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by lmilcin 5y ago
I only have one rule: I only contact an open source developer if I believe resolving the problem would make the product better unless I am willing to offer them reasonable money to do it.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Polish guy here. And Lem fan, too. Ask anything you want.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Yes and yes. As far as we know anti-atoms (antihydrogen in this case) are as stable as normal atoms. To the point where it creates interesting questions -- if antiatoms are exactly as normal atoms, why we have abundance of normal matter but
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I guess you can imagine similar evolution that a century ago drove invention of aircraft carriers. When it became clear that battleships would become too large, too heavy and too expensive to meet their primary goal of dominating the sea ar
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> I don’t think the the utility of a tank is completely obviated. The whole point of tank, as the word suggests, is to be able to survive enemy fire. With proliferation of easy to carry weapons that can pierce any tank it is largely rele
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> correction: literally 99.99999% of endpoints. You made up a number with no grounding in reality because of your bias due to being "general public". For corporate services it is actually quite common to use client certificates
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by lmilcin 5y ago
There is very little reason to DOS a client and a lot of reasons to attack servers. There is a huge number of public facing services that implement mutual auth and all those are potentially vulnerable to DOS. While clients can just decide t
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> This vulnerability affects parsing maliciously crafted certificates, so it will mostly affect clients. Actually, it is the opposite. You seem to be unaware of the fact that servers do receive certificates from the clients which are the
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I looked at the data from some places I knew very well for over 3 decades (like around where I grew up and are still visiting parents regularly) and it looks noisy and mostly incorrect, nothing like real tree cover change.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I think the main problem here is not necessarily the actual extent of the ice but rather rapid change and how we, people, are dependant on particular climate in particular parts of our planet. We are all dependant on very fragile balance of
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by lmilcin 5y ago
You can't "balance carbon cycle" because the problem is not the carbon cycle. Carbon cycle is fine. The problem is there is a huge amount of additional carbon that the cycle cannot accommodate. If I remember well, every decad
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Believe or not, that project is already underway and will use our Sun as a gravitational lens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens I predict in couple decades we will learn to build swarms of drone c
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by lmilcin 5y ago
There is a lot of occasions for observations if you are into it. This photo is not a happy accident, though. It took careful preparation. Let's see... it looks that at a distance of 400km we can see features of size roughly 1m (or even
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by lmilcin 5y ago
No, the title is not a clickbait. This is best photo of ISS transiting Moon I have seen, by a large margin.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Well, I decided to check the number. 20% is for uncharged, non-rotating BH. 42% (maximum) is for rotating black hole. I have to agree with 20%. 42% assumes that you are robbing the black hole of its momentum and that cannot be sustained inf
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by lmilcin 5y ago
It should read "communication". The hardest think about engineering is communication. Requirements is a communication problem. You can help your engineering by making sure ideas are correctly named, that definitions stay true to p
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by lmilcin 5y ago
You can also drop matter into black holes and this way recover energy necessary to sustain civilisation long after red dwarves are all dead cold. Compared to stars, this process is much more efficient and allows converting something like 40
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by lmilcin 5y ago
That identity has already been built on a lie. Russia invaded Poland on September 17th 1939 after secret deal with Germany to split Polish territory they agreed on before the war even started. Then Russians cried foul when the bigger bully
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Oumuamua is a bit larger than a blanket on your couch. Also, a mirror flying through space is very hard to detect. It reflects very well but only in some directions meaning it is basically black when looking at it from any other direction.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Lorentz factor at that speed is very small. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_factor
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Any civilisation that can detect an object of that size and categorise it as being unnatural in origin would have vastly more advanced technology that would allow them to detect humans on Earth in the first place.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I am more interested in how they are planning to fit in all the apparatus in a probe that small and especially how they plan to send a usable signal back to Earth.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Storing UTC is not only not a silver bullet, in many cases it is just wrong. Timezone is an important context of the event. You can't tell if something happened on Wednesday if you do not know the timezone.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I am continually amused that disposing nuclear waste is still such a hot (!) topic. There is simple and effective way of disposing the most dangerous types of nuclear waste (spent nuclear fuel) -- dig a deep hole in an ancient, stable, soli
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Send them to Poland and require to pass Polish driving license exam.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
The problem has been present basically forever. Well before stackoverflow.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Massive (by weight) heatsink can be used as thermal mass. This delays the need to increase fan speed and allows spreading that increase over time. One thing that is more noticeable than fan speed is rapid fan speed changes -- avoiding those
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> The M1 Ultra claims already look suspicious since the GPU graph tops out at ~120W & the CPU graph tops out at ~60W yet the M1 Studio is rated for 370W continuous power draw. And that is expected, a lot has to be reserved for USB de
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I studied theoretical math. Step #0: make sure you know what math is I can't stress it enough. I know this sounds funny, but when I went to study math a lot of people would drop out very quickly because they did not realise that what m
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Take it for what it is. It is highly unlikely we will get authenticated document like that. I red the document, it says a lot of things that I think would be pretty difficult to make up (not impossible, though).

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