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I'm not saying they're completely equivalent but as a result of this whole tracking there are rather complete profiles about millions of people in some companies' DB, including hyper sensitive data such as sexual and political orientation which is just one The Purge scenario away from being abused on a massive scale. But even at a smaller scale, this data can be extremely (incl physically) harmful to individuals when leaked or when it falls into the wrong hands (Eg gay person in Uganda. EDIT: or a completely normal person in a future McCarthy-style witch hunt).

Somewhat unrelated to your point but the phrase "Google these days" made me think the following: Could Google freeze its index and capabilities every one or two years and make it available as a sort of "search the web like it was in 2008" archive? That might also solve the problem of how to prioritize search results over time. The people in 2015 are likely to have been interested in different things than the people of 2040, especially for some search terms (vine for example). I mean they already do this by having different search engines for different countries/languages.

I'm not sure about this, but there is a way to make someone a co-host who could then presumably make those decisions?

> That's a critical detail and I never know how to really get that point through to people.

I haven't had a look at either of these platforms (and have in fact only learned about them just now) but I think you just did.

Nothing to share with the wider internet at the moment, I'm afraid. We're just ships passing each other at night in the middle of the ocean. Smooth sailing!

Man, you're on fire! First fraidyc.at and now this. Kudos!

In German they are called Lustiges Taschenbuch and have been a fixture of most kids' rooms at least since the 80s

Isn't the point of this product to _not_ have ads anymore?

I've got nothing to add but I just wanted to remark that your description sounds incredibly gruesome.

I used h2testw on Windows to do this. It writes a 1-GB files with a special pattern on the disk until it is full (or however many GB you specified before starting it). It then tries to read them all back to see if they have been written correctly.

Wow, what a ride. 7-zip is awesome. For anything involving (suspected) data loss or "data disappearance", I usually try Testdisk/photorec from https://www.cgsecurity.org/

Having seen two unfortunate sufferers of this disease up close I would like to thank all people involved in researching it and those caring for HD patients from the bottom of my heart. (After highschool i worked in a hospital for a few months and the expressions of these two middle aged people is seared into my memory.)

well, it sure seems that crises-within-crises is the new normal so your wish could be granted...

Strongly agree, especially when watching season 2

Do you not have long vacations in the country you live/grew up in? (Sorry for sounding kind of snarky.)

Misleading headline. It's a _hypothesis_ that seems to reconcile two different ways of calculating the Hubble constant (that describes the universe's expansion), that has previously been at odds with each other

What do these cron jobs check for?

I think this was used in Skype as well during the mid 00s

That's the main problem on the internet, I think: not finding stuff but finding it again!

The article talks a bit about this, and fast charging seems to bring some problems with it, though:

_Theoretically, these power capacitors could be wrapped up into a big battery pack and used to power a long-range, super fast charging EV. The high-power versions can charge to 75 percent in five minutes, for example. But Verhulst doesn't believe this tech will flood the automotive market. "You need a charger that can handle it," he tells us. "A 10 kWh pack charged in five minutes means you'd need a 100 kW charger. If you then go to the big ones, say a 100 kWh battery, you'd need a megawatt charger. That's a lot. That's a whole power station. So scalability is still an issue."_

That is true but also kind of my point: The epidemic Europe is facing could be the kind of event that triggers the necessary changes and investments for this to type of development to happen. Given Germany's federal-style education system I'm not holding my breath though...

I was thinking more about schools switching over to remote education like they currently do in China. I guess that this sort of app and video conferencing system is currently infeasible in the more rural parts of Germany due to lack of bandwidth.

I hope that this Corona virus epidemic is going to be the thing that finally pushes broadband expansion to the countryside in Germany...

They write that they'll be at the Battery Show 2020 in Stuttgart (28 to 30 April, Booth C229.): https://kurt.energy/visit-us-at-the-battery-show-2020-stuttg...

EDIT: Maybe they could partner up with the capacitor-electrode-made-from-Durian people? https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/super-stinky-durian-...

Meaning?

Very cool, thank you! How's the noise after you switched the fans?

Afaik, asics are unsuitable for most types of computation, except those they were designed to run (ie mining a specific type of crypto currency)

Maybe it's to do with having to peel it back during the day? Should be quite an increase of mechanical complexity compared to just switching the lights on and off

Interesting. If I understand you correctly, you are saying that it makes more sense to look for large IR sources (without accompanying visible light), instead of looking for radio signals. Correct?

Magic the gathering decks (60-100 cards) also seem to trigger this as they also show up as dark blocks on x-ray