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by praptak 3y ago
"Principles of Development" Wolpert, Tickle, Arias is a good book if you want to (begin to) understand what we know about this kind of biological self-assembly.
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by praptak 3y ago
The biggest risk of construction comes from handling the concrete rings. I haven't heard of a suffocation accident. These are much more common when people maintain their sanitation tanks.
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by praptak 3y ago
I think it will solve itself as people move to steel pipes which are generally less labor intensive to drill. They also eliminate the danger of falling into the well.
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by praptak 3y ago
In Poland it's quite common for people to just hand dig their wells, using concrete rings for the reinforcement of walls. It's legal up to 30 meters depth and up to 5 m^3/day water yield. Article (in Polish but there's p
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by praptak 3y ago
Stealing others' processing power to ones benefit also happens in the silicone space. It's called cryptojacking in this case.
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by praptak 3y ago
Don't these lineages also tell you the bliss and ecstasy is but a distraction and that you should not pursue it as the end goal?
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by praptak 3y ago
> 1:1 mapping of the C programming language I was pretty surprised the first time I discovered the C compiler could "reverse engineer" a "logical or of two shifts" to generate a single rotate instruction.
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by praptak 3y ago
Google has full control by Brin and Page and still has RTO. This theory doesn't hold water.
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by praptak 3y ago
In principle, not following an unjust law is a moral obligation. Yes, you can argue the edge cases. I also agree that there's some good in obeying a particular law even if it is a little bad (to uphold respect for law in general). Th
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by praptak 3y ago
It's also called BLUF (Bottom line up front).
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by praptak 3y ago
Do we have more hardware isolation? There was a pretty strong argument against microkernels - a driver running in userspace can still bork the whole machine if the hardware being controlled can write to memory at arbitrary addresses.
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by praptak 3y ago
I met him in the Google Zurich office. He led an "Open Source at Google" talk as part of orientation for our group. Probably the best person to lead that talk at that time.
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by praptak 3y ago
This particular scream might be famous but it is not genre-defining. For a genre-defining scream see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_queen
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by praptak 3y ago
You don't. It is not even agreed upon that evolution optimizes <<something>>. And even if you agree that evolution is an optimization process, attempts to define its objective function run into problems with tautology and c
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by praptak 3y ago
Most frogs don't have teeth though.
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by praptak 3y ago
I remember something with the same mechanics, it was about an astronaut who dies when the number of people playing (connecting) drops to zero. Can't find it though.
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by praptak 3y ago
Debugging is easier when you have a backend server which logs the API calls. I did debug apps where UI and DB access lived in a single code space (VB/Delphi style). This was pretty hard to debug and logic was so tightly coupled with th
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by praptak 3y ago
There's a separate augmented reality mode which a) captures frames in real time to pinpoint your position and b) displays the video stream with overlaid 3D markings which show you the way.
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by praptak 3y ago
I contributed to Ruffle. They don't reverse engineer (this is explicitly a no), the knowledge comes from the (poor) documentation and from the open sourced flash virtual machine.
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by praptak 3y ago
The most known parody is zombo.com.
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by praptak 3y ago
That certainly sounds tempting but we should struggle to have less poorly substantiated syndromes, not more :-)
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by praptak 3y ago
Well this article seems to classify it as pure bullshit: https://www.stadafa.com/2020/12/stockholm-syndrome-discredit... "The psychiatrist who invented it, Nils Bejerot, never spoke to the woman he based it o
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by praptak 3y ago
The content industry also waged war on computer media. It was supposed to be 100% forbidden to sell anything capable of doing anything without DRM. They were serious about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Br
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Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act(en.wikipedia.org)
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by praptak 3y ago
It died because running a communication platform for humans on the internet is hard. In particular it died because whatever moderation it had (almost none TBH) was no barrier to bad actors, so it drowned in spam and troll posts. Then the ce
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by praptak 3y ago
So he wanted it to take it off the stock market, fix it, yada yada but then realized this is a bad idea?
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by praptak 3y ago
Common knowledge from when Tor just started was to limit your exit traffic to countries which cannot extradite you. And definitely block your own country.
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by praptak 3y ago
The office reality presented in Dilbert is hell on earth. There are some references to hell in Dilbert but I don't think they are very specific.
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by praptak 3y ago
That's the point of this document. To enumerate types actions which are: * 100% valid and necessary in some contexts (this is your point IIUC) * ...but can nevertheless be used for organizational sabotage if overdone on purpose
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by praptak 3y ago
Forming committees is mostly useful for avoiding responsibility. If I make a bad technical decision then I get flak. If I organize a committee to justify that decision then I might even get points for "leadership". Also, if the de

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