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by azernik 2y ago
Huzzah, at last!
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The "Asia/Jerusalem" weirdness is because Daylight Savings Time is a big church-and-state issue. Religious people want the workday to be convenient for holidays that start at sunset. This led to decades (up to the mid-'0
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From that article: "Telegrams between the Mossad agents in Baghdad and their superiors in Tel Aviv give the impression that neither group knew who was responsible for the attack." Also, "by 13 January 1951, nearly 86,000 Jews
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by azernik 2y ago
It is true in every particular. The population of Israel approximately doubled from 1949 to 1965. It did so because of immigrants from places like Egypt, Iraq, and Yemen. The overwhelming majority of those immigrants were not voluntary, but
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Israel has similar artifacts, both of WW2 under the British Empire and of the subsequent austerity/rationing during the state's first decade. 1. During WW2 the British established a ration of "standard bread" to eliminat
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LINEAR went into operation 1998, and got a second telescope in 1999. Big joint project between NASA, USAF, and MIT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Near-Earth_Asteroid_Re...
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by azernik 2y ago
Not entirely, but in part! You can see the effect in this animation of asteroid discoveries over time, where the discoveries are concentrated in bursts facing directly away from Earth, or directly parallel to its orbit. https://w
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The tiles are very similar; the attachment system is very different (a big part of why Shuttle's were a pain to maintain) and Starship's simple shape means most of the tiles are the same (the ridiculous number of SKUs was another
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by azernik 2y ago
Other way around - with foreknowledge of how fast the FAA was working, SpaceX scheduled the launch last week to be one day after the expected license issue.
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A few hundred microseconds is not enough time to send an announcement at the low bitrates required for noisy channels, and then you need to multiply it by the number of cells in a collision domain. This is a hard limit of information theory
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2 is rather irrelevant to the intended use case: devices connecting to a network with pre-shared credentials. Think cash registers and crop humidity sensors connecting to the internet, not cafe wifi. 1 is kind of unavoidable if you want a m
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They don't need to have been underwater; the steel just has to have been made pre-1945. The steelmaking process incorporates of lot of gases into the final product.
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Depends on location and time period. There's lots of historical stuff written in a customized Arabic script with unique characters.
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Comment on the documentation/README more than anything - I couldn't find anywhere a list of specific languages supported. That's a pretty important data point for any speaker of an African language hoping to use this IME. If
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by azernik 2y ago
The point is: 1. Cynically, for bureaucrats to be able to claim they're doing something about an issue the politicians care about, but which the bureaucrats think is a non-issue. 2. Less cynically, to take away plausible deniability fo
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by azernik 2y ago
This jibes with the way people compare SpaceX and "old space" development in industry sources I follow: SpaceX works "hardware rich", building lots of prototypes early in the development process. When Boeing and ULA laun
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by azernik 2y ago
Yes. That is the point of the article. > Jerk and snap can be observed in various areas of physics and engineering. In physics and engineering jerk and snap should always be considered when vibration occurs and particularly when this exc
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by azernik 2y ago
The top comment claimed "academia today is essentially a machine for amassing status and money ". Pointing out that it pays terribly is completely on point.
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I would even argue that Linus Torvalds's famous abrasiveness is its own kind of charisma, well adapted to its target audience.
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An alternate explanation to the no-hair one: In a black hole, all you see from the outside is total mass. This is actually mass-energy - a release of energy inside the black hole doesn't change the total mass-energy inside.
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by azernik 2y ago
How are you emitting nitrous oxides from a synthetically produced (ie very pure) fuel that contains no nitrogen?
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by azernik 3y ago
The founding ideology and the one held by the secular-to-traditional mainstream is secular nationalism, not theocracy.
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by azernik 3y ago
Interestingly varying levels of accuracy as you look at the Levant. The mapmakers have a very good idea of what cities lie on the coast and in which order, but the actual shape of the coast is completely unknown to them and the relation of
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by azernik 3y ago
That's pretty normal in R&D. Solutions in search of problems are a real thing, and concept designs like this are part of the process of finding those solutions. As long as they're not putting in the money to mass produce it, t
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by azernik 3y ago
There is no target audience. FTA: > Like its rollable laptop from last year, Lenovo isn’t pretending that it has any plans to release its ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop as a consumer device. But Butler says he has “very high confid
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The actual intended landing profile and the likely failure mode are both extremely Kerbal.
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Revenue is generally greater than profit. AWS does not pull in anywhere near all the revenue that its users generate; its cash flow is a tiny proportion of what its customers generate.
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AWS has 30% share of cloud computing. They do not collect 30% of the profit brought in by all companies using cloud computing, but only their infrastructure bills. You were assuming that Microsoft will pull in 100% of the profit of that 10-
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by azernik 3y ago
1. No 2. The AWS-equivalents in that space is not going to capture all the value, as OP assumes for Microsoft by multiplying their estimate of total value by expected market share.
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I do not expect AI to have anywhere near the economic impact of the entire software industry .

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