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Don't waste your money. If the data is really important, send the disk to a data recovery service to avoid risking further damage. If it's only somewhat important, use a (free!) tool like ddrescue to attempt to recover the data.

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I wonder why nobody's welding with copper, imagine all the free energy we could be harvesting! Not like it's an absolute pain to weld with compared to steel or anything...

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I always knew there was a grand conspiracy against boron. We must fight back for this amazing element!

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That's definitely possible, but is way more expensive than using an existing system like GPS.

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Then again, theres about 13 undiscovered, lost, still armed nuclear bombs that the Americans lost in test drops. Mostly dropped into oceans, they've been deteriorating away for 70ish years. Wherever they are an earthquake could set them off. Maybe an aggressive shark. The point is, there are 13 points which we KNOW at some point, will set off a WWII era atomic bomb. This will have an unknown outcome, 13 different times. Any one of which might end Earth. Or maybe it causes some tidal waves. No one knows.

This is completely wrong. Lost nuclear bombs are not going to be functional in the slightest after decades, as they require very precisely timed detonation of explosive charges to actually trigger the main fission reaction. They're not like chemical bombs, which will explode with enough heat or pressure. And after decades the circuitry to control the explosive charges will be long dead.

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I'm not sure about that, plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24k years and uranium-235's is far longer.

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I'm not sure what you're talking about in that case, could you clarify?

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We do have the technology to redirect a potentially extinction-level asteroid, so I don't think it would be all doom and gloom. More like a scramble to launch a redirect mission. (And besides Apophis isn't large enough to cause an extinction event, just destroy a country or two).

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True, though bonking it really hard is probably going to be less complex in most cases.

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This isn’t a graph, it’s a phylogenetic tree. It doesn’t need units or labeled axes (and they wouldn’t make much sense anyways).

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I hear WebP can often offer much better compression than PNG in lossless mode so that could be an alternative.

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According to this Stack Exchange answer, glass reflects around 4-100% of the UV in sunlight depending on the angle of incidence. So you could probably get a sunburn if the angle is low enough (like if the Sun is almost directly overhead and reflecting off a vertical window).

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From what I know that is somewhat true, the current will disperse through the water relatively uniformly. But it'll still create voltage gradients that will probably kill any fish nearby.

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This is really amazing technology.

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To be fair to them, that is pretty close to how immunity actually works. Not quite there though.

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Better than eating a full sized SD card, at least.

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Would be interesting to set up email servers on some of the more popular instances and see how much traffic they're actually getting.

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NOAA's predicting a Kp index of 8.33, hopefully we'll get some good auroras tonight!

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Go out anyways and look north, there's a good chance you'll see something.

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Yeah they can't really be seen through clouds aside from maybe the clouds looking slightly brighter.

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No need for all these new-fangled tools when good ol' dd does the job just fine. (Though they certainly reduce the chance of accidentally nuking the wrong disk).

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That's a pretty cool idea, though I think it would be a challenge to align the plans perfectly with the actual construction site.

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If one millionth of the brain is 1.4 petabytes, the whole brain would take 1.4 zettabytes of storage, roughly 4% of all the digital data on Earth.

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Interesting, according to Wikipedia it's only in an 800km orbit. I'm surprised it wasn't detected sooner as it's pretty big (66cm diameter).

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I just went ahead and deleted anything that looked Edge-related from all the system directories. Sure, my computer won't boot into Windows anymore, but all the more reason to use Linux!

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There's a big difference between being against Israel and being antisemitic, and people need to see that. Heck, I'm literally Jewish and I don't support Israel.

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The other 20% is mostly high quality however, and I'm sure they'd filter out the heavily downvoted crud.

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Could always use a nickel, they're a nickel copper alloy IIRC which should be more resilient.

Edit: I'm dumb, older nickels don't have a date on them. Quarters or dimes should work though.

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There's always the carefully applied soldering iron.

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Who needs private variables when you can generate cryptographically secure variable names? Much better security.

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Where are you located? I'm in need of some new backup drives and would be happy to pay a reasonable price + shipping if you're interested.

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They're not necessarily accidental (for example, taking long exposures during a meteor shower), but yes the vast majority of meteor pictures are by chance. A few meteors have been detected just before entry and photographed but that number is in the single digits.

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That's too easy to filter out, use believable data at least. Seems like a great task for a language model!

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Interesting, I've never heard of that. What does it blinking signify?

Does color change how hot a laser can get something?

For convenience sake let’s say you have 2 identical lasers, one is blue and one is red. And you shine it on lead (so none of the light leaks through) until the lead doesn’t heat up anymore. Would the temperature change at all between the different color lasers. It doesn’t have to be red or blue, it could be microwave or x...

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Both "color" and "colour" are valid spellings.

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Me opening /dev/urandom as a raw video stream to watch some nice relaxing RGB static.

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It's great, just give your cloud servers public IPs and you get tons of completely free vulnerability scans! This life hack has saved me tens of thousands of dollars in pentesting.

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The article does say it takes five minutes to create a new story and picture. I assume most of that time is spent generating the picture. Still pretty impressive, but nowhere near the few seconds you can get with fast hardware.

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Just block cookies for the site and never worry about it again.

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Gotta review the 5 line PR ten times just to make absolutely totally sure there's nothing wrong with it before submitting it.

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I'd assume they'll tell ISPs to block TikTok's domains/IPs. It won't stop determined people but it's realistically the best they can do.

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No, I'm pretty sure Israel is a country.

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The main question is unanswerable as it couldn't happen without fundamentally changing physics in some way. However, the other one is a lot more interesting.

On a large scale, one in ten atoms vanishing would decrease both the density and mass of most objects by 10%. This would also decrease their gravity by 10%, resulting in all orbits becoming significantly more (or less) eccentric. I imagine the changes would be enough to destabilize some solar systems, potentially causing planets to perturb each other's orbits until they collide or end up being ejected from the system.

The change in density also means that gravitationally bound objects that are held up by internal pressure (like planets and stars) would collapse slightly as their internals are re-compressed to their original density. The collapse would release a lot of energy, heating up planets significantly and (just guessing here) maybe causing a burst of fusion in stars as they're temporarily compressed past their equilibrium point.

All of that is pretty bad news for life on Earth, but the worst is what happens chemically. Some molecules are just going to become different molecules when one or more of their atoms disappears. Take water, for example; a water molecule has an 8.1% chance to become a hydrogen molecule, an 8.1% chance to become a (highly reactive) hydroxide ion, and a 0.9% chance to become a (highly reactive) single oxygen atom. 18% of nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere would also become single atoms and promptly react violently. These molecular changes would instantly kill all life on Earth (and anywhere else). There's simply no possible way for an organism to survive so many reactive molecules being introduced throughout itself. Not to mention that all DNA would be irreparably damaged from the random deletions too.

I'm sure there are some other effects that I haven't thought of, but those are definitely the most noticeable ones.

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Would be a bit hard to notice if you're dead, but yeah (assuming you're magically spared or something).

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Yeah, I switched to Mint back in 2019 and can't imagine going back. I have a Windows dual boot for certain games, but whenever I use it it feels like such a terrible experience compared to Linux. I don't think I've used it in a couple months because of that lol.

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Slightly simpler, start at 1 and increment by 2 so you don't have to check whether i is odd.

for (var i = 1; i < 100; i += 2) {
  console.log(i);
}
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Don't fat-shame the acids!

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Pretty much every web browser except Firefox is just Chromium with some extra crap slapped on it, they're all functionally the same.

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