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by yaakov34 10y ago
Forward for black pawns is down, in a standard chess diagram; white's side of the board is at the bottom. So black pawns have no legal moves, while the white pawns could move (the topmost pawn) or capture either of the black rooks, al
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by yaakov34 10y ago
The position nearly plays itself - none of the black pieces except the bishops have any legal moves, so if white moves his king around, without capturing anything, a draw will result by the 50 move rule (the bishops can't mate the king
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by yaakov34 10y ago
These laws join other laws, the so-called anti-terrorist package from August 2014, which require service providers (defined very broadly to include such things as social networks and ISPs) to provide user data to the authorities upon reques
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by yaakov34 10y ago
A subverted FPGA could contain a whole different circuit which turns on based on whatever condition desired (timer, radio command, data pattern seen by the FPGA) and takes over the function of the FPGA in whatever way the subverter intended
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by yaakov34 10y ago
Sure. FPGAs, or any IC, could contain subversive/backdoor hardware placed there by a sophisticated actor. For that matter, so could ostensibly passive components like connectors, ports, flat ribbon cables... now that we have sophistica
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by yaakov34 10y ago
You can easily replicate a 4000-transistor microprocessor with the lowest-end FPGA for a few dollars - cheaper than any 3D-printing process for silicon that I can imagine. It would, of course, also be reprogrammable, making it very cheap fo
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by yaakov34 10y ago
Norman Yarvin's contribution is to pull these good articles out of years of discussions which he followed, usually taking them out of threads with many comments and varying subjects, and to present them sorted by subject matter. It wou
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by yaakov34 10y ago
Not really. At least not in the simple way of having an LCD screen somewhere near the eye blocking out light from an object in a certain direction by interposing a black pixel. It seems like it should work, but it would be exactly like putt
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by yaakov34 10y ago
I actually don't disagree with that, although the statistics will vary depending on the population served by this particular hospital (e.g. hospital near a ski slope which sees a high number of relatively healthy people who collapsed d
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by yaakov34 10y ago
My opinion is not valuable, since I don't know the laws in your jurisdiction. Since, in order to have a proper DNR order in your jurisdiction, you probably need to talk to a doctor, you should just ask them what the requirements are. A
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by yaakov34 10y ago
Yeah, as a former volunteer EMT, I'd like to ask you not to do this. The rules vary by country and by state in the US; e.g. I can tell you that in New Jersey as of 10 years ago, there was a standard document (DNR order) which needed to
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by yaakov34 10y ago
In addition to everything said, please don't take homeopathic drugs on the theory that "at least it's harmless." This usually happens when people try to please someone (parents, friends) by "just trying" homeop
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by yaakov34 10y ago
I am not sure what it is for which you want sources. Statements such as "NASA turned to Margaret Hamilton to develop the Apollo software" are absurd; Margaret Hamilton describes being hired onto the project around 1963-1964 rather
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by yaakov34 10y ago
I didn't say she did not contribute to the software. I said that she was in charge of program development after the software was frozen, not that she showed up after it was frozen. And minor (but important, since the software was s
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by yaakov34 10y ago
The distance from the that statement to "NASA turned to mathematician Margaret Hamilton, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to pioneer and direct the effort" is greater than from the Earth to the Moon. The fact that Mar
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by yaakov34 10y ago
I can do one better; the source code itself, which has been scanned ( https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 ), lists Margaret Hamilton as "COLOSSUS programming leader" - COLOSSUS being the command module sof
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by yaakov34 10y ago
Well, if you wanted to find examples of misinformation that needs to be corrected, you've certainly succeeded, since several of these press releases make the mistaken syllogism "Margaret Hamilton led the software team" &
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by yaakov34 10y ago
Yes, the article states that "Apollo 11 ran her software", which I consider to be a false statement; and many other articles explicitly give her credit for designing or writing the Apollo software. I think writers make that mistak
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by yaakov34 10y ago
It should be pointed out, just for balance, that Margaret Hamilton was appointed to be the head of MIT's Apollo software team long after the software was frozen; she was still a junior programmer on the project when the command module
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by yaakov34 10y ago
Yeah, the Man has been busy keeping you down, hasn't he? I appreciate your offer of friendship, but since this morning, after a conversation with the neighborhood not-quite-right-in-the-head lady, it would appear that I am getting all
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by yaakov34 10y ago
Guess what - you can't tell us what to do, any more than you can order Fujitsu's management to appear before you and testify. Not being the dictator of the universe is very unpleasant, but most of us have learned to live with that
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by yaakov34 10y ago
You seem to want answers at a level that only the engineers at Fujitsu (not Toshiba, according to the OP) can provide. I can comment on some of the specific questions, but obviously I don't know what went on at Fujistsu. 1) The final d
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by yaakov34 10y ago
And you think that someone from Fujitsu (where it's 8 in the evening, BTW) is going to jump in here and explain their factory layout to you, because you've put your foot down? The best general answer you are going to get is "
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by yaakov34 10y ago
In most manufacturing, you have a prototype hall or floor where you have somewhat more general purpose/flexible machines with a lot of manual intervention to make small quantities of prototypes, and factories with automated machines se
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by yaakov34 10y ago
That's revenue for the quarter . $640k revenue per employee per year is not bad. They do seem to be spending it wastefully if they can't turn a profit.
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by yaakov34 10y ago
2 tons of fuel cost around $2000 (obviously this would vary, but that's the sense of it), a single seat on the Concorde cost $6000+ one-way towards the end of its service. Apparently the economics of a) retrofitting an auxiliary power
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by yaakov34 10y ago
It's a very big improvement, relative to most cancer treatment advances, assuming it holds up and produces at least temporary remissions for these patients. "Previously treated advanced cancer" means widespread metastatic can
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by yaakov34 10y ago
True, and electrostatic discharge from your finger is no joke - it can be tens of kilovolts and carries significant, if not huge, energy. However, a discharge like that going right into a very small device, and the actual die of the transis
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by yaakov34 10y ago
Like I said - people say this all the time, but a lot of vacuum tube equipment did die in EMP testing (in the USSR in 1964), and I don't see why vacuum tubes should be less vulnerable than solid state electronics to either short or lon
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by yaakov34 10y ago
The factoid about resistance to EMP gets repeated endlessly online and in print, but it doesn't really make sense, and I doubt it's true. EMP damages electrical connections which are: a) long. b) thin. c) far from a ground plane.

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