adonovan

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by adonovan 9d ago
What do you mean it stole your time?
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by adonovan 14d ago
Years back I was an intern in a bio lab whose ultracentrifuge achieved spin rates similar to a turbopump. On its titanium head was a bar code used to regulate the speed via a beam of light. Unfortunately the manufacturer issued some with th
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by adonovan 15d ago
Brilliant!
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by adonovan 16d ago
Yeah, I get the sense “possibly for ritual use” is how anthropologists say “no idea”.
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by adonovan 26d ago
Can anyone tell whether these exposures occurred through the camera lens (from fallout particles in the sky of the depicted scenes) or in post- (or pre-) exposure handling of the film from hot dust carried by the photographer?
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by adonovan 26d ago
These companies do have an aesthetic, it's just not cool. Mike Merrill calls it "Corporate Memphis"; see https://www.wired.com/story/corporate-memphis-design-tech/ .
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by adonovan 28d ago
Broken how? Please report an issue. The latest gopls should support generic methods.
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by adonovan 29d ago
You can switch it off, or make it play one of several different ridiculous sounds.
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by adonovan 2mo ago
At least here in Brooklyn a significant minority (a third?) are purchased outright, as that gives the best long term return if you can afford the initial investment, and it simplifies a later house sale (see thread above). I think some of t
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by adonovan 2mo ago
Stuart J. Russell (he of the AI textbook) claims in Human Compatible that YouTube is already an example of a runaway feedback loop between AI (YouTube's recommender "algorithm") and humanity (viewers, content producers, YouTu
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by adonovan 2mo ago
Inferring pronunciation from spelling is very regular in French; the reverse, not so: there may be many ways to spell a sound like “o”, each with a different meaning.
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by adonovan 2mo ago
This trend is far older than the AI era. The British magazine Private eye for many years in the 1990s had a running joke in which each issue displayed the new logos of old companies that had spent a fortune on rebranding. All of them were v
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by adonovan 3mo ago
How many parts is this skeleton disassembled into in transit? Each bone? Crazy project!
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by adonovan 3mo ago
I agree. This is a most unexpected ray of hope.
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by adonovan 3mo ago
Can someone with expertise explain what kinds of medical imaging are theoretically possible with this kind of sensor?
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by adonovan 3mo ago
Understood. My point is that the job requirements are almost mutually exclusive: must be physically and mentally fit enough for arduous travel and harsh work, yet basically suicidal.
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by adonovan 3mo ago
Like enjoying earthly pleasures? The terminally ill do not make good astronauts.
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by adonovan 3mo ago
I'd be surprised if there's a single person alive who would volunteer for a suicide mission to a miserable cold dark planet and could travel there for nine months in a tin can through a harsh radiation/muscle atrophy/psy
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by adonovan 4mo ago
It seems quite common for the infrastructure teams to put up a dashboard just to keep a sense of what is going on, but it is then misinterpreted as a “leaderboard” and encourages the most prolific users to find creative ways to squander mor
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by adonovan 4mo ago
For a while we’ve been fixing telemetry-reported crash bugs in the project I maintain, and now hardware bugs are showing up with some frequency. I was amazed how common they are. Sometimes data values (e.g. SP register) are corrupted, but o
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by adonovan 5mo ago
Does the ground source heat up (or cool down) over time, making it less effective? The deep ground is very well insulated, which is why after a century of operation the London Underground is 10 degrees warmer. I wonder whether GSHP users ne
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by adonovan 5mo ago
This administration does love "force".
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by adonovan 5mo ago
Another situation to avoid the XOR trick, even when registers are tight, is when swapping pointers in a garbage-collected language, since the intermediate bit patterns are invalid pointers: if a GC mark phase occurs at that moment, you migh
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by adonovan 5mo ago
Quite. A burger that wears its hat at a jaunty angle for a rakish look.
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by adonovan 6mo ago
I once wrote a contract document in PostScript that changed the wording based on the date. Two parties could cryptographically sign an agreement in the document, which would change when printed on a later date. One of the reasons we don’t u
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by adonovan 6mo ago
It's not an illegal monopoly to be the sole entity capable of a technique. The problems come from manipulating the market to prevent competition.
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by adonovan 6mo ago
The subject of this story is a single proton that you would definitely feel if it hit you: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/OhMyGodParticle/
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by adonovan 6mo ago
Also weird phrasing: "a staggering 1.8 degrees" begs the reader to think of it as a large number (which in fact it is, as you point out) yet their intent seems to be, ironically and paradoxically, to diminish it.
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by adonovan 6mo ago
Thanks, that's a bug. We should never inline a function that directly calls recover. I've filed https://go.dev/issue/78193 .
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by adonovan 6mo ago
> The “will lead astray” part is concerning. If you already have a clear idea in mind, you probably don’t need to have the debate with coworkers. Yeah, I certainly wouldn't trust it to run any distance unattended, and I started this

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