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steve19··on Blocking Untrusted USB Devices
No. They just need 5v and increase it until it is high enough to blow something.
steve19··on Long Live Microbiomes
Did they accurately measure them in 1940? I would also think trace minerals vary at least a little based on geographical location.

Anyway here is a journal article by a Canadian govt scientist that refutes that minerals in food/soil is depleted:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088915751...

steve19··on The D-Day rehearsal that cost 800 lives (2014)
That is fascinating, especially how the people responsible managed to keep it hushed up for so long.

> The D-Day rehearsal, codenamed Exercise Tiger, was a disaster on a grand scale with the loss of life greater than the actual invasion of Normandy just months later

I am not sure how they did the maths on this. According to the WWII and DDay Foundation [0] 12,000 men died in the air operations in preparation for the landing, and 2,500 Allies troops died during the landing.

I can only thing they mean the proportion of death was higher (death/participants).

[0] https://www.wwiifoundation.org/students/wwii-facts-figures/

steve19··on Ceramic-bearing bicycle drive shaft (2018)
I think the GP is right, I did a quick Google and found sites saying 93-97.5% and it depends on power output. I would expect a dirty chain to be worse.
steve19··on A Walk in Hong Kong
Except they did. The horsemen got fat on Chinese food and used to Chinese comforts and culture.

They stopped riding and became Chinese (just not Han Chinese). China today claims the whole of Mongolia as theirs.

steve19··on Amazon offered ‘Amazon’s Choice’ to vendors who bought ads and lowered prices
I have noticed this in supermarkets as well. Either it is to trick the consumers but could equally be consumers would rather buy 6 cans of X in a pack than go to the effort of taking 6 cans individually off the shelf.
steve19··on A Proper Symbol of Office: US House of Representatives
European fascists appropriated aesthetics from ancient cultures intentionally.

A mace and an Eagle as a symbol of office goes back thousands of years, which is mentioned in the article itself.

steve19··on Cloudflare S-1
Not true, Zoom has developed and deployed very sophisticated malware which would be hard to replicate on purpose or through incompetence.
steve19··on We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up (2015)
I remember really enjoying paying around with rebol back in the day. Sadly I think it was open open sourced after development ceased. The bug tracker that was set up looks abandoned with nobody assigning tickets.
steve19··on Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots into Bee Farms (2018)
A/B testing headlines is not uncommon
steve19··on What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
In my case and for many other people, mice are part of the problem.
steve19··on What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
I was in the same situation. It is incredibly frustrating to learn but it just takes time.

I kept two mice on each side of the computer for years and alternated between them as required.

steve19··on Who Owns Huawei?
Given that most news media, and many CEOs, in the country oppose the President, with impunity, it is hard to argue the government has the same level of control.
steve19··on Who Owns Huawei?
Zuck could be successfully sued if he acted in a way that obviously enriched himself at the expense of other shareholders. The court does not recognise that he owns the entire company, therefor he does not.
steve19··on AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip
Thanks for the information. Does GPU passthrough to Windows allow high-end gaming from Linux (running a windows VM)? What specs would I need to look for in a motherboard to support that?
steve19··on AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip
Does the X570 support ECC RAM?
steve19··on TV detector van
Its the opposite. The TV vans were the parallel construction, they couldn't have worked but they were known to send licensing officers to look through peoples windows during prime TV watching hours.
steve19··on Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye
This makes me so sad. Would be great if the magazines pdf could be uploaded to the Internet archive.
steve19··on AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
I think the one reason is that if you need the best gaming desktop performance Intel still dominates, but that little extra performance is coming at a very steep price.

My next desktop of will be AMD+Nvidia. Now if only I could avoid the Nvidia tax for deep learning...

steve19··on Kazakhstan's National HTTPS Certificate Is Cancelled
As I wrote in a comment on that post:

"I can't help but think if the government were wanting to spread positive propoganda about these tests, your post is exactly what they would write: "everyone wins and everyone is happy with our results of MTIMing the entire country".

Who knows how much information the state hoovered up during this "pilot".

steve19··on What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and Elsevier
At one point in time she banned the whole of Russia from accessing sci-hub after she felt that some Russian scientists had been insulting when they named a parasitic insect after her. Late last year Russia banned isps from accessing sci-hub.

It may or may not be hosted in Russia, but I agree it is not "Russian".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/sci-hub-blocked-in-russi...

steve19··on National Certificate in Kazakhstan Is Canceled
> P.S. We are especially proud of our role in the process. It was difficult not to fall into a negative point and maintain neutrality, but now we are satisfied with ourselves.

Not sure if the translation has not carried through. Are you staying you are pleased you did not oppose it because opposing it might have caused to government to make it permanent?

Sounds like the moment the government needs to crack down on someone they will flip the switch knowing there won't be any opposition.

I can't help but think if the government were wanting to spread positive propoganda about these tests, your post is exactly what they would write: "everyone wins and everyone is happy with our results of MTIMing the entire country".

steve19··on Finnair Flight 915
So that begets the question, why do the Fins allow the Russian to use their planes as target practice by keeping silent?
steve19··on Google Discontinues Hangouts on Air
Compared to any app that does not secretly install insecure spyware.
steve19··on U.S. Treasury Department Labels China a Currency Manipulator
China's government policy and central bank tightly control the exchange rate and only allow it to fluctuate within certain predetermined bands.

"An official re-adjustment of the mid-point rate for the trading band is announced by the country's Foreign Exchange Trading Center at 9:15 a.m. each day, Shanghai time."

https://www.fxcm.com/uk/insights/how-does-china-control-exch...

So each day the government says what the currency should be and gives traders very little wiggle room.

As for the first question should they or shouldn't they do it, I don't know.

steve19··on FBI: Delivery drivers involved in Amazon theft ring
I have worked in the shipping industry (shipping as in ocean transportation). We had a very high rate of damage to pallets containing beer. A forklift clips a 6 pack on the corner breaking one or two bottles. Insurance pays out for entire pallet, stevedores go home with a lot of beer.

Theft was considered a insurable cost of business. I am sure insurance rates were priced accordingly. I am also sure our rate of theft was no different to any other port in the country.

steve19··on ThorShield Energy Weapon Protection Fabric
I have fired non-consumer Tasers a number of times (at targets, not a living things). The thin needles of a Taser are more likely to pentrate armor than a lage knife. And a knife is more likely than a bullet. Bulletproof vests are not necessarily knife proof, they capture bullets by binding them and dissipating energy rather than stopping them dead (that is what ballistic plates/inserts are for)

That said needle proof vets are common and used by law enforcement.

steve19··on As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (2017)
What makes you think there would be less crime when the crime rate is already very low?

Spending less money on police and more on things such as social welfare will probably do more for crime than getting them to plant trees or whatever.

steve19··on Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
Thanks but that is not what the OP is claiming. That generates text from a seed, the OP is talking about an article that generates a summary of an article, but without using existing sentences.
steve19··on Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
I'm interested in learning about true generation algorithms. Can you point me in the right direction?
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