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Oh man. I was just reminded of ClearCase and Perforce and sort of threw up a little in the back of my mouth. You young whipper-snappers who didn't have to use ClearCase and have on…

That being said... it's actually somewhat uncommon for humans to drive into flooded streets. To the degree that people think it's notable enough to take videos and post them to soc…

I thought Weymo's were supposed to be "supervised" by humans in the Philippines. Maybe driving in circles in the suburbs and driving into flood waters happens only when the cars ar…

NICE!

Natalie mentions the Newman & Nagel's text "Gödel's Proof," a (//the//?) 1958 classic on the subject. [[ 1 ]] Having left IBM in December 1990, I spent a month with the text, dippi…

I just hope they stop him before he nukes the west coast. He said something about ending a society, I just wonder if he meant he wanted to to nuke San Francisco.

Data point: A couple years ago I worked for a company that calculated sales tax for customers. They had developed expertise in knowing where each jurisdiction kept it's tax code an…

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but the metric the OP was using was power density. nuke fuels are MUCH more energy dense than hydrocarbon fuels. but putting a reactor on each plane would probably have negative ex…

it might be fun to try to make a modern wooden sailing ship cargo fleet. maybe with an emergency diesel engine in the back.

i wish there was more talk about this. it seems i heard a lot about making hydrocarbons from co2 in the air + solar or algae a couple years ago. if your hydrocarbons are made this …

i would have given this guy credit if he compared cost of production for petro fuels when talking about energy debt. also conflates power with energy, but fine. if you talk about c…

Back in the day Convex Computer Corporation was laying off a large fraction of its staff. The plan was to come into the warroom and just hang out. Your manager would come and get y…

Modern CS programs teach to what they perceive to be the interview their students will encounter after graduation: what is a tree data structure, how to craft a SQL query and how t…

Maybe we'll see a boost in worker productivity.

I couldn't find reference to quintrophy or quintrophy1x in the IACR eprint archive (or on a google search.) And I think you forgot the references to external review.

yup, there was just so much money flowing around. it was like the dot com era for aeronautical engineers and machinists.

we lived in rona hills for about 4 years. not biking distance, but close enough to visit frequently. and as a youngster they let me conduct the AF orchestra there at the AF 25th an…

They tell the most pernicious lies about radiation.

not really.

I remember seeing this beast at the Air Force 25th anniversary in '72 at wright pat. Pretty sure the one I saw didn't ever fly again.

Apropos of Don't Look Up, 2024 YR4 doesn't yet have an official name (or at least I haven't heard it if it does.) So my friends have started calling it "2024 Dibiasky" as a joke.

I was sort of pulling for the asteroid and got depressed when I heard this, but then realized... 0.28 percent is not zero. There's still enough of a chance it'll hit that we're goi…

I guess this is for DOS only systems? I used elm on BSD/386 in the 80s, and honestly was a little surprised to learn it's still being maintained by Kari Hurtta. And then I was thin…