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Don't forget snap, crackle and pop, and quantum teleportation. Physicists get a failing grade for naming things.

My goal this year is to finish his 40ish hour course. Excellent quality course at a good pace.

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). I…

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 discovere…

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.

Why not use a faster hashing algorithm like xxhash? This code is using sha256 which, whilst cryptography secure, is a massive burden for computation.

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. …

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.

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 Eri…

Liquid hydrogen can also cause hydrogen embrittlement. Not ideal in a high performance machine.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43457666

Last year my company read in excess of 20,000 tapes from just about every manufacturer and software vendor. For modern, LTO/3592/T10000 era tapes the failure rate we see is around …

Curious to hear more details about your previous job? What were you doing to require 100k tapes?

> breaking the forever chemicals down into harmless, inorganic fluorine. It's sentences like this that make me question if the author has even a basic grasp of chemistry.

There was a large company in my city that had around 30 floors of staff and a dedicated full time contractor managing the expensive coffee machines on each floor (running dishwashe…

> Radio communication within caves is problematic because rock is a conductor and therefore absorbs radio waves. It's funny, I would have bet my house that rock is an insulator.

Thanks for taking the time to write this. I was under the incorrect impression the power consumption would related to the rendering of the image (ala CPU/GPU work). Having it relat…

> RTINGS measured the Samsung QN800A as consuming 139W typical, with a peak of 429W. Can you explain why does a TV's power fluctuate so much? What does peak load look like for a TV…

I have to respectfully disagree here. You place far too much stead in "individuals freely interacting" and none in "micromanaging bosses constantly hassling you at ridiculous hours…

Clearly this pdf is a couple of years old. It is missing Turkey -> Türkiye (2022)

Year of the Linux desktop at last!

> We baselessly claim a log-normal makes sense... I personally loved the semi cropped ChatGPT screen shot in figure 8 that has "Can you write me a paper on the game theory of names…