Treblemaker

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by Treblemaker 5y ago
I thought this was supposed to be fiction.... https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
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Virgin Galactic responds to FAA investigation over Unity 22 flight deviation(spaceexplored.com)
2 points by Treblemaker 5y ago|0 comments
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
The data is in the tables, summarized in Figure 1: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01377-8/figures/1
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
Thank you for the other references. > Down voted because this is misinformation I would hope you might agree that term is better reserved for bullshit conspiracy theories and not peer reviewed research published in one of the most cited
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
The US and USSR collectively had 25 lunar mission failures (not counting successful flybys, orbiters and impactors) before Luna 9 was successfully soft-landed on the moon [1]. India's first attempt at an orbiter was successful, and the
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
Disappointing, given the evidence that "natural" immunity has been shown to be less effective at producing neutralizing antibodies than many of the vaccines that are available[1] https://www.nature.com/articles&#x2
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
ping "Hey, Bob, can I share my desktop and show you something?" Five minutes later, Bob is fixing his mistake. Or, Bob has notifications turned off, and he lets me know as soon as he's available again. My point is that th
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
Tom Mahood wrote some interesting well-researched posts about the possibility that alleged "UFOs" seen over area 51 may have been the result of proton beam testing. This is a good starting point [0]. The page also links to se
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
According to a 2017 report by the Airline Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) [1], general aviation -- defined as all civilian flying except scheduled passenger airline service -- consumed 209 million gallons of avgas and 1.8 billion gallo
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
> they just ran & ran. Until they didn't, usually right in the middle of a tape-out. Nice to see this site is still around, though! https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/sparc/
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
Yes. > independent of property value I think the word "value" is mis-used here. The potential sale price of my home has no value at all to me unless and until I decide to sell. I pay taxes on my home based on the price I paid f
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
Last May investigators at Sportradar, who spend most of their time identifying match-fixing, conducted a pilot scheme at two exhibition tennis tournaments where they tracked down trolls. Those targeted included Taylor Townsend, who was abus
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Trolls can be hunted down, rooted out. Why aren’t social media giants doing it?(theguardian.com)
10 points by Treblemaker 5y ago|6 comments
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
Imagining that the Ingenuity team is grinning right now: "You need wind to blow off the dust? We got this."
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Haven't thought of this in a while.... One of the demo sounds shipped with SunOS was a little metallic "ding" which, if repeated fast enough, would sound just like a cooling fan with a loose bearing. When my co-worker acros
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
EDA is "Exploratory Data Analysis" ? I mean, I see Electronic Design Automation when I see EDA, and pretty sure it's not that.
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Oh, so that's what this was about... http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/the-dirt-dances....
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Someone asked a tangential question on another thread and I thought, Oh! There was an Omega Tau episode on that very subject! It's been about five years since the link was posted to HN, so it's about time to revisit it. Roughly
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Omega Tau Podcast-Science and Engineering(omegataupodcast.net)
1 points by Treblemaker 6y ago|1 comments
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
There was a very interesting Omega Tau podcast about this very subject a while back. They go into a lot of detail about the optimization problem and how they address it. http://traffic.libsyn.com/omegataupodcast/omegat
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Russian Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Introduce Malware into [Tesla] Network(justice.gov)
5 points by Treblemaker 6y ago|0 comments
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Had he started later in the day, Piet Hein might have written, There's an art of knowing when Never try to guess Cook until it's soft and then Ninety seconds less
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Came here to post the same thing (and it was pretty much the same parts!) Our standing Fry's joke was about how one side of the aisle had chips, but the other side had chips. I haven't been there since early 90's, though,
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
I think that's reading too much into it. One can care about meeting their responsibilities because they love their family. And "being a great parent and partner" can be one of those responsibilities.
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Well I guess I'm one of today's lucky 10,000 and grateful to have discovered him through the article.
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Reminds me of the story of the pilot who is being nagged repeatedly to expedite descent by ATC. "Don't you have speed brakes?" says the ATCO with exasperation. "Yes" comes the reply "But those are for my mistak
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
> though for some reason we haven't made a lot of progress The risk that reprocessing can produce weapons-grade plutonium has been one reason. [1] Frustrating not only because it makes it unavailable as an energy source, but, as
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Likewise ASIL - Automotive Safety Integrity Level https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_Safety_Integrity_Le...
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by Treblemaker 6y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "stochastic forms"? The meaning and usage of the word that I am familiar with don't seem to fit here, so I don't think I'm getting your meaning. Thanks
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Law Enforcement Is Accessing Locked Devices Quite Well, Thank You(lawfareblog.com)
2 points by Treblemaker 6y ago|0 comments

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