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The of productivity overkill going on in this idea is painful to think about.

The world can wait. Fuck it. Just slack off and waste some time. That's what I do.

When my eyes feel bad, it's time to destroy an hour of the day, go for a walk and anyone who can't get on board with that can take a hike.


The incredible part about that detail would be that in any other animal much of Schizophrenia's symptoms would be subclinical, in that language and socialization expresses most of Schizophrenia's detriments.

The paper is really about emergence and transmission of the disorder, and not so much about why humans find faults in those afflicted by it. But consider solitary animals, or apex predators. That they'd be schizophrenic, and construct distorted understandings of the world around them probably wouldn't matter, as long as they manage to hunt for food and produce offspring. No one would care about what a bear thinks of the origin of the universe, or how realistic its outlook of its own future is.

I realize that Schizophrenia has other debilitating effects, but it also affects people in varying degrees.


On the other hand, what if you paired it with an Apple Watch running Windows 95?


Oh god, we're talking about overclocking SD cards? I can't wait to see experimental results not only in general, but also in edge case scenarios like when encountering counterfeit hardware.


Discussion doesn't seem to be really widespread, but particularly with the M.2 / PCIe SSDs you actually do get some thermal throttling. Here's a review of the Samsung SM951 where in just over 2 minutes of sequential write testing the card reached a throttle temperature of 82C and throughput dropped from 1500MB/s to 70MB/s (http://www.legitreviews.com/samsung-sm951-512gb-m-2-pcie-ssd...). I'd call that a noticeable dropoff in speed. Yes, I realize that article is talking about SSDs not SD cards. The relevant difference here is that the SSD is substantially larger with likely better heat dissipation.

Of course, the maximum bus speed of SD cards right now (including the UHS-II hardware change to add additional contacts) is only ~300MB/s, with a more practical top speed of ~150MB/s to allow both reading and writing. Maximum power consumption of UHS-II SDXC cards is 2.88W, which is actually fairly significant when you consider the volume of the cards - it's not a lot of power, but it's also not a lot of thermal mass.


I would wonder how long a vapor state would last, before precipitating to liquid, and then freezing into it's final solid form.

I bet the time scales for those phase transitions wouldn't be incalculable, even if gross estimates.

So, if the moon were a vapor bubble suspended in a vacuum, how long would that last? And how long for the heat to radiate out of it?

Sounds like that process would be pretty uniform, and dependent mostly on composition. But the uniformity of the temperature bleed would contribute to the maintenance of a stable orbit.


From fig. 1 on the second page of pdf linked by spenrose below, it looks like vapor cloud was more doughnut/torus-shaped than spherical (due to rotation) and lasted few tens of years.


While the distribution of mass might quickly redistribute itself into a toroidal formation, internally, I think that area of effect (the fuzzy red zone in the diagram) would probably be pretty opaque to visible light. For a period of time, a gas cloud like that would probably have a really interesting appearance.

I'm imagining that, as the hot gases cool off, and condense onto floating debris, the molten/solid debris field will probably look pretty nebulous, and then settle into unstable bands. At that point, I figure the torus shape would be very apparent.

Once the hot gases were gone, I bet it probably took a while for the rest of the debris to get swept up into decaying orbits, and impact on either body (earth/moon).

If they could visualize it with a simulation, it'd probably be fun to watch, and tweak the parameters of the event.


That is shockingly fast.


Well, that's a comparatively small volume it covered in the grand scheme of things. Just think how quickly a bunch of hair and dust will clump together in the corner of an unswept room.


Everything in the article sounds like trigger-happy speculation at best. Their equipment was brought down during a fire drill, but reading the article, it doesn't seem like anyone actually says or knows why.

  According to people familiar with the system, the 
  pressure at ING Bank's data center was higher than 
  expected, and produced a loud sound when rapidly 
  expelled through tiny holes.

  The bank monitored the sound and it was very loud, 
  a source familiar with the system told us. “It was 
  as high as their equipment could monitor, over 
  130dB”.

  Sound means vibration, and this is what damaged the 
  hard drives.
Those are the words of the author, in that last sentence. It's simply journalism at this point. It's not something worth construing as a technical assessment.

They (the staff at Vice) just want to scoop the article, and get Vice into the action. Was it a siren that was too loud? Was it pressure differential, triggering a head crash in a bernoulli box?

Since we're at least two degrees removed from the actual events, and we'll probably never get direct information from a postmortem report, this article, to me, reads as: Data Center Outage in Eastern Europe, Reason Unknown


  Upon closer reading, he explains it somewhat.
The author of the article is a nameless collective, not an individual. They explain it, but there is no "he" to ascribe the explanation to. We do not know the names of the authors.


I got this from twitter, where Elon Musk writes stuff like "Writing post now with details." and "Will get back to Autopilot update blog tomorrow." So I assumed he's authored the thing.


Annoying you are being downvoted. You are entirely correct, and it is worthwhile to fight against the nonsensical notion that Elon === Tesla.


For what it's worth, there is some strong evidence that Elon penned this post himself - not that it is clear from the post itself.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/771446048262946816

> Finishing Autopilot blog postponed to end of weekend

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/774155658476212224

> Will get back to Autopilot update blog tomorrow.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/774664927835553792

> Will do some press Q&A on Autopilot post at 11am PDT tmrw and then publish at noon. Sorry about delay. Unusually difficult couple of weeks.


I was already aware of these tweets, but that doesn’t mean he wrote it all himself, just that he is involved in it. The fact is, the blog post has a byline and the byline does not mention Elon Musk or any individual person's name.


Okay, rockets that can go very high, can still crash very far away.

An unpredictable, malfunctioning rocket could still million-to-one itself onto a school bus filled with children, halfway across a continent.


Phlarp's original comment was about 'a "Range Safety Officer" on the ground whose entire job is to determine if and when to deploy this self destruct system.'

The text I quoted implies there is an onboard flight termination system, even if there is no Range Safety Officer who can send external commands.

FWIW, a part from an exploded rocket, like the engine, could still destroy a school bus filled with children. The odds are very hard to estimate, and made more complicated in that there are few failure modes where a rocket failure halfway across a continent, at supersonic speeds, would reach the ground without breaking long before.


Congratulations on replying to me. I'm sure you're feeling good about it. I just wanted to let your know that I noticed, and feel special too.


  ...than your average building at NBP.

  ...building at NBP.

  ...NBP.
Name Binding Protocol

National Biosolids Partnership

National Braille Press

National Broadband Plan

Neighborhood Broadcast Problem

Neutral Body Posture

NetBIOS Protocol

Network Binding Protocol

Network Bootstrap Program

Network Bridge Processor

New Black Panthers

Non-invasive Blood Pressure

Normal Blood Pressure

Normal Boiling Point

Northern Business Products

Namco Bandai Partners

Hmmm...


Here is a tip when you're faced with an acronym that someone that works the IC throws at you. Just Google it with "CIA" attached. Even though NBP is associated with the NSA there is enough link juice connecting the CIA to basically everything you could possibly associate in intelligence. Another example, "BND CIA" => first result is correct. "ISI CIA" => correct. etc.


And I guess IC stands for Intelligence Community?


Yes, the Federal government loves acronyms, and sometimes I forget these are not commonly known in most of the nation.


National Business Park


For a minute I thought that was some kind of general name, say for a business park of a certain size or standing within its state, but according to Google (first hit) it's this place:

http://cryptome.org/eyeball/nsa-nbp/nsa-nbp.htm


From my past life in DC, we always just called it "Up North."


Which part stops talking to you, if it loses consciousness and slips into a coma?

That's the part that sues you for malpractice.


At that point, isn't the question whose family sues you for malpractice?


Only if it stays in the coma.


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