TechnicalVault

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by TechnicalVault 6mo ago
They do have 3 already and they're building 3 more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-voltage_transmiss... The new one going to France will probably have the most impact initially, the French love to sell
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by TechnicalVault 7mo ago
The reason the test and actually knowing who is likely to develop the disease is useful is that we don't know enough about the early pre-symptomatic stages of Alzheimer's. A lot of research has been focused on purging the plaques
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by TechnicalVault 9mo ago
The selective pressure of a .338 Winchester Magnum, is not to be underestimated. Funny thing is something similar occurs in lab mice. Where a technician is selecting a mouse for cull the more aggressive mice are more likely to be the ones s
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by TechnicalVault 9mo ago
In the London suburbs you see the grocery delivery vans out and about all day every day. It very much depends on the neighbourhood though, mostly the slightly posh mums or elderly ones ordering.
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by TechnicalVault 1y ago
Or if the job is an outsourceable one that can be provided as a service then they will outsource it to a company overseas and still pay peanuts. The only reason they'll raise wages is if they have to, aka the service cannot be done els
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by TechnicalVault 1y ago
The stupidity of the whole thing is that by creating these MiTM servers, they're creating a single point of security failure. Anyone who then compromises one of those servers, can with a little care, trick the entire organisation into
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by TechnicalVault 1y ago
It doesn't help what we've designed a rather silly academic system where principal investigators are forced to spend a good deal of their time thinking where they'll be applying for their next grant. We also optimise the syst
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by TechnicalVault 2y ago
It creates a nasty precedent doesn't it? If Apple can provide the UK government with foreign data, what's to stop Russia or China making them provide data on UK minister's phones, or more likely dissidents in exile? I can&#x2
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by TechnicalVault 2y ago
The actual problem is upstream of that at the abiogenesis stage. For evolutionary selection to occur the machinery for selection must exist. Specifically information storage (DNA/RNA), replication(polymerases) and actioning (transcript
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by TechnicalVault 2y ago
The whole MITM just makes me deeply uncomfortable, it's introducing a single point of trust with the keys to the kingdom. If I want to log what someone is doing, I do it server side e.g. some kind of rsyslog. That way I can leverage ex
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by TechnicalVault 2y ago
Less profitable than a comparable gas turbine because it couldn't perform the same grid role of peaker plants. Make no mistake it was gas which killed coal here not wind. A coal plant even with all of the modern upgrades is and always
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by TechnicalVault 2y ago
Swiss banks reject Americans because of US legislation, namely FATCA ( https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/tax-policy/foreign-a... ) Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. It's introduced reporting requirement
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by TechnicalVault 2y ago
Nah, because the thing is the Russian and US militaries will have their own maps of China anyway. There's a reason the UK's mapping agency retains the historic name of the Ordinance Survey, maps has always been a military thing an
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by TechnicalVault 2y ago
People confuse a economic recession with what is happening because of how words sometimes change their meaning away from their technical to a more colloquial interpretation. The economy as a whole is doing well, but people aren't becau
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by TechnicalVault 2y ago
Protectionism buys campaign contributions for your next election. All those companies whose market is protected by a tariff suddenly magically decide to contribute to the politician they asked nicely for it at the next election or they find
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by TechnicalVault 3y ago
If you've ever had to organise a scientific study you'll understand why. Privacy and ethics are important but they make recruitment of a large and representative sample for any medical study a nightmare. First you'll need to
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by TechnicalVault 3y ago
Microsoft is pretty pro-Linux these days. I'd say it's some lawyer being overly paranoid.
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by TechnicalVault 3y ago
The irony was that it was a footgun move for them given their demographics. Most young people of voting age are likely to have a driving license, if only so that they can drink. Unfortunately for the Conservatives these folks are unlikely t
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by TechnicalVault 3y ago
Depends who your user is. From a desktop side you're probably not going to notice because desktop CPU requirements have been stagnant for years, desktop is all about GPU. On the server side Sapphire Rapids and Emerald Rapids is Intel g
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by TechnicalVault 3y ago
Before the 1990's but not anymore. The contaminated blood scandal in the United Kingdom ( https://www.infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk/ ) and a lot of papers showing benefits to avoiding blood loss in the first place have cha
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by TechnicalVault 3y ago
Depends what the indication is, for some kinds of trauma the evidence is that transfusions are what will keep the patient alive, e.g. you're dumping pints on the table and it's likely to be contaminated, you can't salvage and
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by TechnicalVault 3y ago
Indeed, the quirk of the Westminster system is that parliament can indeed legislate whatever it likes. Parliament can pass a law that the colour orange is now legally the new black. There is however one detail, what is passed must be intern
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by TechnicalVault 3y ago
The funny thing is the increased capacity wasn't necessarily the biggest driver for this upgrade. Part of the selling point to Boris Johnson who was mayor at the time was that he could stick it to the train driver's unions (who we
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by TechnicalVault 3y ago
That is definitely true, we have diaries from folks who lived in the 1600s in London where you have the different reactions to their children dying at different age. They loved and cared for them but with close to a quarter of kids dying in
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by TechnicalVault 3y ago
> What you ultimately want is to make sure you're communicating with the correct other party. And the way to achieve this is TLS with certificates, validated via the WebPKI. The thing is TLS with certificates doesn't always ach
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by TechnicalVault 3y ago
Unless they have a power purchase agreement then that would depend entirely on whatever the local grid mix is at the time. Bear in mind researchers aren't usually the ones running the physical facilities in big labs. There will be a wh
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by TechnicalVault 4y ago
One of my favourite reasons for developing on localhost is when I'm curled up in a coffee shop deliberately ignoring the internet so I can finish a specific task. When I do this I don't want to be online, online is full of distrac
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by TechnicalVault 6y ago
If you can understand the equations and engineering needed to build a cruise missile the GPS equations will not daunt you. Getting the final approach to have a useful Circular Error Probable at anything low enough for an assassination would
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by TechnicalVault 6y ago
There is a certain unrealistic arrogance to the US approach to ITAR and software that seems to assume only US Persons could create technology on the list. GPS receiver systems are the classic there: Russia, China and Europe all have their o
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by TechnicalVault 9y ago
23andMe use a genotyping array so they probably don't type STRs only SNPs

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