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by zkms 6y ago
> I think it’s useful not to label this person’s job “driver”, but instead “fall guy”. Or "sacrificial part" -- designed to break first to protect the rest of the system. The NTSB report ( https://www.ntsb.gov/in
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by zkms 6y ago
> Leading bytes of Z that contain all zero bits are stripped before it is used as the pre_master_secret. what would possess someone to introduce a padding oracle/side-channel into something that didnt even need it??
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by zkms 6y ago
There's some research showing that estrogen/androgen receptor signalling plays a part in sex-differential disease severity in SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2. Incidentally, i love how some suggested pharmacotherapeutic agents include, l
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by zkms 6y ago
> Have you not just described an anti-air missile? Yes, but a loitering anti-air missile.
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by zkms 6y ago
Alternatively there is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDL_pIPScSI about Minuteman III testing -- in which a song called "It's My Life" plays as we see breathtaking video of an unarmed Minuteman III missile c
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by zkms 6y ago
> you are bound by the Carnot efficiency, which is at most 35% no matter what(in reality more like 20% or so) Internal-combustion engines are not limited by the Carnot efficiency; see page 4 of these slides. In fact, latest-generation Pr
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by zkms 6y ago
There definitely are economies of scale for heating and cooling, and doubly so when you're generating electrical power as well; this is known as "cogeneration" or "combined heat and power". Generating electrical pow
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by zkms 6y ago
This is not based on any classified information and sonar signal processing is not something i know much about, but cyclostationarity (and other higher-order statistical signal processing) does tend to be useful when processing signals that
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by zkms 6y ago
Yeah, "designer drugs" -- the products of someone trying to make a drug that works on the same systems but is different enough in structure from anything on a Controlled Substances list are bad news. The problem lies in the fact t
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by zkms 6y ago
i dont think spear-phishing training is the solution here; especially given the possibility of collaborating insiders. Short social media usernames are bizarrely coveted and so there's an entire cottage industry based on illicitly comm
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by zkms 7y ago
> The animations/effects etc take way too long. It is fatiguing to work on it because every action takes at least 2+ seconds with a dozen animations, each one lasting 100ms-300ms! You're absolutely correct and i wholeheartedly
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by zkms 7y ago
> I think the interpretation that OP really seemed to suggest that we should bring it all home is a valid one. "Bring" is the wrong word here, because building up industrial capacity in US for critical sectors (including but no
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by zkms 7y ago
This is the cruel and predictable result of a society that has meticulously and senselessly offshored/outsourced most its industrial capacity. If your country can't manufacture, from raw materials , all the electrical/electr
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by zkms 7y ago
the paper does mentions that; and honestly i'm interested in how long this sort of micropatterning lasts when it's incorporated in an aircraft, as well as how its anti-ice performance is affected as it gets fouled/abraded: &g
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by zkms 7y ago
i am not a biologist but i saw an article ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38740-2 ) about a related subject a few months ago; namely, that certain species of algae preferentially uptake uranium-235 (the fun
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by zkms 7y ago
i was going to mention Safing and Arming devices too! Apparently there's work going into making MEMS Safing/Arming devices that work like those devices (physically interrupting the explosive train) but are....lots smaller: https:
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by zkms 7y ago
Doug McLean (Boeing Technical Fellow) has a quite decent talk about the question of intuitive explanations for aerodynamic lift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKCK4lJLQHU Also Philippe Spalart's quote is right on the
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by zkms 7y ago
i have been using Apple Maps exclusively for the past year (in Los Angeles and Denver/Boulder areas) with no issue/problems. Google Maps is cluttered with an ugly phantasmagoria of adverts and after a while of not needing to use i
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by zkms 7y ago
> When you order this book by pressing just the Buy button, as in shipped and sold by Amazon, you get the counterfeit. i think most items that are "sold and shipped by amazon" are commingled as well.
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by zkms 7y ago
also reminiscent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpyrifos#Tourist_deaths
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by zkms 7y ago
also page 35 mentions that there's genetic factors (PON1 gene) that affect organophosphate susceptibilities
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by zkms 7y ago
> Given the relatively small significance and the fact that this article was published in an issue with the blurb "Can You Trust Generics?" on the cover, I'm gonna say this is just more FUD from Bloomberg. It's not a
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by zkms 7y ago
> because the riders don't have an incentive to park appropriately (and that is sometimes a guessing game -- street signs don't exist for where you can park scooters legally). However, I'd warrant that it's the sheer
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by zkms 7y ago
If they're indeed so greatly desirable then there wouldn't be this weird fixation with banning literally every other form of housing (something which has caused the homelessness crisis, as well as making rent pathologically high
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by zkms 7y ago
> I’ve lived through many cases of the sprinklers being set off accidentally (frozen pipe burst, rc-helicopter blade impact, and idiots using it as a clothes hook) and “some water” isn’t the phrase I would use. I think it’s more like if
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by zkms 7y ago
> It seems to me that the biggest issue with the fire system was the lack of a graphical display of the alarm i agree that the lack of a graphic/synoptic display for the smoke detection system was a horrid flaw, especially when rapi
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by zkms 7y ago
> The underlying Code-Division Multiple Access method that the OP refers to is a general principle of operation and not a standard. It is also used by HSDPA and LTE > and LTE i thought LTE used OFDMA
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by zkms 7y ago
> I'm not sure what a Sabatier is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction#Manufacturin...
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by zkms 7y ago
> I struggle to find examples of this happening in market economies outside of a major natural disaster. i would suggest looking outside the US. The zoning/land-use regime where single-family zoning dominates is not universal -- se
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by zkms 7y ago
> But if you want to do that at age 40, it's super likely that it's not by choice. And that's not something we ought to necessarily allow If you mandate luxury in housing, everyone who cannot afford that level of luxury w

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