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by CalChris 3y ago
No. The JWST is about a million miles away from earth. It is only 6.5 meters wide. tan = 6.5 meters / 1M miles = 4.03891275 × 10-9 2.31×10^-7 degrees The Hubble can resolve 1/10th of an arc second or 2.78×10^-5 degre
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by CalChris 3y ago
In related news … Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
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by CalChris 3y ago
An additional starboard/port issue is right of way for sailboats. Suppose that you're going upwind and two close hauled boats are crossing. Who has right of way? When boats are on opposite tacks, a port-tack boat shall keep cl
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by CalChris 4y ago
Yeah, I worked in the typewriter factory . I think I was there for a month before I was allowed to go to lunch by myself because otherwise I'd get lost in its labyrinthine corridors.
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by CalChris 4y ago
Has it? 2019 is the latest aggregation the FBI publishes. Looking at the SFPD Dashboard, homicide hasn't changed from last year at 13. https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...
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by CalChris 4y ago
It's in the paper. "What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party.&qu
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by CalChris 4y ago
Hell yes. This is akin to offering an 'internship' without paying. Internships should be paid. They should pay Social Security tax as well. Not paying founders is just a tactic to burn them out and push them out. It doesn't h
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by CalChris 4y ago
HW4 is adding radar back. So it's not impossible that Tesla could bail on this bad decision and add USS back.
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by CalChris 4y ago
I'm only talking about the purpose of the 8086 as a stopgap for the very late 432. I shouldn't have mentioned the 8088.
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by CalChris 4y ago
No, I meant the 8086. The iAPX 432 project was started in 1975 but wasn't released until 1981. The 432 was late, very late, and so Intel needed a stopgap product. That was the 8086, started in 1975 and released in 1979.
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by CalChris 4y ago
The ambitious 432 was also late, quite late. So Intel needed a simple stopgap product which was an iteration of the 8088, the 8086.
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by CalChris 4y ago
https://mercury.com
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by CalChris 4y ago
Written by pretty much the same people.
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by CalChris 4y ago
15 not 14. The instruction-size limit of 15 bytes still applies to instructions with a REX prefix. Section 2.2.1, Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Also, long instructions are infrequent, 96%+ are 7 bytes or le
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by CalChris 4y ago
Does Coinbase traded crypto pass the Howey Test ? https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/cryptocurrencies-and-the-s... a contract, transaction or scheme whereby a person invests his money in a common enterprise and is led
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by CalChris 4y ago
I had one of DEC’s t-shirts, The Network is the Network and the Computer is the Computer. We regret the confusion. But no one got the joke anymore and I let it slip away.
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by CalChris 4y ago
A final semester student is not a full stack engineer.
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by CalChris 4y ago
There's also the Pacific Pinball Museum not far away in Alameda. https://www.pacificpinball.org
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Pacific Pinball Museum(pacificpinball.org)
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by CalChris 4y ago
What about putting those odd invoices that don’t Xero into a shoebox and letting the to be hired CFO deal with them later?
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by CalChris 4y ago
For example, HSBC bought the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank today for a pound. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64937251
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by CalChris 4y ago
“I think the old limit was 50 billion but go changed to I think 150 billion which puts SVB below the threshold for the stress test.” Maybe the parent post missed that but I was responding to that post.
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by CalChris 4y ago
Trump increased this to $250B in 2018. SVB as the 16th largest bank in the US at $209B didn’t trip this wire because the wire was moved.
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by CalChris 4y ago
So I suppose that getting Putin to sign off on Gaddafi’s removal was part of that fuckup. Libya was a Russian satellite and Russia has a veto at the UN Security Council. Given the two dumb wars that Obama was saddled with, I thought he navi
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by CalChris 4y ago
I agree about the 80s. If anything, we viewed them as a bigger threat than they really were, our defense industry in particular. But the USSR fell apart in 1989 and Russia was a spent force in the 90s. We bought Ukraine’s nukes with money b
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by CalChris 4y ago
Pixar was a spinoff from Lucasfilm rather than an ab initio startup. Steve Jobs purchased the Computer Division from George Lucas with 40 employees and IP. I don't think founder or co-founder are the right terms here. No one ate rame
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by CalChris 4y ago
The EU losing the UK is like NATO losing France. France was an original founding member of NATO but partially withdrew in 1966 for reasons not unlike the UK leaving the EU, populist nationalism. They returned 43 years later. My guess is tha
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by CalChris 4y ago
Kelsey-Seybold Clinic is a healthcare provider (in Houston). A Silver Medicare Advantage plan with them has a Maximum Out-of-Pocket of $3450 in-network, better than I would have thought. I have a $226/yr Part B deductible. That's
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by CalChris 4y ago
So we're talking about two different things (and thus in a sense, both right). By non-participating you're referring to Extra Charges as opposed to what I'm thinking of, a doctor who is not accepting Medicare payment at all a
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by CalChris 4y ago
> accepts Medicare and Medicare won't pay for a procedure Dermatologist accepts Medicare and Medicare Assignment but Medicare won't pay for cosmetic surgery. Sounds fair. > Medicare limits the ability to which non-participat

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