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Mostly on vintage electronics. Lots of focus on microwave, which he has worked a lot with.
Has been going wild with restoration and reverse engineering of the Apollo moon mission.
Yes, most of the very rich have acquired their wealth through unfair means, be it through unfair government action like intellectual property, subsidies, bailouts, low-interest loans, etc., or violence, historic or current. Regarding pure socialism/communism, a war to fully redistribute the riches of the wealthy will likely never happen, and cause great devastation if it did.
In a libertarian system, even if everyone started out equally wealthy, some would end up richer than others, as people of differening competency and diligence should. But libertarianism makes things fair even if some are very wealthy.
One who owns a lot of resources can rent or loan it to others without much additional cost to themselves, and make a percentage return. But by making them compete with other rich people, assuming resources are plenty, the ones that offers it for the lowest price, ie., makes the closest to zero profit, will get all the customers.
As for why even partial wealth redistribution isn't preferred in a libertarian society, note that the company that provides the customer with the most value for their money wins. The riches of a wealthy person are assets to be used to finance their business, even if turned into houses or jewelery, since they can be liquidated when needed. Taking these away punishes the best company, which is counter-productive. If a lot of it is turned into stuff like parties and luxury vacations, the company isn't being very efficient, and will likely be replaced quickly in a free market. If not, that means people who can afford it are willingly transferring their money by overpaying due to their affinity for the entity, in which case libertarians would argue they have every right to spend that fairly earned money.
If the resource is replaceable, like fossil fuels, the free market will invest appropriately in alternatives as and when needed. As for irreplaceable resources, it would be a very rare situation for there to only exist a few sources of it globally, controlled by a few entities, and for them to all stop competing and fix prices. This would be a global crisis requiring international action and co-operation for diplomacy, sanctions, and acquiring new sources/technologies. Clearly not a usual scenario that can be used to dismiss libertarianism.
In x86 systems, there may actually be 2 address translation steps:like this:
- first segmentation
- then paging
(logical) ------------------> (linear) ------------> (physical)
segmentation paging
The major difference between paging and segmentation is that:
- paging splits RAM into equal sized chunks called pages
- segmentation splits memory into chunks of arbitrary sizes
This is the main advantage of paging, since equal sized chunks make things more manageable by reducing memory fragmentation problems. See also:
Paging came after segmentation historically, and largely replaced it for the implementation of virtual memory in modern OSs.
Paging has become so much more popular that support for segmentation was dropped in x86-64 in 64-bit mode, the main mode of operation for new software, where it only exists in compatibility mode, which emulates IA-32.
Let's show them how it's done with primes + awk. Edit. They have a gives us the list of all twin primes up to 100:Tested on Ubuntu 22.10.
-d
option which also shows gaps!!! Too strong:sudo apt install bsdgames
primes -d 1 100 | awk '/\(2\)/{print $1 - 2, $1 }'
0 2
3 5
5 7
11 13
17 19
29 31
41 43
59 61
71 73
Two different Lie groups can have the same Lie algebra by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2024-12-23 +Created 1970-01-01
The most important example is perhaps and , both of which have the same Lie algebra, but are not isomorphic.
Ubuntu 23.04 boot broken on kernel 6.2 by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2024-12-23 +Created 1970-01-01
Switching to the other installed kernel, 5.9 made boot work.
The solution on kernel 6.2 was:as per comments under: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2012559. This also made the nvidia driver work: Find GPU information in Ubuntu.
sudo apt instal nvidia-driver-515
Previously I had:and it blew up before reaching disk decryption.
nvidia-driver-510
I also tried:but that broke in a different way:
nvidia-driver-525
Finished apport-autoreport.service - Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled.
nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Idling display engine timed out: 0x0000947d:0:0:407
(1 of 2) Job systemd-backlight@backlight: nvidia_e.service/start running (32s no limit)
Complex analogue of orthogonal matrix.
Applications:
- in quantum computers programming basically comes down to creating one big unitary matrix as explained at: quantum computing is just matrix multiplication
United States Department of Energy national laboratory by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2024-12-23 +Created 1970-01-01
Where nuclear weapons and nuclear power, and a ton of derived research is made.
For a fun and brief random software encounter with that universe, see the VisIt section of stackoverflow.com/questions/5854515/interactive-large-plot-with-20-million-sample-points-and-gigabytes-of-data/55967461#55967461.
The closest site of the University of California to San Francisco. Berkeley, California is a small town on the East of the San Francisco Bay.
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