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by ajford 7y ago
Green Bank Observatory does not intentionally transmit, and any leakage would hardly exist for long, since the whole point is to listen to extremely weak signals. However, a radio telescope differs from your usual radio receiver in that the
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by ajford 7y ago
This is exactly the case. There's a small perimeter zone around the sensitive telescopes where unshielded/unapproved vehicles are prohibited, unless otherwise scheduled for some reason. This small area is the only place where thes
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by ajford 7y ago
For a beginner, compared to many languages out there, it is very intuitive. I taught many 1st/2nd year college students Python as their first foray into programming, and it's flexibility and readability was a great way to get peop
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by ajford 7y ago
Green Bank and the local town is a really cool place. It's a shame to see that some people are giving up on the attitude that's helped protect the telescope's ability to perform amazing science. My undergrad work used some da
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by ajford 7y ago
It's one of the reasons I used to watch fan translations of anime and read scan-lations of mangas. They would often have footnotes, inserted explanations, or even additional text documents with background on colloquialisms and commenta
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by ajford 7y ago
When I was living in Puerto Rico for work, the local credit union I was using had this same problem. Although the tooltip and messaging on the page said 8-16 chars, only the first 8 were used, and from my testing it had to be case insensiti
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by ajford 7y ago
Was gonna say, I remember that being a Gmail Labs feature for a while. I opted in the first time I noticed it in the labs, and I feel like it took a long while to reach the public.
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My biggest complaint about Prime video is the absolutely horrid navigation of TV series. If I'm browsing a particular genre, say Sci-Fi for example, I'm shown every season of each show, with it's own cover art. This serves to
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by ajford 7y ago
What cards are you using? I have three RPis in abusive conditions, and they haven't had a single SD card issue. Two RPi 3b's running as a car entertainment system, with no form of battery backup/safe shutdown. They are on the
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by ajford 7y ago
A lot of it I learned when I studied Radio Astronomy in college (my major). I'm a little rusty now after about 7 years. However, here's a few resources I remember and was able to dig up. 1) A presentation from Max Plank University
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From talking to a few ex-googlers, a lot of issues come from heavy incentives (and upwards momentum in employment level/compensation) tied to shipping a product/tool, while very little is tied to the maintenance/improvement o
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A lot of the atmospheric affects are on longer timescales than the sampling times, which means they can be calibrated out. Most observations of this nature (interferometric observations) will point at a nearby calibrator source (usually a w
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by ajford 7y ago
I've had a windows update brick my laptop. It failed to complete an update, would roll back, reboot, then try again. Nothing I did fixed it. I spent almost a week with it in a boot loop, trying various fixes and such before giving up a
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by ajford 7y ago
I have this same issue on a work-provided macbook pro. They want to standardize on laptops for the dev team, but I spent months just getting up to speed on using the damn thing, and I still don't feel comfortable on it. And when my per
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by ajford 7y ago
My Stellar Astrophysics prof wrote his textbook in TeXPad back in it's early days. Between that, his iPad, and a bluetooth keyboard case, he wrote the entire book over the course of 2 years I think. Aside from some final polish, diagra
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by ajford 7y ago
My current employer uses Linode, and yeah, they have pretty good support. However, I've been using DO for the last 5 years, and haven't needed to reach out to support once. But I've had to contact Linode support about 5 times
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by ajford 7y ago
Django works great if you're buying into the Django ecosystem. But if you're standing up a simple REST API, I've found Flask is much more flexible. Either approach will get you to where you're going, but I find Flask get
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by ajford 8y ago
The T series still has the removable batteries, and the newer model years (T460 and up) have weights equivalent to the older X240 and below. My T460 is within 0.5lbs (~0.25kg) of my work-issued 2015 MBP 13in, and from my quick searches, tha
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by ajford 8y ago
The malware was only found on the IdeaPad series (their consumer line). From reporting on it, the management team is separate from their business (Thinkpad) line, and the malware came from the 3rd party software packages that were included
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by ajford 8y ago
I have a T460, and after typing on my work laptop (2015 MB Pro, by office policy), it feels heavenly going back to it at the end of the day. That keyboard is lightyears ahead of the Apple chiclet keys. I still fondly miss the actual scissor
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by ajford 8y ago
Gotta say, that doesn't sound like a hack, it sounds like a perfectly normal response to the imperfect nature of async processes and the internet itself. TCP traffic itself behaves in the same way. If a packet arrives out of order, you
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by ajford 8y ago
Yeah, not sure why this is causing such a freak out. Is this not standard A/B testing? Maybe A/B testing user agent isn't the best differentiator, but at my current gig, we've considered pushing a pricing difference base
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by ajford 8y ago
Yep. It's a pain to have to say "Alexa, ask Chevrolet to start my car". Why can't I just say "Alexa, start my car". Clearly it's the only car related skill...
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Sure, but I can ask Alexa what the weather is like while actively doing something else, like say before brushing my teeth or while in the shower. Or while in my kids closet, picking out clothes for the next day. And while I can set a single
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by ajford 8y ago
My favorite behavior was setting up a lamp near the downstairs landing with a smart bulb, and a motion sensor in the upstairs hallway/landing (through SmartThings). When someone approaches the stairs from either direction, the lamp fli
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Totally agreed with GP. Needing to somehow uniquely identify an article over voice assistant will be painful. However, something like Pocket, where you can push articles/pages into the record and call them back by voice or tag would be
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by ajford 8y ago
The PHEV Prii have such a paltry range. Even the newest models have ~30mi IIRC. If you happen to have a very short commute, or very little traffic, they might be a good fit, but I feel like you really need to be in the 50-60mi electric rang
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Yeah, and 45 was the high side. It often seemed closer to 38-40. I live in a hot climate, so the car was an oven without AC, which meant the range was reduced. But yeah, the early models had much worse degradation, on top of their lower ran
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by ajford 8y ago
Agreed! My average day left me with about 10mi range out of about 45mi, which caused some amount of stress if I had to deviate from my normal day to run an errand or something similar. If I had to stop for groceries on the way home, I'
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by ajford 8y ago
I just assume it's people not agreeing. The Leaf gets a bad rap, and a lot of hate. Nissan put a lot of great work into that car, and it doesn't get much recognition thanks to other developments in the recent years. They've b

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