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by morei 3y ago
My work around for this is to take a walk without headphones. For me, it means that the only thing I can do is think (can't read, can't watch video, etc). And by the time I've finished a 30 mins walk, I've usually got a
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by morei 4y ago
For those that don't know: Concentrated sugar solutions are indeed hydroscopic. So it will indeed absorb water out of the atmosphere. It's still doubtful that it will do it fast enough to create any significant pressure different
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by morei 5y ago
No, because glass isn't a crystal. This is part of why it was such a hard problem: Because the existing sub-molecule imaging techniques couldn't image it.
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by morei 5y ago
What's the difference between N and N+ ? As far as I can tell, N+ just means a higher doping concentration? But it seems very fuzzy as to what 'higher' means?
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by morei 5y ago
This is much harder than you're assuming. With the increasing prevalence of TLS traffic (https et al), any cache almost certainly needs to be an explicitly configured proxy which is a user configuration issue with all it's associa
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by morei 5y ago
Not quite: Truetime has guarantees about ordering, rather than accuracy. If you ask for the time and get A, and then ask for the time again and get B, then Truetime guarantees that A is less than B. Obviously, in a distributed setting this
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by morei 5y ago
You're right. My bad. It's much less common than I'd thought. (Intel had it on a number of chips that included the Iron Pro Graphics across Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake etc)
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by morei 5y ago
L3 is almost never SRAM, it's usually eDRAM and clocked significantly lower than L1 or L2. (SRAM is prohibitively expensive to do at scale due to die area required). Edit: Nope, I'm wrong. It's pretty much only Power that has
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by morei 5y ago
There's a couple of key things here: 1. The sheer volume of fraud attempts. Economics often dictate that it needs to be cheap and fast to reject a fraud attempt. 2. Information leakage. It's normal to see people complain that &#x2
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by morei 5y ago
It's never that simple. You're implicitly assuming that a fraudster wants the account long term, which is rarely true. And identity is a VERY complex area, and nothing like as simple as "plenty of ways to verify identities&qu
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by morei 5y ago
It's rare, but possible. Known of v high level example that is just incredibly disciplined about how they spend their time (e.g. "I did this, but was slowed significantly by poor code over that. Estimate about 30% time loss. I&#x2
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by morei 5y ago
Google has an office in Frankfurt, and SWEs there get paid far more than 30k - 100k/yr. The comp delta between google SF SWE and google Frankfurt SWE is less than 30% (at same level obv). I totally agree that the non-FAANG companies ha
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by morei 5y ago
This is a situation where automation has the advantage. With detailed position information and detailed maps, the fact that the lines on the street can't be seen is irrelevant. The car didn't need them anyway. (noting that Waymo r
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by morei 5y ago
I had a quick read. The paper states in the conclusion "The more we increase the number of iterations k, the more proportion decreases, but the number of integers starting the different trajectories keeps increasing and tends towards i
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by morei 5y ago
The F50 sailing class used in SailGP can remain foiling during jibes in winds as light as 8 knots. That is, the boat always sees an apparent headwind during the entire downwind run.
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by morei 5y ago
Amusingly, it's still referred to as jibing[1], even though the apparent wind remains a headwind. This is important because sailing has right-of-way rules that are written in terms of the true wind, not the apparent wind. [1] or gybing
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by morei 5y ago
No, that's exactly the point. Knowing the center of mass and the moment of inertia is sufficient: You don't know need to know the exact shape, or the variations in density inside the object etc etc.
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by morei 5y ago
It's not quite true that advertising is a zero-sum game. There are economic benefits from increased competition, and from improvements in presented choice. It is definitely true that the economic benefits don't accrue to the adver
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by morei 5y ago
Do you know what theory that might be? The difficulty in producing a black hole is getting the energy density high enough. We have no known mechanism to get an energy density that's even close the right order of magnitude. Maybe you me
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by morei 5y ago
What happened is what typically happens: Concentration of expertise. The lower expertise jobs (just mechanically play what someone else wrote/arranged) went away and there was increased demand for higher expertise (be an actual expert
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by morei 5y ago
That's not really how it's done. RS is normally used as erasure code: It's used when writing (to compute code blocks), and when reading _only when data is missing_. Checksums are used to detect corrupt data, which is then tre
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by morei 5y ago
This point is that the periapsis is still subject to strong atmospheric drag. And while secondary debris clouds at might higher altitude is theoretically possible, it's vanishingly unlikely due to the vastly lower density.
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by morei 5y ago
It's easy: Just make it illegal, and put make it incumbent on starlink to enforce it. Violations are met with (eg) sanctions on Tesla and other related parties. This has played out many, many times in history and it's generally su
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by morei 5y ago
Yes. Fat is generally non-polar molecules so has a different solubility profile. This in turn may significantly change absorption, and the location of absorption (stomach v small intensive v large intestine etc).
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by morei 5y ago
Yes, they would spend it even if they were on the right side of the law. This is an interesting example of a prisoners dilemma. If N companies are competing without lobbying, their lobbying costs are zero. But if one company 'defects&#
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by morei 5y ago
Best summary to date: https://lloydslist.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/LL113622... TL;DR: Ship has not been refloated, "an initial investigation has ruled out any suggestion of mechanical or technical failure".
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by morei 5y ago
Amusingly enough, the tugs not uncommonly have more thrust. Large ships are _heavily_ optimized for the common case, which is sailing at about 13.5 knots. They take a very long time to get up to speed because their propulsion is sized to be
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by morei 5y ago
The real world is more complicated than just 'overpriced to the military'. To heavily paraphrase the story: The US military has a number of unusual requirements that are not cheap to meet (security, extra review, etc etc). SpaceX
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by morei 5y ago
> $50m is still a lot, and not every sat costs that much. How does a corporate bean counter justify spending $50m more than they have to? That's seems pretty easy? The satellite easily has a 2 year lead time, and it's 100s of m
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by morei 6y ago
That's a strange metric to pick. The Tour de France is a team race, with lots of strategy involved. It most definitely isn't about getting the lowest time, only a lower time than the competitors (very much not the same thing!). e.

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