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by staplung 1y ago
The "conflict-free" part of the name is misleading. The conflict "resolution" means having some deterministic algorithm such that all nodes eventually converge to the same state, but it won't necessarily mean that t
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by staplung 1y ago
Totally rad. Now you just need and Oculus and you can turn yourself into Johnny Mnemonic . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzRjtvMQds4&t=63s
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by staplung 1y ago
"Driving" via the starter motor turns it into an electric car!
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by staplung 1y ago
"Difficult to tell from this vantage point if they will consume the captive Earth-men or merely enslave them...one thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here! And I for one welcome our new insect overlo
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Planetary Pixel Emporium(planetpixelemporium.com)
2 points by staplung 1y ago|0 comments
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by staplung 1y ago
The last of the Vela satellites were shut down in 1984 or 1985 (I've found conflicting sources on this) but in any case, before Chernobyl (April, 1986). They were replaced by other systems of course but as others have pointed out, thos
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by staplung 1y ago
It's interesting to note how the West discovered there had been a nuclear accident in the USSR when Chernobyl exploded. The Forsmark reactor in Sweden detected the fallout on the clothing of workers returning to the plant after lunch,
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by staplung 1y ago
It's cool that SSH is getting some love but I'm a little sad they're not being a little more ambitious with regard to new features, considering it seems like they're more or less creating a new thing. Looks like they&#x2
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by staplung 1y ago
I guess my question is: why bother with a benchmark if the pick is pre-ordained? Is it the case that at some point the results would be so lopsided that you would pick the faster solution? If so, what is that threshold? I.e. when does per
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by staplung 1y ago
For be it for me to knock what seems to be a successful idea but at a certain point, putting so many telescopes into the same place starts to seem a bit odd in that many of them are presumably pointing at the same things at the same time. T
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Tyler Vigen's Spurious Correlations(tylervigen.com)
2 points by staplung 1y ago|0 comments
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by staplung 1y ago
Not knocking the method described but I find the name richly ironic since Socrates was not exactly a fan of writing. """ your affection for [writing] has made you describe its effects as the opposite of what they really are.
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by staplung 1y ago
No no. In 2287 it will be destroyed by the Klingons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kscm2_RCcA&t=50s EDIT: n/m. The famous plaque is borne by Pioneers 10 and 11. Not Voyager.
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by staplung 1y ago
In most cases they can easily figure out approximately where the break is on the line by simply measuring the resistance in the cable's conductors (they have more than one but the big one caries a 10,000V feed to power the repeaters).
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by staplung 1y ago
The Wired article is paywalled now unfortunately. Here's an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210107003422/https://www.wired... The Verge also has a great article which is more recent
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by staplung 1y ago
They can but it's an involved process. Modern cables manage their slack very precisely - a complicated job in and of itself - and usually cannot be hauled to the surface without snapping them. So if the cable is not already cut (an anc
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by staplung 1y ago
Presumably multi-causal (economic desperation, rising metal costs, perception that the crime won't be punished, getting the idea from others, etc.) but at least one component is probably the rise of high-powered, battery-operated tools
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by staplung 1y ago
Yes, but the box drawing characters in "ASCII" are all above 127 so they don't encode the same way. So that last AI generated sentence is basically false (or really misleading): ASCII files that consist only of characters in
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by staplung 1y ago
Maybe, but remember that getting astronauts to the moon and back took a single Saturn V launch but with Starship, it will take (at least) 10 flights for refueling, possibly as many as 20. So each launch has to be much cheaper to beat Satu
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by staplung 1y ago
Cool. One thing I found odd was that on export there are two listed formats. "ASCII" and "ASCII extended" but as far as I can tell, the ASCII version is actually outputting UTF-8. It's hard to tell for sure though b
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by staplung 1y ago
Biodiesal is already a thing. Also, we (the US) already blend a portion (about 10%) of corn-derived ethanol to our gasoline. There are problems with it though, one of which is that overall, it probably has a higher carbon footprint (fertili
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by staplung 1y ago
> Gmail (even without its fallback basic html mode which is gone now anyway) The fallback HTML mode for web search is still there (two flavors even!). You just have to pretend to be an ancient browser. Using a user agent for something
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by staplung 1y ago
Mitnick's hack probably wouldn't work today but I don't know the specifics of who he was listening into nor with which gear he was using. Most P25 networks these days are set up with trunking, so the conversations hop aroun
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by staplung 1y ago
As others have pointed out, this is as much about learning C as it is about making a Lisp. If you're interested in the latter, Peter Norvig has a little project that builds a stripped down Scheme interpreter in python. Takes some short
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by staplung 1y ago
Very cool. I've long wanted something that's a bit of a cross between a calculator and a numpad; something that could be used as a calculator or just to send symbols to the computer that are easier to type on such a device. Questi
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by staplung 1y ago
There's a lot of stuff in the US military that's somewhat aged. The aircraft carrier Nimitz is still in service and was commissioned 50 years ago. The B-52 has been in service for longer than that (in fairness the design is that
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by staplung 1y ago
Camera obscura were probably used by some painters in Europe as far back as the 1500s. Evidence is sparse but there are some telltale signs that are the result of characteristic distortions from the mechanism. For decades, art historians
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by staplung 1y ago
I don't disagree with any of what you say but if Helion's approach works (and that's a huge if) it would generate electricity directly, without need for a steam turbine or any of the associated plumbing. My understanding is
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by staplung 1y ago
Has no one considered the possibility that the aspen trees are eating the wolves to grow strong? I mean, we know that the decline of pirates causes global warming. https://doctorspaghetti.org/pastafarians-pirates-and-climate
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by staplung 1y ago
> clandestine reverse Solar Oberth Manoeuvre Nah, I'm not really into Pokemon. https://xkcd.com/178/

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