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Humans, not climate change, wiped out Australian megafauna(eurekalert.org)
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Optimizing Linux for slow computers(akitaonrails.com)
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by autocorr 10y ago
This is a better writeup [1] but only includes one of the figures. For some context, the ALMA observatory is a radio telescope array that works at wavelengths of around a millimeter. The images show the intensity of the radio emission and a
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ALMA telescope reveals the Sun in new light(public.nrao.edu)
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by autocorr 10y ago
You know, you would think for something as basic as writing down what you're doing there would be an optimized way passed down like some sort of tribal knowledge. But from having asked around, the note taking process spans the entire s
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by autocorr 10y ago
With a lot of notes and lists in Google Keep, I always wonder when Google will kill it like Reader. So, I'm really behind projects like this focusing on openness and durability. I hope it's a success! I do academic research as a g
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by autocorr 10y ago
It's really something that Akatsuki is doing amazing science after the trials and tribulations that satellite has been through. After failing orbital insertion around Venus, it went five years in heliocentric orbit to reposition itself
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by autocorr 10y ago
Whoops! I misremembered in my post above, data rates on the VLA should have been around 20 MB/s not 10 GB/s, but I can't seem to edit my response above now.
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Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 Launch(raspberrypi.org)
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64-bit Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 ships for $25 to $30(linuxgizmos.com)
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by autocorr 10y ago
It's pretty crazy! And yes, the number of measurements scales as N(N-1)/2, so O(N^2). The funny part about this was, the SKA has been in design for >15 or so years at this point, and they had to predict that computational hardw
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by autocorr 10y ago
The example of being able to reduce the data rate by only configuring the system to look in a narrow frequency range in the spectra is perceptive! Although unfortunately you cannot divide the data rate down by the number of antennas by proc
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by autocorr 10y ago
You're right in the last point, the raw data has such a high rate that they have to process it on the fly, which has its drawbacks. The reason that these instruments output so much data is that the process of correlating the signal bet
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by autocorr 10y ago
That's something I ran into as well, but actually has had a solution in vanilla Firefox for a while. You can create keywords for searches by right clicking a search box and selecting "add keyword for this search", and can the
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1 kB Challenge: And the winners are…(hackaday.com)
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by autocorr 10y ago
I remember using the original keyboard productivity extension for Firefox, "hit-a-hint"[1] back in Firefox 1 & 2. Since discovering vimperator after, it has been an essential extension on par with an ad blocker. However, I fou
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by autocorr 10y ago
Technically "p" in English does not default to the aspirated (pot) or unaspirated variety (hop). English speakers don't distinguish different word meanings when just those sounds by themselves are different, so they're c
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by autocorr 10y ago
WhatsApp uses the Signal Protocol, I'm not familiar with the details, but this post by OWS should[1]. [1] https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/
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by autocorr 10y ago
That "usecase" table is pretty handy! I must admit that I'm enjoying all this recent spate of articles on the front-page about Linux compatible laptops and similar programs, even if they cause a bit of an adversarial comment
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by autocorr 10y ago
It seems likely they only appear that way because the initial cost is amortized into the contract for most people in the US. An iPhone 7 is around $700! And flagship android phones are up there too. I guess people have a lot of disposable i
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by autocorr 10y ago
Neat! If you find this interesting, Thanissaro Bhikku of Metta Forest Monetary has absolutely superb resources with guided meditations, talks, and e-books, all for free under creative commons[1]. This is in the Thai Forest lineage, so not p
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by autocorr 10y ago
The Vedas and the oldest, the Rig Veda, were composed as oral poetry and memorized. We don't have the first evidence of writing in India until inscriptions using the Brahmi script from the edicts of Ashoka around 300 BC. Even then, it
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One thing I found surprising after researching Hitler's rise to power was that he in fact did not achieve a large majority of seats in the Reichstag before seizing power or was overwhelmingly popular. In the 1932 German Federal electio
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by autocorr 10y ago
The article mentions that water vapor (humidity, fog, clouds, etc.) is the most significant source of attenuation at these frequencies/wavelengths. This is also the most important source of attenuation for radio astronomy observations
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There is a great deal of observational evidence favoring Lambda-Cold-Dark-Matter, ie the status quo of cosmology with dark matter. The bullet cluster [1] is evidence for two colliding galaxy clusters where the luminous matter ran into itsel
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Why Now Is the Time to Learn R(opensource.com)
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Evolve OS Beta 1 Released(evolve-os.com)
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by autocorr 12y ago
One reason I like Ubuntu Mono is that it supports a large number of Unicode characters. When I was using Inconsolata, a non-ASCII character would be replaced with a glyph from a different font (usually being a bit too big in gnome-terminal)