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by puzzledobserver 4y ago
Just like one of the comments in the article says, the final rankings table is actually quite funny: https://www.memo-project.eu/flatCMS/index.php/News#17 . Changing lanes, overpassing, crossing trenches and lost m
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by puzzledobserver 4y ago
From what I understand, the challenge is the following: Even though we know precisely how to calculate the lift generated by a wing, all attempts to reduce those equations and their predictions to "ELI5" arguments leads to incorre
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by puzzledobserver 5y ago
I am not a physicist, but I suppose it is because the s-orbital has an amplitude peak at r=0? In other words, it is not so much the antiproton falling to the nuclear surface as much as the antiproton finding itself at the nuclear surface. E
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by puzzledobserver 5y ago
See for example the experiment conducted by Tom Van Baak about 15 years ago: http://leapsecond.com/great2005/ . He drove three Cesium clocks up Mount Rainier and returned after a week. He compared them to a clock he lef
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by puzzledobserver 5y ago
I'm speculating here, but I think the idea is to ascribe accuracy to processes, not to specific clocks. So you make two clocks on the same principle, say pendulum oscillations, and measure how quickly they start to disagree. Then you m
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by puzzledobserver 5y ago
IANAL, but I don't think so. See, for example, the famous R v. Dudley and Stephens case concerning cannibalism at sea [0]. The group was shipwrecked, surviving on a turtle and drinking their own urine. The victim, Richard Parker, was a
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by puzzledobserver 5y ago
IANAL, but isn't / shouldn't the process be the following: Google's lawyers drafted the employment contract and used the word evil. Now it is up to the employees lawyers to argue for an interpretation of the word, and if
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by puzzledobserver 5y ago
(I have only briefly skimmed the article, but ...) Material such as this serves to remind the reader of what they already know, and contextualize it in a way that is relevant to this article. The article begins by telling the reader, "
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by puzzledobserver 5y ago
Shouldn't this be illegal / isn't this already illegal? Two companies reaching an agreement to supply products at reduced price, but not making the terms of that agreement available to a third entity (uninsured customers)?
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by puzzledobserver 5y ago
Haven't watched the video, but I recently watched Timothy Roscoe's OSDI keynote on operating systems and hardware [0], where he argues for the operating system to include all of the kernel, device drivers and blobs that manage the
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by puzzledobserver 5y ago
Maybe CAD models for 3D printers? Something like Thingiverse, at the very least. I'd imagine you also need repositories of processes and assembly instructions.
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by puzzledobserver 5y ago
Early in the pandemic, I learned of an app called Dialup which offered a service called Quarantine Chat. They call my telephone at some random time every day, and I am connected to some other random Dialup user, somewhere else in the world.
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by puzzledobserver 5y ago
To quote Harlan Ellison: I have no mouth. And I must scream.
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by puzzledobserver 5y ago
It's amazing how such long experiments are organized. My first thought when I read "longest-running experiment" was the Rothamstead Park Grass Experiment. I'm accustomed to thinking of Big Science as the LHCs and the Hum
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by puzzledobserver 5y ago
Why the condescension? Do you mean that Google has been offering this service for a while? Or do you mean that similar services have previously been offered by other organizations? In which case, perhaps you could link to them?
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
'Top of the sky' is often the colloquial phrase for 'on the meridian line'. Which is valuable to know in itself. Now, of course, there are differences between the mean solar day and the actual day, and the analemma, and
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
My first thought was to think that the standard was ridiculous. Obsessive formalization of the mundane. But that's a hasty conclusion. Why does this standard even exist? The Wikipedia article mentions something about maintaining consis
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
I wanted to do something similar a long time ago, and couldn't find anything useful. Is there any reason an "integrate-everything-statically" tool isn't provided with binutils?
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
Is the argument that this is a simple procedure which yields recognizable English text? In other words, how does one confirm that this was indeed the encryption procedure originally used? I ask because there are similar procedures one can a
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
To me, the hardest part of writing is getting the first draft done. I'm a good enough self critic to do a reasonable job of editing, but the writer's block is real and awful. The standard advice is to silence the internal critic a
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
rumpkerbels? Mind sharing a link? Google Search is curiously empty.
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
One of the challenges to building an entirely new kernel is the vast amount of hardware support in the form of drivers and the features the existing kernel exports to userland in the form of syscalls. Would it be possible for a hypothetical
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
Is there evidence that doctors and lawyers are, by virtue of their oaths, codes of conduct, and background study of ethics, more ethical, moral, and upright than members of the general population? Also, whose ethics would such a Hippocratic
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
Here's a potentially random question: Is UTF-8 essentially a fancy way of representing arbitrary precision BigInts where the character-to-integer mapping is specified by Unicode, and which coincides with ASCII encodings on a certain ra
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
17 years in isolation. It can serve absolutely no punitive or reformatory purpose. It is of zero value as a means to compensation. Whether it is useful as a deterrent is unclear, but also immaterial. The only purpose I can imagine is for th
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
What assumptions does this visualization make? That it is a lone hydrogen atom suspended in a homogenous magnetic field? Wouldn't the probability of finding an electron be spherically symmetric, regardless of the orbital number, if no
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
> There is a trend, and the trend has been a MASSIVE reduction in memory errors. Citation?
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
I don't follow this criticism. GP came across as respectful but critical. I have read Aphyr's original blogs, and felt similarly when I read this blog. I even felt that the comment was phrased more eloquently than I could have. Th
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
What is the environmental footprint of a typical fab? From what I understand, modern chips are free of conflict materials, but are there toxic byproducts which would cause trouble with the EPA?
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by puzzledobserver 6y ago
Asking someone who took their last (undergraduate) architecture course more than a decade ago: Is it possible to design a motherboard that will shield the user against Intel ME / AMD PSP-induced shadiness? Would it be possible to do th

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