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by thisrod 6y ago
Thanks. I might try building one of those. But the problem remains: eventually, the next upgrade will crash every time you boot it, and what will you do then?
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by thisrod 6y ago
> maybe in a VM? But that's the thing. The real benefits from OpenBSD come when it's the only system you need. Who cares how simple and elegant the guest system is, if you need to maintain a linux installation to host it? A p
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by thisrod 6y ago
Maybe it was only 5 years. I think some of the banks were early adopters, and got online by the mid 90s.
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by thisrod 6y ago
I've always thought this was a smart choice. Australian banks authenticate their transactions: "The code to transfer $100 to Joe Bloggs is 4321. If you're surprised to hear about that transfer, call the cops now." Thi
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by thisrod 6y ago
I don't think that there's a silver bullet for this. A compiler can only tell you where it caught an error: telling you where the error occurred is equivalent to the hard AI problem. On the other hand, we the users can do a lot t
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by thisrod 6y ago
I think this discussion is putting the cart before the horse. If there is no alternative to this app, what protections should it have? That's the second question to ask. The first one, which hardly anyone is asking, is whether the t
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by thisrod 6y ago
In both Australia and New Zealand, the number of visitors from overseas is a red herring. The world didn't bring the novel coronavirus to us: we went there and brought it back. For example, under the old normal, on the order of 1 out
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by thisrod 6y ago
This seems a bit odd. If it was my job to estimate R₀ for the coronavirus, I'd look at Singapore, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and so on, where there are thousands of patients, and almost all of them know when they caught it and who
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by thisrod 7y ago
I'd go with 5. Write one of each letter, and assign them to the submarines in a double-blind manner, so that no one knows what will happen. The point of terrorism is to terrify, as they say.
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by thisrod 7y ago
> By the late 1870s, scientists learned about bacteria. Bacteria had been discovered in the 17th Century, the moment the microscope was invented. I think by Robert Hooke, but I could have misremembered that. What was new in the 1870s wa
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by thisrod 7y ago
> The documentary mentions Australia Wow. I'm glad I didn't know that when I was living in Canberra! It's like The Godfather . Every time Australians think we're out of the empire game, they find a way to drag us b
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Australian coronavirus diagnoses have stopped accelerating(infogram.com)
2 points by thisrod 7y ago|0 comments
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by thisrod 7y ago
I think what matters for 3D maps is that Singapore is new . Pretty much everything was built in the last few decades. Anything older than that is now treasured heritage, and would have been studied to within an inch of its life. And the
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by thisrod 7y ago
Personally, I think that the criticism of physics being driven too much by mathematics is exactly wrong. The most sensible approach to quantum gravity yet came out of Wheeler's group. It's a really obvious approach: I came up wi
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by thisrod 7y ago
Also, the manual seems finished, which is unusual for a Julia package.
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by thisrod 7y ago
This sounds nice. As a quantum optics programmer, I really like the idea of a generic polynomial and matrix library that is careful not to assume products are commutative.
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by thisrod 7y ago
As the name suggests, the "Australian Strategic Policy Institute" is a think tank for Australia's armed forces. It would save the outright lies for special occasions like 2003. On the other hand, it doesn't pretend to t
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by thisrod 7y ago
In Melbourne, the designers got their comeuppance. The barristers ganged up with the judges, and for a while it became a principle of Victorian law that the ergonomics of public transport tickets were irredeemable, and anyone who claimed t
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by thisrod 7y ago
The article claims the surprise result of the last Australian election as a rejection of action to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The consensus in Australia is that people simply didn't like the leader of the opposition as a TV perso
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by thisrod 7y ago
This article makes a very interesting point that I hadn't heard before. When the Australian government banned Huawei equipment from phone networks, it shut down the only serious proposal to build a new network, handing a lot of Austra
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Phone users have a reason to cheer ACCC's black eye(rossgittins.com)
1 points by thisrod 7y ago|1 comments
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by thisrod 7y ago
> There were also the protests, in vain Not entirely. Before the war started , there mass protests, and ubiquitous claims that its ruling class promoters were pathological liars. People could even discuss those claims around serving s
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by thisrod 7y ago
I admire the WICEN volunteers. Sending messages across oceans with a AAA battery is not easy, and a community will only need to do that once in anyone's lifetime. But, on rare occasions like the Indian Ocean tsunami, when a continent
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by thisrod 7y ago
I like this as an introduction to exterior algebra. It would be nice if the article mentioned the Hodge star, and explained why you can identify any form with a vector in 3D, even when it might be clearer not to.
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by thisrod 7y ago
It's worth noting that this couldn't have happened to any mail server running on Plan 9, no matter how buggy it was. Mail servers should run as nobody; mail box files are, in fact, world-writable, and their permissions should refl
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by thisrod 7y ago
Interesting. I've always been suspicious about Grindr, because there is no apparent reason for it to transmit so much data. On the other hand, the ads I see there are poorly targeted. Either it's really obvious, reminding gay me
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by thisrod 7y ago
The usual practice is for autopilots to be switched off when the plane is within 200 feet of the ground. (Or a similar distance.) I think a self driving car would be a much easier sell if it never came within 200 feet of anything it could
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by thisrod 7y ago
I bet that the next title in the series will be Surrounded by Fat People , and it will sell 100 million copies.
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by thisrod 7y ago
Contour lines were invented during an early measurement of G. That's cool to know!
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by thisrod 7y ago
Newton's laws might be simple, but the best evidence that nature follows them is presented in Cavendish's hundred-page paper on weighing the Earth, and some very clever calculations by Lagrange that fitted least-squares planetary

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