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by wiml 2y ago
I am currently seeking funding for my research into the longevity effects of wearing funny hats. Previous research on organ-grinder monkeys has been ambiguous and it's hard to get IRB approval. My lab is currently developing tiny hats
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by wiml 2y ago
Yeah, in an era when mobile device users are a pretty major customer segment, and they're essentially all native-v6, it's weird to dismiss it.
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by wiml 2y ago
Earth's gravity certainly does (though not by much); our movement through the cosmos shouldn't appreciably, since the Earth is in freefall. (But tides will affect it.)
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by wiml 2y ago
It's still reasonably common as an anti-corrosive plating on metal hardware.
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by wiml 2y ago
Maybe you should reread the article? The introductory motivational paragraph talks about the difficulty of getting to the main board which is in the back of the fridge.
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by wiml 2y ago
So half their infrastructure is less than 25 years old and it still wasn't built up to snuff?
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by wiml 2y ago
Didn't Python used to support braces as an alternative to indentation? I remember it being a feature back in the 1.x days, but I can't find it in the old language docs, so I must be thinking of some other language.
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by wiml 2y ago
We already have those, we just use forward-fqdn syntax like username@company.co.uk. Works great, widely implemented
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by wiml 2y ago
This is a bit of a background point in the novel Learning the World (Ken Macleod).
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by wiml 2y ago
I've been getting these too — they've largely supplanted the plausibly-human-written glurge I used to get (mil-SF and disturbingly specific romance subgenres). I don't think I've given Amazon any reason to believe I&#x27
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by wiml 2y ago
You might be interested in Digital Radio Mondiale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Radio_Mondiale
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by wiml 2y ago
"Too cheap to meter" means too cheap to meter , not free . Like residential internet — I pay for infrastructure, but my usage isn't metered. In some places water is that cheap, for example.
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by wiml 2y ago
I don't think that follows. The crew would be acting in accordance with the ship's master (remember, everyone on board is abandoning ship in an orderly manner). Someone would surely be liable to the ship's owner but that soun
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by wiml 2y ago
I think they're mostly laser amplifiers these days. So they're agnostic to modulation or WDM. But I assume there's still a noise/gain tradeoff.
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by wiml 2y ago
Until recently, S3 had an eventual-consistency model (a given file/object would be internally consistent, but different readers would see creations/deletions/etc in different orders). It's favoring availability over cons
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by wiml 2y ago
My guess is it's related to "metamaterials", which are materials engineered to have interesting properties by including structures smaller than the wavelength of whatever is going through them (sound, microwaves, even visible
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by wiml 2y ago
There are some fairly enjoyable time lapse videos taken in a non rotating frame: https://youtu.be/DmwaUBY53YQ https://youtu.be/zRTJ5ISmVXE
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by wiml 2y ago
The Merkle-tree approach reminds me of "set reconciliation" protocols — the author might be interested in references 3 and 5 of this paper: https://www.scs.stanford.edu/17au-cs244b/labs/projects/ruck
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by wiml 2y ago
It's not hard to Fermi-estimate the impact on the price of a cabbage, say. What do you think it would be?
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by wiml 2y ago
If they can listen to the radio traffic between your phone and the cell tower, that is.
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by wiml 2y ago
Some Cisco routers have/had a feature where they'd mitm every smtp connection and snip out the STARTTLS advertisement to prevent negotiation of an encrypted connection. Of course this doesn't affect port 465 use, but port 25&
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by wiml 3y ago
If your runtime environment has dynamic linking, then the LTO pass can't always be sure that a subclass won't be introduced later that overrides the method.
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by wiml 3y ago
I assume you're being sarcastic, in which case maybe you don't understand how global warming works. The overall solar energy flux to the Earth is huge — around 170 exawatts — almost all of which gets re-radiated into space. CO2 an
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by wiml 3y ago
The speed of light is the same in all inertial frames.
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by wiml 3y ago
I don't have references easily to hand but I don't think that's true. Polynesian navigators were able to make repeat journeys to the same destination reliably enough to return home and build maps and train successors in their
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by wiml 3y ago
They are being incentivized against an adverse outcome: the outcome of a paying passenger (or a whole planeload of paying passengers) missing their flight, connections, etc. That's why they make the decisions they do. Accidentally ca
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by wiml 3y ago
How is "carbon dividend plus carbon tax" different from "cap and trade"? C&T seems to have gone very out of fashion, but it also seems to me to be the most equitable approach — I don't follow this closely enough
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by wiml 3y ago
Sounds like the publicity might have forced the manufacturer to open up the relevant control software a little?: https://rollingstockworld.com/passenger-cars/newag-to-make-c...
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by wiml 3y ago
Paging Geoff Manaugh. Geoff Manaugh to the courtesy phone, please.
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by wiml 3y ago
From what I've read in old books on SFX, they did, and near-UV as well. My guess though is that using a visible wavelength makes it easier to set up the lighting and ensure it's even and so on (remember, this was before electronic

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