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When I first saw the quoted resistivity, 0.002 ohms per cm, my thought was "this is not even a conductor, let alone a superconductor". 0.2 Ohms/m is several orders of magnitude less conductive than most metals, and solidly in the semiconductor range.

Some people, who do not normally pay attention to this kind of issue, are shocked when they learn the extent of the knuckle-draggers' abuse. It is worthwhile noting that in 2023, in the US alone, no less than 566 anti-trans bills have been proposed in 49 states.

This goes far beyond hate speech, actively criminalizing the existence of trans people.

I was using "download" in a very broad sense. I wanted to view them on my iPad. Is that what you mean by 'access'?

In any case, the site is stupidly bad ad describing what exactly you get for your PRO subscription.

Back in the day, I ran my own email server, and dealing with spam was a constant pain in the butt.

I wrote a spam filter, based on source addresses, "spammy" keywords and such, but it was about as effective as you would expect. Most spam had to be classified manually.

When I first read "A Plan For Spam", I sat down and wrote a Bayes classifier (pretty much a straightforward implementation of his proposal) in a couple of hours. Due to running my own server, I had a ready-made corpus of hand-curated spam and ham on which to train the classifier.

It worked astonishingly well, and I ran that classifier unmodified for another couple of years, until SpamAssassin became good.

> Leave decisions like these to the engineers.

Maybe for a 1.1x increase in features, but for 1.5x (provided the new features solve actual customer problems), I will choose the genie every time. /PM

The article is from a couple of years ago, but their bad practices continue.

I subscribed to their PRO offering, but due to some kind of glitch on their side, I am unable to actually download any scores listed under PRO. When I try to download, the site just says "PRO subscription required"; when I go to my account, it says "PRO subscription active".

The thing is, downloading scores is not something I do every day. So, I would run into the problem, submit a support request and forget about it for a while. Next time I want to download a score, I run into the same issue again, and realize that their support never even bothered to reply to my previous request. Rinse, repeat.

What a terrible company to do business with.

The only time I would be worried about authorities knowing what I am buying would be if I were buying an axe, a rope and a shovel.

The people cheating taxes through cash transactions are not driving Ferraris, but they are buying groceries with un-taxed wads of money at Costco.

Not relevant in this example, but another terrible user interface in the cockpit is the FMC. That thing with the '70s era green screen, where pilots program routes with cryptic codes, seemingly inherited from the Apollo guidance computer.

So many accidents seem to happen when pilots receive a route change and have to hastily re-program the FMC.

A few years ago, I retrofitted my entire house with Lutron Caseta switches, for home automation purposes.

The Casetas allow me to soft-start each bulb, and to run lights at less than full brightness most of the time.

It would have been interesting to see the effect on incandescent bulb life, but I also took the opportunity to replace all light bulbs with dimmable LCD, so the question is moot.

> cannot be successfully photographed

I highly, highly doubt that is the case.

Maybe it is hard to take a good photo with a phone in point and shoot mode. But any professional photographer and most experienced amateurs can absolutely take a good photo of them.

There are only two provisos: they have to use a manually adjustable camera, and they have to be able to control the lighting (even if only by asking the subjects to move around).

Funny story: Earlier this week, my Kagi results when to shit. If I made the slightest spelling mistake in a query, it would return nothing. Often it would just return nothing for a query where google would return millions of results.

It got so bad that I started getting in the habit of typing 'g' in front of searches to go straight to google, but then I was hit with the usual google issues of SEO sites, spam sites and low-quality results.

I wanted to cry in frustration because my wonderful Kagi experience was suddenly gone, and was furiously typing up a support ticket when I noticed that the "verbatim" choice was somehow permanently selected, after I tried it a few days ago.

Lessons learned:

1. Kagi really is hugely superior to google as a daily search engine

2. "Verbatim" should not be a sticky choice, or at least Kagi should enclose "verbatim" results (or lack thereof) in a bright pink frame or something.

Yes, that forward-thinking UI design immediately stuck me, and reminded me again why I am a loyal customer.

Tax evasion is my biggest gripe against the existence of cash.

As a professional working for a company, I have little or no means of avoiding tax. Rich people can and do pay expensive lawyers and accountants to exploit loopholes in tax law, to minimize their tax liability.

People in cash-friendly occupations, like contracting, likewise have the ability to hide income through under-the-table cash transactions.

Which leaves poor saps like me to carry an unfair percentage of the tax burden, just so that a few people can feel like they are evading government supervision. (Hint: they are not).

FTA: "Evan Zalys-Geller, a condensed matter physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, says that the resistance measurement wasn’t sensitive enough to distinguish between a zero resistance superconductor or a low-resistance metal like copper."

I have little knowledge of the field, but as an EE, I would have thought that making sure that you are actually able to measure the effect you are trying to prove would be step zero in an experimental setup, no?

Ancient idea. Many people running their own Asterisk instances have been using Lenny for years. (https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3b7na/the-story-of-lenny-th...).

You don't even need AI. The original Lenny is just a set of static recordings with a script that waits for the caller to respond to one before playing the next.

There is also such a thing as subtlety and nuance. Words borrowed from physical objects do not need to have, and in general do not have exactly the same meaning when applied to software.

I would love to see a picture of your computer pulling itself up by the straps on its physical boots the next time you press reset. Bleeding when a process is "killed".

Even something as superficially similar to real-world behaviour a "queueing" is implmented in a very different way in software, for the most part.

> in the process, he essentially destroyed what held it together

Not only that, but the man's disgusting political and social views tarnished everything he touched.

Yes, and since everybody did that, everyone managed to sour their entire user base on the idea of chatbots.

> The new and fresh

But that's just the point. New music all sounds the same. Half-spoken, mumbled lyrics- check. Autotuned to death- check. Forgettable tunes- check.

Watch this video, and tell me that there is no objective difference in quality between pre-2000 and post-2000 songs.

With a few exceptions, modern music is autotuned-to-death, boring, indistinguishable crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uMW2XsMx8Q

Sendy (https://sendy.co/) ticks all those boxes, plus it is self-hosted, so I don't need to share my database with anyone.

I was just reading an article from a HN story yesterday, where it was found that around 1/4 of data published in studies in anesthesiology were found to be faked. You know, anesthesiology, the field where giving you the wrong drug or the wrong amount can kill you.

I strongly suspect that a driving factor is guys like this - leaders who reward "positive" results and punish "negative" ones.

Yes, as I understand it, the “turn-on” effect is from the plasma generated while the star is falling into the gravity well. The bit of the star that passes the event horizon would be tiny.

Moreover, I believe that the radiation from an object falling into a black hole is redshifted so rapidly, that it effectively disappears from view in a very short time. An outside observer would not see anything “lingering” near the event horizon.

I find that to be much more of a problem with Android phones than iOS. I had to scrap two Samsung Galaxy phones after less than three years of use because they became so slow as to be unusable.

I am currently using a five-year-old iPhone Xs, and it seems to be just as fast as ever. The only issue I have with the device is decreasing battery life. If the battery was replaceable, I could easily use it for another 2–3 years at least.

Musescore the software is pretty good.

Musescore the company is a disaster. They took my money for a Pro subscription, without delivering the actual benefits. Their support organization is, as far as I can tell, nonexistent. After six months of trying, I have yet to find a way to get them to respond to my request for support.

AirBNB CEO in June/23: "We don't need no steenking Product Managers. Lets focus on site DESIGN".

AirBNB Customer in July/23: "They put me in a bathroom, but the DESIGN of the site was fabulous".

> “normal” people, when charged with a crime, are pulled through the ringer and taken through sometimes multi-month trials

Not to mention that a defence in a criminal trial will likely bankrupt all but the top 1%. Which is why innocent people almost always take a plea deal.

People are quick to say "I will sue", or "I will defend my innocence to the end", until presented with the potential bill. Justice is truly the providence of the rich, and the rich only.

Indeed. From Wikipedia : "A sample of the pure element has never been assembled, because any macroscopic specimen would be immediately vaporized by the heat of its radioactivity."

It is continuously formed by the decay of Thorium and Uranium.

Many people believe that the film "Threads" from 1984 is one of the most accurate depictions of the aftermath of a nuclear war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)