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by thisrod 6y ago
Ha ha! That's what my friends in KL and Penang were telling me in August. Just wait until the king comes home from France, and insists that his 100 or so favorite hookers skip quarantine :-( Seriously, I think that we'll have to
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by thisrod 6y ago
> I believe is the point the submitter is trying to make Yes. I went with the headline Australian newspapers are using, which in hindsight lacks sufficient context for HN. What I find remarkable is how many things Australia stuffed up,
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No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia yesterday(covid19data.com.au)
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by thisrod 6y ago
What's especially interesting, to me, is that he published his take on thermodynamics without running it past a physicist. I'm not sure what to make of that.
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by thisrod 6y ago
Thanks
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by thisrod 6y ago
> Synthetic inertia involves configuring control loops in the battery inverters to cause them to have a similar response to a synchronous generator. So you get a clock, monitor the grid, calculate the current that would be drawn from a s
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by thisrod 6y ago
How does "synthetic inertia" work? That sounds like a big deal.
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by thisrod 6y ago
> So even a humble AND gate program will need to copy its inputs to the output if it's to be reversible. It's been 20 years since I had to think closely about reversible computing, and I've forgotten lots of the details.
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by thisrod 6y ago
That can't be entirely true. There must be some kind of continuous, convex or monotonic precondition on f. Something to stop me from implementing a cryptographic hash function, and asking for the solution to a 10000 bit challenge tha
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by thisrod 6y ago
> an adult can understand, but one that's been out of math for a while? That might not be possible. I remember struggling with the proofs of the singularity theorems, in the last year of my physics degree, after two semesters of di
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by thisrod 6y ago
Yes. "Who else in my structural engineering tute is gay?" was one of the killer apps for GPS on mobile phones.
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by thisrod 6y ago
Hacking Grindr sounds like a lot of work. Why wouldn't gru@kremvax.ru just sign up, post a photo of her son and his classmates twerking at the pilot academy, enable tourist mode, and take a virtual trip to Los Alamos?
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Victoria sacks its health minister for coronavirus outbreaks(abc.net.au)
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by thisrod 6y ago
> when `foo`'s argument is not easily known at compile time? There's no such thing. In Julia, all types are computed at compile time. The catch is types such as `Union{Int, Float64}`. If fwrdt returns that, the compiler will
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Last two Australian reporters flee China(abc.net.au)
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by thisrod 6y ago
I was fascinated by the details about politics in Singapore from 1945 to 1965. You don't hear about that very often. In this account, PAP sounds a Chinese mirror of UMNO; both parties could have been nurtured by the British, who need
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by thisrod 6y ago
My school experience sounds exactly like yours—including the gay and Catullus bits—except it was Adelaide so the state had 10 Latin students instead of 70. I first read the Illiad (Fagels) by torchlight, in a tent by a campfire in a muddy f
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by thisrod 6y ago
Which Australian media do you follow? I'd say that Crikey covers politics as well as the best newspapers do overseas, and most countries dream of having a TV show like 4 Corners. The media is certainly getting smaller—everywhere, not
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by thisrod 6y ago
So are muslim cultures, at least the ones that I'm familiar with.
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by thisrod 6y ago
> That's similar in spirit to scientific method Yes! I think that science also demonstrates how Bayesianism, the author's proposed remedy, misses the point somewhat. What probability do I put on my belief in quantum mechanics
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by thisrod 6y ago
What went wrong in Sweden? I genuinely don't understand that. The news keeps showing Swedes walking in parks and down streets, but that's not how people catch the novel coronavirus. Meanwhile, people were working from home and m
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by thisrod 6y ago
"Knowledge advances one funeral at a time" - old physics saying.
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by thisrod 6y ago
I've heard that Garuda ended up replacing lots of their Indonesian pilots with foreigners. Maybe this will play out the same way: there won't be a lot of flying for Pakistani pilots to boycott, because the rest of the world will
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by thisrod 6y ago
> it's at its very best when it's vigorously confronting the outside world How so? The examples that spring to my mind—Imperial Japan, the Manchurians, that Genghis bloke—all end very badly for China and its culture.
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by thisrod 6y ago
> It's quite well known that SF is full of subtle racism towards Asians despite ironically being full of Asians. It's the same in Asia. Except not so subtle. I think that the history, in both cases, is that imperialism moved g
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by thisrod 6y ago
Here in Australia, you can actually get fresh durians! There are only 50 odd trees in the country, near Darwin, so the fruit cost a mint by the time they are flow to Melbourne and Sydney. They're good. The consensus is better than th
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by thisrod 6y ago
Ideally, you use the appropriate proword: "I SPELL Alpha Romeo Tango India Sierra Tango".
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by thisrod 6y ago
That takes me back to a slide in my physics honours talk. 1935: Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen show that quantum mechanics doesn't make sense. 1982: Aspect shows that nature doesn't make sense either.
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by thisrod 6y ago
A jet cockpit is designed for flying through cloud. That is comparable to driving a car with all the windows painted over, which still has to stay on the road, make the right turns to reach its destination, and stay separated from other ca
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by thisrod 6y ago
This is propaganda. What actually happened? Some people were shown linear data on a linear scale, others were shown the same linear data on a logarithmic scale. The people who saw a straight line, because the scale matched the data, were

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