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by tooltower 5y ago
Indeed, there are variations on standard quantum mechanics that postulate that large systems can spontaneously collapse their wave functions. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-collapse_theory Nobody is reall
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Streaming Video from the Mouse (2020)(8051enthusiast.github.io)
1 points by tooltower 5y ago|0 comments
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by tooltower 5y ago
Python applications were widely used before either Google or YouTube existed
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by tooltower 5y ago
From the article, what's a "thermal neutron beam"?
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by tooltower 5y ago
Slight tangent: Does anyone know what software this project is using to design this? I couldn't easily tell from their file extensions. Or rather, do people have general recommendations for good, open source, font designing software on
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by tooltower 5y ago
Fine. I'll settle for a net social good
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by tooltower 5y ago
The trouble with using a hammer is that you'll need to break the flash chips themselves. Breaking just the board isn't enough if the contents are not encrypted. The chips are easy for an adversary to identify, but difficult for an
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by tooltower 5y ago
What other more durable sources do you recommend?
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by tooltower 5y ago
I'm one of those folks who can't focus on my own thoughts during a presentation. I can understand the ideas being presented, but cannot critically evaluate them until later. All I can muster is to write down questions. It's j
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by tooltower 5y ago
Right, and there's no reason to worry about machines mistaking one kind of scream for another.
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by tooltower 5y ago
They said ML family, so that's usually OCaml and SML.
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by tooltower 5y ago
Yet, this is somehow not a problem in any other country. That amount of outlier cost is priced in, like many other businesses.
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by tooltower 5y ago
16 years ago, it must have been pretty refreshing.
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by tooltower 5y ago
Question: when calculating the CPI, what's the weight coefficient for gas prices? It isn't largely defined by the gas price, is it?
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by tooltower 5y ago
I wonder how well it handles or rejects syntax-level expansions. E.g. can the outer language produce half an expression for the next level? Do I need to worry about the common pitfalls of macros? I hope this works out. C++ has been delibera
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by tooltower 5y ago
We are not talking about physical attacks. Neither are we talking about attacks based purely on heating up the DRAM chips. The topic here is a remote attacker who can target specific words or bits to be flipped.
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by tooltower 5y ago
Another article in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/27/astronomers-...
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New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery(bbc.com)
87 points by tooltower 5y ago|108 comments
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by tooltower 5y ago
Is this any different from vim's easy mode? I remember that being available as an extra shortcut by default when I tried gvim on windows (> 15 years ago). Easy mode, aka 'evim': https://vonheikemen.github.io&#x2
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by tooltower 5y ago
This is exactly why I hate the expansive IP contracts I've had to sign with my employer. It effectively requires me to ask permission for publishing these useless weekend stuff, robbing me of the joy.
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by tooltower 5y ago
At first my reaction was: "No way, it has to be a lot more recent than a 100 years." But then I realized that 1920s was a 100 years ago. The "History" section of this page was interesting: https://en.wikipedia
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Deconstructing Lambdas–An Awkward Guide to Programming Without Functions [video](youtube.com)
3 points by tooltower 5y ago|0 comments
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by tooltower 5y ago
Ecosystem. It's not always about the language features, it's about how quickly I can get something working. Having a large, thriving ecosystem is a big part of that.
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by tooltower 5y ago
Wait, why is banana classified as a tree in this diagram? I'm pretty sure they don't have any wooden core. I'm definitely no expert, but as kids in the nineties, banana plants were always cited as the example of how large p
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by tooltower 5y ago
And that tells us that it's a general skill worth teaching in schools. Regardless of the profession a student ends up in, this skill is likely to be useful.
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by tooltower 5y ago
Because they share the failure domain. In all of those cases, there's a single point of failure.
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Dozens of viruses seem to use a different DNA base(arstechnica.com)
10 points by tooltower 5y ago|0 comments
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by tooltower 5y ago
In particular, the author is talking about CPU registers being spilled to memory, and the need for setting up or tearing down stack frames. Those things can only be eliminated by the compiler for extremely simple functions. The error-handli
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by tooltower 5y ago
This very much depends on the ecosystem they had in their specific embedded environment. Some have a few kilobytes of working memory: so they'd have to download the file and write it straight to flash (yes, security is a problem but ma
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by tooltower 6y ago
This is a common convention for annotating historical timelines. Even completely unrelated fields like Relativity routinely places time on the y-axis. Please take your snark elsewhere.

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