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by addaon 2y ago
> Certain lakes aren’t going to dry up within human timescales. Which ones? The North American Great Lakes, maybe? Anything else? The Aral Sea was the third largest lake in the world. Within the human time scale of the last six decades,
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by addaon 2y ago
Does anyone know if modern AMD chips allow mapping the L3 cache and using it as TCM instead of cache? I know older non-X86 processors supported this (and often booted into that mode so that the memory controllers could be brought up), but n
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by addaon 2y ago
> Except that the current state of physics says that we just can't possibly reach another galaxy. Period. Yes, that's exactly why my comment limited itself to discussion of population of /this/ galaxy.
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by addaon 2y ago
> Point is that if we can not behave on Earth how can we do it in other place. If we have a 90% chance of behaving in any given century, we are doomed on earth. If we have a 10% chance of behaving in any given century, a continuous herit
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by addaon 2y ago
This article starts out by pointing out that American life expectancy has increased from 70 to 77.5 over the last half century or so, and points out that this (along with a lack of increase in health span) means increased medical care, and
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by addaon 2y ago
The pedants are out there complaining. The pendants are in here just hanging around.
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by addaon 2y ago
This update broke my workflow!
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by addaon 2y ago
Not paralleel?
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by addaon 2y ago
40 um^2 might cover the logic (although I think your logic transistor count is a factor of three low; and something like this is most likely to be made on a 45 nm or bigger process), but doesn’t cover IO pads. If you’re willing to wire bond
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by addaon 2y ago
There’s been a bit of reporting on Boeing “considering” whether to cancel the remains of this program. There’s been no reporting on any decision — likely because Boeing hasn’t made one. But there’s zero financial upside to continuing, and z
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by addaon 2y ago
> Is the situation normal, or common? They went up on an experimental spacecraft on its shakedown cruise. They’re coming down on a different spacecraft than planned — a different make of spacecraft, even. That’s never happened before, an
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by addaon 2y ago
The joys of HN is finding experts in just about anything, so... Assuming that NASA is correct about this leak being associated with an interior or exterior weld, what can we learn from the rate of growth of the leak? I assume (with no domai
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NASA confirms space station cracking a "highest" risk and consequence problem(arstechnica.com)
88 points by addaon 2y ago|52 comments
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First observation of ultra-rare particle decay could uncover new physics(phys.org)
5 points by addaon 2y ago|0 comments
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by addaon 2y ago
I think the ethics committee would block any large-cohort study that required participants to drink instant coffee.
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by addaon 2y ago
Like photometry, and spectroscopy, and videography, and camera obscura, and a hundred other things. A camera is a tool for redirecting photons to create an image of a scene on a 2D plane. So many more things than just creating durable image
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by addaon 2y ago
By what definition of photography is this true? Is photometry photography now? Is the barcode reader at my supermarket performing photography? The encoder on my scroll wheel? My solar roof? Cameras can be used for many things other than pho
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by addaon 2y ago
How is scanning a QR code photography? Photography is "writing with light"; the key property is that of making a lasting record of a transient handful of photons. When scanning a QR code, the imaging is incidental, but more import
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by addaon 2y ago
> I rather think the cause is that inbound bandwidth is usually free, so they need maybe 1/100th of the money because requests are smaller than responses (plus discounts they get for being big customers) Seems like there's the
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by addaon 2y ago
Note that the motortrend link you give says that the Miller cycle "closes the intake valves much earlier." I'm just reading about this for the first time, but this is exactly the opposite of the description on Wikipedia [0],
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by addaon 2y ago
I have no strong opinion on return-to-office, but your argument addresses the maximum achievable productivity of a worker, derated by those factors (noise, etc) that effect your individual productivity. An argument against work-from-home is
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by addaon 2y ago
Slightly off-topic, but it would be nice if HN interpreted punycode in link descriptions. Especially given that the links go through a redirect, which means that the browser status bar sees them as part of the query and not the domain, so t
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by addaon 2y ago
In single core performance. Still very impressive given the clock speed gap and power usage gap.
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by addaon 2y ago
What about the constants that describe the (relative) rest masses of elementary particles? Since we don’t know the order of magnitude of neutrino masses, it seems improbable that even an order of magnitude change of those masses over time w
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by addaon 2y ago
More precisely, you mean more generally, not more precisely. Saying pie is a consumable and a rival good are equally accurate, but the former is more precise, as the former is a subset of the latter.
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by addaon 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Wu0Q7x5D0 isn't a bad attempt, although obviously limited by available information.
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by addaon 2y ago
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/15259/worst-cas... https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=chrome+exte... It's not that I'll never install an extension (I curr
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by addaon 2y ago
Hmm. Not sure what I'm looking at here. I tried clicking stuff. The first three buttons I saw (traffic light) did nothing. The fourth one made the rest of them go away with no obvious way to get them back? I don't have any video o
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by addaon 2y ago
Either it's distracting bad at facial recognition, or disturbingly good. I wonder which.
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by addaon 2y ago
The Epic store will only show me prices in Rubles. Never tried to debug it -- who needs it, anyway? -- but always thought that was somewhere between bizarre and hilarious. (US computer, US IP address, no VPN, en-us locale.)

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