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There were two lines of enigma machines. IIRC the naval ones were much more difficult to crack, which is what Turing was instrumental in solving.
Wind has the same problem, because the actual generator is not spinning at line frequency. It has a rectifier plus inverter.
Re:Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption on Saturday August 01, 2026 @01:46AM (#49131416)
Namespace every package, so you install "somebody/thing" instead of just "thing"
From what I've seen it's mostly related to just losing weight in general (less weight -> less musculoskeletal stress -> weaker bones and muscles). Weightlifting can counteract it.
Re:My Steam Machine Is a 50ft HDMI Cable on Friday June 26, 2026 @05:06PM (#48691954)
Motherboards are actually stupid cheap right now, especially secondhand. I'd look into that some more.
Re:Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:54AM (#48661784)
Or a hectometerstone, if you will
Re:Memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++ on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:47PM (#48544715)
Explain how it is relevant
And yet, as the DEA and other agencies tighten distribution of opioids, deaths continue to increase.
The US has done everything but defund public education lol.
Re:Life During Class Wartime on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @05:14PM (#48041955)
My hot take is that wealth inequality is the least bad problem we could have, if it is even a problem at all.

What people are actually experiencing is not wealth inequality, but cost disease. Vital things (housing, healthcare, education) are more expensive - and that's mostly the fault of state action.

Re:Life During Class Wartime on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @05:11PM (#48041912)
Wow this is nuts.
Re:Life During Class Wartime on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @05:10PM (#48041899)
History shows that the "fundamental change to power relations" is just a shift from moneyed interests to political/bureaucratic interests. Which is worse because while moneyed interests have power money can buy, political/bureaucratic interests have the power of state coercion.

"They will go as far as to kill people for this" is rich coming from someone preaching Marxism, for which millions have been murdered.

Re:Who Killed the Florida Orange? on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @03:42PM (#47868311)
this made my day
Isn't mercury tidally locked? Day is always day, night is always night.
Nuclear restrictions were instituted by beurocratic means, not democratic means.
Re:Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers on Saturday February 28, 2026 @12:59AM (#47191026)
Nobody has suggested using this for addition tasks in production. It's an academic exercise. What are you on about?
Re:Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B on Friday January 23, 2026 @12:13AM (#46728691)
You can pay bills from your savings account with ACH in the US.
Re:Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech? on Monday December 22, 2025 @01:10PM (#46356801)
Electrician
Re:The state of the kernel Rust experiment on Friday December 19, 2025 @01:30AM (#46322842)
I'm not more "in the know" but it makes sense that new drivers could require it. New drivers, after all, are pretty much always written for newer platforms that Rust has support for. The main issue with enabling Rust (let alone requiring it) is that Linux still supports platforms which Rust does not.
Re:Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion on Thursday December 18, 2025 @12:30AM (#46309187)
I think code size is one notable reason
While saying "it's an herbicide, not a pesticide" is categorically incorrect, I still think it would be better if the journalist used the more specific and less confusing term here.
Off topic, but I'm curious. Why are you typing spaces before every period and comma?
Re:Secondary school maths showing that AI systems don't think on Friday December 12, 2025 @06:14PM (#46250202)
Similarity of the hardware is absolutely irrelevant when we're talking about emergent behavior like "thought".
Creators say that premium is a huge chunk of their YouTube revenue. I'm inclined to believe them over some random like you.
Re:Google is killing the open web, part 2 on Monday November 17, 2025 @01:23PM (#45956339)
JavaScript is backwards compatible. You can use an older standard supported by everything if you wish.
No. The powder he's promoting in the video (which performs better than pods) actually costs more per wash than the most effective pods on the market (Cascade Platinum Plus).
Re:Svelte is that fast on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @04:21PM (#45520170)
I love Svelte. When I first used it, it was like using a framework for the first time: Wow, everything is namespaced to the component, even CSS! Wow, just putting $ in front makes it update automatically! etc, etc
Re:Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit on Friday September 19, 2025 @09:37PM (#45309113)
They asked what was controversial about what he said, not whether the FCC's actions were constitutional.
Re:New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @12:43PM (#45184626)
Private healthcare is barely a market at all - heavily distorted due to government policy.

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