Eelongate

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by Eelongate 5y ago
Making 'science' a fungible unit allows scientists in one domain to leach off the reputation earned by scientists in another domain. Accomplishments in physics lend credibility to accomplishments in social science, due to the co
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by Eelongate 5y ago
I've used GPS navigation extensively on my phone with no internet service; I drove clear across Canada with my simcard pulled, it works fine. If I had to guess, these conflations of cell service with GPS are a product of misleading UX
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> You might be misunderstanding. They parent may be saying that they download the maps and just search for a road and use it like a paper map. Maybe? When hiking it makes some sense to forego GPS to save battery power. I didn't
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> nobody seems to notice/care as they have their minds blown Some people do, and erroneously conclude that "space is fake". This would be laughable, if not for the part where they then persuade their friends and family t
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Killing off the competition? Enormous walled garden? If that is Brave's business model, it's a delusional pipe dream. Brave trying to kill Google, or even merely match with the scale of Google's garden let alone surpass i
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> The other aspect is that these torpedoes can still be wired to the ship so you can continue to use the host sub's arguably better passive sonar systems and let the attacking torpedo get VERY close. I don't know if there is
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> > There are many criticisms you can make of the PRC, but “they are incapable of assuring that their official position is heard clearly and loudly” is...not among them. > What an incredible claim. Americans think China is liter
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by Eelongate 5y ago
The submarines in question, Seawolf class SSNs, have nuclear reactors but not nuclear weapons.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> Not as good as GPS obviously It is GPS.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
It certainly does. Pure inertial guidance with smartphone sensors is garbage. I must say I'm a bit startled by how many people evidently think that GPS is an internet service...
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Sure, but it's still not AC. It's VDC or PDC, not AC. It's not AC if the C urrent isn't A lternating.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> There were times when physics PhDs would chuckle and say absurd about going faster than sound. Oh come on now, that's obvious bullshit. The term "sound barrier" doesn't predate the 20th century and was only popu
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by Eelongate 5y ago
I'm no physicist, but doesn't the Standard Model fit on a few pieces of paper? That the universe has rules that are a lot simpler than the behavior that emerges from those rules doesn't seem like novel claim. Wolfram'
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by Eelongate 5y ago
I could have sworn they changed it to 'Uncertain Serial Bus'
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Is the mercury switch the important part of that, or the bimetal strip that's tilting the mercury switch? I think you could probably find mercury-free bimetal thermostats still, though I haven't looked.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
What it was "optimized for" is irrelevant if it's legible and has good information. The mpv manual read in a web browser is both of those. The VLC manual is a mediawiki (if we're talking about subjective appearances,
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Front door etiquette still works basically the same way. A doorbell rings and the whole house hears it. Once person goes to answer it, then passes off the conversation to whoever it's actually for.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
I guess the F1 screen is really important to you, but I'm looking at VLC's F1 screen right now and it looks worthless to me. It's just some links to online materials. Could mpv have that? In principle, yes. Is it worth the
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> but MPV is like starting a program in your shell with no man files. I can start virtually any program in a shell if I want to, VLC included. And I can't imagine what you mean by "with no man files" since mpv has a sup
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> Take a look at VLC documentation ( https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:User_Guide/ ) Trust me, I have. Extensively . The mpv manpage (which is actually written in the reStructuredText markup lanugage) is c
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by Eelongate 5y ago
It has the JSON-IPC interface, which is much better than vlc's telnet interface (which is barely documented at all.) The pseudo-gui is written as a lua script and can be swapped out with your own to suit your personal whims. It c
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> Its very much like learning CLI, except you need to memorize the keys on a GUI medial player. It's very much like learning to play a piano by the same twisted logic. > where is the manual for it even? Here: https:/&#x
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> There is a minimal GUI on MPV that doesn't show me anything for changing speed, it changes A-V delay when I try a -/+ command with CTRL, there is no right click menu, there is accessibility to helpful shortcuts that I should
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Couldn't you send an amplitude modulated signal down a DC line by modulating the voltage but keeping that voltage always above zero? If the current never actually reverses, it wouldn't be AC as I understand it. It would be PDC,
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> MPV needs learning CLI to play videos. It certainly does not. You can launch mpv by clicking/doubleclicking on any media file in your file manager, the same as any other. You can also drag media files to your mpv icon, or dra
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by Eelongate 5y ago
MPC is better? Maybe if you run windows. But if you don't then MPC isn't only not better, it's completely irrelevant . VLC on the other hand supports pretty much everything under the sun, so you can safely recommend i
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by Eelongate 5y ago
I also greatly prefer mpv, but I wouldn't recommend it to most people for the same reason I wouldn't recommend emacs to most people. To get the most out of it, you need to be able and inclined towards extending it. But if you ar
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by Eelongate 5y ago
There is also the matter of "the one democratic state in a region" being BS, or incredibly disingenuous at best. Even if you don't count Lebanon as a democracy (presumably not counted because Israel and Hezbollah hate each
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> Because on HN there are only two possible states for comments. Flagged or visible. The upvotes and downvotes just help compute the order. That's an oversimplification; downvotes may also reduce the visibility of comments by maki
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by Eelongate 5y ago
NSO is skilled at hacking androids, not making them. You know that; you are arguing in bad faith.

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