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>the main idea of Special Relativity is that time is a good tangible dimension, that has (almost) the same properties than the other three dimensions.

While this is true it accidentally implies that that was what Einstein invented in his Special Relativity paper. In fact this was an idea of Hendrik Lorentz, who (among many others) had also already been working on the question of why the rate of time is different in different frames for more than 15 years before Einstein figured out how to explain it.

By the way, jnurmine, special relativity isn't super complicated and is quite approachable. No calculus, just straightforward algebra. (sadly this statement is very much not true for General Relativity). I highly recommend "Spacetime Physics" by Taylor and Wheeler, which is readable, full of pictures, and yet written by two amazing physicists. And as I just discovered it's even on the Internet Archive!
No, unlike something like a firearm which you are legally required to secure and can suffer potentially criminal and/or civil liability if someone steals it and uses it to commit a crime, there is no such legal requirement to secure your network against outsider misuse.

IANAL that’s just my personal understanding / belief.

The key point would be the use would have to be unsanctioned and you were totally unaware. Once you give someone your WiFi password, it’s less clear if you have any liability. I’m not sure of any case where the actual user was known but the person who provided the network connection was blamed.

Network access is fairly universal. The particular method used to access the Internet is practically irrelevant. The actor and the act are what is important, not how the packets are routed.
Getting from GEO back down to LEO would require pretty serious energy to reduce your altitude. You could possibly get off the elevator early, but you would need to then get up to orbital speed for whatever altitude you're at, which would be non-trivial for LEO.

The ISS will almost certainly be decommissioned by 2030 anyway, and we're not going to have a space elevator by then. There'll still be other stuff in LEO that we want to get to though.
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As a man it's best to self actualize and see you-self as a person with feelings, emotions and boundaries. Take a serious look at your health, sexual ,emotional needs and address them individually distinct from each other. After that then branch off to getting sexual relationships with other people as you yourself can identify people with mental disorders and vet people who don't align with your goals and aspiration in life.

If anyone wants a great starting point to help out I would recommend the talks by: https://youtu.be/lMBqFFnSS5U?list=PLe7tfp6fIaMwdMTW2O3-kkBiJ...

For Veting individual you can simply use `Transactional analysis` to quickly filter from people who're high value vs high drama.
No terminal support out of the box, at least not that I can find
I used the method of Dr. John Sarno to rid myself of chronic wrist pain/RSI.

I say "rid" instead of "cure" because Sarno's method claims that such pain is entirely psychogenic, and is thus addressed by psychological means rather than pills, surgery, or other physical interventions. The theory is that the pain is generated by the subconscious as a way of distracting the conscious mind from unpleasant thoughts/emotions. By recognizing this process and forcing yourself to deal with the unpleasantness, the subconscious gives up this "strategy" and the pain disappears.

The really interesting thing about this theory is that it predicts "the symptom imperative," which in practice means that soon after you begin challenging your primary symptom, your subconscious may shift to a new symptom. New symptoms understandably cause the conscious mind to become afraid, and thus distracted again.

That part is what really sold me on the theory. I was skeptical at first, but sure enough, as soon as I began attacking my wrist pain, I began having headaches and other inexplicable symptoms, each of which resolved quickly. The nice thing is that the method is more effective the more you believe in its efficacy, and so a virtuous cycle can develop.

My wrist pain was never severe, but it was bad enough to scare me away from typing with my right hand for the better part of a year. I also had a lot of numbness and tingling, and occasional acute pain in my middle (scrolling) finger joint. I attributed these symptoms to overuse, and in addition to not typing with that hand, I used wrist braces, elbow braces, ice packs, a new keyboard, etc. These tended to help for a few minutes to days before the symptoms returned.

Once I had been typing exclusively with my left hand for a while, I began experiencing symptoms in that hand as well. The prospect of not typing at all was very scary (which is exactly what my subconscious wanted). I finally went to a specialist, who performed a nerve conduction study and told me there was nothing physically wrong with me. If I had not know about Sarno's theory, this information would have been rather distressing. Instead, it came as a relief. I could now pursue Sarno's method without reservations. And within a week, my pain was 90% gone. After pushing through the symptom shifting, my pain was 99% gone within a month. Nowadays I have no wrist pain at all, and I can type as long as I want without regard for ergonomics. I consider myself very lucky and have since become something of a PPD/TMS maximalist. If you have chronic pain or another chronic condition, I urge you to read one of Sarno's books and evaluate the theory for yourself. Scientifically, I think it has more of a leg stand on than homeopathy, crystal healing, etc., but at the end of the day, all I can say is that it worked for me, and I hope it works for you too.
I was in a car crash two years ago where a man went into a diabetic fit/seizure and sped through an intersection, ultimately hitting a building and my car and killing himself in the process. It is too bad his car did not have some of this deep learning that is not 100% accurate.

We don't know how humans work and under what conditions they break down, either.
>I personally know many who stashed illegal unaccounted money in gunny bags, and have suffered a blow to their wealth (as I wished)

I'm sorry, but the RBI data counters precisely this point.

As you know, 99.3% of the cash has returned. Almost no one suffered any blow to their wealth in terms of "losing cash stuffed in gunny bags" as per the RBI; it's all back.
8 days of uncomfortably close quarters on ascent may be a good way to psychologically prepare folks for a perhaps slightly-less cramped orbital experience.
If you have a cable capable of holding a space station and counterweight, no satellite is going to stop it.
> What’s that going to do?

It will remove the immoral handout landlords have gotten themselves in the name of the residents facing unexpected increase in property taxes.
Oh, agreed; it doesn't bottleneck on the connection but instead keeps creating them which can take performance down when you spike. Hence why the original article speaks of using something other than a RDBMS, such as Dynamo, since there really is no way of addressing that issue (since you can't set a concurrency limit on one kind of function; else you could have one function that has high concurrency invoke one that is far lower, that exists just to keep connections pooled).

If you absolutely must hit an RDBMS, be quick about it to free up the connection, and definitely consider if the latency matters that much; a few dozen ms more to initialize and close the connection is going to be a LOT cleaner.

But that said, how badly it penalizes you for scaling connections up depends on the DB.
You don't, that's the point; claiming "the criminals had mail sent to 1342 Grass Lane, therefore the owner of 1342 Grass Lane is the criminal" is patently ridiculous, and it's good that the court realizes that the same applies (if anything, even more so) to IP addresses.
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Surely a 5.5Ton meteorite could survive the heat off a building fire... Right?

The director's statement that everything has been lost seems rather pessimistic. There must be some sort of digital catalog of what was present in the museum that'll preserve it in some form.
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John Sarno is the author and his book also quickly fixed a problem I had with wrist and arm pain that started out-of-the blue. I also used his techniques to improve some chronic neck, back, knee and hip pains but it was not as effective.

One caveat: Sarno was an MD who specialized in Rehabilitation Medicine and not a psychiatrist or psychologist. If you read his books you do not have to buy his Freudian explanation of phantom pain as repressed rage, the techniques will still work.

He also deserves credit for reintroducing the concept of psychosomatic illnesses or pains in modern medicine (his mind-body connection) which is dismissed as unscientific because it can't be tested using the so-called "gold standard" of medical proof; the randomized, double-blind, control-group treatment.
Of course, look at https://thewire.in/banking/bank-with-amit-shah-as-a-director... for example.
Surely the problem is lack of inexplicable data?
e.g. relativity had constant speed of light in all directions.

Sure, we could come up with theories without suc data, but the search space is just too inconceivably big to explore. We need constraints to narrow it down... and to have a reason to think it might be true.

Empirical precedes theoretical.
I would expect the home router to provide some level of device obfuscation in this case, specifically to help protect user privacy. I don’t its a fight that can be outright “won” but certainly you don’t just hand over unique device identifiers if at all possible.
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As i would like to believe all this is true, and initailly supported this movement with my wholeheart ,later it occured to me that the only reason they did this is for UP election. Why i think so ? The then reserve bank governor did not even know about this plan of Modi's nor in agreement to this.So the banker friend told this but not reserve bank governor. That's a boatload of made up story to back otherwise political motive.
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No, the elevator has counterweights at both ends which each pull on the tether more than the object being moved due to gravity and centripetal force. The object on earth pulls more though which keeps it tethered. The elevator that is moving than exerts extra force to propel itself up but not more than what would drag the top counterweight down, thus, the rope still stays fully extended.

Think of it like holding a rope tight between your arms and putting a robot that moves on it but ends up not exerting enough force to cause it to slack. Your arms (earth/space teather and the in space counterweight) and the object being moved would keep the same overall motion between all 3 objects (your body would just turn).

The space elevator is similar except earth is way more massive than the object being moved so nothing really changes. Also, due to gravity, you have to expend extra energy to move from the bigger object (earth) to a smaller object (space elevator counterweight), aka, the minimum energy cost of moving things out of gravity wells.
Well that’s also hard to quantify- as you recall demo had so many as how reasons tacked on every other day.

Day 1- This is to remove black money!

Day x - removal of counterfeits! Please bear with us.

Day y - cashless economy !

And I vaguely remember there being some other reason(s) which were added later.

This was a farce.

But it does show how deeply Indians feel about corruption and wealth inequality.
Progress in fire safety was even more gradual than this comment makes it sound. About 30 years later, the Iroquois Theatre Fire (also in Chicago) killed twice as many people as the "Great" fire. That spurred them to realize that, among other innovations, exits should have an "EXIT" sign over them, and people should be able to push on exit doors to open them.

There's always another accident, with new lessons. Some are bigger and some are smaller but there's never quite a single event that fixes an entire industry.
Checkout the Salesman Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL5m7amy0FXEAe9WxhXTI_A Huge amount of great content here.
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Retina iMac 5K. Textual code is beautiful, no jaggies, no need for anti-aliasing.

It also has good color of course, but that isn't what I care about.
That doesn't seem like that useful an analogy. It took a lot more than a thousand years to invent algebra. It also took a very long time to invent a bunch of things that anyone can understand and use, it's not a measure of their complexity or difficulty - wheels, domesticated cats, corn, pointy sticks, pants, etc.
Not to mention, the 100+ deaths directly attributed to demonetization.
Not quite, my building was completed in 1890.
They said the tetger would be 36,000 km. 36,000/200kph = 180 hrs... 180hrs/24hrs/day = 7.5 days.

Why the tether needs to be 36,000km long wasn't mentioned.
One thing that stands out to me is that... TempleOS could have been even MORE complex, but the author, for reasons he can best express, decided to limit himself to 256 color VGA, no networking (if memory serves). It really serves as an inspiration to not give up when people tell you “it’s too much work”.
It was never so much an operating system as an art project, and its artistic vision is not one which could easily be adopted by any other creator. Its future will likely be much like its past; it will be discovered, marveled over, mocked, and appreciated, but not used or extended.
The very top of the page says:

(Warning: Contains adult themes and graphic images)

That isn't enough for you?
The museum was reportedly in disrepair from lack of funds and appears to have a non-effective fire suppression system. I don’t think it’s a given that it had a robust digital archive.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/03/fire-engulfs-b...
Probably not much, unless someone reverse engineers the drivers.
This reads like a submarine[1] for the design firm. Also, calling it "airplane mode" makes it impossible to google for.

1. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Some of this depends on what you read. Much of early philosophy is astoundingly relevant, particularly when you read a modern English translation with good translation notes.

Hundreds or thousands of years may have passed, and yet the lessons are as valuable today as when they were written.

With philosophy in particular, I would argue the classics are worth reading to understand how their ideas have shaped history, and how their ideas continue to shape the present and future - because at their heart what they describe is human thought and behaviour, and those are surprisingly unchanged over the interceding years.
Unfortunately that web page cannot be fixed via "reader" mode in Safari.

But as I read it I felt there was an implicit "yes, but" running through it. To step up a level:

- unexpected problems occur
- you have to manage them.
- managing error return codes is tedious, and consumes a lot of lines of code, which is an opportunity for errors in and of itself.

Try/catch is a sign that something went wrong, but it allows you to manage sequence points (via catch) to deal with them. With unwind-protect (typically via automatic destructors in contemporary languages) most of the required boilerplate is automated. Yes, there are corner cases (e.g. the reason for C++'s make_shared) but there are many more when you're tracking error returns.

Now where I disagree right up front is that try/catch is not a way to "handle errors". It's a way to deal with them. We already have experience of using signalling to handle errors: the Common Lisp condition system allowed you to catch an error and restart the computation. It was a wonderful, general mechanism (even more general than just this case described here) and indeed, it was so general and so powerful that it also turned out to be an opportunity for incomprehensible code. We all learned from that, which is why nobody else has a facility for handling errors.

(BTW another great example of this kind of generality was method combinators. Sounds great but in practice: no thanks!)
We need a way to convert back-forth real thing <-> digital things. Then we could backup everything on Earth and move to the Moon, or Mars, for example. It's the only way to move our stuffs any where we want.
I'm having trouble deciding if your experiences were good or bad from this comment. Have the 17 years you've spent on this been helpful or a waste of time?
You're.
https://thewire.in/economy/mystery-demonetisation-rs-3-lakh-...
I would argue that reasoning about promise chains are difficult enough to where an abstraction is desirable.

If you asked me to identify the most maintainable and easy to read of these two pieces of code, I would say the answer is easy.

Promises:

const p1, p2 = undefined;

somePromise()
.then((res) => {
p1 = somePromise(res);
return anotherPromiseFuncThatNeedsP1(p1);
})
.then((anotherPromiseRes) => {
p2 = anotherPromiseRes;
return p2;
})
.catch(e => {
// log, throw etc.
});
// done

vs

try/catch:

try {
const p1 = await somePromise();
const p2 = await anotherPromiseFuncThatNeedsP1(p1);
// done
} catch(e) {
// log, throw, etc.
}
Take it with a grain of salt since it's from Dasung themselves, but they have a demo video showing the relative responsiveness between their display and the Onyx e-readers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdr6GD6enQc
Is it enough to identify state sponsored attacks?
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Beds can stack.
Thanks to the choice of illustrations, it could definitely use a NSFW tag. But it's a surprisingly good article about a difficult subject. It's very evenhanded and even notes that there are young males who do this as well.

Sex work is a tough topic for sorting out human rights under the best of circumstances. It sounds like it is even more fraught in the crucible that is Africa.
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Connection pooling is the most obvious one which is so common it tends to be transparent and built into many DB access libraries. Then there are all sorts of proxies/load balancers/multiplexors. If you think about it, the bits of code that handle web requests in your typical web app/framework/whatnot are very much like lambdas and when you write those, you generally don't have to worry about the cost of DB connections because it's a well-solved problem.
"RAMs cheap, everyone should have more than enough."

Platitudes are cheap. Ignoring the real world, and allowing cheap excuses for either developers or manufacturers isn't acceptable.

With 640K, a lot of developers built decent software. They didn't decide that the manufacturer was wrong and so their software would simply be a resource hog, as that was easier for their developers. But they also asked for more too.
I just stick to the rule of three: if I see the same pattern three times I consider the abstraction I’m missing.

This surprisingly leads to “future proof” code. I didn’t anticipate the needs of the business. I just wrote what needed writing. Yet over time I build the abstractions in that the code is actually using.

I say surprising because code written this way looks obtuse and... messy. You get very senior and very confused developers asking you why you didn’t apply The Singleton Factory Pattern or use the XYZ architecture. So you say, because I didn’t need it and they just don’t get it.

But that’s part of the reason why I like Haskell so much these days. And why I liked Python for so many years. I like languages that bake in good ideas and abstractions for you. Python baked in the iterator pattern, the decorator pattern, etc so that you could use them in the language with little ceremony. Haskell bakes in the most powerful abstractions of all: type theory and algebra.

And still the idea of only writing the code you need to solve the problem; nothing more or less; stands up. People may look at you like you’ve lost your marbles. But if you can get them to stick around in the codebase for a year or two they’ll start to see it too.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies.

Lesh is a creature of the "Institute for Public Affairs". The 'donors' section of their wikipedia page makes good reading:

"he IPA has been significantly funded by Hancock Prospecting, of which Gina Rinehart is the Executive Chair. Hancock Prospecting paid the IPA $2.3 million in financial year 2016 and $2.2 million in financial year 2017,[31] which represents one-third to a half of the IPA's total revenue in those years.[32] These payments were not disclosed in IPA annual reports,[33] and Rinehart's daughter Bianca Hope Heyward submitted in court that the Hancock Prospecting payments were credited to Rinehart in an individual capacity.[31] Gina Rinehart was made a life member of the IPA in November 2016.[34]

Other businesses who fund or have funded the IPA include ExxonMobil,[35] Telstra, WMC Resources, BHP Billiton, Philip Morris,[36] Murray Irrigation Limited,[37] Visy Industries, Clough Engineering, Caltex, Shell, Esso[3] and British American Tobacco (BAT).[3]

Funders are able to "earmark" their payments to support the work of particular units within the IPA.[38]"

Given that monstering people for unwanted academic speech is hardly an exclusive pastime of those on the left (some claim the reverse, see https://medium.com/informed-and-engaged/campus-speech-protes...) the slant of this article is pretty interesting, especially where we get to:

"Universities are facilitating a self-destructive culture not only through speech codes, but in teaching simplistic theories about human society. Academics far too often pursue social justice causes over empirical inquiry."

I'm figuring "simplistic theories about human society" and "pursuing social justice causes over empirical inquiry" are dog-whistle code for the type of campus activity Lesh would like to magically see less of. But in some mysterious "pro free speech" way, right?
I believe the legal term you’re looking for is “strict liability”.

Many states don’t actually have laws about securing firearms directly but have a concept of strict liability about what happens if they are stolen, or stolen and not reported.
Libdivide is an open source library for optimizing integer division
I've gotten very good results, good enough that the entire world would like me to know I am both deluded and a liar.

(I wish they would pick one or the other. Either I'm actually crazy, but believe what I'm saying to be true, thus not lying, or I'm lying for some reason, which means I have mental clarity about what's true and what's not and I'm not deluded. You can't have it both ways.)
Let me quote Pyotr Makovetskii, the book "See the root cause" ("Zri v koren'" in Russian), from chapter 28: (http://n-t.ru/ri/mk/sk028.htm)

"And overall, such a tower is a diabolical invention. Rotating in equatorial plane it will knock off everything it encounters. And since any satellite orbit intersect the equatorial plane, sooner or later all satellites with orbit lower than the tower height will be knocked down. At the base of the tower will lay remnants of almost the whole cosmonautics."

I'd assume this closes naive discussions about space elevator, at least until the proponents will explain what they are going to do with the problem of hitting satellites. Yet I see this problem again and again with hardly any progress in this area...
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