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by pontifier 2y ago
Very excited for the day that you reverse the process and can generate blueprints and changes on demand.
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by pontifier 2y ago
I always felt that this "wall" must have been composed of charged gas ions in a potential well. This would make it sort of a capacitor, and would explain why no large sparks or discharge were happening, even when the voltages invo
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by pontifier 2y ago
Insurance is such a crutch for some people, but it shouldn't be. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing whether you have insurance or not. In my opinion, the amount of resources spent on buying insurance would, in almost ev
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by pontifier 2y ago
Set layer mode to "difference" and everything that overlaps exactly fades to black. On a stereo image sliding the top image is very interesting as areas at different distances fade at different positions. Here is an example video
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by pontifier 2y ago
I've been looking at ways to fix things, and I believe I'm close.
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by pontifier 2y ago
[Blank] doesn't kill people, people kill people. Lethal action will occur when seen as a solution regardless of the tools available. It's happened throughout human history, and will likely keep happening until we can solve our pro
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by pontifier 2y ago
I remember seeing one of these for Bitcoin addresses a long time ago... Very funny :)
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by pontifier 2y ago
Anything held in Bitcoin is one misplaced key, or hacked wallet, or broken algorithm away from being worth precisely zero.
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by pontifier 2y ago
Money isn't power. Power is power. Money can sometimes be used like power, but not knowing the difference is a recipe for the situation we find ourselves in now. Money is only powerful as long as it's useful. When the pitchforks c
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by pontifier 2y ago
I've thought a lot about this, and realized that there is no continuation in our normal life anyway. What we experience is a huge and omnipresent blind spot because we cannot see the future. Even 5 minutes from now, you don't know
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by pontifier 2y ago
I don't know why this didn't occur to me earlier, but reading this thread overwhelmed me with possibility and I just had to drop my fusion reactor patent into notebook LM. The podcast was nice, but there was nothing inventive abou
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by pontifier 2y ago
I considered saying bearish. Maybe I could have been clearer. I have a low opinion about the usefulness of cryptocurrencies because true security is so difficult. It's basically impossible, even if you don't make any mistakes. I r
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by pontifier 2y ago
I like it. Seems like it might be useful for mice and keyboards as well. Have a few ports on it: This device can only be a mouse -> USB This device can only be a keyboard -> USB Then it filters everything coming in to ensure that it m
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by pontifier 2y ago
The first time I tried to type a long public key it took me like 10 minutes, and was a pain in the butt. If it's something you're doing a lot, using QR codes can make it much faster and easier.
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by pontifier 2y ago
For longer term storage use an analog camera to take pictures of the QR codes, then develop the film and store them in an airtight climate controlled vault. Bonus points if the film is designed to be very stable after developing. Maybe plat
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by pontifier 2y ago
For many years I've just viewed all of my devices as possibly compromised. It's one of the reasons I've been very down on cryptocurrencies in general. I don't actually see USB as something that can maintain a true, robus
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by pontifier 2y ago
The biggest problem with this is that it doesn't work every time in real life. Sometimes you just have a table with one short leg.
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by pontifier 2y ago
I'm living in a corrupt town, fighting them about buildings, being thwarted by the city government at every turn. I've been working on a revolutionary invention (in my case a fusion reactor), and strive to create a just society wh
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by pontifier 2y ago
I feel like the Internet Archive and Murfie are opposite sides of the same coin with our efforts for digitization and access. But Murfie has a completely different approach from a copyright and financial perspective. So far, the Internet Ar
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by pontifier 2y ago
I saw it today and enjoyed it. There were so many similarities between this story and the life I'm living that it was a little uncanny.
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by pontifier 2y ago
It took me quite a while to understand exactly what was happening with a Newtons Cradle toy. You know the one with the clacky balls that swing... If you hold 2 balls up, and let them fall, 2 balls swing up on the other side. How does it kno
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by pontifier 2y ago
If I had to articulate why I feel the need to do certain things my way, against all advice by people who think they know a better way, I'd boil it down like this: There are things that I see as important to the core idea of the company
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by pontifier 2y ago
I triggered a coloring bug as well during that stage.
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by pontifier 2y ago
I was thinking recently about the inverse of this attack. I have many thieves coming to my warehouse, and was thinking I could broadcast bunch of local ssids to try to see which ones their phones try to autoconnect to. I could then use that
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by pontifier 2y ago
I organized a huge game of capture the flag for the dorms at the University of Utah back in 1999. We had 3 teams, one for each dorm building. The RAs were given special powers to free people from jail and couldn't be tagged, but weren&
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by pontifier 3y ago
By that logic, computers are a dead end because Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1 never really worked properly... Or that space travel is impossible because a lot of early rockets blew up on the pad. I don't understand this kind o
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by pontifier 3y ago
Well said! If anything, I'd say the money spent on traditional funerals is more of a scam but nobody seems to talk about that. Expensive coffins, elaborate headstones, burial plot sales, etc. As soon as somebody tries to spend their mo
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by pontifier 3y ago
I doubt either site would be updated with info about an ongoing cryopreservation.
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by pontifier 3y ago
Oh man, I sincerely hope he was signed up for cryonics. If there was someone who deserved to see what the future holds, it was him.
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by pontifier 3y ago
Interesting. I've been very interested lately in autonomous mapping and localization. It looks like many of the base implementation problems have been solved in a way that is extensible enough that I'll be able to use the solution

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