I don't get in this case is why i
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by not2b 2y ago
It was not claimed that they cloned ScarJo's voice. They hired a soundalike when they couldn't get the person they wanted. Use or lack of use of AI is irrelevant. As I said before, both Bette Midler and Tom Waits won similar cases
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by not2b 2y ago
Perhaps. But a person with only one kid? Doing a job that the company needs to have done, even if no great skill is required? If that person doesn't make enough for food and rent, then I repeat, it is the company that is on welfare.
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by not2b 2y ago
Interesting optimization, particularly for something like an FPGA implementation but, as the article says, also useful for improving an inner loop. Thanks for sharing it.
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by not2b 2y ago
If workers need government aid to make basic ends meet, it is the employer, not the employee, that is on welfare, subsidized by taxpayers and government borrowing.

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