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I was thinking of the kind of high-energy photon sources that sprawl across a large laboratory campus behind rings of security fences. These things can definitely erode the targets…

Now you're making me imagine some kind of 3D-scanning, confocal x-ray fluorescent spectroscope. Or maybe some kind of hybrid of x-ray microtomography and spectroscopic analysis all…

I didn't really mean to emphasize CRUD when I mentioned REST. Just that it is an example of a natural mapping for some domains. I'm not a fan of anything trying to solve distribute…

Right, as far as live exposure, I associate its usage with UK/AU/NZ expats in my western US, academic R&D microcosm.

Some might call this pedantic, but I think physical reality provided us the earliest idempotency keys, which were natural keys in specific systems. Some effects are idempotent beca…

It's a lot more spread out than that since women have so many potential reproductive years. There are families out there still with 18-20 year cycles and could pretty much tick off…

People with irresponsible parents often end up feeling less responsibility towards them. People with responsible parents often feel more responsibility towards them. Often, the irr…

Of course, that whack-a-mole is an intrinsic part youth and adolescence too. I think back to my mostly analogue school days. We found ways to disobey and amuse ourselves in the cla…

It would be interesting to have a general fix for this in git. Something that more carefully splits the metadata from the working copy, a bit like we used to routinely do with "sha…

The previous point is fair though. What is the energy density of gasoline in a stoichiometric mixture with its oxidizer and not already detonated? That's where TNT beats it by a lo…

I had a similar wincing reaction to the expressed idea of wanting to converge output, control, and interaction under a terminal muxer in today's wacky world. But that's because tod…

It's interesting all the permutations there are out there. We have gas from PG&E. Our house has an electric clothes dryer, gas stove with dual-fuel oven, gas furnace, and gas water…

Not necessarily... it isn't as straightforward as "stronger El Niño means more rain". The steering of the jet stream seems to have some qualitative changes in these conditions but …

People seem focused on the interpersonal conflict angle in the comments here, i.e. winning and losing in a battle of wills. I think its just as important to realize ideas themselve…

You're saying that as if survival doesn't remain an evolutionary pressure. Life is inherently demanding, and many mutations are lethal. So, at best, the argument seems to be that t…

It was also nearly magical how long my final Walkman could run with a single AA cell.

I wonder if something like this could follow the spirit of "tag" URIs where you include a temporal component. A semantics of "namespace Foo as established time T." Any usage of the…

Hiring a great F1 driver does not make a racing team owner a great driver. Some of the people shoveling LLM slop seem to miss that point.

I think you need to analyze the disaster scenarios and recovery costs you are trying to balance before you can really evaluate these different options. If you are on reasonable sto…

This kind of advice is very dependent on the scenario. If you are doing some kind of full cross product where the join creates a much larger set of rows, it could optimize the DB l…

Well, it does rely on decomposing the problem to optimize cache efficiency. I don't read Portuguese, but the tables of results seem to imply they are tuning block sizes that levera…

Understood and agreed. I admit I was feeling a bit pithy with that comment. I shouldn't really have referenced "replace" at all, but rather "optimize". And not targeting middle man…

One of the most common interactions I witness at our local supermarket butcher counter is the guy explaining to yet another customer that the advertised weekly special sold out bef…

Now let's talk about how AI could replace Kaiser middle management and streamline bureaucracy to preserve more budget for doctors and nurses...

You say "digital" rather than "smart". Digital or analog, a basic watch has that single advantage of being mounted on the wrist. It is always there, supporting a quick glance when …