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by caf 5d ago
> It's misaligned because everyone has this obsession with putting agents in poorly put together, security-theatre sandboxes, we've inadvertently trained a bunch of sandbox escape artists. Almost sounds analogous to ineffective
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by caf 5mo ago
[We can broadly trust the US government] not to promote broken encryption to its own agencies.
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New interstellar object candidate A11pl3Z(earthsky.org)
8 points by caf 1y ago|1 comments
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by caf 1y ago
The phrase "incandescent with rage" comes to mind when reading that order. A couple of choice quotes: To hide the truth, Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under oath. This is an injunction, not a negotiation.
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by caf 1y ago
This capability is called "Trip To House Load".
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by caf 1y ago
This is potentially the first real black start of a grid with high renewable (solar/wind) penetration that I am aware of. The South Australia System Black in 2016 would count - SA already had high wind and rooftop solar penetration b
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by caf 2y ago
You may be thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap
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by caf 2y ago
It's only just re-opened to visitors after an extended closure that began in the COVID times!
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by caf 2y ago
I think about $25, twice that in the Muppets Christmas Carol because they doubled the amount he offers for some reason.
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by caf 2y ago
I did actually do this the other day, to get some idea of how much Scrooge is offering to pay the boy in the street to go and buy the turkey for him at the end of A Christmas Carol.
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by caf 2y ago
Since your supply is alternating current, the electrons aren't net moving at all. The question isn't even well-formed. It's like playing tug-of-war and asking exactly which player on the other team you're pulling against
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by caf 2y ago
They don't all produce separated plutonium, this also includes those that produce enriched uranium, which is also fissile. The three reasons to produce fissile material are weapons, non-explosive military uses and civilian power reacto
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by caf 2y ago
Fifteen nations that currently do so, if anyone is interested: Russia, United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, China, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Iran, Israel, and North Korea.
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by caf 2y ago
The terrible consequences are definitely an implied part of the meme, otherwise it's just someone messing about with some pieces of metal and screwdriver and isn't funny at all.
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by caf 2y ago
The existing ground-station ionosphere data mentioned has been used to detect missile launches: https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1216884/detecting-mi... I imagine you could do the same thing with much bette
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by caf 2y ago
The nomenclature "hanging up" a terminal even dates back to pulse-dialling landline phones where the receiver was physically hung up on a hook to activate a switch that opened the circuit and ended the call.
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by caf 2y ago
The ioctl works remotely as well, because ssh sends window size messages across the channel.
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by caf 2y ago
A rogue star having a close interaction with our solar system would be catastrophic enough, and we know there's lots of those in our galaxy.
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by caf 2y ago
The current operating requirements in South Australia mandate around 80MW of gas generation for system strength reasons. So even on last Saturday when "operational demand" in South Australia reached the ballpark of -200MW (that is
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by caf 2y ago
There are 5 different businesses that own and operate the distribution network in different parts of Melbourne (AusNet, Jemena, Citipower, Powercor and United Energy). AusNet owns & maintains the transmission network in Victoria, but it
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by caf 2y ago
Load shedding is quite rare, I believe the only instance recently in Melbourne was on the 13th of February when several transmission towers carrying the Moorabool-Sydneham 500kV circuits were destroyed in the severe storms that day, and loa
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by caf 2y ago
You could think of it in the sense of "saving money" - if you're a notorious spendthrift, the money hasn't actually disappeared, but it's of no use to you anymore.
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by caf 2y ago
The article posts one reason why they'd give it up: they feel the ongoing issue of the Chagos Islands is hurting their ability to get diplomatic support in other international matters that are far more important to them.
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by caf 2y ago
Australia: <puppet looking sideways meme>
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by caf 2y ago
The explosive scanning is the thing where they pull some people out of line and run a wand over you and your gear, then put it into a machine and wait a few seconds for the analysis.
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by caf 2y ago
I think if both sides of the equation more consistently approached things in a reasonable manner then both sides would be better off. Replace "reasonable" with "trusting" and this is literally a restatement of the Pris
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When prospect theory and poker bubbles collide(mariakonnikova.substack.com)
1 points by caf 2y ago|0 comments
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by caf 2y ago
Yes, it's called a charge pump. There's one specific sub-type called a Cockroft-Walton voltage amplifier.
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by caf 2y ago
It's hard to believe this was just incompetence - Sierra games were technically impressive for the time, making great use of graphics and sound. But what other explanation is there? If Sierra's goal was simply to prevent casual
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by caf 2y ago
"Lemmings cracked by Fabulous Furlough" will occupy memory synapses for the rest of my life.

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