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by throw88888 2y ago
Ionized radiation is dangerous to mammals because of the potential DNA damage that we are so bad at repairing. Plants on the contrary tolerate much more damage. To the point that we develop new species by bombarding seeds with ionized radia
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by throw88888 2y ago
Just an FYI if you don’t know already: the free/public version of PlantUML makes the diagrams available to everyone able to enumerate the URLs. For that reason, we use a self-hosted instance at work to retain privacy.
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by throw88888 2y ago
Sure, it is possible theoretically. However, most relevant regulation (IEC61508, ISO26262, DO-178X) requires that systems controlling machines in automotive, rail or aerospace have a possibility of dangerous faults lower than 10^-9 (over th
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by throw88888 2y ago
Horses for courses ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I do development and DevOps on it. Sure there are some intense workloads that I probably couldn’t run, but it works just fine as my daily driver. I also have a corporate/work laptop from Dell with 32GB
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by throw88888 2y ago
If you replaced the T400 because it felt slow, maybe it’s just a software/OS issue. The hardware on Thinkpad T-models should last longer than just 5 years in general. My daily-driver laptop at home is a T420 from 2011 with a Core 2 Duo
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by throw88888 2y ago
> Modern industrial agriculture relies heavily on two crops per year on the same land Depends on how you define modern industrial agricilture I guess. From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_cropping “However,
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by throw88888 2y ago
It is stated just above the quoted text. Basically a lower-than-expected response to reward anticipation and a higher-than-expected response upon reward delivery. I.e. the typical ADHD problem of instant vs delayed gratification and how the
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by throw88888 2y ago
I am not sure I get the point here. Do you want just one standard for symmetrical encryption? How should e.g. a C++ program know how PHP encrypts something through “encrypt_message_symmetrically”? Embedded machinery has other needs and reso
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by throw88888 2y ago
Schneier’s book? I can fully recommend that. It comes at the solutions from a practical point of view instead of the theoretical one.
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by throw88888 2y ago
I get your point, thanks for clarifying. I don’t agree with you for various reasons. I learnt all I know about crypto from online resources. It’s perhaps a question of taste, so let’s just skip that one. It’s all good that you can easily ha
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by throw88888 2y ago
Just a small comment/opinion on the inscrutability of crypto: Crypto relies on number theory and a complexity theoretical assumption that N!=NP (i.e. that there exists one-way/trapdoor functions). I think it is opaque by the very
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by throw88888 2y ago
> I may be misinterpreting here, so please do correct me I meant to say that being open source doesn’t automatically mean you can use the software commercially, hence the need for a liberal (enough) license (to permit you this option). N
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by throw88888 2y ago
This is modus operandi for many acquisitions in the field of proprietary software. If you have been in the business for a decade or two, you’ve seen this play more than a few times. It’s legal, it’s profitable, so it keeps happening. Even w
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by throw88888 2y ago
I have used statistical models of volatility to improve execution prices. It doesn’t require very advanced modeling to estimate a probability of e.g. getting filled at midprice (saving half the bid/ask spread) within a short time perio