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by yk 11y ago
IDL is not that bad, assuming that you really understood when it generates an implicit loop and that int is just 16bit. (And double check, I wrote a few scripts that happily read the first 32000 lines of a file multiple times...)
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by yk 11y ago
Yes, pretty close.
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by yk 11y ago
> Is this where the translation from GR -> QM breaks down? Sort of, to get a graviton you introduce perturbations on a background metric. (Basically small wiggles of spacetime around an 'average.') You don't do anything
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by yk 11y ago
Burning a few suns per message would significantly reduce spam.
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by yk 11y ago
Somehow I believe that thing could have an awesome forum. (But alas, it does not have one.)
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by yk 11y ago
Basically a repost of http://www.theonion.com/article/i-am-under-18-button-clicked...
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by yk 11y ago
//Uncomment for production //#define kill_all_humans 0
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by yk 11y ago
A Warpdrive. (Just because I am currently playing with GR as a side project.) Actually serious, I believe the transmission of information between the frontiers of science and the public are broken. On one hand the university system is geare
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by yk 11y ago
Your suggestion is not sufficient, you need also a way to roll out the updates, which means a network connection to the outside world, but for someone who has done a IoT set up himself it is probably a sane thing to put the IoT things onto
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by yk 11y ago
Any kind of suggestion, how regulation should look like? For example, automatic updates would probably be a must-have for network connected devices. On the other hand, I do not really want my TV to phone home. The problem is, that computers
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by yk 11y ago
Whats the nexus in Germany north of Frankfurt? (My guess is, that it is Hetzner, but can anybody comment?)
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by yk 11y ago
Depends, but very likely. There may be cases were there is practically no way around a 2000 line function, one example would be a something like a very long switch-case statement, were the logic is very simple, but there are a lot of cases
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How Daniel Rigmaiden discovered Stingray spying technology(businessinsider.de)
1 points by yk 11y ago|0 comments
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by yk 11y ago
Source for the blind injection of signals: http://www.ligo.org/news/blind-injection.php
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When Philosophy Lost Its Way(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
83 points by yk 11y ago|90 comments
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by yk 11y ago
Isn't this the one application were JS crypto is OK? As far as I understand, that is not at all, here JS crypto is used to offload the computation from a trusted server to a trusted client and afterwards the server distributes the encr
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by yk 11y ago
YCR sounds really intriguing, a bit more information would be very interesting indeed.
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by yk 11y ago
Depends, there is a tritium booster, essentially a little bit of tritium in the bomb improves the neutron economy. That could be called an H-Bomb, if we are not too pedantic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosted_fissio
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by yk 11y ago
Yes, USGS has detected it. The question is whether it was a nuke or conventional explosive or something else. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10004bnm#...
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Dear Dr B: Is string theory science?(backreaction.blogspot.com)
1 points by yk 11y ago|0 comments
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by yk 11y ago
It does not, it is just pair creation by photons. So two photons react to a electron positron pair. (The inverse process of anti-matter anhilation.
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by yk 11y ago
(Take this as coming from someone who pays attention for some time, but is not really knowledgeable about medicine.) People are today a lot healthier than they were 50 years ago. This alone helps a lot. Additionally we have better disinfect
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by yk 11y ago
Most physicists are experimentalists, who work on testable predictions. And most theorists work on easily testable systems, like solid state physics or nuclear physics. And even cosmologists and astrophysicists in are very aware of the prob
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by yk 11y ago
Funny thought on automated lawyers, to some extend lawyers are used to create standardized communication, aka contracts. So a law AI (lAI) would mean I give a natural language contract, my lAI translates to legalese and sends it to the lAI
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by yk 11y ago
Well breadth of legal practice areas are what machines are good at, a machine that can analyze one law can analyze all of them and with constant quality. To give a concrete example, if some rather arcane part of insurance law may be relevan
626.
by yk 11y ago
You are confusing the money driven popularity contest with art. There is a modern art market, and you are right that it is just aesthetically pleasing objects made by famous guys, however that someone else pays a lot of money does not mean
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by yk 11y ago
Todays best known painter, Banksy, is a street artist. So his art is displayed by its very nature in public places and personally I do not find it very shocking. Two examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mauer-be
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by yk 11y ago
Nothing white box crypto is just an academic exercise.
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by yk 11y ago
The most interesting paragraph of the article is: A coincidence is the most probable explanation for the surprising bumps in data from the collider, physicists from the experiments cautioned, saying that a lot more data was n
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by yk 11y ago
While the big name brands store all your credentials as an easy to read JSON encoded string at fridge-net.example.com/API/../PRIVATE/$USERNAME

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