Come on man... When has prohibition ever worked for this kind of thing? Whenever you take something away from a person with the reason being "that's bad for you!", that will always increase that person's urge to circumvent your ban. Talk about forbidden fruit.
edit: looking at your blog.. everything makes sense now, coming from the most backwards environment imaginable.
The work Bentley did sounds very impressive and I in no way strive to downplay his archival achievements. I do however take offense with the semantics of the wording. Not finding an exception isn't what proving means.
Or, as Dr. Carl Sagan put it: absence of evidence != evidence of absence.
You are comparing Ansel Adam's Dodge and Burn (which certainly alters the image quite a bit, no question) with pasting different mountain ranges and a snow leopard together, making essentially a digital composite? That's ridiculous! One is increasing and decreasing light and shadow in an image, only working with what was captured physically on that sheet of film. The other is copy and pasting from different photographs, making it seem like it was one photo. Totally different ball games in my eyes.
No one on this site should love SMS. It's just a huge security vulnerability and while it sucks having to reactivate the built-in SMS app I totally get their reasoning behind it. Having SMS integrated into Signal was damaging their reputation for something they could never have any control over, so why support it? Any business trying to stay alive would repeat their decision on this.
I've started to just generate a 10-char alphanumerical string with the password generator feature and use that as the username on new accounts, starting to update them retroactively, too (by scrapping the old account and making a new one).
Holy shit. I never made the connection with Otto Normalverbraucher. Thanks for making me click with this little piece of German trivia on the day German history was made! :)
This is not racist. It's a very rude, most notably false and nationalist take – but not a racist one. We should be distinguishing between these two, as not doing so will lead to actual racism to go unpunished.
That's great if that works for you. But for me being productive often includes multiple PDF files or editor windows being open and having them all float or just two next to each other just isn't an option. With a tiling wm I can have 4 or 6 windows PDFs open on a single 24" monitor and that works perfectly.
Just let people decide for themselves how to be productive, it's great your work allows you to be productive on two windows, some other people may need more, some less.
Right, but that's the thing about efficiency, it's relative.
Another poster made some napkin calculations, even with a 99% effective process, meaning 1% energy lost to the environment, he calculated several kW of heat you need get out of your system.
Even if you have 99% efficiency, which in reality is mostly unachievable, that's still a huge loss of energy if the energy you're handling is high enough.
A few years ago I was writing a (semi-)scientific paper ("Seminarfacharbeit") with two other students as part of the high school graduation process (Abitur) in Germany. The general topic was water and air recycling/purification and plant nurturing for long duration space trips such as a trip to Mars. In the course of writing the paper we had access to a Mars regolith simulant with a very analogous chemical composition to real Mars regolith. We experimented with growing tomatoes, soybeans, radish, spinach and some salad variant I don't remember the name of, each with and without fertilizer. We did'nt have a lot of time and not enough regolith simulant to get significant results, but after a month tomatoes, soybeans and radish showed large growth, with sprout shoots of up to 20cm. We also controlled lighting to be more similar to Mars, although there isn't much difference in daytime lengths. Unfortunately we weren't able to control the atmosphere to be similar to Mars atmosphere, so take our results with a grain of salt.
You've got cause and effect flipped. The method of faceting or scattering from even, panelled surfaces is an effect of the root cause, namely the computer's inability to compute more complex radar profiles. You can read more about this in Ben Rich's book 'Skunk Works', the story about his time as the director of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Projects, informally called Skunk Works. Great read!
For me at least I feel like there's a difference between being unproductive due to doomscrolling $socialMedia and being unproductive due to a more 'traditional' way of "wasting" (as in not being productive) time. Spending time on a grassfield in the sun is just as unproductive as doomscrolling, yet it feels a whole lot different. One feels abusive and abrasive to the soul; the other is relaxing and soothing. All while being unproductive. There may be a lot more layers to this productivity conundrum than being just a productivity boolean.
Mine's https://cramer.tech
It's mostly for publishing my photography for friends since I don't use social media apart from HN. I plan to populate it with lots more content soon, photography as well as writing. Built on GitHub Pages and Jekyll from the Student Pro Pack, might build something from scratch once that runs out.
Most (if not all) nuclear scientists and radiation experts I've seen tslking about this say this is a wrong assumption. Cheryl Rofer, former nuclear scientist, made a napkin calculation and suggested it would need about 57 years of camping in the hottest (= most irradiated) parts of the red forest to acquire ARS (acute radiation syndrome). Even if the digging and kicking up dust there elevated the radioactivity levels, it would take a hell of a lot to get from 57 years to one month. Keep in mind that the most radioactive snd thus dangerous elements also decay the quickest, because of course both properties stem from the same thing, redioactive decay. The more dangerous the quicker it's gone.
Well in a sense, yes. There are uncountable videos of MLRS (Multiple-Launch rocket system) strikes, and by the nature of them, those are basically carpet bombing. While not actual bombs dropped from bombers, these rockets are meant to to destroy a large area of surface, not discriminating between soldiers and civilians, just like carpet bombing. Putin and is commiting war crimes every minute of this unjustified war he is forcing upon Europe. Keep in mind you have to separate the Russian people from Putin and also separate Russian Forces functionaries and High Command from the low ranks that are sent to their death, often just 18-20 years old and basically without any combat training. Truly a tragic war, while not unexpected or suprising, this is shattering the piece and fundamentals of democracy, international law and human rights. Don't let Putin get away with this atrocity, he needs to feel justice in the form of painful death!
Putin is killing civilians en masse in Ukraine right now. I'm pretty sure the whole world over knows who the target is, at least the ones in business with democracy and justice systems.