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by schoen 10mo ago
I don't think I have anything in my house (other than an ice cube tray?) that's meant to deliberately make cold water colder than the ambient temperature of the house! Maybe some people do, though, especially in hotter parts of th
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by schoen 10mo ago
I was just thinking about this earlier today when washing my hands in the sink. When you first turn on the hot water tap in most homes, the water that comes out is cold. After some period of time, hotter water starts to come out. My mom use
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by schoen 10mo ago
Oh, I think I've seen one of those! Cool, that could definitely help for emergencies.
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by schoen 10mo ago
You might want to have tubes with both Presta and Schrader valves (to match the existing tube on the other tire). Theoretically you could use either, but some rims might have a hole that's only small enough for a Presta valve (so I gue
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by schoen 10mo ago
I predict that, in 2035, 1+1=2. I also predict that, in 2045, 2+2=4. I also predict that, in 2055, 3+3=6. By 2065, we should be in possession of a proof that 0+0=0. Hopefully by the following year we will also be able to confirm that 0*0=0.
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by schoen 10mo ago
You might want to be more specific about the meaning of "between" here. It's not a cryptographic MITM attack, and if it ever facilitated someone else in performing one, that should be detectable. https://en.wikiped
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by schoen 10mo ago
> It was never a reasonable goal of the WebPKI to authenticate entities The confusing thing is that this goal nonetheless appeared in some original marketing and explanations about the web PKI from the late 1990s when it was first introd
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by schoen 10mo ago
I think you're right that this consensus was clearly emerging then (I remember Firesheep in 2010 as another big identifiable contributing factor), but I remember actively asking smaller sites to enable HTTPS in that era, and they wou
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> No human regards it as a tragedy that there are only 9 billion of us instead of 90 billion. I have met some transhumanists and longtermists who would really like to see some orders of magnitude increase in the human population. Maybe t
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by schoen 10mo ago
I remember enjoying https://meldmerge.org/ in the past for interactive visual file merging. It's apparently still being somewhat actively developed.
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by schoen 11mo ago
We also don't technically have proofs for some of the computational hardness assumptions that popular "real" ZK proof constructions rely on! This might feel different because those assumptions were chosen in part because peop
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by schoen 11mo ago
Although maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_collapse is real! I remember that Gödel may have thought so?
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by schoen 11mo ago
Not even cardamom?
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Did "links" mean "a criminal organization is involved in the project" or "a criminal organization is using the technology"?
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by schoen 11mo ago
About 2008.
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by schoen 11mo ago
When Noisebridge was new, I wrote a program to get the BART arrival times and play them (in a synthesized voice as close as I could find to the BART one, though clearly not the same one) through the loudspeakers at the space during the last
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by schoen 11mo ago
An $824 aeroplane?
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by schoen 11mo ago
Why can't they estimate the immigration (and emigration) rate like they estimate the birth rate and death rate? Both of those also change in response to numerous factors (including economics, culture, and technology), and both of them
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by schoen 1y ago
It does get worse in the sense that there could be languages whose description is incompressible (we can simulate this, assuming hash functions approximate random oracles, by saying "choose a secret key; now the language is 'every
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by schoen 1y ago
One thing that amuses me is that this could mean "health" (in Latin) or "anything goes" (in Portuguese; normally two words). They're actually from the same root ( valeo , 'to be well, to be OK, to be valid&#x27
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by schoen 1y ago
I understand the terminal-garbling issue and know that I should run "reset" in this case (and that it wasn't the shell's fault), but I bet a lot of users who aren't very familiar with this might feel that the shell
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by schoen 1y ago
I remember being confused as a kid about the "this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation" labels. I kept reading "must accept" as a technical requirement,
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by schoen 1y ago
Just that many more of them are present in the atmosphere than reentering space debris pieces.
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by schoen 1y ago
The part that they're trying to avoid is the "access" in "access and substantial similarity" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_similarity (usual factual elements in determining the poss
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by schoen 1y ago
The original author seems to view the AI application as itself a software application which has desired or undesired, and predictable or unpredictable, behaviors. That doesn't seem like an invalid thing to talk about merely because the
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by schoen 1y ago
It's interesting to see the positive views of benevolence, tolerance, hospitality, and justice toward strangers in many of the ancient Mediterranean cultures. I wonder how typical or atypical those are across time and across cultures,
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by schoen 1y ago
Well, one point is just that the Trump administration is often accused of making up government powers when, on inspection, they're kind of dusting off powers that were actually on the books for a long time. Or perhaps dusting off and o
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by schoen 1y ago
The legal theory is that you , as a citizen, have a clear free speech right to say that, but that foreigners outside the U.S. don't have any free speech right at all under the U.S. constitution to say that. (In a related legal doctrin
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by schoen 1y ago
I also want to mention that several governments probably have large-scale tapping infrastructure to passively record Internet traffic. However, they like people not to pay attention to that or think about it (because, you know, we might try
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by schoen 1y ago
Yeah, I think this can really happen, and it's just about the heart of the preparedness paradox, a term that I mentioned somewhere else in this thread. I've often said that my grandmother was so grateful for all the childhood vacc

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