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by ISL 4y ago
Until your neighbors know, you can trust them just as much. A winning lottery ticket is an optional life-changing object. A few seconds with a lit match, and life goes on unchanged. (incidentally, before taxes, I guess that winning lottery
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by ISL 4y ago
It spins up because that mass carries angular momentum.
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by ISL 4y ago
Funnels can plug/jam, chains rarely fail. Chainguns generally depend upon an external drive to pull ammunition through a gun -- whether a round in the chamber has fired or not, it will be extracted and a new one put in its place. As I
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by ISL 4y ago
Movies generally set their shutter speed to gather light for half the duration of the time a frame is shown to the viewer, so the camera itself captures a slightly motion-blurred image of anything in motion. Far more here: https:/&#x2
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by ISL 4y ago
I think the reason GIF has thrived has as much to do with safety/malware as it does anything else. Unlike Flash or the perpetual need to download random codecs in the mid-2000s, GIF offers a very small surface-area for exploits.
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by ISL 4y ago
On my display, most of the demo-gifs look like they are insufficiently low-passed to render realistic/smooth motion. The 24/25 fps gifs certainly have the opportunity to look great (movies are mostly at 24 fps), but the hard-edge
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by ISL 4y ago
The expense was the labor!
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by ISL 4y ago
I was very happy to learn that I could "Snooze suggested posts" for 30 days. That we can't disable them is, well, perhaps predatory, but here's how to do it. There's an X at the top-right of any suggested post. If y
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by ISL 4y ago
Sagan was a professional astronomer in Cornell's astronomy department, but his rationale for making the pale-blue-dot image was less as a scientific endeavor and more as a way to tell us more about ourselves. Incidentally, there was a
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by ISL 4y ago
My guess is that it is too small, but the RTG is warm.... :).
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by ISL 4y ago
I'd encourage those with the skill to do so to apply for telescope time. A friend of mine, with no prior observational experience, had a good idea for a Chandra observation, applied in partnership with an astronomer, and got the time
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by ISL 4y ago
In this context, a completed upgrade or cleanup would count as "shipping". The article's author seems to primarily emphasize serializing processes so that incremental progress is readily evident to everyone and the organizati
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by ISL 4y ago
Experiment is the arbiter of truth -- being able to verify that aging fissile materials continue to function as-expected is very important. It really matters that nuclear weapons go bang when you want, but not when you don't. An exampl
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by ISL 4y ago
Is this in HIBP yet?
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by ISL 4y ago
The really big deal in the last decade has been better magnets -- many of the "novel" approaches attracting recent funding are probably doomed to fail, but the MIT-associated consortia that simply aspire to building better tokamak
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by ISL 4y ago
It is the first poxvirus to spread across the globe since the eradication of smallpox. Vaccines exist, unlike at the outset of Covid, but not at the scale necessary to vaccinate the world and move on. Even if monkeypox is only an annoyance
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by ISL 4y ago
Is the supertopo forum gone? There was a ton of climbing history in there.
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by ISL 4y ago
How many automated-review actions do you think Twitter performs in a day that would require such a review? How many seconds might each human-review take? What false-positive rate is acceptable on that human-review?
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by ISL 4y ago
Do you think that Twitter could possibly survive as a company without large amounts of automated moderation?
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by ISL 4y ago
You can only do this when you're really pissed and you no longer care about working cooperatively with your counterparties, particularly LHR's management team.
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by ISL 4y ago
I don't know if you've ever met any ... aircraft metallurgists, for example, but holy poops are they motivated by doing anything awesome with advanced alloys.
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by ISL 4y ago
I agree with point #1, but disagree with point #2. Academic research is not a place to go for extrinsic motivation. If you're not primarily in it for love, you're going to have a bad time. An example: Who has heard of the Wolf Pri
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by ISL 4y ago
If you have enough chickens, the number of foxes, too, can grow exponentially with time.
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by ISL 4y ago
Might check the ToS of the existing players before doing that en masse .
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by ISL 4y ago
One of the hypotheses that can be tested better than ever by JWST is precisely this: Is the very-distant universe homogenous? Modern cosmology assumes-so, but it need not be true.
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by ISL 4y ago
This is amazing. Website exceeded the high expectations set by the title.
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by ISL 4y ago
"Notice! This product is experimental and incomplete. User beware!" :).
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by ISL 4y ago
Ought to generally be fine. That level of critical cleaning is kinda different from what glasses generally require. Mine wind up with grease, fingerprints, dust, cooking oil, etc., so a good surfactant (i.e. dish soap) and some clean water
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by ISL 4y ago
I've never played Heardle before, also got it on the first clip. Interested in playing again... have to wait, though.
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by ISL 4y ago
I wasn't referring to the marginal utility for a person, but rather the economies of scale that come with focused capital-allocation. A million people with single dollars probably can't coordinate to build a consumer product. A Ki

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