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Comment · 9 days ago
The guy was a paedophile and justified it because he was so intelligent he deserved to sleep with children.
Comment · 4 months ago
Don't forget snap, crackle and pop, and quantum teleportation.

Physicists get a failing grade for naming things.

Comment · 7 months ago
My goal this year is to finish his 40ish hour course. Excellent quality course at a good pace.
Comment · 7 months ago
Australia reporting in.

We have private emergency rooms. We call them urgent care and you can go and see a qualified physician with allied health services (radiology, pathology). If they can fix you up they will. If not you get transferred via ambulance to the nearest public hospital and triaged as required.

I took my kid to one last weekend as they had been diagnosed by our family Dr as having pneumonia. The emergency physician ordered chest x-ray and full suite of pathology and we had results in less time than we would have waited in the public hospital waiting room. Yes we paid.

Comment · 10 months ago
I took read it this year and invested about 8 weeks getting through it. I found the story disjointed, repetitive and very hard to follow. It was only after finishing it I discovered I had read the abridged version that cuts out a number of chapters leaving multiple characters without conclusions. No wonder it was difficult to follow.
Comment · 11 months ago
I made the same mistake and blew $60k.

I have never understood why the S3 endpoint isn't deployed by default, except to catch people making this exact mistake.

Comment · 11 months ago
Why not use a faster hashing algorithm like xxhash?

This code is using sha256 which, whilst cryptography secure, is a massive burden for computation.

Comment · 1 year ago
As someone who does tape recovery on very very old tape I largely concur with this with a couple of caveats.

1. Do not encrypt your tapes if you want the data back in 30/50 years. We have had so many companies lose encryption keys and turn their tapes into paperweights because the company they bought out 17 years ago had poor key management.

2. The typical failure case on tape is physical damage not bit errors. This can be via blunt force trauma (i.e. dropping, or sometimes crushing) or via poor storage (i.e. mould/mildew).

3. Not all tape formats are created equal. I have seen far higher failure rates on tape formats that are repeatedly accessed, updated, ejected, than your old style write once, read none pattern.

Comment · 1 year ago
I suspect they do a radon transform of the paths to determine the infrared transmissibility value. Similar to how CT scans are constructed from 1000's of micro x-rays.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not from North America. But I disagree that the exceptionalism started post WWII.

How do you explain the country's ability to perform civil engineering feats prior to WWII. The Erie Canal, Trans-continental Railway, Panama Canal, Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Building and Golden Gate Bridge spring to mind as feats of engineering that few other country's (if any) could rival. There are obvious examples post WWII (Manhattan project, Apollo program, Interstate highway system), but for all of the USA's pitfalls, they do have an incredible history of civil engineering projects prior to WWII.

Comment · 1 year ago
Liquid hydrogen can also cause hydrogen embrittlement. Not ideal in a high performance machine.
Comment · 1 year ago

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