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The same issues are faced by anyone who works in a bullet proof vest.

Try selecting one: Wrap around gives better protection, at the expense if movement, weight, and a lack if airflow.

Side panels give better protection, at the expense on movement, weight, and a lack if airflow.

Trauma plates give better protection at the expense of...

You can armor someone like the LA Bank Robbery, but they can not fight.

The trade-offs are not easy to replicate because we are all made differently. A military can sculpt their warriors until they are all the same shape, but they lose other things.

Overweight cops especially have issues with the trade-offs in their body armor.

Doing a Formula 1 tace on a single set of tires would change the strategy in auto racing. I strongly disapprove.

It's not exactly the point of this story, but I found a way to reduce the number of waste tires I generate.

Tires with 6/32" to 8/32" of tread are a scam. They get flats, and wear down to the legal minimum (in Texas) of 3/32" very quickly.

I buy tires with 19/32" of tread. No nail has yet managed to go through 19/32" of tread (or that much air gap) plus through the equivalent of a 10-ply design to puncture my tire, at least not until I wear them down to 6/33".

If we wanted puncture-proof, run-flat, handle-like-touring-tires, last-forever tites, we could have them. They are out there.

> It's a price problem, not a technical one.

How do you define "technical problem" if you ignore the cost of the inputs to your system?

Regrettably, Texas public universities have destroyed most of the original documents about slavery they had from the era of slavery. Almost every document freeing slaves was destroyed.

They destroyed these irreplaceable historical documents because those documents offended their modern sensibilities.

I believe history should be preserved. Even lying propaganda has value to historians.

YC should back duplicate startups because each startup's chance of success is low. If it makes sense to back a startup with a 10% chance of being a big company later, then a second such startup also makes sense, even if there is a 1% chance that they both make it and one of them is not needed.

The problem is when someone says the quiet part out loud, and the duplicate startups start talking to each other. The people at one startup refuse to do useful work because they incorrectly believe the other startup have a better idea. You want to leave those decisions to senior management, who can move technologies to make one company successful.

Have you ever suddenly received an influx of employees because someone jast realized that there was a duplicate company doing the same thing (fake gasp) and that it was time to combine the best parts of both the get a product? Somehow, despite nobody knowing there were duplicate startups, a proof of concepts has been working for a few months combining the best bits from each of 3 (fake gasp) startups, and the third one had very little to contribute so you will not see their people around.

I'm sorry if my post hurts anyone's plans. Fell free to delete it.

A lot of people want to eliminate nuclear weapons, but how many if them have looked at the consequences?

Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons, and as a result hundreds of thousands of people have died.

I am not aware of any significant casualties from the possession of nuclear weapons by any nation that has had operational nukes for more than 2 years.

It seems that if we want to reduce casualties, then we want everyone to keep their nukes.

Please tell me if I am wrong.

I wish the environmentalists would make up their minds.

Either they want clean power from hydroelectric dams or the don't.

I wonder how different the world would be if we behaved ourselves and welcomed fair competition?

Maybe it would be close to paradise.

Part of what the article says is "Adults need at least 150 to 300 minutes of moderate aerobic activity or 75 to 150 minutes of vigorous aerobic exercise per week, according to the World Health Organization."

It bugs me when people leave out the units. The title says we need 150-300 minutes of activity on our adult lifetime, which is woefully inadequate.

I wonder if this is for real, or if someone not connected to the authors will send out viruses.

All searched require a warrant.

That's in the 4th Amendment.

I thought it was 12 monkeys in the movie...

Books, how-to videos, and programs that run without an Internet connection.

Do yourself a favor.

Get a cable tester.

Test every cable and cut up/throw away the ones you do not love.

Then order more really good ones than you can justify and keep them handy.

USB-C adoption will take time.

I can imagine a day, 10 years from now, when I only carry an IEC power cable,a 2-prong power cable, a Cat 7, 8, or 9 Ethernet cable,a HDMI cable with a couple of adapters, and a few USB-C cables.

If we keep improving USB-C cables like we have Cat cables, and keep them at 28 V, 5 A power delivery, with power meters on at least one connector, I'll be happy.

As a teacher, I love explaining how professional most IT security software is. I go over several acronyms for various software packages.

Then I ask the class to guess at where Wazuh's name came from.

It's not a concept from The Art of War in the original Chinese.

It's not an ancient Samurai motto.

It's from "Up you wazuh"

I am using a pair of 43", 4k TVs. The 2x43" configuration has been my working setup for about a decade. I love it.

Anything bigger than 43" diagonal causes neck pain because it is too tall.

I understand three 32" TVs also work.

I believe the contracts POS companies sign with VISA, MasterCard, and many others require the certify their hardware.

So I do not expect to see hardware agnostic POS providers.

I would love to be proven wrong.

The team behind the LHC laid out the criteria for discovering the Highs Boson before beginning their experiments.

They never came close to what they said they needed.

But they now claim they succeeded in finding the Highs Boson.

And the paper setting out the criteria has been memory holed.

I call BS in the Highs Bozo team.

How long until it is profitable the tell a cheap AI to "win this game by collecting resources and advancing in-game" and then sell the account on eBay?

I wonder what optimizations could be made? Could a gold farmer have the directions from one AI control many accounts? Could the AI program simpler bots for each bit of the game?

I can imagine not being smart enough to play against computers, because I am flagged as a bot. I can imagine a message telling me I am banned because "nobody but a stupid bot would score so low."

Many who want to avoid taps on their cables will resist standard connectors if they are not both tamper-proof and tamper-evident.

This is the kind of sentencing we need.

Every count of fraud needs to carry a separate time in confinement, and those times need to be added.

Unless they force their employees to buy them, their share price will crater.

As a teacher, I love it.

I wish we could let each student and each teacher leave a 1-line comment on the other party that permanently goes on both peoples' records.

If nobody paid ransoms, ransomware would cease.

Prosecuting the companies who have paid, disbarring their attorneys, and seizing their assets to pay off future victims of ransomware (so they can replace their systems and data) would stop ransomware.

Good job.

A voice interface to an unmanned eye in the sky or close air support is every soldier's dream.

I wonder what HIV tests cost.

Also, if I were dying of organ failure, getting (treatable) HIV to get a transplant might be a good deal. This is not 1988. HIV is treatable today.

Note: There are 3 kinds of illness: curable, treatable, and terminal.

Curable illnesses can (generally) be cured.

Treatable illnesses will be with the patient for the rest of their life, but are treatable so the patient does not have to die from them.

Terminal illnesses kill the patient.

(oof-topic) I would be very suspicious of a dongle that plugged into an Ethernet port or USB port that said "AIRGAPPED - NO NOT CONNECT."

Why not seat the waste in casks, drop them into subduction zones, and let the Earth's recycling of its crust do the rest?