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All of HN is rate limited in posting, no?

Ummm… I do. It’s not a hard b sound, but it is there. It sort of moves the location of the “t” sound down towards a “b.” It defiantly does not sound like “det”.

And I distinctly pronounce the “b” in “plumber” (another example in the article.

In the 80’s? What CS classes.

The law of the excluded middle is also known as the “sandwich theorem” because it drives directly from a physical observation. I happen to agree with the constructionists that mathematics is better formulated without it, but it is most definitely a rule derived from analogy to the physical world.

As a physicist myself, I’ll tell you that there isn’t a single one which believes that the universe doesn’t operate according to knowable rules. That’s kinda the definition of what it means to be a physicist.

Because the Chinese economy collapsing affects business everywhere.

Math is fundamentally a description of the physical world. Mathematicians don’t like to hear this because they have their own ideas about the platonic realm of math, but it is true. We can debate which logical rules or axioms to include, but fundamentally any math has to have some sort of rules for deductive reasoning, which carry over from observation about the physical world: effects have antecedents, with a causal link between the two.

Now we have gone from that to the present day when we have maths which aren’t yet found to align with physical reality. So I can see why people want to say that it is a mental construction. But still, even these abstract maths operate according to rules we derived from the physical universe.

Well said. The headline is bonkers…

There’s not that much radiation in this water. None of those concerns would apply. They could literally just dump it into the ocean without measurable effect, which is the plan of record.

It is literally two things connected by a rope. A tether-based spun spacecraft is trivial from an engineering perspective, and can have as large a radius as you need to avoid differential “gravity” effects.

Good thing there’s no Strontium-90 in this water. The only thing it contains is trace amounts of titrium. Which could be safely dumped in the ocean.

They have literally hundreds of these tanks. They were building them every few days.

Doesn’t take away from your main point though.

Did you live during the Cold War? I struggle to understand why someone would want to live under that constant existential threat of nuclear annihilation.

Spin the spacecraft. Done.

A small factor more than aircraft in the short term. Zero in the medium term when launch companies vertically integrate propellant production based on renewables. A net positive once we start relying on non-terrestrial resources instead of poising our planet to extract metals and power.

I think I am. Thanks for the correction.

Learning a programming language is easy. Learning software engineering takes months even just for the basics. The first time you learn to code, you’re doing both. Just hang in there: it gets easier with time.

Are you sure? I haven’t been able to buy a CPU that doesn’t have SHA2 acceleration for an number of years now.

Why is it not SHA2 which would be faster still with hardware support?

Journalists have a limited First Amendment right not to be forced to reveal information or confidential news sources in court. There’s a lot of caveats related to this though. It’s called “reporter’s privilege.”

Possibly also journalists, although this is less respected in practice.

I appear to have misread.

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As a multi-time victim of SIM swaps and even a related SWATing, I sure as hell hope not.

“alias ffs=sudo !!” Is cute though.

Why?

> You can’t modify your age, a huge risk favor, but you can modify your vaccination status, and you can modify your weight and general health.

Not unless you are among the 4% or so of the population that is immune compromised. God forbid if you or anyone you love ever needs an organ transplant. In a world with endemic COVID-19 that’d be a death sentence.

We have to eradicate this virus.

What would you expect to happen otherwise? AFAIK this is exactly the same as happens in other court cases where the GPL has been tried.

There is nothing intrinsically hard about it. Crystallography is the science of reversing this dot pattern.

Really? That seems something that could be paid off pretty easily. Not like US student debt which is the size of house in value.