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by ooterness 2y ago
Better ban Windows, then. It ships with a app called "Solitaire", which uses poker cards that "resemble the aesthetics of gambling". Won't somebody think of the children??
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by ooterness 2y ago
Meanwhile: Windows ships with a simulated-gambling app called "Solitaire".
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by ooterness 2y ago
Yes, it's still an active laboratory, currently owned by University of Arizona. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2 However, it hasn't been operated as a long-duration closed-cycle ecosystem since 1994.
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by ooterness 2y ago
We should give that another go. Unless humanity can build and operate BioSphere 3 as an unqualified success, we are nowhere near ready for a settlement on Mars.
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by ooterness 2y ago
The "multiple messages of increasing complexity" concept was one of the proposals. The simpler stages are usually written out in as many languages as possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_w
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by ooterness 2y ago
Relevant joke: Two economists are walking down the street. One of them sees a hundred dollar bill on the sidewalk. Just before he picks it up, his colleague says, "There's no money there. If there was, someone else would have pick
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by ooterness 2y ago
Data integrity is ensured by the MAC layer. Ethernet's CRC32 is substantially stronger than the weak and unnecessary 16-bit IP-checksum in the UDP header. It is also infinitely easier to calculate in hardware, because it is placed wher
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by ooterness 2y ago
It's very much "need" in this case. This was considered at length. To be clear, we are talking about exotic custom hardware that has little in common with the average x86/x64 desktop. For something like a 24-port 10 GbE
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by ooterness 2y ago
As someone who has spent the last several years of my career implementing picosecond-precise time transfer using an "obscure time sync protocol", and holds a few patents in this field, kindly check your dismissive attitude. When y
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by ooterness 2y ago
IPv6 changes far more than the address size. Why mandate the use of Neighbor Discovery Protocol instead of the much simpler ARP? Why change the rules for UDP checksums? The checksum field in UDP over IPv4 is optional. The checksum field i
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by ooterness 2y ago
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
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by ooterness 2y ago
Not really. Article indicates this cable will provide about 9% of their total demand.
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by ooterness 2y ago
Great article. The "contagion" factor is a useful concept that I hadn't seen before. Needs a [2018] tag.
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by ooterness 2y ago
Speaking as someone who holds six patents: This is only making bad problems worse. We need to be reducing patent terms and making it easier to invalidate bad patents, not helping trolls.
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by ooterness 2y ago
Colloquially, yes, they're all just packets unless I'm writing an RFC for the IETF. If I recall correctly, the formal term for the all-encompassing category is the "datagram". It's like who-vs-whom. Prescriptivists
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by ooterness 2y ago
Easier to replace windshields than run-over kids. Good visibility is more important.
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by ooterness 2y ago
Pedantically: TCP has segments, IP has packets, and Ethernet has frames. They are one-to-one in simple cases, but not always. https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/50083... In particular, fragmentation
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by ooterness 2y ago
Every day we move closer to WALL-E becoming reality. "'B' is for Buy N Large, your very best friend."
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by ooterness 2y ago
You may be interested in Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking It started as a NASA project for deep-space networks where communications are intermittent, packets take
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by ooterness 2y ago
Analog signals won't survive a 1000km undersea cable, but for a few kilometers you don't need amplifiers at all. The loss-per-meter of optical fiber is much lower than a coax cable.
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by ooterness 2y ago
Radio-frequency over fiber (RFoF) signals are usually analog. By intensity-modulating the laser, it's relatively easy to convert a GHz-wide analog signal from electrical to optical and back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by ooterness 2y ago
It uses the word "aircraft", not "jet". There is a whole section about it: > You will be eligible to use the Company aircraft for (i) business-related travel in accordance with the Company’s travel policy, (ii) travel
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by ooterness 2y ago
AFAIK, the only C++ access specifiers are private, protected, and public. Hardly an "insane number".
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by ooterness 2y ago
"In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The S
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by ooterness 2y ago
Windows 10 and it's Settings app were released in 2014. It's been 10 years, and it's still a fancy front-end with no substance, a tiny fraction of the options available in the real Control Panel. Where is this supposed "
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by ooterness 2y ago
It depends a lot on CPU architecture. Floating point units may be tied to each core, or they may be shared, so it may further depend on other concurrent workloads. There's also SIMD instructions. Modern CPUs have built-in instructions
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by ooterness 2y ago
As Eisenhower put it: "Peace-time plans are of no particular value, but peace-time planning is indispensable." In other words, the act of planning means you're better prepared for specific contingencies, so you'll hopefu
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by ooterness 2y ago
This is, at best, a useful heuristic for identifying biologically-produced molecules. The definition of "life" continues to be ambiguous. Intelligent people can disagree on whether a virus is alive, or Lieutenant Commander Data. T
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by ooterness 2y ago
I am reminded of the "Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space" speech from Mass Effect 2. https://youtu.be/hLpgxry542M?feature=shared
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by ooterness 2y ago
What purpose does this serve? It's not clear to me that any biological system is understood at this level of detail. Any simulation is likely to be garbage-in, garbage-out. And even if it were fully understood, there's not enough

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