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by tbabb 11y ago
With a larger planet, they may have been inescapably bound to the surface for their world for millions of years by the tyranny of the rocket equation.
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by tbabb 11y ago
This article needs to be more specific about what they mean by "drone". I thought this meant a military drone until about halfway through the article, and I only inferred that it was talking about a quadcopter or hobby RC/UAV
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by tbabb 11y ago
Indeed. It doesn't matter at all what the "art world" thinks; Escher's images have made an indelible mark on culture, and that makes him a great artist.
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by tbabb 11y ago
Could the mass of the IDA have introduced unexpected lateral forces that caused the second stage to buckle like a soda can under the aerodynamic pressure? And perhaps simple crushing was the cause of the tank overpressure?
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by tbabb 11y ago
I've found a length of password that covers probably 85-90 percent of my accounts, and is a good tradeoff between security and portability. Most sites accept special characters, and the ones that don't also tend to be the same one
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by tbabb 11y ago
The goal of security is to make defeating the system too difficult to be worth it. As such I'm not advocating security by obscurity, just security by "making the job of defeating all my accounts sufficiently involved to exclude me
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by tbabb 11y ago
Yes, a motivated attacker could figure it out. But before they could do so, they would need my password in plaintext for multiple unrelated accounts of mine, which is hard, requires the attacker to target me specifically, and by that po
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by tbabb 11y ago
My compromise has been to come up with a password permutation scheme-- I have a long, secure, high-entropy password which I can modify/salt in a way that's predictable (to me) across sites, such that each site's credentials a
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by tbabb 11y ago
It's clear they didn't really care whether you got to the files or not; I think they were just covering their legal asses. (Didn't matter in the long run, it would seem).
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by tbabb 11y ago
Luck, like dedication and talent, is necessary but not sufficient.
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by tbabb 11y ago
> I wonder what SpaceX's long term goals are. Mars, vis-a-vis making buttloads of money on Earth. Elon is positioning to launch a 4k-strong comsat fleet, with which he hopes to commandeer a large fraction of Earth's internet ba
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by tbabb 11y ago
I get two things out of this article: 1) Elon's tremendous luck. He took huge gambles, repeatedly, and they all turned up heads. They were all very worthy ambitions, but nine times out of ten, they would not have worked out. I don&#x
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by tbabb 12y ago
It's humor, first and foremost. But we can think of the words "two hundred forty-five" as meaning `2 * radix^2 + 4 * radix + 5`. We implicitly assume `radix` is ten in spoken English, but the implication in the clip (and the
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How to pronounce hexadecimal(bzarg.com)
12 points by tbabb 12y ago|5 comments
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by tbabb 12y ago
I will say that steganography is definitely in use already, at least on feature films. (It's particularly easy in animation, where literally anything can be changed seamlessly). A film pirated from a theater (even by a camera pointing
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by tbabb 12y ago
And probably sued into oblivion.
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by tbabb 12y ago
A theory being improbable is probably the best reason not to give it credit. A theory should be accepted only when the null hypothesis is more improbable.
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by tbabb 12y ago
In my opinion, this all comes down to smart people— who are not computer scientists— believing Ray Kurzweil's absolutely batty ideas about the singularity, which he is deeply emotionally over-invested in because he doesn't want to
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by tbabb 12y ago
I don't think the average reader is going to interpret this as subtle irony, and I have doubts that it was intended to be taken that way. I think an average reader going to see that an airplane expert smells something fishy and has a b
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by tbabb 12y ago
> I cannot count the amount of times I've read about scientists in the past getting ridiculed for some "crackpot" theory only to be vindicated later. People love to point to underdog scientists who were later "vindic
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Some physics about covering the Earth with Internet access(bzarg.com)
1 points by tbabb 12y ago|0 comments