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by teraflop 5y ago
Yes, those gaps are caused by orbital resonance. Orbits whose periods are related to Jupiter's by ratios of small integers tend to be unstable over astronomical timescales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwood_ga
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by teraflop 5y ago
Because OP specifically mentioned Google Voice, my guess is that it was a phone number "ownership" code, rather than a 2FA code per se. The attacker was probably trying to create a new Google Voice account forwarding to OP'
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by teraflop 5y ago
Please see the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usu
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by teraflop 5y ago
You'd think this would be common sense (Java solved this problem 25 years ago) but apparently some people are extremely opposed to non-flat package namespaces. See e.g. Rust, where the idea of hierarchical crate namespaces has been pol
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by teraflop 5y ago
What known laws would it be violating? If you're thinking of the second law of thermodynamics, bear in mind that popular descriptions that equate "entropy" with "information" or "non-randomness" are extre
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by teraflop 5y ago
That video segment never mentions "AI", and it never says that the halting problem has been solved -- it explicitly says it's unsolvable. What it says is that solutions to the halting problem could be verified under a certa
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by teraflop 5y ago
I think it's fairly important to say that a container is a process tree , not necessarily a single process. A lot of things wouldn't behave properly if a forked child process wasn't part of the same container as its parent.
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by teraflop 5y ago
It's not a press release, it's a blog post targeted at people who use the software.
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by teraflop 5y ago
That press release is not evidence that Tesla's Autopilot is saving lives, for at least three major reasons. For one thing, Autopilot is more likely to be engaged for some types of driving than others. Comparing statistics with Autopil
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by teraflop 5y ago
A "suborbital" trajectory is just an orbit that intersects Earth's surface, and in theory you can make it whatever size and duration you want. I suppose the limit would be when your apogee becomes high enough to be near or be
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by teraflop 5y ago
https://twitter.com/NoraDotCodes/status/1412741339771461635
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by teraflop 5y ago
A lot of these comics are self-explanatory, but I'm curious about the story behind this one: https://goomics.net/308/
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by teraflop 5y ago
Notably, the previous maintainer of this fork stepped down a couple of days ago, after a harassment campaign from 4chan allegedly escalated to a violent attack. https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/
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by teraflop 5y ago
Just from skimming through the book, it seems like its central thesis is an enumeration of all the ways in which computers and the Internet are terrible, accompanied by predictions that none of those flaws are ever likely to change. So it&#
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by teraflop 5y ago
Even if you could come up with an "objective" definition of what counts as an advertisement, what incentive do site owners have to be honest about it? Likewise, why would I want my browser to tell the site that I'm blocking a
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by teraflop 5y ago
> And if you are going to use Android App Bundles or whatever google is recommending, you'll be using Play App Signing. As I said in another comment, it's not any better when Google is doing it instead of Amazon. > I guess I
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by teraflop 5y ago
> But Google now allows you to put your signing keys into their KeyStore on their servers. I guess you still have a copy and can verify an App is signed with your Key but since you didn't do the signing that isn't enough to ens
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by teraflop 5y ago
Isn't that true of any Git repository? The internal object store keeps every version of every file that has ever existed (unless you rewrite history). In practice, Git's content-addressable storage and delta compression make it wo
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by teraflop 5y ago
Sure, there are any number of ways Microsoft could break their own security model. For example, they could stop verifying signatures entirely. The fact that they're not doing worse things doesn't make what they are doing less
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by teraflop 5y ago
I think the main technically interesting thing is that it adds custom functionality to cheap, mass-produced hardware. If you wanted to build a clock completely from scratch, it would be a significant amount of work to design something tha
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by teraflop 5y ago
Sci-fi author Greg Egan has written about falling victim to a similar phenomenon, where photos of other people were showing up next to descriptions of him. No serial killers involved, though. http://gregegan.net/ESSAYS/
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by teraflop 5y ago
Are you similarly confident that the dramatic rise in left-handedness in western cultures over the past ~200 years is due to factors other than awareness and perception?
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by teraflop 5y ago
Oh, it's definitely true that general public knowledge of Turing's life and work has increased over the years. I just don't think it has anything to do with those "key documents" that were released in 2012, as oppos
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by teraflop 5y ago
> Alan Turing remained relatively obscure until 2012, when the British government declassified key documents that revealed the extent to which his code-breaking skills helped to undermine the Germans’ enigma machine in World War Two, cha
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by teraflop 5y ago
The "possible link" is that the author thinks 'Oumuamua might be aliens, and UAPs might be aliens, and therefore the two might be linked. That's it. There, saved you a click.
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by teraflop 5y ago
Just for fun, I did some ballpark calculations. Let's consider the simpler problem of just putting 2014 UN271 into a circular orbit around the sun at its periapsis of 11 AU. Calculating the exact path of an orbiting body under thrust i
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by teraflop 5y ago
A Wi-Fi station is an inanimate object that is incapable of breaking the law. The law applies to what people (or legal entities) do. Sure, whenever somebody else sends a Wi-Fi packet in your vicinity, the components in your phone are phys
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by teraflop 5y ago
Thorne is also the author of Black Holes and Time Warps , which is a much more approachable book on the weird consequences of general relativity for non-physicists.
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by teraflop 5y ago
According to US law, what's against the law is intercepting communications that are not readily accessible to the public. A Wi-Fi beacon containing an SSID is not a communication intended for somebody else, so there's no legal i
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by teraflop 5y ago
Legally, Wi-Fi communications in the US are not considered to be "broadcast", even if anybody sufficiently nearby can receive them. If you're not the intended recipient of a message, and you intentionally intercept it (or a

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