Someone needs to define a human-readable attachment to QR that can be checked by the QR reader; e.g. the root of the URL printed above the QR code at a specific position offset or with a specific mark; so then the QR decoder could OCR it and verify it matched the URL encoded. Only the root of the URL would be included so the QR could include a specific to that location complex path. Now, we just need to backronym SPQR to fit...

libvirt+qemu can do live migration across disparate storage; I know quite a lot of people want to use it. I'm curious in which ways you find the vMotion stuff does well with that.

It can't be a coincidence this comes a day after the UK published an 'AI action plan' https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-opportunities-...

It definitely could be a coincidence.

I worked for 9 years at one of the large US softy companies after 40; I worked from home. Got promoted a few times, avoided doing management.

How do you know that they aren't waste/intermediate products of some other cell, as opposed to being something that reproduces?

How would they exist/maintain themselves without it's DNA counterpart?

ah, have you shown that there is no matching DNA in either the host or any of the bacteria that the host has?

The paper says: “in companion DNA-seq data from this project, no detectable Obelisk reads are found” which I think is getting at what you’re asking, but I’m not sure if my understanding is correct.

I’m also not sure if DNA-seq data refers to the human host, or just all DNA they were able to sequence (which would include bacteria as well I guess?)

'high speed' with the phrase: 'reducing the register-mediated signal transfer time between circuits to less than 1 h, thereby achieving fast sequential DNA computing. '

If you thought your 6502 was slow be grateful, Bio works a lot more leisurely.

I think they kind of have a point; they were talking about needing a 10kW transmitter - that's a heck of a lot of power for a transmitter, not easy to make at all. And at those frequencies, the antenna is a challenge. Having said that, a bunch of few-hundred W transmitters in convenient places would be a lot easier, and there are probably easy but inefficient antenna hacks (drop a wire down a cliff/across a park/out of the top floor of a tower block?)

I beg to disagree, 10kW at ~140khz is actually relatively straight forward with modern semiconductors and LiPo's. Eg. the inverters in a Tesla Plaid can do up-to 750kW, so I think two orders of magnitude more power is theoretically possible.

And then they left out that at such long wavelengths there are some unconventional antenna topologies available. Some of which are a lot more feasible than anything that was discussed in the talk.

The dismissal is quite concerning IMO.

Also, IMHO instead of a few strong senders, an attacker could use more low-powered senders placed in proximity to power stations.

A BIOS can forget to reset some devices. A physical device might have a design flaw where it forgets to reset some registers on reset. A BIOS (including device firmware) can forget to zero some RAM/initialise a structure and get lucky.

Yep, this is a typical flaw and it can cause annoying situations. I met it in my practice.

two nice words in there that are new to me; 'hadal' and raptorial'

Didn’t notice ‘hadal’! Kind of glid by. Thanks!

Looked up the meaning and the roots of the word. Feel compelled to mention that the etymology is pretty wild.

hadal: “of or relating to the deepest ocean; beyond 6000 meters” ← Hades, Greek god of the underworld ← ᾍδης (Hā́idēs)

which is

‘Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *n̥- (“not”)+‎ *weyd- (“see”) +‎ *-ēs (“adjectival suffix”), literally “that which is unseen”’

or

← ‘from *sm̥weyd-(from *sm̥- (compounding stem) +‎ *weyd-(“see”) +‎ *-ēs (“adjectival suffix”), literally “see-together” or “uniter”)’

… according to Wiktionary: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ᾍδης

That’ll be one exploding-head emoji for me please.

How much does digging a hole or laying a cable cost here in the UK compared to elsewhere? I'm just trying to get a feel for whether things like the transmission/distribution network costs are higher than elsewhere.

The HS2 project is mostly that - and very, very expensive it seems.

I'm in another Northern European country, and 7c/kWh goes towards network and transmission costs.