thedoctor79

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by thedoctor79 3y ago
I don't know if this comment is satire or not, but I thought the company existed to provide a fast and (relatively) safe means of travel over long distances to people. I guess the old engineering adage applies here too: fast, cheap, sa
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by thedoctor79 3y ago
Maybe the connection to this topic won't be obvious, but I used to read Animal Farm and think that the Donkey was supeior to the Horse. Nowadays I don't think that anymore. The Horse was never alone for a day in his life. The Donk
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by thedoctor79 5y ago
A great tool, trully a programmer's text editor. Used it for more than 10 years, it seemed like it had plugins for virtually eveything. I remember one time we had to work with huge XML files, like 100 MB in size or so, and everyone was
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by thedoctor79 6y ago
This answer: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/34627 is most likely correct. Based on the fact that main carriage is off the ground, flap setting and wing AoA. During departure the rotation angle would be larger bef
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by thedoctor79 6y ago
500 milliseconds is huge. I don't know what that app does, but in my world if you have as much as 10 microseconds delay you've blown your time budget and you're missing all your KPI and your goals. Have you ever tried to have
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by thedoctor79 6y ago
It's not the competion that matters, not even playing against or defeating the #1 tennis player. Think of it as a tennis point being played. If both you and #1 play the point perfectly, a beautiful play that will remain in tennis histo
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by thedoctor79 7y ago
I'm not a professional so what I'm saying could be stupid, but I don't see why anti-coagulant medication has to act globally in the organism for something that is a localized issue. I realize the circulatory system is not seg
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by thedoctor79 7y ago
> Sir — A. J. Tatem and colleagues calculate that women may out-sprint men by the middle of the twenty-second century (Nature 431,525; 2004). They omit to mention, however, that (according to their analysis) a far more interesting race s
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by thedoctor79 8y ago
The facts so far are that two new aircraft of the same model have crashed in a very short period of time, in the same stage of flight and exhibiting the same problem as evidenced by ATC recordings: loss of flight control. We should not focu
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by thedoctor79 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Kursk_(K-141... Best decision: don't build it, if it's already built don't launch it, destroy it as soon as possible.
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by thedoctor79 8y ago
Why the need for actors? The ML could be trained on millions of hours of existing movies and produce fake, convincing personas. Why the need for spectators? The ML could analyse the movies and produce fake, convincing reviews.
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by thedoctor79 8y ago
Let's imagine a future where fully autonomous weapons exist. Advanced AI is driving them, and technological advances have enabled the weapons to have better sight (wide spectrum sensors), better range and faster reaction time than huma
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by thedoctor79 8y ago
I've used recent enough Dell and Asus laptops, no issues whatsoever.
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by thedoctor79 8y ago
Tip: when X hangs, press Ctrl-Alt-F1 or F2 to switch to console mode, then Ctrl-Alt-F7 (or F8 on some distros) to go back to X. While in terminal mode you can investigate which process is reponsible for the X issue (high CPU? memory? disk I
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by thedoctor79 9y ago
Oh but we have them. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were such people.
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by thedoctor79 9y ago
In US, if you say anything bad about US leaders, maybe you have trouble at the border when you go on holiday. In Russia, you can say anything about US leaders, and nobody will care.
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by thedoctor79 9y ago
I don't understand why this post is downvoted. You have a perfect example of an AI algorithm parsing text, determining feeling and responding with what it thinks are relevant words. It couldn't be more on-topic than this. AI is pa
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by thedoctor79 10y ago
I'm sorry, but the quality of comments on that question is really low, apart from one. A malicious compiler can easily insert malicious code into you executable, and if you are not able to trust your compiler or read the code it genera
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by thedoctor79 10y ago
First question I would ask: what compiler are you using, and have you audited the binary it spits out. Sometimes it pays to know a little assembly and be able to use a debugger.
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by thedoctor79 10y ago
No, I'm sorry, you got this wrong. When you do that, you are not "calling" the cat, you are effectively controlling it with your mind eye. You need to be very careful with that, doing it long term can result in damage to the
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by thedoctor79 11y ago
I think that it might end up looking more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl_zQ3TTejU
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by thedoctor79 11y ago
How about using electro-magnetic waves to alter the brain function temporarily and provoke it to lose consciousness? Sounds like a hard technical challenge, but we can already deliver effective tranquilisants remotely and use electrical dis
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by thedoctor79 11y ago
So it seems the author has identified a real issue here, but I will go meta on this and identify issues with his demonstration. In my organization this would count as a bug report, so I wondered why this issue was not communicated privately