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by akiselev 3y ago
Before anyone gets excited, the landslide occurred in the 12th century or so :( I was all excited to plan a rock hounding trip to the Himalayas. I even sent out the Sherpa bat signal (it’s a silhouette of me shaving a Himalayan yak), only t
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by akiselev 3y ago
Our future AI overlords sincerely thank you for this pristine data set.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Is it just me, or did this article dance around the question? I am not a physicist but let me give it a stab: except for a few specialized steps like UV or oxidizing heavy metals, most filtration is mechanical. A series of filters with smal
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by akiselev 3y ago
Nowadays I’ve eschewed most media sources beyond three primary ones: BBC World News channel, Foreign Policy magazine, and Wikipedia current events portal [1] The BBC channel only produces a few hours of news a day but manages to cover every
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by akiselev 3y ago
They wanted tenure, they found dog shit. Their research is a tortured metaphor for their own career prospects. When I put it like that, it evokes more pity than outrage. Imagine what they had to go through to collect enough data.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Of course not. The Hadean was a tropical paradise known for its diversity of life. That's why it was named after the Greek god of fertility (Poe's law applies).
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by akiselev 3y ago
It's literally in the first paragraph of TFA: > This Monday, 3 July 2023, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction. Key phrase: "ever recorded glo
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by akiselev 3y ago
There are tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of land based weather stations, bouys and floats, weather balloons, radiosondes, observatories, and satellites around the world that form a lot of different sensor networks like Argo, ASOS, AWOS
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by akiselev 3y ago
Thanks but unfortunately you replied a little too late... not only did I get a visit from the feds but my anti-d2ds mistook an ATF agent for a Jehovah's witness and now I'm in an armed standoff :facepalm: I hooked it up to ChatGPT
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by akiselev 3y ago
I mean the megalodon specifically - likely a much bigger population lived in the Atlantic than the Pacific. I think miscellaneous shark teeth are the most common fossil at Sharktooth Hill, they're just not as big or interesting as the
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by akiselev 3y ago
I'm no paleontologist but I believe the megalodon continuously shed and replaced their teeth like modern sharks. Some extant species are known to replace all of their teeth on a monthly basis so if the megalodon replaced them that fast
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by akiselev 3y ago
That is one of the most deliciously dangerous sites I have ever seen on HN. They even sell all the ingredients needed to make solid rocket fuels! By the pound! Finally I can finish my homemade anti-d2ds (door-to-door salesman) defense syste
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by akiselev 3y ago
Speaking of Megalodons, you can go dig for their teeth in Bakersfield, California at Sharktooth Hill [1]. They're very common - you're all but guaranteed to find one after spending a few days at the quarry. They were even selling
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by akiselev 3y ago
> What M&A are you familiar with that they can typically happen in a 6 day timeframe? Youtube, for one: https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/30/the-entire-1-65b-acquisiti... Android as well, if I'm r
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by akiselev 3y ago
This is one of those very rare "build it and they will come" technologies. All he has to do is make some material samples and send them to the right people making supercolliders at CERN, MRIs and turbines at GE, etc. Those people
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The Stradivarius Murders(bloomberg.com)
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Key take-away for me: Don't wear statically charged clothes in wooded areas. Isn't that most outdoor clothing? Fleece, polyester, wool, etc.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Ah I was under the mistaken impression that the term applied to the rings too
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by akiselev 3y ago
Those are trunnions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunnion What they’re doing on a hand cannon beats me. They’re probably either decorative, meant for transport, or the blacksmiths making them just got used to makin
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by akiselev 3y ago
It took you an entire university education to reach that conclusion? Were you a polisci major? :-)
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by akiselev 3y ago
> What is an example of the good garbage that would otherwise be wasted? It seems like nutrient deficient junk food is the main beneficiary of these appetizing agents. Most of a cow, honestly. From a 1,300 lbs steer you'll get so
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by akiselev 3y ago
Peat ecosystems are an active area of research and estimates vary but they supposedly store twice as much carbon as all of the world's forests combined . Burning them up on the order of decades or even a century would probably kill al
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by akiselev 3y ago
This is bad and only getting to get much worse. The opening paragraph just grazes the issue but doesn’t bring it up in the rest of the article: > The US Forest Service deputy fire chief had been deployed thousands of miles from home to
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by akiselev 3y ago
The good ol’ days when the internet was the battleground for harmless religious wars to decide spaces vs tabs, vim vs emacs, braces vs indentation, static vs dynamic typing, OOP vs FP, Windows vs Mac! Now it’s all donkeys and elephants, tro
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Along the way, we’ve learned some useful lessons on how to build these kinds of applications, which we’ve formulated in terms of patterns. * Use a text template to enrich a prompt with context and structure * Tell the LLM t
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by akiselev 3y ago
Pasadena, a decent sized city in Los Angeles County that houses Caltech of all places, was forced to officially desegregate in the 1970s but they've still got tons of policies left over that discriminate in housing [1]. South Pasaden
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by akiselev 3y ago
The degradation goes back much further than the 1970s, I’m afraid. I’ve got Scientific American volumes from the 18 60s and they were incredible back then. Letters that formed conversations discussing wild theories about comets that lasted
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by akiselev 3y ago
The original Alcubierre paper came up with the energy equivalent of the entire mass of Jupiter, if I remember correctly.
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by akiselev 3y ago
> When I tried to do this I came to the conclusion that I needed to actually render the page to find out where on the page a particular piece of text was, what font size it had, if it was even visible, etc. And then there's JavaScr
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by akiselev 3y ago
It’s straight from the wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines

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