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The article does mention a very specific choice of vibration equipment.

Same method though. There's a plethora of vibrating things to choose from. I suppose you could mold a large silicone tentacle to put on a jackhammer, too, and use that to fish for bubbles in your cement soup. Call the tool what you want, you haven't changed the method.

Yes, I did feel a bit silly buying and using it, but to be fair it did get the bubbles out.

Are you guys all trying hard not to say the words dildo, satisfier, or sex toy? Why so? AFAIK it is neither a rude nor a prohibited word.

Nah, I was just being pedantic about the “method” of removing bubbles.

Is there any strong relationship between IQ scores and innate intelligence, as opposed to mental agility gained through education?

Yes. Which is why there are also IQ tests for pre-school kids.

Besides the declining groups have the same education with the earlier ones.


All of these effects are explained much better by social factors. If you're poor or discriminated against, you get less nutrition, less education, and face barriers in trying to improve both.

>If you're poor or discriminated against, you get less nutrition, less education, and face barriers in trying to improve both.

Which doesn't matter, since they measured rich and middle class, and poor and discriminated against both before and after.

Did you think the new measurements were done at some ghetto and the earlier higher ones at Martha's Vineyard?


Could you please elaborate on why measuring the same group somehow eliminates social effects?

Are you claiming social factors have remained constant during the measuring period? Because they very obviously haven't.

If you're aware of the Peter principle, and how inequality compounds over time, then you know that the rate at which social factors change is correlated with their quantile values.


In general the methodology for IQ is highly questionable

> In general the methodology for IQ is highly questionable

What do you propose as a replacement?


The very next entry on the homepage, just below this one: "The danger of military AI isn't killer robots; it's worse human judgement"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632016


That sounds correct and straight from The Ironies of Automation.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2448136.2448149


Valid question, which must be put in the context of US-based providers willingly satisfying US out-of-jurisdiction search requests for EU data without even letting the EU know about it. (And when the providers are not willing, they can be forced by U.S. Cloud Act)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/micro...


Your statement is wrong.

The report describes that there was no mechanism to dispatch the reactive power of renewables separately from the active power.

In page 452, item numbered 1 states "RES power plants follow fixed power factor" (RES = Renewable Energy Sources). The source of this finding is in section 4.2.1.

In page 208, footnote 35, the reference is given to Royal Decree 413/2014 of 6 June, which mandates this fixed power factor. The Article 7, section e), states that renewable energy sources must follow the instructions given by the operator to set power factor, and only if the distribution lines support it.

And footnote 36 describes how this worked in practice on the date of the outage: renewables were told, by email on the previous day, which fixed power factor correction to use the following day.

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This lack of dynamic dispatch of reactive power was a known problem, already reported in 2022 [1]

[1] https://www.eldiario.es/economia/competencia-reconocio-julio...



Any company where this happens is being mismanaged.

The whole point of having companies is to overcome limitations of humans acting individually.


I'll do you one better: stealing the signing key was not even necessary.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-ent...


I knew there was another incident that I was forgetting, insanity... I don't understand how Microsoft keeps getting away with this and everyone just forgets.


Microsoft has a very good PR department: they invest a lot in lobby/corruption, they pay for articles in big media companies. And Microsoft is too big to fail.


When people's income depends on them forgetting... they tend to become amnesiacs.


because time to market is more important than security (at microsoft)


Pike: strongly typed logic is great!

Perlin: stringly typed logic is great!


If each node has its own warmed-up VM awaiting from startup, there's no need to clone across nodes.


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