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by Nomentatus 3y ago
What I've read says that this is a modular system, likely some variants will launch small air to air missles, and others use large shotgun shells to take out drones.
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by Nomentatus 3y ago
The plug didn't have to be reversible - it could just have had a trapezoidal cross-section. No significant cost.
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by Nomentatus 3y ago
Terrific. Maybe not the most alluring framing. Could be titled "Hate Elon? OMFG would you have hated Edison! He was way worse!" Scientists didn't start getting in the way of progress yesterday. It's a tradition: When the
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by Nomentatus 3y ago
Multilayered mirrors are another approach. https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...
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by Nomentatus 3y ago
The closest real world example of the Chinese Room I know about is Richard Feynman's adventures teaching physics in Brazil. His students memorized the textbooks and could manipulate the symbols, and answer test questions correctly,&quo
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by Nomentatus 3y ago
Also posted 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35808792
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by Nomentatus 3y ago
Someone needs to sue any manufacturer that uses blue leds on anything that might have to be on at night.
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by Nomentatus 3y ago
I might mention that, believe it or don't - a living skull is translucent, and our brains can detect light all by themselves. So a mask is good, but not nec a whole solution. In old experiments, just the light coming in under a door di
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by Nomentatus 3y ago
Right. But a dark room is a room in which, if you put your hand in front of your face, you don't see even the faintest outline of a hand.
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by Nomentatus 3y ago
How poignant, that the obvious solution is the worst "solution" of all, due to human nature.
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by Nomentatus 3y ago
Not to mention the wooden beams, under the portico, which are also original. They of course, are out of the rain; so are a solution to a lesser problem, where aging is concerned.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
The famous example illustrating PD created by Albert W. Tucker does have no communication - so that parties don't coordinate and cooperate with each other - but in this case with thousands of parties, there was no way to coordinate the
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Taking the fuel out of the wings and thinning them makes sense. You couldn't make this fly in 1959; but I'm willing to bet that you can now with computer control. We should all be ashamed for not having thought of it, I suppose.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
For that to happen, it can't be gravity that keeps a single molecule near long enough for that to happen - dipole forces at a fairly large distance in vacuum over enough time... maybe... at enough distance from the sun. Maybe. Maybe. S
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
This fits with a previous study showing that soluble fiber altered biota and reduced symptoms. https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/diet-rich-in-beans-legumes... FWIW, other research shows that without soluble fiber, we c
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
It is different - not metaphysically or entirely, but... echolocation for humans is rather long-wave (although it's experienced as vision.) You can't - I couldn't - see a door edge wise so I could walk into doors pointed righ
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Kinda fact-free. Intel is just now going EUV - why decide in advance that Intel is going to faceplant when they do?
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
I've done this. Re Occam's Razor when that principle was sacrosanct. Wouldn't do it again, I think. Those willing to reword what I wrote more strongly, got the credit, for one thing. In the end if any one view got me kicked o
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Both views are true, his first philosophical book got no traction. Then his Histories made him very famous, and a rewrite of his philosophical views was much better received.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
These days the topic falls under "Secure attachment" as part of "Attachment theory." The phrase "unconditional love" proved thorny and IMHO ill-judged, misleading. https://www.verywellmind.com/w
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Whereas, middle and South America did have a tradition of alcohol in Pre-Columbian times. However, alcohol was often exclusively reserved for those who had attained extreme old age.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
It's a very recent trait evolutionarily but seems to predate deliberate alcohol production for the most part. It's been thought that when the human population became very small during an ice age, the ability to eat old fruit under
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
All organic solvents are a cancer risk for the same reason: they imitate water (an inorganic solvent) inside our cells, but they're not water. Therefore, every single chemical reaction inside the cell is a bit different. Whether inhibi
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Survivor accounts from Hiroshima and Nagasaki make it clear that people who saw the blast and quickly shielded themselves by getting behind a wall and under a mattress did well; the blast wave/shock wave was the greatest danger if you
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Indeed. Took me a while to find route around. These issues are forcing me off Microsoft products in general. What a pain, and a betrayal of long-time customers. Interfering with peeps going offline is interfering with security.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
tangent: I've been saying for some time: "What about a live vaccine?" Meaning an killed-virus version of COVID-19, not an adenovirus with additions. A killed vaccine would present all the proteins and give much better immunit
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
I've known a case way back where deliberate tech debt of a sort was built up by not switching to a more modern compiler for a prototype. The idea was to then do a hopefully-quick rewrite on a more modern setup to obtain the minimal via
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
"find someone who speaks both languages and trust them to decide" This is ideal. But finding code monkeys that can also tapdance isn't trivial. For some companies, it isn't possible; or HR won't pay the price to hir
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
You're right, value tends to multiply product value by a percentage, at a minimum. And can lead to a breakthrough in applications and sales. Which shouldn't be underestimated. Worth pointing out. But complexity (particularly if yo
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
I had to laugh. You're (correctly) saying: "Describe it all as a positive additional software feature you're about to introduce." Quite right. Sell the sizzle, don't use the word "vegetable" when telling c

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