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 Discussion on question by Syed: Is in…

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JimmyB
Apr 5 14:28
The fact that the state changes of the two particles happen instantaneously at the same time can be taken as indication that there is no causation between the particles. This may lead to the conclusion that in this case you don't interact with one of the particles but with something else, i.e. their shared wave function.
 

 Discussion on question by David Molon…

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JimmyB
Jan 21, 2023 17:25
@SteveSh Agreed. If a "consumer" is determined to randomly spill liquid metal over a live circuit there's only so much that can be done to try and avoid undesirable system states.
JimmyB
Jan 21, 2023 17:25
How about comparing the current measured at the power inputs of the board to the expected or measured output current? If the difference between input and output current is greater than the maximum expected consumption of the board itself, the device is in violation of Kirchhoff's law and can trigger the explosives to eject the supply lines. (Would be helpful in some cases of non-arcing faults too...)
 

 Discussion on question by Poptart: A …

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JimmyB
Oct 24, 2018 12:07
I'd love to see the website of that 'bank' if it has one.
 

 Discussion on question by Joeri Hendr…

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JimmyB
Oct 14, 2018 06:04
@tparker Where I live, most of the photovoltaic installations employ the blue type cells (like these) which don't seem to absorb quite as much radiation as the dark ("black") ones.
JimmyB
Oct 14, 2018 06:04
@tparker It's not that trivial. What I mean is that there is (was) mechanical energy inside Earth that does not (have to) come from a previous star; unlike the nuclear energy which must be from prior super novae.
JimmyB
Oct 14, 2018 06:04
@tparker One could also say that the (mechanical, non-nuclear) energy in Earth's core stems from the Big Bang which pushed masses away against gravitation and that potential energy turned into motion when the bits and pieces started to accelerate toward each other through gravitation and finally collided, resulting in heat and rotational momentum.
JimmyB
Oct 14, 2018 06:04
@Michael "solar cells are darker" - Darker than what? I don't think we can state in general that a solar cell is darker/lighter than "earth". A solar cell installed on a glacier will probably decrease the albedo; one installed on an otherwise dark/black roof may increase it, and a cell put above some grassland will ... no idea.
JimmyB
Oct 14, 2018 06:04
You are correct in noticing that a solar cell will make the planet absorb more energy than, say, a mirror of the same size. But that's the price we have to pay because we want to use/dissipate (useful) energy on earth. Also note that solar cells don't 'attract' energy to the planet; if the solar cell wasn't in place, the sun would just heat up the ground below with more or less the same amount of energy but without producing any 'useful' energy for us.
 

 Discussion on question by user32889: …

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JimmyB
Apr 27, 2018 19:37
This question is strongly related to the current debate about autonomous driving. When a crash is unavoidable, how can/should the car's computer decide what it should crash into, the group of five to the left or the single person to the right?
 

 Discussion on question by B.fox: Conc…

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JimmyB
Apr 27, 2018 18:11
What did you have to do on your car over the past 1200 miles? This will give you an indication of what you should think about. Of course, you should make sure the tires and oil are bound to last for another 1200 miles, much as you need to prepare to top up the fuel a couple of times. As @Neusser said, long-distance driving at low to medium loads (70mph, no trailer) is about the best you can do for your car, better in some respects than having it sit in a garage.
 

 Discussion on question by Blaszard: W…

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JimmyB
Aug 5, 2017 18:21
Your receipt should indicate both the product's price and the Pfand as separate items.
 

 Discussion on question by unknown: Wh…

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JimmyB
Jul 31, 2017 16:23
You have my deep respect for being able to reflect about your problem in such a way and actively seeking solutions!
 

 Discussion on question by Andres Root…

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JimmyB
Jul 21, 2017 15:05
Reminds me of a former boss of mine. He would regularly get nervous and upset for the craziest stuff his head made up. One time, he tried to urge us to lower our effort estimates, because else "the task may be assigned to the team next door", with whom we were collaborating closely in all projects. While some of his actions may have seemed overly paranoid superficially it was quickly realized that he simply had absolutely no idea what our business was about and what our, or his, job was. Grossly incompetent. - Does your coworker genrally get along with his tasks and the rest of the company?
 

 Discussion on question by Zxyrra: Are…

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JimmyB
Dec 1, 2016 16:06
You cannot 'force' or attract light into your device, except by black-hole'ish gravity. The energy from electricity cannot be harvested without some sort of circuit in which the device connects both poles of the power source. And as others stated, 0 Kelvin is the minimum. If you consider how much damage you can do with something held at +270°C you have an estimation of the upper limit of what can be done with some device producing constant -270°C (~0K).
 

 Discussion on question by vonlost: DD…

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Hanno Binder
Oct 28, 2016 12:30
"When a baddie shows up, we block his IP address" - Problem with DDOS is you just can't tell which IP is legitimate and which is not. The attackers are rarely kind enough to add to their malicious request their identity/user name or any identifiable information to discriminate malicious from legitimate requests.
 

 Discussion on question by Serban Tana…

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Hanno Binder
Aug 4, 2016 01:37
If you determined that everyone in the city is an enemy combatant or something, what keeps you from levelling the whole city with conventional artillery and/or air strikes (drones to be safe)? Sure, some may survive in some tunnels, but what for and for how long with everything around them shelled to dust?
 

 Discussion on answer by Thorsten S.: …

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Hanno Binder
Jun 29, 2016 01:05
@MartineVotvik "Hunter Gatherers in general had a lot more free time" - That I doubt. Nomadic life alone requires a lot of time. Then, those 5-6 hours are per day every day. Farmers need food storage because crops don't come in daily, and while 'waiting' for the next harvest they have 'free time' while living off the food store.
Hanno Binder
Jun 29, 2016 01:05
@njzk2 Gnah, you young folks dunno nothing about the old times... We had moving pictures long before you turned to digital media, codecs, computers and all that modern stuff. Hell, we didn't even need electricity! ;-)
Hanno Binder
Jun 29, 2016 01:05
@MartineVotvik That's not quite true. Hunter gatherers did have no use and no time for research and development beyond what they needed for their day to day life - much of which was just hunting and gathering. 'Science' and art flourished only after people settled down and had time and resources for such 'useless' stuff. - Nomadic hunters simply cannot afford to stay at one place for weeks just trying to solve a puzzle.
Hanno Binder
Jun 29, 2016 01:05
It probably shouldn't be too easy to 'stumble upon' the information vault. Otherwise, primitive species may carelessly destroy it. If it's buried, say, 100m deep in the ground, advanced effort may be needed to only access the artifact, which increases the chance of meeting an advanced species. - Or outer space of course.
Hanno Binder
Jun 29, 2016 01:05
@ToddWilcox Absolutely. Written words of today are very likely to be completely useless in a million years. Information must be more visual. Images or videos should work, sound maybe. Pictograms are probably hard to design in a universal way...
Hanno Binder
Jun 29, 2016 01:05
@ToddWilcox You're right. I'm putting my bets on the curiosity of future life forms. Any kind of researcher will spend much effort to decipher the ancient artifact's meaning. However, a non-researching species may just dispose of that useless thing which is in their way and carry on. They might need more 'hints' as to why they would care about deeper analysis. user2338816 made a very good suggestion in his comment on how to provide an entry point and path for the information retrieval.
Hanno Binder
Jun 29, 2016 01:05
@ToddWilcox Preserve the meta information? What for? -- Thinking of it, you'd want the "don't open before ..." held somewhere. Else, your information vault may be 'looted' shortly after the next apocalyptic event, i.e. in a couple of hundred years...
 

 Discussion on question by Ishan Mathu…

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Hanno Binder
Jun 28, 2016 07:13
Sometimes, SQLi vulnerability can be seen as a bug in an implementation. And 100% bug-free code is still not generally available, even after 17 years(?!) of SQL.
 

 Discussion on question by TA_Bamboo: …

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Hanno Binder
May 6, 2016 17:29
Probably not the case here, but this sounds like the typical scam. They've offered you too-good-to-be-true conditions? Now they got you on the hook, they start making up excuses as to why they are in fact not able to keep up to their initial offer and want you to accept new, unfavorable conditions. My advice: Start looking for a new job yesterday!
 

 Discussion on question by Sergey: Pro…

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Hanno Binder
Mar 4, 2016 00:29
Would you look professional if you'd go ahead and tell your client "I have heard that Company X is cheating on us. We should cancel our contracts with them."? - Probably not. The only option is to take the tip of your source and start your own investigation, the results of which you can solidly defend in any debate which might arise. Anything else seems risky for both your and your source's credibility.
 

 Discussion on question by silencedmes…

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Hanno Binder
Dec 9, 2015 17:02
Btw, does it really matter if you speak in front of 30 or 3000 people? I think not so much. Except maybe that 3000 people are more of an anonymous crowd with little tendency to start a discussion, or any interaction, with you on stage.
Hanno Binder
Dec 9, 2015 17:02
Could it be that everyone else in your team is uncomfortable with those presentations too, and you're asked to do them because you're the "freshman"? If that's the case you can acknowlege that you're doing something the other's feel they cannot. And if the whole company is there to witness that, from your team, you're the one sepping out into the light, that can only be good for your career.