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Rhinobirdon I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

I just assumed they were tapping them on their phone and had some kind of app, or website something

Rhinobirdon NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9

>In addition to that, there are strong political incentives for ‘distributing’ contracts widely,

Government/Defense contractors can track their suppliers and tell Congress exactly how many jobs are in which districts per project.

Rhinobirdon NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9

The space shuttle was refurbishable. It needed an army of 5000 engineers a few months to get it flight worthy after each launch.

And ultimately that wasn't enough for safety.

Rhinobirdon Physicists Suggest Universe Is Full of Material Moving Faster Than Light

No. Once moving an object keeps moving unless there is force that pushes it.

There is nothing in space to apply force on particles. One would also presume these tachyons don't interact much with regular matter, like neutrinos

Rhinobirdon Insect memories may not survive metamorphosis

That reminds me of Pak Protectors from Larry Niven's Known Space stories

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

Rhinobirdon Humanly traversable wormholes (2020)

Yeah. Think teleporter instead of warp drive

Rhinobirdon The Color of Infinite Temperature

that's probably true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

Rhinobirdon Show HN: Clone your voice and speak a foreign language

My question is, how long until we have automatically dubbed anime?

Rhinobirdon How Beavis, Butt-Head and Daria disrupted cable

It might be because the radio DJ in the town and the songs he plays after waxing philosophic.

Rhinobirdon If I solve integer factorization, will I get killed for breaking cryptography?

You don't happen to work for Setec Astronomy, do you?

Rhinobirdon The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)

The bit towards the end with Millie and Wolfwood makes me cry.

Rhinobirdon European Commission English Style Guide [pdf]

double a letter to add ephasis or indicate a long vowel.

Reefuse / refuse, Permit / Permmit, Record / Reecord

Rhinobirdon The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel

Lord of the Rings is boring until they get out of Rivendell. Once they actually start their journey it's a fun read.

Rhinobirdon Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets

a small amount. Not the obscene amounts we eat here in America

Rhinobirdon Hyperdimensional Computing

by 'vector' they just mean a list of numbers (ex. [32,5,8,11]).

By dimension they mean the number of items in the list. In the above example it's a 4 dimensional vector.

Make the numbers binary digits and voila.

By hyperdimensional they mean the list has 500 or more items.

Rhinobirdon Geometry Reveals How the World Is Assembled from Cubes

Spherical cows in a vaccuum

Rhinobirdon Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70M years ago

28*13(+1)=365 (or +2 on leap years)

Rhinobirdon Windows93

Holy shit, Litestep! That takes me back.

Rhinobirdon Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?

The main Proton-Boron reaction produces charged particles instead of neutrons. You can capture the charged particles directly as a source of voltage with no intermediate step. Just stick a piece of metal in the way and hook up wires.

Conventionally, neutrons are used to generate heat which is then used to drive steam turbines.

Rhinobirdon Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'

all fun and games until some jack-ass spoofs the GPS and moves a road 20 feet to the left.

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/drone-hijacking/

Rhinobirdon Better Encrypted Group Chat

Can any of this be beaten into a way to verify group membership?

Say you want to prove you are a member of the AMA or IEEE, or Bar? Could you set up a large group for the association and their communications, and then when asked provide verifiable credentials that you are a member? Like a group membership signature?

Rhinobirdon Better Encrypted Group Chat

To help keep proprietary company communications from getting out?

Rhinobirdon First Programmable Memristor Computer

You can buy the here: https://knowm.org/product/

Rhinobirdon Floppycasts – 1.44MB Podcasts

like an audio PDF or something.

Rhinobirdon Xanadu Basics – Visible Connection (2018) [video]

and, these:

4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLYz2vWv1wg

5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsbrEOxVPcg

Rhinobirdon Xanadu Basics – Visible Connection (2018) [video]

1a - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac&t=327s