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Re:South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access on Saturday April 11, 2026 @09:29PM (#47735426)
And pgp certificate signing
I just assumed they were tapping them on their phone and had some kind of app, or website something
>In addition to that, there are strong political incentives for ‘distributing’ contracts widely,

Government/Defense contractors can track their suppliers and tell Congress exactly how many jobs are in which districts per project.

The space shuttle was refurbishable. It needed an army of 5000 engineers a few months to get it flight worthy after each launch.

And ultimately that wasn't enough for safety.

No. Once moving an object keeps moving unless there is force that pushes it.

There is nothing in space to apply force on particles. One would also presume these tachyons don't interact much with regular matter, like neutrinos

Re:Why Insect Memories May Not Survive Metamorphosis on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:10AM (#36920492)
That reminds me of Pak Protectors from Larry Niven's Known Space stories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Protector

Re:Humanly traversable wormholes (2020) on Saturday March 26, 2022 @03:06PM (#30814402)
Yeah. Think teleporter instead of warp drive
Re:Show HN: Clone your voice and speak a foreign language on Monday January 03, 2022 @09:06PM (#29790275)
My question is, how long until we have automatically dubbed anime?
Re:How Beavis, Butt-Head and Daria disrupted cable on Friday July 30, 2021 @03:23PM (#28011365)
It might be because the radio DJ in the town and the songs he plays after waxing philosophic.
You don't happen to work for Setec Astronomy, do you?
The bit towards the end with Millie and Wolfwood makes me cry.
Re:European Commission English Style Guide [pdf] on Monday March 15, 2021 @06:21PM (#26470027)
double a letter to add ephasis or indicate a long vowel.

Reefuse / refuse, Permit / Permmit, Record / Reecord

Re:The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:00AM (#26090006)
Lord of the Rings is boring until they get out of Rivendell. Once they actually start their journey it's a fun read.
a small amount. Not the obscene amounts we eat here in America
Re:Hyperdimensional Computing on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:06PM (#25241725)
by 'vector' they just mean a list of numbers (ex. [32,5,8,11]).

By dimension they mean the number of items in the list. In the above example it's a 4 dimensional vector.

Make the numbers binary digits and voila.

By hyperdimensional they mean the list has 500 or more items.

Re:Geometry Reveals How the World Is Assembled from Cubes on Saturday November 21, 2020 @07:06PM (#25173690)
Spherical cows in a vaccuum
28*13(+1)=365 (or +2 on leap years)
Re:Windows93 on Monday March 02, 2020 @02:02PM (#22467603)
Holy shit, Litestep! That takes me back.
The main Proton-Boron reaction produces charged particles instead of neutrons. You can capture the charged particles directly as a source of voltage with no intermediate step. Just stick a piece of metal in the way and hook up wires.

Conventionally, neutrons are used to generate heat which is then used to drive steam turbines.

all fun and games until some jack-ass spoofs the GPS and moves a road 20 feet to the left.

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/drone-hijacking/

Re:Better Encrypted Group Chat on Thursday August 08, 2019 @12:33PM (#20646010)
Can any of this be beaten into a way to verify group membership?

Say you want to prove you are a member of the AMA or IEEE, or Bar? Could you set up a large group for the association and their communications, and then when asked provide verifiable credentials that you are a member? Like a group membership signature?

Re:Better Encrypted Group Chat on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:00AM (#20644068)
To help keep proprietary company communications from getting out?
Re:First Programmable Memristor Computer on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @05:35PM (#20578824)
You can buy the here: https://knowm.org/product/
Re:Floppycasts – 1.44MB Podcasts on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @10:07AM (#20274288)
like an audio PDF or something.
Re:What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0? on Saturday May 25, 2019 @12:28AM (#20007082)
For x⋅0=a (i.e. 1/0) no number fits. It's like a database search that finds nothing. It's a null. A point that is not in the set.

For x⋅0=0 (i.e. 0/0) any number fits. Is there such a thing as an anti-null? In the infinite set, 0/0 is infinite.

If a/0 isn't any number if you exclude 0, then a/0 should be zero. Tada!

...of course zero wasn't in the set, which makes it a null

Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed on Thursday May 23, 2019 @01:59PM (#19994186)
Like going back to the original 14 years?
Re:Brains Speed Up Perception by Guessing What’s Next on Thursday May 09, 2019 @01:08PM (#19870066)
What if you walked an indeterminate length for an Airline mile?

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