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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are as incapable of handling one third of a dollar as binary positional notation is incapable of handling one fifth (0.2).

It’s not really a float problem. It’s a positional notation one. Some perfectly rational numbers refuse to squeeze into that mold.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They don’t measure emission but body absorption. Body limit is 2 W/kg, limbs limit is 4 W/kg. Apparently only the latter limit is violated.

For meat sacks like us it primarily translates to heat. At frequencies used, this radiation can nudge molecules a bit, which directly translates to heating up. If it was in a hundreds of watts, we’d be approaching microwave ovens territory.

The limits are there because there’s a limit to how much heat a body can efficiently dissipate, and quite a few sources of it. There’s also a concern that localized RF heating can cause cancer, which is not empirically confirmed. I personally care more about a confirmed issue of the nuclear ball in the sky causing one.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/france-demands-apple-pull-iphone-12-due-to-high-rf-radiation-levels/amp/

PS: Totally forgot, just by existing and occasionally eating, you’re generating roughly 1W per kilogram of body mass, probably a bit more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is pretty much all that’s needed. The language in the block is identified via a name that follows the opening triple backtick. E.g.:

```python some carefully indented code ```

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

“Private” in “virtual private network” means “routed by different rules”. It’s the same “private” that’s in “private Internet Protocol addresses”.

It was never about personal privacy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The idea of centrally planned economy ignores the lessons of the past. Bronze Age empires and recent examples all display universal inability to adjust to changes.

It’s the same magical thinking as the blind belief in market forces exhibits.
Priests of “invisible hand of market” ignore information exchange speed limits and market inertia, believing that markets will just magically fix everything in time for it to matter.
Preachers of central planning ignore information exchange speed limits and market inertia (and yes, there is a market, as long as there is goods and services exchange, however indirect) by believing they will have all the relevant information and the capacity to process it in time for it to matter.

Neither is true. Neither school of thought even attempted to show itself to be true.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Solving the Hard Problem of Consciousness with React Hooks

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