It is allowed to used an encrypted connection to administer a remote repeater, like for amateur satellites. Only the control link may be encrypted. The repeated signals may not, just like any other amateur transmissions.
Radio spectrum is a limited and shared resource. It makes sense that it's licensed and regulated. But compared to other parts of the spectrum, the license is cheap and easy to get and the regulations are minimal. It's a…
How close will this be to being able to resolve starspots on something other than our sun?
Get a 3M respirator with the appropriate filters for handling lead. When finished, wash up with Hygenall Lead-Off.
That's not hard to imagine. Quick, what's 1/3 of a meter? The sometimes problem with metric is it's base-10. The prime factors of 10 are 2 and 5. Feet are in base-12, which has the prime factors 2 and 3. Three is much…
Probably all of it.
In his essay "Gramscian Damage", ESR explains what he sees as the source of our ideas about cultural relativity. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260
I believe you are under a mistaken assumption. It's never ok to kill the suspect. Still, one can be justified in using lethal force. It's a very subtle distinction. You never shoot to kill. That's simply murder. You…
Are the police not able to run away? No, not really. To threaten somebody with deadly force is a felony. You or I would have a duty to run away if possible. A police officer has a duty to apprehend the suspect. What if…
Websites are like salespeople and the police: they can and will use your data against you. The first time I was told about Strava, I immediately dismissed it as useless. (After all, what service could they possibly…
I'm told that the US military uses the phrase "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."
She, not he. The gang member in this case is a woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Pearson
See also, "The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction" http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916557
When you don't know what a word means, the best place to start looking is usually a dictionary. For example, Merriam-Webster's definition 3: a small or inferior remnant or offshoot; especially : a group (as a…
If you are unprepared for a meeting, who's fault is that? There are different kinds of meetings. You need know what kind one is before you agree to attend. If it's a decision meeting, then you need to do your silent…
The fix isn't quite right. It may technically produce correct output now, but it's sloppy. The sloppy code is brittle and dangerous and perfect food for bugs, but that's a minor problem. After all, a single mistake or a…
Should hackers actually kill somebody, I struggle to find a reason why the relevant automotive engineers and their managers shouldn't be charged and convicted of negligent homicide, or worse. After all, somebody had to…
Pedagogy? No, this article is written in that modern style of popular non-fiction which is meant to entertain above all other concerns, including such silly things as pedagogy, clarity, rigor, or sometimes even factual…
Intentionally or not, the author has cherry-picked the data in a way that completely undermines the article. The conclusion that "lives are at stake" is obviously true and supported by the data, but the implication that…
This is a conversation with Andy Weir about Elon Musk, among other topics.
I don't understand the purpose of these extreme licenses. If you don't want to restrict the usage of your software in any way, why not place it in the public domain? As I understand it, the point of owning something is…
> O(length of string) per step The big win here is not that it's as fast as the optimal algorithm (it's not), but that it's nearly as fast and vastly simpler. You're technically right that the given code is O(n^2), but…
A MITM can easily spoof IP addresses. You can't trust unsigned data, and IP address headers aren't signed. You also can't trust signed data if you don't trust the signature. That's the real problem here. This whole…
Even if a MITM can intercept HTTP requests to your server, they still can't hijack your registration attempt. The real problem is that if somebody can intercept your HTTP traffic, they can register their own account…
> but may be (much) smaller. The suffix array is already very small. It doesn't store the full suffixes, just the numbers. It's basically a list of pointers with one pointer for each character in the input data. The…
It is allowed to used an encrypted connection to administer a remote repeater, like for amateur satellites. Only the control link may be encrypted. The repeated signals may not, just like any other amateur transmissions.
Radio spectrum is a limited and shared resource. It makes sense that it's licensed and regulated. But compared to other parts of the spectrum, the license is cheap and easy to get and the regulations are minimal. It's a…
How close will this be to being able to resolve starspots on something other than our sun?
Get a 3M respirator with the appropriate filters for handling lead. When finished, wash up with Hygenall Lead-Off.
That's not hard to imagine. Quick, what's 1/3 of a meter? The sometimes problem with metric is it's base-10. The prime factors of 10 are 2 and 5. Feet are in base-12, which has the prime factors 2 and 3. Three is much…
Probably all of it.
In his essay "Gramscian Damage", ESR explains what he sees as the source of our ideas about cultural relativity. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260
I believe you are under a mistaken assumption. It's never ok to kill the suspect. Still, one can be justified in using lethal force. It's a very subtle distinction. You never shoot to kill. That's simply murder. You…
Are the police not able to run away? No, not really. To threaten somebody with deadly force is a felony. You or I would have a duty to run away if possible. A police officer has a duty to apprehend the suspect. What if…
Websites are like salespeople and the police: they can and will use your data against you. The first time I was told about Strava, I immediately dismissed it as useless. (After all, what service could they possibly…
I'm told that the US military uses the phrase "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."
She, not he. The gang member in this case is a woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Pearson
See also, "The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction" http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916557
When you don't know what a word means, the best place to start looking is usually a dictionary. For example, Merriam-Webster's definition 3: a small or inferior remnant or offshoot; especially : a group (as a…
If you are unprepared for a meeting, who's fault is that? There are different kinds of meetings. You need know what kind one is before you agree to attend. If it's a decision meeting, then you need to do your silent…
The fix isn't quite right. It may technically produce correct output now, but it's sloppy. The sloppy code is brittle and dangerous and perfect food for bugs, but that's a minor problem. After all, a single mistake or a…
Should hackers actually kill somebody, I struggle to find a reason why the relevant automotive engineers and their managers shouldn't be charged and convicted of negligent homicide, or worse. After all, somebody had to…
Pedagogy? No, this article is written in that modern style of popular non-fiction which is meant to entertain above all other concerns, including such silly things as pedagogy, clarity, rigor, or sometimes even factual…
Intentionally or not, the author has cherry-picked the data in a way that completely undermines the article. The conclusion that "lives are at stake" is obviously true and supported by the data, but the implication that…
This is a conversation with Andy Weir about Elon Musk, among other topics.
I don't understand the purpose of these extreme licenses. If you don't want to restrict the usage of your software in any way, why not place it in the public domain? As I understand it, the point of owning something is…
> O(length of string) per step The big win here is not that it's as fast as the optimal algorithm (it's not), but that it's nearly as fast and vastly simpler. You're technically right that the given code is O(n^2), but…
A MITM can easily spoof IP addresses. You can't trust unsigned data, and IP address headers aren't signed. You also can't trust signed data if you don't trust the signature. That's the real problem here. This whole…
Even if a MITM can intercept HTTP requests to your server, they still can't hijack your registration attempt. The real problem is that if somebody can intercept your HTTP traffic, they can register their own account…
> but may be (much) smaller. The suffix array is already very small. It doesn't store the full suffixes, just the numbers. It's basically a list of pointers with one pointer for each character in the input data. The…