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by garmaine 5y ago
All of HN is rate limited in posting, no?
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by garmaine 5y ago
Ummm… I do. It’s not a hard b sound, but it is there. It sort of moves the location of the “t” sound down towards a “b.” It defiantly does not sound like “det”. And I distinctly pronounce the “b” in “plumber” (another example in the article
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by garmaine 5y ago
In the 80’s? What CS classes.
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by garmaine 5y ago
The law of the excluded middle is also known as the “sandwich theorem” because it drives directly from a physical observation. I happen to agree with the constructionists that mathematics is better formulated without it, but it is most defi
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by garmaine 5y ago
Because the Chinese economy collapsing affects business everywhere.
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by garmaine 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Billy_Goats_Gruff
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by garmaine 5y ago
Math is fundamentally a description of the physical world. Mathematicians don’t like to hear this because they have their own ideas about the platonic realm of math, but it is true. We can debate which logical rules or axioms to include, bu
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by garmaine 5y ago
Well said. The headline is bonkers…
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by garmaine 5y ago
There’s not that much radiation in this water. None of those concerns would apply. They could literally just dump it into the ocean without measurable effect, which is the plan of record.
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by garmaine 5y ago
It is literally two things connected by a rope. A tether-based spun spacecraft is trivial from an engineering perspective, and can have as large a radius as you need to avoid differential “gravity” effects.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Good thing there’s no Strontium-90 in this water. The only thing it contains is trace amounts of titrium. Which could be safely dumped in the ocean.
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by garmaine 5y ago
They have literally hundreds of these tanks. They were building them every few days. Doesn’t take away from your main point though.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Did you live during the Cold War? I struggle to understand why someone would want to live under that constant existential threat of nuclear annihilation.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Spin the spacecraft. Done.
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by garmaine 5y ago
A small factor more than aircraft in the short term. Zero in the medium term when launch companies vertically integrate propellant production based on renewables. A net positive once we start relying on non-terrestrial resources instead of
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by garmaine 5y ago
I think I am. Thanks for the correction.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Learning a programming language is easy. Learning software engineering takes months even just for the basics. The first time you learn to code, you’re doing both. Just hang in there: it gets easier with time.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Are you sure? I haven’t been able to buy a CPU that doesn’t have SHA2 acceleration for an number of years now.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Why is it not SHA2 which would be faster still with hardware support?
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by garmaine 5y ago
Journalists have a limited First Amendment right not to be forced to reveal information or confidential news sources in court. There’s a lot of caveats related to this though. It’s called “reporter’s privilege.”
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by garmaine 5y ago
Possibly also journalists, although this is less respected in practice.
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by garmaine 5y ago
I appear to have misread.
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by garmaine 5y ago
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by garmaine 5y ago
As a multi-time victim of SIM swaps and even a related SWATing, I sure as hell hope not.
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by garmaine 5y ago
“alias ffs=sudo !!” Is cute though.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Why?
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by garmaine 5y ago
> You can’t modify your age, a huge risk favor, but you can modify your vaccination status, and you can modify your weight and general health. Not unless you are among the 4% or so of the population that is immune compromised. God forbid
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by garmaine 5y ago
What would you expect to happen otherwise? AFAIK this is exactly the same as happens in other court cases where the GPL has been tried.
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by garmaine 5y ago
There is nothing intrinsically hard about it. Crystallography is the science of reversing this dot pattern.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Really? That seems something that could be paid off pretty easily. Not like US student debt which is the size of house in value.

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