CHeck out PBS SpaceTime's videos on the double slit experiment! Simply recording quantum things makes for very very strange outcomes: lhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ORLN_KwAgs
Make sure your phone isn't configured to once in a while disconnect from wifi and check if 3G/4G is better. Many phones do this in order to ignore shitty or saturated wifi internet connections. Once the wifi is disabled, the phone can't see the chromecast anymore and problems arise.
Decent car manufacturers are a dime a dozen right now - whereas good autonomous car tech is not. So Waymo would've been silly if they would have given access to their crown jewels just for having a decent mechanical car.
Netflix seems to be giving away their OpenConnect cache servers to ISPs in order to decrease internet traffic, and since these are a win-win for Netflix and the ISP, I would think that many ISPs use them.
I wonder if these numbers reflect that?
What's the difference between this and a Windows Terminal Server?
Do they offer a full VM to each user? If so, why? If not, what's the difference to the multiuser tech they have (kinda) had for decades?
This might be interesting, because, IIRC, Glutamate correlates to the Umami flavour, which is supposed to be savoury-meaty, which in turn would imply probable presence of Proteins, which in turn take longer to digest. So it would make sense that Glutamate sends a signal to the brain saying that the contents might not feel like much, but are good enough to stop eating?
Does anyone know of a good cheaper alternative that does fall-detection and/or maybe has a decent emergency button (maybe BLE?) and which is basiucally maintenance free?
The most excellent - if intellectually extremely humbling - YouTube channel "PBS Spacetime" had a video about that. I can't find it right now, but you might take a look.
Although I think this legislation is silly, one COULD argue that getting linked to by google causes quite the additional cost in traffic an server resources (never mind that getting traffic is usually a good thing).
So I guess in the end the smarter content creators will put up some policy like robots.txt and allow indexers like google to link to their content as they pleasem ehich doesn't seem too unreasonable.
Come to think of it - doesn't robots.txt already do exactly this?
There is this interesting "Project Mosul" (now called Rekrei) which started by attempting to create 3D models of the cultural treasures ISIS destroyed by using many old photographs - it seems they have expanded since then: https://projectmosul.org/
I just want to point out that everyone should try to get their hands on Windows 10 LTSB edition - it is the corporate super slimmed down version of Win10, with seemingly all the spyware and a lot of other superfluous things removed.
What I do is buy a 150$ refurbished Chromebook online, and side-install Debian or Ubuntu on them via crouton. Highly recommended!
For web browsing and other stuff done in Chrome, ChromeOS is great. But if I need something more specialized, I can have a full-fledged (if admittedly a bit, but not too, slow) Linux system running in seconds.
That's exactly right - and contrast it to "The IT Crowd", which seems to be beloved by geeks/nerds, because it seems to laugh WITH us (and at management)
IIRC, the original requirements for the Smart Car (build by Mercedes) was "has to fit two adults and a case of beer".
It managed to do this, and at the same time be quite secure car, crash-test-wise (although there were many jokes about it tipping over - the passenger cell still holds).
That car is/was by no means cheap - but many people also bought it because it is small, which can be a good thing on the cramped streets of Europe. There were also special parking spaces for small cars like this.
There's a huge difference between Google ommiting or position-punishing the lunatic raving of some crazy person because it seems silly to them, and a government-mandated suppression of certain information like china does.
Real censorship is government based - if a private company decides to not show something because they don't feel like it, it's a completely different thing.
But all other mayor players are already active in China, and comply with the government-mandated censorship.
Google had the cool idea of redirecting their.ch domain to their (uncensored).hk service - so China's great firewall had to do the censoring, and not Google themselves.
It's just a matter of time until the great firewall will block Google outright, I am guessing - so Google will now have to comply, too. I don't think this counts as 'evil' - it sucks, but the evil people are the chinese government that require companies to follow their nasty rules. Google's participation will not make that worse, and may even help to make things better.
I don't agree - I installed Win10 LTSB using the instructions on reddit.com/r/chrultrabook on some chromebook with 16GB storage and 2GB(!) of RAM, and it's actually not too bad, for what it is. It runs basic browsing and Office 2013 just fine, as long as there's not too much going on at the same time. Still has the 8 hours battery life, too! And on a laptop that costs something like 150$. Really quite impressive.
Sure, more RAM and more storage would make the whole thing way better, but it is quite usable as is - especially for the price.
Bear in mind that this is probably only possible thanks to using the LTSB version of Windows 10.
While I understand only half of these words, advances in high temperature superconductors have the potential to have an incredible impact on an incredible amount of things, and understanding how they work is a precious first step.
Imagine super long distance lossless power lines, incredibly strong electromagnets everywhere, awesome maglev trains, and whatever repercussions this might have for electronics.
Sure, HTS still work at cryogenic temperatures, but if they can be at least made to work around the temperatures of cheap liquid nitrogen, this would be awesome!
I saw the horrendously badly planned roll out some parts of the german government did, and I blame the process.
A major problem was that many small purpose made pieces of software (passport printer drivers, biometric software, whatever) were Windows only. So many desks had a linux and a windows PC on them, and other silly things like that.
They should have mandated that all software be either cross-platform, or web-based, first. Then afterwards make the switch.
How the hell can a company that acts all serious have flaws like this?
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but IMHO the only way obvious things like these didn't get caught in code review or QA is that these backdoors are there on purpose.
Or can anyone come up with a legitimate excuse for this?
But Enterprise was at least real Star Trek: full of optimism, exploring the rights and wrongs of the human condition when exposed to strange situations.
Discovery, OTOH, is just a dark-y wannabe scifi action series with exaggerated visuals
I'll get modded to hell for this, but I kind of agree with him?
Most people I know have no qualms about the way old-school wire-taps worked.
Law enforcement got a warrant from a judge, and only if the judge thought that there's enough reason to suspect the target is on to something, only THEN could they hook into a user's phone lines or open their mail. (or at least that's how it was supposed to work).
This, IMHO, seems like a good balance between the right to privacy and law enforcement needs, and has enough judicial oversight to not be easily abused.
I have no idea how one could implement a similar scheme nowadays. Backdoors are dangerous, and the oversight mechanisms have been broken for quite a while (just say "it's for national security!"). But having some means for the 'good' guys, with sufficient oversight, to be able to use surveillance to catch the baddies doesn't seem too bad to me?
Also, there is an astounding amount of memes floating around making fun of the fact that A.I. is just a lot of 'if statements'. Well, no shit, sherlock - it is implemented on a Turing Machine.
But this has always been a curse of AI: as soon as some level is reached (basically since Deep Blue), the goal posts get shifted way out, again.
Wow - i never considered comparing the astronomical (heh!) prices of space missions with the ridiculous prices the military sometimes pays! Thanks!
Is there any way to see a detailed expenditure report of the Webb? Because that really is a truckfull of money.
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CHeck out PBS SpaceTime's videos on the double slit experiment! Simply recording quantum things makes for very very strange outcomes:
lhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ORLN_KwAgs
Make sure your phone isn't configured to once in a while disconnect from wifi and check if 3G/4G is better. Many phones do this in order to ignore shitty or saturated wifi internet connections. Once the wifi is disabled, the phone can't see the chromecast anymore and problems arise.
Decent car manufacturers are a dime a dozen right now - whereas good autonomous car tech is not. So Waymo would've been silly if they would have given access to their crown jewels just for having a decent mechanical car.
Isn't this the Sabatier process that will hopefully be used on Mars to produce Methane fuel there?
Netflix seems to be giving away their OpenConnect cache servers to ISPs in order to decrease internet traffic, and since these are a win-win for Netflix and the ISP, I would think that many ISPs use them.
I wonder if these numbers reflect that?
What's the difference between this and a Windows Terminal Server?
Do they offer a full VM to each user? If so, why? If not, what's the difference to the multiuser tech they have (kinda) had for decades?
This might be interesting, because, IIRC, Glutamate correlates to the Umami flavour, which is supposed to be savoury-meaty, which in turn would imply probable presence of Proteins, which in turn take longer to digest. So it would make sense that Glutamate sends a signal to the brain saying that the contents might not feel like much, but are good enough to stop eating?
Does anyone know of a good cheaper alternative that does fall-detection and/or maybe has a decent emergency button (maybe BLE?) and which is basiucally maintenance free?
The most excellent - if intellectually extremely humbling - YouTube channel "PBS Spacetime" had a video about that. I can't find it right now, but you might take a look.
Although I think this legislation is silly, one COULD argue that getting linked to by google causes quite the additional cost in traffic an server resources (never mind that getting traffic is usually a good thing).
So I guess in the end the smarter content creators will put up some policy like robots.txt and allow indexers like google to link to their content as they pleasem ehich doesn't seem too unreasonable.
Come to think of it - doesn't robots.txt already do exactly this?
"If Internet Explorer is brave enough to ask to be your default browser, you can be brave enough to ask that girl out!".
There is this interesting "Project Mosul" (now called Rekrei) which started by attempting to create 3D models of the cultural treasures ISIS destroyed by using many old photographs - it seems they have expanded since then:
https://projectmosul.org/
I just want to point out that everyone should try to get their hands on Windows 10 LTSB edition - it is the corporate super slimmed down version of Win10, with seemingly all the spyware and a lot of other superfluous things removed.
What I do is buy a 150$ refurbished Chromebook online, and side-install Debian or Ubuntu on them via crouton. Highly recommended!
For web browsing and other stuff done in Chrome, ChromeOS is great. But if I need something more specialized, I can have a full-fledged (if admittedly a bit, but not too, slow) Linux system running in seconds.
That's exactly right - and contrast it to "The IT Crowd", which seems to be beloved by geeks/nerds, because it seems to laugh WITH us (and at management)
IIRC, the original requirements for the Smart Car (build by Mercedes) was "has to fit two adults and a case of beer".
It managed to do this, and at the same time be quite secure car, crash-test-wise (although there were many jokes about it tipping over - the passenger cell still holds).
That car is/was by no means cheap - but many people also bought it because it is small, which can be a good thing on the cramped streets of Europe. There were also special parking spaces for small cars like this.
There's a huge difference between Google ommiting or position-punishing the lunatic raving of some crazy person because it seems silly to them, and a government-mandated suppression of certain information like china does.
.ch domain to their (uncensored) .hk service - so China's great firewall had to do the censoring, and not Google themselves.
Real censorship is government based - if a private company decides to not show something because they don't feel like it, it's a completely different thing.
But all other mayor players are already active in China, and comply with the government-mandated censorship.
Google had the cool idea of redirecting their
It's just a matter of time until the great firewall will block Google outright, I am guessing - so Google will now have to comply, too. I don't think this counts as 'evil' - it sucks, but the evil people are the chinese government that require companies to follow their nasty rules. Google's participation will not make that worse, and may even help to make things better.
I don't agree - I installed Win10 LTSB using the instructions on reddit.com/r/chrultrabook on some chromebook with 16GB storage and 2GB(!) of RAM, and it's actually not too bad, for what it is. It runs basic browsing and Office 2013 just fine, as long as there's not too much going on at the same time. Still has the 8 hours battery life, too! And on a laptop that costs something like 150$. Really quite impressive.
Sure, more RAM and more storage would make the whole thing way better, but it is quite usable as is - especially for the price.
Bear in mind that this is probably only possible thanks to using the LTSB version of Windows 10.
While I understand only half of these words, advances in high temperature superconductors have the potential to have an incredible impact on an incredible amount of things, and understanding how they work is a precious first step.
Imagine super long distance lossless power lines, incredibly strong electromagnets everywhere, awesome maglev trains, and whatever repercussions this might have for electronics.
Sure, HTS still work at cryogenic temperatures, but if they can be at least made to work around the temperatures of cheap liquid nitrogen, this would be awesome!
I saw the horrendously badly planned roll out some parts of the german government did, and I blame the process.
A major problem was that many small purpose made pieces of software (passport printer drivers, biometric software, whatever) were Windows only. So many desks had a linux and a windows PC on them, and other silly things like that.
They should have mandated that all software be either cross-platform, or web-based, first. Then afterwards make the switch.
How the hell can a company that acts all serious have flaws like this?
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but IMHO the only way obvious things like these didn't get caught in code review or QA is that these backdoors are there on purpose.
Or can anyone come up with a legitimate excuse for this?
And the horrible theme song! :-(
But Enterprise was at least real Star Trek: full of optimism, exploring the rights and wrongs of the human condition when exposed to strange situations.
Discovery, OTOH, is just a dark-y wannabe scifi action series with exaggerated visuals
I'll get modded to hell for this, but I kind of agree with him?
Most people I know have no qualms about the way old-school wire-taps worked.
Law enforcement got a warrant from a judge, and only if the judge thought that there's enough reason to suspect the target is on to something, only THEN could they hook into a user's phone lines or open their mail. (or at least that's how it was supposed to work).
This, IMHO, seems like a good balance between the right to privacy and law enforcement needs, and has enough judicial oversight to not be easily abused.
I have no idea how one could implement a similar scheme nowadays. Backdoors are dangerous, and the oversight mechanisms have been broken for quite a while (just say "it's for national security!"). But having some means for the 'good' guys, with sufficient oversight, to be able to use surveillance to catch the baddies doesn't seem too bad to me?
So much this!
Also, there is an astounding amount of memes floating around making fun of the fact that A.I. is just a lot of 'if statements'. Well, no shit, sherlock - it is implemented on a Turing Machine.
But this has always been a curse of AI: as soon as some level is reached (basically since Deep Blue), the goal posts get shifted way out, again.
Wow - i never considered comparing the astronomical (heh!) prices of space missions with the ridiculous prices the military sometimes pays! Thanks!
Is there any way to see a detailed expenditure report of the Webb? Because that really is a truckfull of money.