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The "can you tile the plane aperiodically" that started the investigation into these tile sets, the disproof was that proving it was equivalent to solving the halting problem... and thus the…

To me, one of the interesting bits there is the accidental timing of a comment. From https://www.krackattacks.com > We notified OpenBSD of the vulnerability on 15 July 2017, before CERT…

What would that provide? You'd have a processor that exists that would have one (and only one) operating system that can run on it and everyone else (except for some of the 'linux on everyt…

I was under the impression that the changes for Clang with retropipe was for specter. Mitigation of it then can be done by recompiling... everything. > Introduce the "retpoline" x86 mitig…

I'm quote familiar with that post, the linked questions and comments are often quite interesting to read as a bit of social commentary. On large communities decaying over time, being nice or mea…

First note - "mods" - only the people who have a diamond after their name are mods - https://stackoverflow.com/users?tab=moderators - its a rather small group. Everyone on t…

Aviation gets 9.2 questions/day. Arqade gets 23. Movies gets 16. SciFi gets 31. Combined that is 80 questions/day. About 1/4th of what the Java tag on Stack Overflow has gotten tod…

The structure of Stack Overflow is designed to get question and answer pairs that contain the critical information and are easily discoverable by google. Questions and answers that have value and that…

There are many Stack sites. Stack Overflow with its 6k questions/day has (by necessity) a different moderation approach than Computer Science.SE that has 16 questions/day. That difference of…

Even if you did either of those... the bits (at least the hotbits algorithm) works off of the detection of multiple events. Bringing in some Iodine 128 into a place (half-life of 25 minutes) into the…

Are you suggesting a gamma ray beam? Or neutron beam? (You couldn't do an alpha particle beam - that's stopped by a sheet of paper... and the beta particle ray would have difficulty with the…

I suspect its a matter of getting a lot of random rapidly with easily replaceable and unregulated devices. The classic HotBits ( https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ ) uses radioact…

Absolutely correct. The brain drain for a small fraction of a percent that get visas to work in other countries is insignificant in the grand scheme of things. It's a mere trickle compared to t…

You might want to check out their course catalog: https://www.clear.rice.edu/comp100/17-spring/ COMP 100 teaches students how to use common software for organizing, searchin…

There are many bargain basement contracting shops in the US too. Find half a dozen just graduated students who decide they're going to go freelance rather than going corporate - and you've …

That really depends then on what one is hiring for. An entry level position? Mid level? Senior? or Rock Star? Those who are opinionated and snobby, even if they are the best preforming, may not be th…

There was a HN post about that “study” ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14156547 - be sure to read the how it works at Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/prog…

I would contend that engineering FIRMS have upped their skills with more emphasis on soft skills and management feel goods (having people on site tomorrow if asked, training and such. They’re offering…

From the source article - http://www.livemint.com/Industry/4CXsLIIZXf8uVQLs6uFQvK/Top-... > Preparing the ground for layoffs, each of these seven companies has already pu…

There are companies that do it - http://www.midwesternelectricinc.com/traffic-signals/ But cities of a sufficient size (pulling up Chicago because its probably larger than the su…

It depends on what one's career goals are. From what I understand (I'm not Indian, but I've worked with many over the years), for a sizable portion of the workforce, the goal isn'…

Engineering can certainly be done outside. However, there is a real risk in having the core business competency and value be outsourced rather than something built up with employees at the company wi…

Whole country? No. In the crash of 2008, there was one week in October with 20k jobs lost ( https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/24/19683-tech-layoffs-and-cou... also menti…

There is often a significant amount of data flowing around in the public sector. When there is a constant baseline of a task to be done for the foreseeable future, it is often less expensive to fill …

Inefficient wood burning for heat (in terms of compared to that generated by larger installations). There are some fairly efficient wood stoves, and they are more efficient than retail energy changed…

Or hydro can't put that much over the spillway because of regulations (environment, down stream flooding, etc...) - it has to go through the powerhouse. Or (for hydro again), there was a release …

This approach is used for air conditioning. When power is cheap (at night), a building's air conditioning system freezes a large block of ice. During the day, the ice is used to cool air which …

When I was in California in the 00-09 timeframe I recall the facilities manager had an ambient orb at their desk that was provided by PG&E ( http://www.ambientdevices.com/technolog…

Over on reddit, a lot of speculation in https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/43opxy/does_anyone... suggesting partnerships / kickbacks. That said, the e…

... assuming that you can get wholesale rates rather than retail rates. Dynamic pricing for cost is something that California is working on. https://www.caiso.com/Documents/Flex…