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by wiml 4y ago
According to the link nwcs posted, it's being done by a user level Java process, not by the modem firmware or anything like that.
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by wiml 4y ago
Do we have any approaches to fusion that would be usable for launches? I mean, ones that we could possibly prototype within a decade, not just Project Rho links, much as I enjoy Project Rho.
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by wiml 4y ago
This is bittersweet, I've used pcengines boards for a lot of things over the years. Question to HN: What hardware are you using today for things you would have used an APU for a decade ago?
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by wiml 4y ago
The cloud of probable location is the magnitude of the electron's wavefunction, as I understand it. So they're the same thing, but there's extra information in there too beyond simply position (wavefunctions are complex-value
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by wiml 4y ago
Don't those two arguments contradict each other?
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by wiml 4y ago
> I have also read some crazy accounts of how Einstein's Theory was proved FWIW, this was the observations during the solar eclipse of 1919, by Eddington and a bunch of less famous people. It apparently made headlines at the time.
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by wiml 4y ago
There's already something called a "spheromak" (I'm not sure what the difference is except they've been around for a while and apparently they're not good prospects for energy production — they have other scien
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by wiml 4y ago
It's because "simultaneous" is relative in the same way that "in the same place" is relative. You can bounce a ball against the same spot repeatedly, but if you're on an airplane and another observer isn't
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by wiml 4y ago
That's not too far removed from what Distributed Proofreaders did/does.
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by wiml 4y ago
Sugar-of-lead (as a sweetener in wine and other foods) goes even further — it was suspected to be toxic millennia ago, though maybe only subject to a governmental ban as recently as the late 1600s.
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by wiml 4y ago
What did they figure out? It's not clear to me that there's anything bad about people taking advantage of this arbitrage opportunity.
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by wiml 4y ago
The carbon cost of a flight isn't a linear function of its distance, though — takeoff is much more expensive than cruise, and on long flights there's the cost of hauling the fuel itself, rocket-equation style. (Presumably the data
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by wiml 4y ago
I forget the name it has, but that is a technique used to examine silicon — all the PN junctions in the logic will emit light when they pass current. CMOS logic doesn't have very many (forward-biased) junctions though. IDK if the techn
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by wiml 4y ago
That is the core tenet of the MBA — that managing one kind of enterprise is just the same as managing any other; there is no need for domain knowledge, and it's probably actually counterproductive.
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by wiml 4y ago
Same instructions, different reason. In a skid, your tires have lost traction and are no longer pointing in the direction they're moving. You steer into the skid to return to the usual "static friction" regime instead of the
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by wiml 4y ago
I would expect that they can be, in the same way that a curated collection of uncopyrightable facts can be.
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by wiml 4y ago
We are? I got an updated booster for Omicron variants last June.
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by wiml 4y ago
Well, yes. There's the famous case of when a station's only doctor had appendicitis so he removed his own [1], and another who had to do her own cancer biopsy and chemotherapy [2]. The equations may be simple but they are still ve
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by wiml 4y ago
I knew some people at a university lab which had developed exactly this — back in the 90s or 00s. I think the problems it had are mostly solved since then (lightweight compute/fast digital radio/etc). Presumably the university eve
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by wiml 4y ago
You should clip on. If you're moving around anywhere you could possibly fall over, and you're alone or the water isn't calm or you're far from shore or basically any other risk factor, you clip yourself to the jacklines
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by wiml 4y ago
Or, for that matter, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Interconnect_Network
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by wiml 4y ago
I prefer the form with the þorn, but it's harder to enter on a phone keyboard. (In fact I don't know if there's any way at all to input that combining superscript "e" on my phone.) There are a bunch of old handwritt
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by wiml 4y ago
Back in the 1980s: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/antisatellite-...
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by wiml 4y ago
It's a form of folk art?
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by wiml 4y ago
It probably doesn't, but if it does, it could be used to send messages back in time. Relativity doesn't care how something goes FTL, it's just really clear there's no room for "FTL but not time travel" unless
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by wiml 4y ago
No, but that doesn't stop a company from having their lawyer send you a cease-and-desist letter.
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by wiml 4y ago
If you want something you can almost fully understand, I'd go another step or two lower, to a microcontroller like an AVR or one of the old Motorola chips (68HC11 or something). These chips were actually designed by hand and expected t
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by wiml 4y ago
Each type of memory has a somewhat different design, but generally, the address lines will control a pair of demultiplexers, one which activates a single row in a rectangular grid of memory cells, and one which reads a single column. (Old D
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by wiml 4y ago
I think it is good in a way. You're not going to convince them of anything in that ten minute bus stop conversation, not should you try. But it's good for them to have the experience of talking to someone who doesn't believe
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by wiml 4y ago
Given that the beginning of the "weird string" has a magic number and a version field, I wonder if the point of this is not so much obfuscation as transpilation? The magic number corresponds to ASCII "HNOJ" "@?RC&qu

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