throwphoton

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by throwphoton 6y ago
Argh is this real or not? Would energy radiated away as a result of inductance be analogous to energy radiated away by gravitational waves in the "water pressure analogy"?
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by throwphoton 6y ago
You would also need to avoid any and every other way of revealing your location.
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by throwphoton 6y ago
Interesting. Not casting a void pointer return value seems like a bit of a shibboleth for the "C is not a subset of C++" community.
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by throwphoton 6y ago
> So those 1 in 6 know exactly how it will impact them because it already has. It could impact them differently if they contract it again.
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by throwphoton 6y ago
> too much faith in dependency oriented programming Which is why it's a distraction to even consider this particular person's track record. Even if this same person pulled one critical package a month for the next year, the fun
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by throwphoton 6y ago
> I'll be in the pub by the end of the year. Does this mean that you think the risk of serious morbidity or mortality is overestimated, or because you think at some point the reduction in social interaction is worse than the pandemi
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by throwphoton 6y ago
Wow... > Google Buzz publicly disclosed (on the user's Google profile) a list of the names of Gmail contacts that the user has most frequently emailed or chatted with. Google Buzz is something you definitely don't want to be si
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by throwphoton 6y ago
Any diagram like this should include an estimate of usage, and how much that usage will cost, for every "block of architecture" displayed. Absent that, it's impossible to tell whether it's a good idea or a bad idea. Mor
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by throwphoton 6y ago
What can you do with a void pointer without casting it, apart from comparing it to NULL?
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by throwphoton 6y ago
You're missing the point by focusing on the job search information specifically. Any information provided without a clear understanding that it would be made public should not now be made public by default, even if it is just a name
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by throwphoton 6y ago
To keep it properly ventilated you'd have to have a fan blasting air directly down onto your head.
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by throwphoton 6y ago
And once you did that, your content was on the "World Wide Web", not just some "Gopher server". The WWW name made the venue sound more intriguing.
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by throwphoton 6y ago
That would only really matter if the poster were really close to the threshold. Moreover the gaming of the system would be unlikely to work forever, requiring too much coordination of effort. But to answer your question, yes, it is turning
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by throwphoton 6y ago
You'd lose any privileges associated with a high number of karma points, also all of your previous content would be removed, so people could cover the same territory in possibly new ways with less fear of being called redundant. It bas
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by throwphoton 6y ago
Same way term limits make sense. Hit the ceiling, then you're done. Make room for someone else. Avoid stagnation.
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by throwphoton 6y ago
Someone should start a competing service then. My recommendation would be to have a "maximum karma" limit, at which point the account (mod or not) and all of its activity are deleted, and the owner has to sign up again and work t
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by throwphoton 6y ago
It's becoming really difficult to figure out whether an X-core i5 is better or worse (even for a specific purpose) than a Y-core i7 or any other combination of [model, clock_speed, num_cores]. Last time I bought a machine I cut this Go
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by throwphoton 6y ago
> It does not, however, sound like an attacker can establish arbitrary TCP connections Maybe not, but what if the ports you have open actually are HTTP servers for development purposes? In that case wouldn't a website be able to cr
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by throwphoton 6y ago
I think you're combining consciousness and free will into a single thing. Consciousness lies in the subjective experience (in fact it seems like you allow for perception); whether you have any agency or are just a subjective experienc
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by throwphoton 6y ago
Why should society accommodate "the gifted" instead of the other way around? Highly talented individuals almost intrinsically less in need of society's assistance.
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by throwphoton 6y ago
> I think the two are simply illusions I've never understood this line of reasoning. If consciousness, in the sense of subjective experience ("qualia"), is an illusion, that what is being fooled? It seems to just push th
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by throwphoton 6y ago
> The year 300,000 will look similar to year 301,000 - despite being separated by a millennium - this is unthinkable at this point in time. The Fermi Paradox is rooted in the idea that if alien intelligences were doing things that we cou
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by throwphoton 6y ago
It's the correct asses though.
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by throwphoton 6y ago
I'll tell you this much - if there were a good alternative to Logic that ran on Linux, I'd stop buying MacBook Pros. But I can't adjust to any other workflow, so I bought a new MacBook this year.
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by throwphoton 6y ago
This sounds like some kind of "cognitive homunculus" looking at itself in a mirror. Does it explain anything, or just push the question of what is perceiving the subjective experience one level deeper?
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by throwphoton 6y ago
I wish I knew that before I installed it. Does the MacOS uninstall actually remove all traces of Zoom at this point?
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by throwphoton 6y ago
I wonder how long people with large, leveraged positions are able to wait for that increase before they get nervous.
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by throwphoton 6y ago
I think that was meant to sound Dilbert-esque, but really any business impacted by the probably inevitable recession, which manages to both stay afloat (with some cutbacks) and convert to a work-from-home arrangement, is probably being pret
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by throwphoton 6y ago
The same philosophical discussion can happen with respect to raising the speed limit by 5 miles per hour; it will result in more deaths... is it worth it? But letting Covid-19 run unchecked is more akin to raising the speed limit by 50 mile
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by throwphoton 6y ago
> We're the first species to potentially cause a global extinction event There's evidence that cyanobacteria did it earlier, on an even more massive scale: "...biologically induced molecular oxygen (dioxygen, O2) started t

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