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by sleavey 9y ago
Seconded. Great book set both in the present and in WW2.
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by sleavey 9y ago
Great tool - I found some weaknesses in my SSH server. After fixing them, I wanted to test it again but I can't find a refresh button... EDIT: turns out you need to wait 10 minutes.
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by sleavey 9y ago
Terrorism happened before the internet.
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by sleavey 9y ago
No filtering is applied to data containing such anthropogenic/geological noise after it is measured to remove such effects. In fact, such data is usually junked and not used for analysis. The sites have thousands of witness channels wh
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by sleavey 9y ago
The power (energy per unit time) emitted in the creation of gravitational waves by the source observed by LIGO was briefly greater than the light power emitted by all of the stars in the known universe. Basically, if the gravitational waves
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by sleavey 9y ago
There are loads of possible ways to increase sensitivity, but none of them are easy or cheap given that the low hanging fruit was all picked off in previous generation detectors. Increasing arm length is the "easiest" but definite
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by sleavey 9y ago
There have been three signals witnessed in about 12 months of observations - of course the models need some tuning to correctly, automatically, trigger alerts. In any case, you are referring to the _online_ triggers which look very quickly
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by sleavey 9y ago
Let's not forget that grass is what they have evolved to eat. The fact that we can get away with feeding them food that is 10x more calorie dense does not make that approach correct. As others have said, the most environmentally friend
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by sleavey 9y ago
I agree with most of your points, but saying that treating animals well is worse for the environment is pretty misleading. "Treating animals better" should include not feeding them growth hormones or pumping them full of antibioti
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by sleavey 10y ago
As a Linux user, I've ignored all news of this update until I saw this headline. Why might one want to block this particular update?
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by sleavey 10y ago
I use the bookmark toolbar in Firefox, but I delete the text and leave the favicons so that I can fit ~50 bookmarks in one row. I also have folders containing bookmarks for particular categories, like "Work", "Stuff to watch&
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by sleavey 10y ago
Any idea why not?
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by sleavey 10y ago
The problem of solving angular constraints has interested me for a while. I want to be able to programmatically lay out an optical setup with SVG. Here is my work so far, but I've run up against the problem of dealing with cyclic graph
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by sleavey 10y ago
For me to go on vacation to the US, as a European citizen (outside of the 6 countries that are the reason for this action), I just need to get an ESTA for $15 or so. I guess the EU visa will cost something similar. It's not going to ch
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by sleavey 10y ago
Or use Amazon mechanical turk. Probably even cheaper.
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by sleavey 10y ago
Nuke Anything is another addon that allows you to delete any part of the page you like using the right click context menu.
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by sleavey 10y ago
Doesn't it come down to the argument about whether a private company can run a service (on behalf of society) more efficiently than the government itself? The article makes this pretty clear - $3,000 for giving birth in a Swiss hospita
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by sleavey 10y ago
There's no reason why it can't scale, but one problem in implementing this kind of system is convincing the population to accept higher taxes (and Swiss taxes are, overall, still significantly higher than the US despite what the a
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by sleavey 10y ago
"Liberal policies for private companies" really means that companies have less regulation and red tape, and therefore have a less liberated workforce. One of the points the article makes is that the Swiss government have legal m
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by sleavey 10y ago
Do you know why they have been stalled? Perhaps there's a good reason, like code auditing? Just a shot in the dark - I have no idea.
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by sleavey 10y ago
Yes, though there are some ways around this. You could send the user to another domain to sign in using a unique request ID that identifies the user. After authenticating this unique ID can be communicated back to the first site to show the
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by sleavey 10y ago
StackOverflow, sadly. Their Javascript requires some off site cookies to allow for their cross domain user account stuff. Not enabling third party cookies on the StackExchange sites leads to broken pages.
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by sleavey 10y ago
Oh I didn't know that the contents of old accounts were now accessible again. Was that not deleted by Lavabit when they got subpoenaed?
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by sleavey 10y ago
Maybe I just don't know what modulation means, but I figure it's when you pump the brakes to prevent skidding. How do disk brakes eliminate the need for it?
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by sleavey 10y ago
Squeezing is independent of the laser power used, so that's not really relevant here. Squeezed light is injected at the output port, where the photodetectors are. It is injected in the opposite direction to the classical light leaving
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by sleavey 10y ago
Fun fact: LIGO's next big upgrade will be to install a squeezed light source to reduce quantum noise at higher frequencies.
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by sleavey 10y ago
This is just incredible. It turns out that the booking references (usually 6 digits) used for all flights around the world can be used to access much more private information for travellers. These codes can be read from for example boarding
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by sleavey 10y ago
Or buy a receiver from outside the US that's ITAR-free.
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by sleavey 10y ago
Can hashing iterations be conducted in parallel? Doesn't the next hash need the output of the last, making this a sequential operation?
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by sleavey 10y ago
I've seen banks do this, and I agree it's incredibly annoying. KeePassX's autotype function bypasses copy-and-paste restrictions, since it emulates the keyboard as it types your password.

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