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I don't know if this comment is satire or not, but I thought the company existed to provide a fast and (relatively) safe means of travel over long distances to people. I guess the …

Maybe the connection to this topic won't be obvious, but I used to read Animal Farm and think that the Donkey was supeior to the Horse. Nowadays I don't think that anymore. The Hor…

A great tool, trully a programmer's text editor. Used it for more than 10 years, it seemed like it had plugins for virtually eveything. I remember one time we had to work with huge…

This answer: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/34627 is most likely correct. Based on the fact that main carriage is off the ground, flap setting and wing AoA. During departure …

500 milliseconds is huge. I don't know what that app does, but in my world if you have as much as 10 microseconds delay you've blown your time budget and you're missing all your KP…

It's not the competion that matters, not even playing against or defeating the #1 tennis player. Think of it as a tennis point being played. If both you and #1 play the point perfe…

I'm not a professional so what I'm saying could be stupid, but I don't see why anti-coagulant medication has to act globally in the organism for something that is a localized issue…

> Sir — A. J. Tatem and colleagues calculate that women may out-sprint men by the middle of the twenty-second century (Nature 431,525; 2004). They omit to mention, however, that (a…

The facts so far are that two new aircraft of the same model have crashed in a very short period of time, in the same stage of flight and exhibiting the same problem as evidenced b…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Kursk_(K-141... Best decision: don't build it, if it's already built don't launch it, destroy it as soon as possible.

Why the need for actors? The ML could be trained on millions of hours of existing movies and produce fake, convincing personas. Why the need for spectators? The ML could analyse th…

Let's imagine a future where fully autonomous weapons exist. Advanced AI is driving them, and technological advances have enabled the weapons to have better sight (wide spectrum se…

I've used recent enough Dell and Asus laptops, no issues whatsoever.

Tip: when X hangs, press Ctrl-Alt-F1 or F2 to switch to console mode, then Ctrl-Alt-F7 (or F8 on some distros) to go back to X. While in terminal mode you can investigate which pro…

Oh but we have them. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were such people.

In US, if you say anything bad about US leaders, maybe you have trouble at the border when you go on holiday. In Russia, you can say anything about US leaders, and nobody will care…

I don't understand why this post is downvoted. You have a perfect example of an AI algorithm parsing text, determining feeling and responding with what it thinks are relevant words…

I'm sorry, but the quality of comments on that question is really low, apart from one. A malicious compiler can easily insert malicious code into you executable, and if you are not…

First question I would ask: what compiler are you using, and have you audited the binary it spits out. Sometimes it pays to know a little assembly and be able to use a debugger.

No, I'm sorry, you got this wrong. When you do that, you are not "calling" the cat, you are effectively controlling it with your mind eye. You need to be very careful with that, do…

I think that it might end up looking more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl_zQ3TTejU

How about using electro-magnetic waves to alter the brain function temporarily and provoke it to lose consciousness? Sounds like a hard technical challenge, but we can already deli…

So it seems the author has identified a real issue here, but I will go meta on this and identify issues with his demonstration. In my organization this would count as a bug report,…