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tomonl··on Microgravity 101
I'm confused, the article simultaneously claims the ISS isn't "zero-G" and is "0G". Is it possible to conduct a true 0G experiment on the ISS, or is there always microgravity i.e. '10⁻³G to 10⁻⁶G'?
tomonl··on Migrating from Vue 2 to Svelte
I used those too, but it makes the upgrade to Vue 3 quite a bit harder.
tomonl··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
Luckily this law is not just for phones!

> Regardless of their manufacturer, all new mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones and headsets, handheld videogame consoles and portable speakers, e-readers, keyboards, mice, portable navigation systems, earbuds and laptops that are rechargeable via a wired cable, operating with a power delivery of up to 100 Watts, will have to be equipped with a USB Type-C port.

tomonl··on GPSJam: Daily Maps of GPS Interference
Was the drone not using the encrypted variant of GPS?
tomonl··on Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees
> made optimal decisions

Optimal decisions for themselves, not for the country.

tomonl··on Monty Hall Problem
This reminds me of the two envelopes problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_envelopes_problem

tomonl··on Saying the Difficult Things
And ASML, biggest supplier of photolithography systems, which is probably involved with most computer chips you'll find.
tomonl··on CSS Layout – Grid vs. Flexbox
And its grid counterpart Grid Garden. https://cssgridgarden.com
tomonl··on The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age
Sounds similar to Delft University of Technology too.
tomonl··on U.S. wants the EU to accept chemical-washed chicken as part of trade deal
If we look at hospitalizations or deaths the difference is still significant.

> Outbreaks due to Salmonella are on the rise, with S. Enteritidis causing one in six food-borne disease outbreaks in 2016. Salmonella bacteria were the most common cause of food-borne outbreaks (22.3%), an increase of 11.5% compared to 2015. They caused the highest burden in terms of numbers of hospitalisations (1,766; 45.6% of all hospitalised cases) and of deaths (10; 50% of all deaths among outbreak cases).

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/salmonella-cases-n...

tomonl··on One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI
> Total surveillance or global DNA law enforcement database would solve many murders and prevent wrongful convictions. However, it would also give many opportunities for framing convenient suspects and "encouraging" confessions.

I am afraid it could cause wrongful convictions as well. Let's say there is a 1 in a million chance of a false positive, if you have an enormous database there is a large probability of a false positive even though your individual risk is low. As far as I understand DNA evidence is often damaged or incomplete, meaning this could be a serious risk.

tomonl··on The quantum internet has arrived (and it hasn’t)
No, a classical connection (e.g. the internet) is needed for quantum teleportation. This classical connection won't be faster than light.
tomonl··on The quantum internet has arrived (and it hasn’t)
The image is correct. The information is sent over a classical channel, not using entanglement.
tomonl··on The quantum internet has arrived (and it hasn’t)
Stephanie Wehner also taught a great course on quantum cryptography.

https://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/quantum-cryptography/

tomonl··on Vue.js vs. React: what happened in 2017
It works in the <script lang="ts"> part of your .vue file, but not the <template> part.
tomonl··on Sharding data models
Doctrine has some support for sharding.

http://docs.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-dbal/en/l...

tomonl··on Quantum Mechanics for Programmers
As I understand it, that is only true when dealing with density matrices. For example, |0>⊗|0> + |1>⊗|1> is entangled and has tensor products. I think that Xcelerate is correct in saying that all combinations of the basis vectors form the basis of the multi-particle Hilbert space, as a single-particle wavefunction is just a vector/ket.
tomonl··on Mathematical Reasoning and Distributed Systems by Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport
It's just his style, if you look him up on Google Images you'll see he always wears shirts like that.