Thorondor

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91.
by Thorondor 8y ago
That's very, very unlikely. A rogue planet passing near a star wouldn't crash into the star, it would follow a hyperbolic trajectory out of the system.
92.
by Thorondor 8y ago
No, because the transition function has to be applied at each time step as well as the convolution. In the source code, that's self.rules.s(N_buffer, M_buffer)
93.
NuScale Small Modular Reactor Becomes First to Complete NRC Phase One Review(power-eng.com)
3 points by Thorondor 8y ago|0 comments
94.
‘We Are Ready to Die.’ Five North Korean Defectors Who Never Made It(nytimes.com)
3 points by Thorondor 9y ago|0 comments
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by Thorondor 9y ago
I'm also pretty skeptical about this story to be honest, but FWIW it was repeated by the BBC. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43463195 The link I submitted is the nearest I can find to an original source. T
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Turkish police seize 1.4 kg of radioactive californium in Ankara(dailysabah.com)
23 points by Thorondor 9y ago|22 comments
97.
by Thorondor 9y ago
There's only a limited amount of bandwidth available, and if you transmit at a certain frequency, you interfere with other people operating near that frequency. It's like jamming their signals. If too many people do this, the en
98.
by Thorondor 9y ago
Why do you think the FCC should be involved in this, though? Do you think the FCC should be able to make safety regulations for, say, airplanes or sailboats?
99.
by Thorondor 9y ago
I think that's correct (this comment does not constitute legal advice, etc.). However, international telecommunications treaties would still apply and they'd have to deal with export restrictions (ITAR and EAR).
100.
by Thorondor 9y ago
IMO the FAA should be the responsible regulatory agency.
101.
by Thorondor 9y ago
Which is exactly my point. The FCC rejected Swarm's experimental license application in December 2017 (thus the letter) because they were worried about orbital debris. They should be focusing on the RF characteristics of the satellit
102.
by Thorondor 9y ago
A lot of people are wondering why the FCC has jurisdiction over this. The reason is that Swarm is operating an unauthorized experimental radio station on American soil. [0] That's always been illegal, as it should be. That shouldn&#x
103.
Ghana man teaching computing without computers becomes viral hit(bbc.com)
2 points by Thorondor 9y ago|1 comments
104.
Biohacking Lactose Intolerance(hackaday.com)
2 points by Thorondor 9y ago|0 comments
105.
How a bad indicator LED brought the Keck 1 telescope to a stop(darkerview.com)
1 points by Thorondor 9y ago|0 comments
106.
Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star(phys.org)
5 points by Thorondor 9y ago|0 comments
107.
Gangnam Style no longer YouTube's most-watched video(smh.com.au)
10 points by Thorondor 9y ago|1 comments
108.
Everything Has Fresnel (2010)(filmicworlds.com)
1 points by Thorondor 9y ago|0 comments
109.
by Thorondor 9y ago
It's not really possible to derive temperature from other more fundamental units. For example, you can't define entropy as an absolute number; it needs to be assigned a unit, and the standard way of doing this is to multiply it b
110.
New Zealand space launch is first from a private site(bbc.com)
188 points by Thorondor 9y ago|54 comments
111.
WannaCry Fact Sheet(gist.github.com)
5 points by Thorondor 9y ago|0 comments
112.
A2: Analog Malicious Hardware [pdf](static1.1.sqspcdn.com)
2 points by Thorondor 9y ago|0 comments
113.
Cryovolcanism on Ceres(phys.org)
2 points by Thorondor 10y ago|0 comments
114.
Three-quarters of UK children spend less time outdoors than prison inmates(theguardian.com)
2 points by Thorondor 10y ago|0 comments
115.
Reading the Unreadable SROM: Inside the PSoC4(hackaday.com)
3 points by Thorondor 10y ago|0 comments
116.
AMD Ryzen processor beats i7 on chess engine benchmarks(en.chessbase.com)
3 points by Thorondor 10y ago|0 comments
117.
Origin of Wireless Security: the Marconi Radio Hack of 1903(hackaday.com)
70 points by Thorondor 10y ago|15 comments
118.
Teenage Iranian chess master banned from national team for not wearing headscarf(washingtonpost.com)
37 points by Thorondor 10y ago|3 comments
119.
Elon Musk appears to release first picture of his new tunnel boring machine(electrek.co)
4 points by Thorondor 10y ago|0 comments
120.
by Thorondor 10y ago
I signed, too, but I didn't see an update in the signature count either. According to https://www.buzzfeed.com/blakemontgomery/signatures-on-the-w... We the People is experiencing technical difficulties at presen

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