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by queuebert 2y ago
And yet haven't iMessage 0days been used to track and kill people? Even without opening the message?
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by queuebert 2y ago
This is a false dichotomy. You can build a system that is secure by default but allows you to opt out with sufficient technical knowledge.
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by queuebert 2y ago
While we're at it, what does Nvidia mean?
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by queuebert 2y ago
Why do you say that? I would say SIMD is pretty well figured out in well-written code, e.g. small, tight loops over vectors. Unrolling and vectorizing a loop is not that hard and happens constantly on all our phones for signal processing,
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by queuebert 2y ago
C is the LS engine of programming languages. People love to drop it in and mod it until it blows up.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. Hearing that you went from being proficient at Dvorak to Workman and in the end prefer Workman motivates me to try it. Dvorak is awful for the shell, but actually not bad for vi. Do you have any experienc
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by queuebert 2y ago
Dvorak is way more comfortable and is very fast for me, but its emphasis on alternating hands causes me to frequently invert pairs of letters when typing fast, probably because my left and right brain isn't perfectly coordinated. I hav
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by queuebert 2y ago
This is nonsensical. Do you mean a tiny movement in the field of view, which should be measured in angular distance? Or do you mean actual motion through the universe, in which case the galaxies are moving at hundreds of kms per second, whi
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by queuebert 2y ago
CT is not much faster than a quick T1 and T2 from a portable MRI these days. By the time you transport to the CT suite, set them up, run the scout, etc., you could have acquired the MR bedside. Edit: To add some clarity, portable MR systems
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by queuebert 2y ago
Maybe someday it can be part of a Galactic Positioning System.
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by queuebert 2y ago
7.2 km h^-1 if you want to be fully SI correct
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by queuebert 2y ago
He's smart enough to fool the masses that he's a genius scientist, but, as a scientist myself, he looks to me like a gifted manager and maybe a genius at hiring.
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by queuebert 2y ago
I think some people may be misreading what you wrote to mean China is freer than the US, but I think you are saying that China does not allow billionaires to threaten its government, which is probably accurate.
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by queuebert 2y ago
As a former landlord, I would not compete with buyers on a potential rental property. I'd rather pick it up cheap because it is an investment. So the correlation between ownership and prices is not as clear to me, and landlords may pr
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by queuebert 2y ago
That's the entire point of twin studies and case controls. Did you read the article?
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by queuebert 2y ago
I always thought the heat was the driver. There has historically been more crime in the summer than in the winter, for example. Heat makes you do crazy things, as some noir novel probably said.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Or "Revert back to C++" would be funny. Apparently no one around here has a sense of humor, though, since my original post was heavily downvoted. I greatly prefer Rust over C++, but "rewrite it in Rust" has become kind
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by queuebert 2y ago
Heaven forbid you read a man page. Even though Bash is weird, it's fully documented.
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by queuebert 2y ago
I was expecting issue #9512 "Rewrite it in Rust" to have been submitted on April 1.
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by queuebert 2y ago
He wrote his books as more or less first drafts. He had a lot of great ideas, but clear is not an adjective I would have attributed to his books.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Depends on what you value. Purchasing power of wages has declined, for example. That's probably not better. I suspect the sentiment is more that it would be nice to live in a simpler time, with fewer options, because it would reduce a
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by queuebert 2y ago
How about "waiting to see which AI god emerges supreme"?
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by queuebert 2y ago
I agree. Absorbing 100 J (the paper's assumption) over an entire 75 kg body would be ~1.3 Gy whole-body dose, or 1.3 Sv for photons. That would probably make you sick. Traditional radiation therapy for cancer delivers 2 Gy/day x
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by queuebert 2y ago
Doesn't look like a severe crosswind to me, because there seems to be very little crabbing or rudder input, although the camera angles make it hard to tell for sure. You can also see snow blowing on the ground roughly parallel to the r
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by queuebert 2y ago
Boeing solved it by leaving the bolts out of the doors.
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by queuebert 2y ago
> ...Delta is a legit operation. Unless you're a checked bag.
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by queuebert 2y ago
I'm happy to see the decline of the self-indulgent, cognoscente literary tradition. I love words and language and reading, but rarely is expository writing the correct place for word orgies.
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by queuebert 2y ago
I was referring to the earlier monoenergetic flash. Yes, most should be produced through electron capture in the collapse, but for earlier event to be monoenergetic suggests a specific nuclear process to me.
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by queuebert 2y ago
That is weird. Is the conventional explanation a flash from one of the last fusion stages right before core collapse?
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by queuebert 2y ago
It's worth noting that we received the neutrinos from Supernova 1987a before the photons. We think that's because the photons have a difficult time escaping the ejecta cloud, while neutrinos stream away freely, but who knows ...

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