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TauZero

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  • Less than a second before hitting a passenger jet, helicopter instructor told pilot to change course, NTSB hearing reveals

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  • The helicopter route at the time of the collision allowed the Black Hawk to fly as close as 75 feet below planes descending to land on runway 33 at Reagan National Airport, according to the NTSB. With allowable errors in the helicopter’s altimeters and other equipment as well as Army rules expecting aviators to hold their altitude within 100 feet, it could end up being much closer.

    “How much tolerance should we have for aviation safety whenever civilian lives are at risk?” asked Todd Inman, NTSB board member. “How much is that tolerance,” he continued. “I think it should be zero.”

    Sounds like the tolerances weren't big enough! Odd interaction putting those two paragraphs next to each other. NTSB demanding zero margin for safety...

  • What's that book or story you vaguely remember reading but forgot the title of and can't find it anywhere anymore?

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  • End of Eternity (1955) by Isaac Asimov (and its reimagining in Palimpsest (2009) by Charles Stross) involve a time-traveling secret organization that has its headquarters hidden away in time/outside of time. They don't so much drain resources though as manipulate history to ensure a safe course.

  • Nukes are way scarier than you think

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  • Btw, if someone wants to check the channel name to decide whether to open it in a private window, and you don't have embeds blocked in some way, by the time you see the screenshot it's already too late and Google knows you were interested in it.

  • Life Expectancy is the age at which 50% of the of the population is expected to die before.

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  • The very wiki article quoted says average to mean mean (made explicit later). OP showerthought was calculating life expectancy in a way different than commonly understood. The first nitpick was correct.

  • NSFW

    data transfer

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  • The numbers in the meme are off. One sperm is 750MB, or about 1 CD, so full human is 2 CDs. Or a couple 1.4MB floppies if you only store the diff from the reference genome.

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  • fraud

    Sabotage. Property made unusable. Passengers were literally stranded in the middle of a journey.

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  • It's worse. They are saying that the EU copyright law, as written, only allows decompiling/reverse engineering to "fix bugs". A bug fix would involve a software patch of some sorts. But the security researchers did not have time to write a patch yet, what they did is tell the customer "Yep, it's fucked. Your vendor put in a killswitch to make the trains brick themselves." So that does tell them where the problem is, but it is not a bona fide bug fix from the Bugfix region of France, and therefore illegal.

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  • Newag [train maker] claims that the Dragon Sector [whitehat hacker] team endangered passengers’ safety by modifying the software without proper experience. But Newag then turns right around and claims that Dragon Sector did not modify the software at all. They point out that EU law only allows reverse engineering of software in order to fix bugs. And if Dragon Sector did not actually modify the software, it cannot have fixed any bugs, in which case their reverse-engineering must be illegal.

  • Tips for migrating and restoring qBittorrent after fresh install (Linux)

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  • I ended up doing a recheck. On the plus side, the verification found several instances of bitrot from the old failing SSD. Fortunately, all the 99%-complete torrents quickly re-downloaded themselves. The whole internet is my backup!

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  • Robin Hanson is in the house!

  • Temperature based Reverse Entropy Machine?

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  • Yep, that right here is the kind of pattern-matching you have to be careful about! Read what you wrote carefully:

    cooling effect ... temperature gradient

    The vat is literally cooler. You put a thermometer in it, will show a lower temperature than thermometer in air. This is not a fake effect "only shows lower because it's wet", it's a real temperature. You put your stirling engine cool coil in the vat and hot coil in the air, you got yourself a temperature gradient. A small one, maybe 10 degrees C, but more than zero.

  • Israel Has Killed 20.7% of Gaza's Population. That's 434,000 People.

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  • One year ago I was literally being told "This can't be genocide! Only 4% of population has been killed." Now what?

  • Temperature based Reverse Entropy Machine?

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  • The people saying Maxwell's demon/"cannot separate" are mistaken. They've pattern-matched to the wrong concept. This is possible and is the way swamp coolers operate. They exploit the difference between ambient temperature and dew temperature of the liquid, say water. As long as relative humidity is below 100%, some water will evaporate, leaving your vat colder than environment. The separation is simple - the wind carries away the 100% humid water vapors, replacing it with fresh low-humidity air. You can then use the temperature difference to drive a stirling engine or something.

    The point where your free energy ends is when you run out of water. You need to take your 100% humid air and cool it down somewhere else to get the water back by condensing it. In nature this happens automatically at nighttime when the heat radiates into the cold of space and air temperatures drop. If you are running a closed-loop cycle though, like on a spaceship, you need to provide your own source of environmental heat (the Sun) and your own heat sink (the cold of space), and at that point you should just be using a regular high-efficiency heat engine instead of this swamp cooler.

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  • FBI Surveillance Van 2, FBI Surveillance Van 5, FBI Free WiFI (not honeypot)

  • A New York City firefighter died after falling from his motorcycle and being struck by a car. Last year, he was awarded a Medal for rescuing an unconscious person from a burning building.

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  • What you smoking? No one in New York is ever charged with vehicular manslaughter. It's all an "accident".You can even flee the scene like happened here, and if you are found you will still not be charged (leaving the scene of an accident involving injury or death is a crime but never enforced for some reason, a small traffic fine at worst). Just look, if they ever find this driver, all they'll do is ask some questions and let them go. You can even drive drunk, kill someone with the car, flee the scene, evade capture for days, and then maybe you'll be charged, but the charges will be dismissed anyway because now days later you being drunk cannot be definitely proven.

  • How can I download this audio file?

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  • Yep! The "save response as" works in more cases because it already includes all the correct cookies/referrers that sites use to protect against hotlinking.

  • How can I download this audio file?

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  • As the other comment said, if you inspect page html source (ctrl-U) and ctrl-F search for "mp3", the URL of the embedded audio file is also right there in plaintext in the middle of javascript code, but it's merely good fortune that the developer left it easily visible and not renamed or obfuscated in some way. Saving from the network tab works in more cases in general.

    You don't need to use yt-dlp to fetch files :D. It will let itself be used as wget, sure, but the browser is already capable of saving files - that's it's job! Paste the link into the address bar.

  • How can I download this audio file?

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  • Open up developer console (F12) network tab and reload page/play audio. In the list of network requests, look for something that looks like the resource you want (e.g. in this case, filename: "mp3", initiator: "media", type: "mpeg"), right-click and "save response as". This doesn't work on every site, but works on yours!

    Fancier sites do not serve media files directly but fetch encoded chunks of data and recombine them using javascript. To get the whole file back you need to re-implement the javascript, which is what yt-dlp does, but only works for sites it knows how to handle.

  • People put this in West Hollywood, Los Angeles after a driver murdered a cyclist

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  • I have conflicted opinions on this. Disrespecting a person's tragic death is wrong, but consider also if someone is so desperate for a stuffed toy that they would lift it off a memorial then maybe they really do need it hard enough to deserve it. The toy would just lie around in the rain otherwise and eventually go to waste. It's better use for the toy and better respect for the memory of the deceased if the toy ends up in the hands of a child of the desperate parent. Even if the thief has no children and is just crazy, wanting the toy for themselves, even a madman's comfort from having a toy has value.

    The only situation where I can wholly condemn the thief is if they are taking the toys and flowers with intention to resell later. That's no better than digging up flowers from someone's yard!