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by akavel 3y ago
But won't they burn earlier in the atmosphere due to exposing bigger surface to it? AFAIU small asteroids burn in the atmosphere and thus don't reach the surface or reach it in very small pieces (and presumably more distributed if
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by akavel 3y ago
It does, thanks! <3
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by akavel 3y ago
Hmm, IANAL, though I seem to believe there tends to be a question of "have you seen the original code before writing your clone" - which presumes that you still risk copying some code - or are you doing a "cleanroom reimpleme
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by akavel 3y ago
See also: https://www.sensorwatch.net/
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by akavel 3y ago
I'm somewhat confused: the "Related" section says: "[...] that motivated me to rewrite it [- presumably: svgbob -] in JS (svgbob is written in rust)" [...]" So, is "Typograms" a modified rewrite of
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by akavel 3y ago
Same in desktop version of Firefox. Also, the examples in the last 3 sections in "Scribbles" ( "Small curved steps", "Parenthesis and spheres", "Diagonal Side-way Arrows" ) don't seem to actually
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by akavel 3y ago
Quoting from the Wikipedia article: [Coriolis illusion] can produce an overpowering sensation that the aircraft is rolling, pitching, and yawing all at the same time, which can be compared with the sensation of rolling down a hillside. Oh
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by akavel 3y ago
Also, they post on Mastodon (since way before the recent migration waves), at: https://merveilles.town/@neauoire https://merveilles.town/@rek and the instance created by them hosts a rather fine community o
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by akavel 3y ago
Piggy-backing on this thread: does anyone know of any open-hardware computer printer you can DIY at home? (Ideally not using any pre-made ink/etc. cartridges; can be a dot-matrix or even Selectric/daisy-wheel printer.)
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by akavel 4y ago
I imagine "spammer" here is not an email spammer, but either e.g. a comments spammer (a bot trying to post links in comment forms to game google), or a generalized thought shortcut meaning something like "a bot/botnet cr
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by akavel 4y ago
Oh.... thanks a lot, I indeed totally misread this!
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by akavel 4y ago
The tutorial of the recently posted BQN variant of APL ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33180842 ) is super approachable and written so nicely, that I couldn't resist being drawn in - I highly recommend checkin
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Putin. Miller. Gazprom [video](youtube.com)
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Russian Oppositional Arts Review(roar-review.com)
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by akavel 4y ago
As for one example, a fairly well known body has set up an official Mastodon server half a year ago: https://social.network.europa.eu "EU Voice is the official ActivityPub microblogging platform of the EU institutions, bod
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by akavel 4y ago
Wow, the tutorial seems a breeze in its initial parts, written in a really approachable tone. Also, the amount of new weird characters to learn does not feel overwhelming - at least with how they're introduced. That said, I stumbled up
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by akavel 4y ago
A video by Scott Manley explaining what a rotating detonation engine means: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG_Eh0J_4_s
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by akavel 4y ago
Wow, this is probably the most actually useful and interesting comment in this whole discussion, thanks! For anyone interested, the most relevant quotes from the document are in particular: "This document requests the addition of a nu
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by akavel 4y ago
Hm, I'm getting 403 Forbidden on this link, is it having some issues?
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by akavel 4y ago
I read the Wikipedia page for Cordura before, and re-reading it now I still find it opaque and not helping me understand what it actually is, or how it differs from non-Cordura. Whereas the page I linked above definitely helps me more. Nota
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by akavel 4y ago
Please note I mentioned I'm a complete beginner , so I don't know how fabrics differ and in particular what does Cordura mean in detail. Thus that makes it something I would hope a page aimed at beginners would explain. Notably,
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by akavel 4y ago
Good to know, thanks! Then that's something I'd definitely love to see explained on the website :) ideally with a clarification how to progress into it at some point. That said, the machine I bought a while ago is a vintage mechan
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by akavel 4y ago
Recently I was trying to buy a shoulder/messenger bag made from Cordura with molle/pals webbing, but was unable to find one with specific features and dimensions that I want. I'm thus increasingly pondering going on some sewi
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by akavel 4y ago
"Our famous director delved deep into the ideas embodied in a mysterious wizard trope and reinvented them in a way easier to immerse in for modern audiences." Or something like that; don't let a couple nerd fans dictate some
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by akavel 4y ago
Another one that I found more informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euO-LIkew8o
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by akavel 4y ago
Glitter nail polish is literally the first item discussed in the article linked by the parent poster, with the claim notably being: "With the first two methods [of applying glitter nail polish], it is sometimes very difficult or even
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by akavel 4y ago
Peter Shor; though whether easily, I can't say for sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor's_algorithm
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by akavel 4y ago
Doesn't seem so clear cut to me yet, but I see what you're hinting at. The first one seems about Google Fonts specifically, together with IPs indeed, but not mentioning US govt subpoenas at all (at least in the English translation
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by akavel 4y ago
Regarding GDPR, citation needed - do you have actual links you can share to those claimed "recent interpretations", and whose in particular they are? I'd be quite interested to see them, if true ,which I seriously doubt - for
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by akavel 4y ago
Makes me think I should consider myself lucky that so much time has passed since last time when something reminded me of https://thedailywtf.com ...

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