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by qubex 6y ago
What you’re saying is that there was a deliberate mechanism by which a single man could turn both keys and trigger a launch? That’s WarGames-level horrifying. Incidentally I’ve always deeply respected Soviet officers for being very level-he
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by qubex 6y ago
This looks like the work of a crank. Yes, ‘Calculus’ as it was classically first derived (and as it is taught at high school level) is based on infinitesimals and those are demonstrably not rigorous, famously leading to Bishop Berkley dismi
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by qubex 6y ago
Frankly I’d be super-content if I could just use one of my old terminals as a TTY for a Unix machine, even perhaps something as humble as a Raspberry Pi.
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by qubex 6y ago
This is wonderful. I have a bunch of 5250-type terminals left over from IBM S/38 and AS/400 systems and I’ve been wanting to find a way of using them as VT-100 devices as TTYs for use with Linux & cetera since forever. Is th
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by qubex 6y ago
My apologies, I replied in that brief interval of time this was posted before the links to discussions going on elsewhere were posted.
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by qubex 6y ago
This will actually backfire on him spectacularly, as the social media platforms will go all-in in every way they can think of to defeat the leagues of bots promoting his message and therefore hinder his opportunity to get re-elected. It’s a
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by qubex 6y ago
This will actually backfire on him spectacularly, as the social media platforms will go all-in in every way they can think of to defeat the leagues of bots promoting his message and therefore hinder his opportunity to get re-elected. It’s a
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by qubex 6y ago
That’s precisely the kind of response I’m referring to, and it’s why I try to remain as neutral as possible. Though if I may be blunt, faulting individuals for living under a political system that does not engender cohesive leadership isn’t
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by qubex 6y ago
I most definitely do have an opinion on him, and a very negative one at that. However, I try to keep that as reserved as possible for a number of reasons, including: - Manifesting my like or dislike of the man immediately places one side or
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by qubex 6y ago
“Metal Storm” is my favourite one. It’s the trademark for a company that produces an electrically controlled machine gun with an extraordinarily high rate of fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm?wprov=sfti1
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by qubex 6y ago
You made me laugh because people used to describe pixels in terms of mosaic tiles. Now we’ve got to the point where we do the opposite and descrive mosaics in terms of pixels.
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by qubex 6y ago
“I know words. I have the best words.” — Sadly, an actual quote by President Donald J. Trump.
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by qubex 6y ago
Clearly broadcast and social media are a new occurrence that needs to be factored into the discussion somehow, and if you were to argue that applying Enlightenment political theory to the current situation is an anachronism, I would tend to
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by qubex 6y ago
Thanks, I stand corrected.
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by qubex 6y ago
Wasn’t it Voltaire who said “ I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it ”? Nonetheless, this is pretty much par for the course for what the world has come to expect. Edit: It turns out that though phr
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by qubex 6y ago
You mean ‘unethical’? ‘Antithetical’ means “opposed to”.
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by qubex 6y ago
That’s probably why they’ve delayed taking this stance for so long. They have, after all, typically refrained from “fact-checking” leaders or politicians in other countries too. I assume it’s just got to a point where they’re no longer to (
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by qubex 6y ago
I’m an outsider (not American, don’t live in America) so I’m almost not entitled to have an opinion on the matter, but it always strikes me as fairly odd when people of one persuasion or another rail against the ‘bias’ that they perceive ag
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by qubex 6y ago
Moron?
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by qubex 6y ago
Ah you mean ( p ×( p –1))÷12=( p ²– p )÷12. In that case it’s just the old p =6 n ±1.
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by qubex 6y ago
I’m deeply embedded in the Apple ecosystem so I’d have to venture that my iCloud subscription is the most central item to me. It hosts my main email address (that I have been using for seventeen years), backups of my iOS/iPadOS devices
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by qubex 6y ago
23×22=506 506÷12=42.16666... Nope. This is why mathematical statements need proofs.
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by qubex 6y ago
If you’re in the mood for a very interesting read, I recommend On Being Certain: Believing You’re Right Even When You’re Not (2008) by Robert A. Burton.
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by qubex 6y ago
Let’s asume this is the first of many such warnings. Let’s also assume that (being a private company) Twitter evades any attempt at pressuring it into desisting (as is indeed likely). Will Trump tweet less? Will he relocate to another platf
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by qubex 6y ago
The computer is in the process of being blown up because it’s sitting on top of an underground nuclear explosion. It has to relay its data somewhere.
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by qubex 6y ago
It’s no joke that SGI machines contain lumps of cast iron. I collected them for a while and I can assure you they are built like tanks.
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by qubex 6y ago
> the story doesn’t say [...] electrically copying [the signal] back to the bunker or something That’s precisely my point: how do you reliably “copy a signal back” if one terminus of the cable cannot be relied upon to exist for long?
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by qubex 6y ago
Enormous subsistance craters are what I had in mind when I wrote “enormous crater”.
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by qubex 6y ago
This remakrable achievement is often used as the setting-off point to explain dimensional analysis.
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by qubex 6y ago
On the blackboard in the mathematics department it’s not. But I get your point. I have also heard the objection that [x] is a 1×1 matrix whose only element is ‘ x ’.

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