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by Laremere 4y ago
1. It can be pointed at any direction, just not at any time. It actually can't look directly away from the sun either, just to the sides. See https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-observatory-characteristics... 2. Basical
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by Laremere 4y ago
On one hand, I agree with you. I've personally seen low level people at a large corporation believe they were unequivocally in the right, and tried to use the weight of their moral conviction to impose their view of things onto everyo
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by Laremere 4y ago
My absolute favorite song of all time is Dial Out by Vangelis: https://youtu.be/Jnn9_NCLazM Rest in piece to a master of his art, and creator of the unique soundscapes made the world of blade runner something truly unique.
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by Laremere 4y ago
Ah, was a typo. Can't edit anymore but thanks for the catch!
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by Laremere 4y ago
Philip Walder, who contributed to the design of Haskell (according to wikipedia, haven't dug deep here) worked with the Go developers on a PL theory underpinning for Go's generics: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.1
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by Laremere 4y ago
Alternatively, if you want to kill advertisement based culture, Youtube premium costs $12/month. At an hour of watching a day, that's only $0.40/per hour. Bonus: The channels you watch on Youtube make way more from prenium
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by Laremere 4y ago
Youtube tried this years ago and then later quietly rolled it back. Turns out many people don't have a problem having their name attached to them being awful people on the internet, and it exposes others to real world harassment. (It
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by Laremere 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if he gave himself the CEO title, but actually had a president take on almost all normal CEO duties. Eg, as far as I can tell with SpaceX from interviews and such, Gwynne Shotwell really runs SpaceX. Elon jump
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by Laremere 4y ago
Why would I "know" that? SpaceX is a private company founded by Musk and levels.fyi indicates Software Engineers there receive a hefty amount of stock: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=SpaceX&track=Software%20E
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by Laremere 4y ago
"Busted" videos like this are low quality armchair analysis aimed at giving giving the viewer a sense of intellectual superiority. Saying "this solution breaks the laws of physics" can be valid if analysis is done corre
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by Laremere 5y ago
There is no operator overloading here. The type Duration is effectively an int64: https://pkg.go.dev/time#Duration
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by Laremere 5y ago
I think it's fair to have opinions, but you are overstating your case here - > You could have had an entire career in the video game industry in the amount of time he's managed to produce some pile of crap that doesn't eve
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by Laremere 5y ago
Go uses escape analysis to ensure memory safety of pointers. Taking a reference of a local variable means it might end up on the heap, and calling new might allocate on the stack. It all depends on if Go can determine that the lifetime of
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by Laremere 5y ago
For more aspects of this, Scott Manley talked extensively about how Russia's invasion of Ukraine will have a large affect on the industry as a whole: https://youtu.be/1V-lj-jCqe8 Edit: TL;DR off the top of my head:
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by Laremere 5y ago
https://www.brandonsanderson.com/where-do-i-start/
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by Laremere 5y ago
Be careful, especially if you do anything commercial with this: "Pong" is trademarked by Atari. Fun game, but might need to choose a different name...
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by Laremere 5y ago
While (iirc) Go uses caching in its build system internally, it builds quickly enough that this is not a concern.
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by Laremere 5y ago
85.8 grams of DNA is enough to overflow 64bits. Not that we're anywhere close to being able to use or process information on those scales, but it at least storage on that scale doesn't outright violate the laws of physics/in
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by Laremere 5y ago
It depends on what you mean by timezones. 1:30am Pacific Time isn't well defined, but 1:30am PST and 1:30am PDT are.
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by Laremere 5y ago
Just noticed this. I'm puzzled why my comment attracted downvotes. I typically lean towards gender neutral terms in my speech, but this actually wasn't one of those cases. I had originally used "his", but noticed it re
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by Laremere 5y ago
Destin has also peaked (or very close to it) in importance of person interviewed, as he interviewed Obama during their presidency. Though, sadly not an hour long. https://youtu.be/GpWQHFzrEqc
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by Laremere 5y ago
Everything I've read is he's only still in charge until the merger completes. Big sales like this don't happen overnight. ABK is keeping him in charge because MS doesn't own them yet. Once they do, it sounds like it&#
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by Laremere 5y ago
This is likely the correct way to state things. Facebook the product is run by a company named Meta. Google the product is run by a company named Google, which is owned by the conglomerate Alphabet. Google is the vast majority of Alphabet
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by Laremere 5y ago
Scott Manley video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KibT-PEMHUU
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by Laremere 5y ago
It has not happened yet. See: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html However, the alignment and calibration starts soon, before the l2 insertion burn. It will just continue for months afterwor
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by Laremere 5y ago
See also: https://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/ "Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the pla
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by Laremere 5y ago
Netflix is just another television network at this point, pivoting from being primarily a tech company. There's a bunch of content which jumps around between different streaming services, but Netflix produced shows and movies are on s
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by Laremere 5y ago
- The current Covid wave is its largest over the entire pandemic. Things settle down during the late Spring/ early Summer. Two more, less severe waves in the fall and winter. - The timing of Covid waves has impact on the US election.
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by Laremere 5y ago
Moving past the intuition for how division and remainders work for real numbers, there are other ways to look at "obvious" answers that suggests -7/2=4. Consider x/3=y. For real numbers, it's trivial to manipulate
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by Laremere 5y ago
Factors I can think of: 1. Bigger mirror = better. Enclosing a mirror requires mass and volume, limiting mirror size. 2. The L2 orbit is unstable. Far less risk of being hit by debris than low Earth orbit. 3. Webb's sun shield blocks

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