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by perlgeek 2y ago
Upper stage engines are notoriously difficult, because the operate in a very different environment than we're used to, under annoying mass constraints, and after exposure to the rigors of a rocket launch (high vibrations and accelerati
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by perlgeek 2y ago
From the article: > The anonymous programmers have repeatedly insisted Copilot could, and would, generate code identical to what they had written themselves, which is a key pillar of their lawsuit since there is an identicality requireme
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I live in a small street, and at the crossing to the next big street, it's very hard to see the traffic from one of the sides. The only thing I can really do is creep forward until I get a glimpse into the traffic, and if it's cle
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I had hoped for such much more, given the title. (And yet, fewer words, maybe). Like, how do we find industries where can actually do good? Maybe mention Effective Altruism? I guess I'll have to write my own, eventually...
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by perlgeek 2y ago
The dilemma with wind turbines is that the small ones tend to be inefficient (and still much more expensive than solar), and large ones require huge up-front investments. I'd love to be proven wrong about this though, if anybody has li
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Remember that this is written by Venture Capital investors, and they make high risk, high reward bets. I don't know the exact numbers, but I guess only maybe 5% of all investments in a given batch make any impact on the total return. S
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Since the user manual for this sensor mentions security monitoring as a possible application, I'm wondering: is there any simple way to prevent detection from such a mm wave radar? (Assuming for simplicity that we know where it's
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Non-ionizing radio waves are generally safe for humans. The only mechanism besides ionization that could harm humans is through the transfer of lots of power into the human body (think soldiers keeping themselves warm by stepping in front o
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> My later books were much better books but sold fewer and fewer copies. This resonates with me. I've written and published a few books, and the one I'm most proud of has sold the last. https://www.amazon.com/dp
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Why is there no hope of raising the upper frequency limit of the current detection methods? 1kHz seems pretty low for an interferometer. Is it limited by the wavelength associated with the 1kHz, which becomes smaller than the length of the
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by perlgeek 2y ago
This will be very unpopular with the HN crowd, please please bear with me. I really like e2e-encrypted communication. I also think that in the past decades, in general, most policies have erred too far on surveillance and too little on priv
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I maintain and develop a message queue-based architecture at work (started around 2014), so here's my take: * message queues solve some problems that are nowadays easily solved by cloud or k8s or other "smart" infrastructure,
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I've read a lot of hypotheses about what could have happened. Some say it was language. Others say it was the development of consciousness, which came with an improved theory of mind. Others say it was thinking in what-if/hypothet
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I like your way of thinking :-) A CD as a reflective coating to distinguish the pits, I don't know if that's mandatory though. Very thin gold foil is edible though (it just passes through the intestines, being chemically inert), s
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Typically, if there's a significant risk of confusing the two products, using the name would be a trademark infringement.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
McDonalds sells beef hamburgers as "Big Mac". After this ruling, they still have the exclusive right to do that. However, it seems that McD tried to use their trade mark to prevent Supermac to sell other burgers with similar (but
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Natural keys have a tendency to change over time in what is considered unique. For example, you have a company, and every employee has a unique employee number generated by HR... until the company merges with another, that also has unique e
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by perlgeek 2y ago
The ones mentioned in the article return to powers of 10. In contrast, musical notes don't, their frequencies return to powers of 2.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> Surely, malware authors and users must be too cool for adopting standard prod practices. Their economic pressures are just different, it's not their own hardware that they're bricking, nor are likely to be held liable for it.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
"They can man-in-the-middle the traffic" could be interpreted as them having to actively do something to become the man in the middle, when they already are. It's likely they just do sampling (think netflow) to get some stati
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Not to mention, Vagrant projects just... seem to stop working, eventually? I've had this happen to me a few times, always for different reasons, always a huge time sink to debug. Did anybody else have the same experience?
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Could have been previous maintainers that allowed it, and now the current maintainers are stuck with it.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Live-attenuated vaccines (see [1]) seem to fit that role, and have been around for ages. I'd be very surprised if they didn't count as drug. [1] https://www.hhs.gov/immunization/basics/types/index.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
$ sudo snap refresh firefox firefox 126.0-2 from Mozilla refreshed I'm not always happy about the snap mechanism, but this time I'm glad about a quick release/packaging channel. Kudos to the firefox snap maint
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by perlgeek 2y ago
My layman, super naive understanding is that an HIV vaccine could also help an HIV-positive person (with a well-managed HIV infection), because it dampens transmission from infected to uninfected cells.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
That's not quite true. There's no way for an IP package to have two ambiguous recipient addresses.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
There's a whole world of email mess that the article didn't even touch on: ambiguity, for example by repeating headers with conflicting values. For example, you could have, in an email: Content-Type: text/plain Cont
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by perlgeek 2y ago
The real progress with the supermarket is the availability and ubiquity. Maybe 80% of US Americans now have access to a larger variety of fresh fruits than even most nobles had 200 years ago, and it's not even a big deal to us. Project
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by perlgeek 2y ago
That's right, you get rid of the requirement of its own clock, and instead accept that you need to "see" one more satellite than you'd need otherwise. The (oversimplified) mental model is this: If the receiver knows the
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by perlgeek 2y ago
As a (mostly former) OSS maintainer, I don't want to be suspicious of any contributors. I want welcome contributors as co-maintainers. I don't want to gate-keep specific tasks (such as releasing and updating the website) so that I

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