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the interesting thing is, the device may have to be built but possibly never operated. the existence of this device would make all nuclear-bomb-holders scramble to disarm them. OTOH we'd also have to know where the bombs are pretty precisely, if i understand correctly. i'd put the bombs on a nuclear airport luggage belt and have them go around in circles. makes a moving target out of them.


> the existence of this device would make all nuclear-bomb-holders scramble to disarm them

Conversly, it may make some bomb-holders scrable to use their weapons as-intended - before they're rendered useless to them.


Or stimulate development of neutrino shielding.


A system of underground railways! I wonder if Ian M Banks saw our future when he wrote about the planet of the dead...



further down the article:

> if each stage were scaled up to a square meter, it would produce up to 5 liters of drinking water per hour

so 1m², times the number of layers.


I think the layers are on to of each other if the total surface is a square meter, it doesn't bring any more solar energy to stack layers, right ?


This stunned me a bit. Which iphone-specific "connections" can’t you replace?

If the answer is messages, I can’t imagine they wouldn’t have Whatsapp or some other messenger installed. If they don’t, may I ask which country you’re from?

Or is it facetime? Most other messengers have similar features. Or maybe I don’t really know what facetime is capable of beyond video chat.


> Sleep: Jerusalem

Look for "Sleep - Dopesmoker". It’s the re-release of the same thing.


maybe add https://asciiflow.com ?


`lstopo` is cool too for bigger servers


While I love the project linked here, "voice" messages allow you to do more than talk. I've sent messages where I'm singing, or also where I'm reading a book chapter. It'd be sad if those things weren't possible anymore.


I recently discovered a slight mitigation on the iPad re Youtube ads:

If you open a Youtube URL and the preview image looks like it's not the actual video but an ad -- wait. Wait for approximately the length of the ad, and the preview will switch to the actual video's preview (or the next ad, in which case, wait again) and you can then play the video.

(I think this is probably not intended behavior and I hope I'm not getting this "fixed" by posting this here :/)

/edit: I do this is on "Firefox" for iOS, though it probably shouldn't matter.


It's an especially hard habit to break for people who are "Team Interrupt", because we learn to cling to the speaker position in normal group conversations this way. People from "Team Wait" are probably much more natural in staying silent for a second (I wouldn't know for sure, but I think I'm observing this in others).

[1] Team Interrupt/Team Wait: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LuXb6CZG4x7pDRBP8/wait-vs-in...


Great article, I immediately started to think back to vvvv[1], a great tool I used to use when I was still on Windows. It had many moments of "oh there’s a node for just that!" which allowed me to just go on with my initial plan instead of having to yak-shave my way into details until I could do what I came to do. Not that there wasn't a learning curve. But I created so many small explorative one-off interfaces and tools.

I have found nothing like it on Linux so far, instead I use Python, which is cool, but so, so different.

[1] https://betadocs.vvvv.org/learning/tutorials/hello-world.htm...


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