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by beecafe 5y ago
This statement can also be taken as one as a limitation of our understanding of the internal lives of other creatures. And there's nothing scientific about it.
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by beecafe 5y ago
At least there they have the option of voting for the other party, rather than being disenfranchised
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by beecafe 5y ago
at least they picked cute bird face emoji for it :>
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by beecafe 5y ago
We don't need to put 0s in front of dates before 1000. Why do we need to do it for dates before 10000? Any date after that will have at least 5 digits, which distinguishes it from dates before then, which only have four digits.
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by beecafe 5y ago
Why would technologies enabling such power and control be allowed into the hands of anyone but the most trusted/trained/indoctrinated to use in service of the Federation?
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by beecafe 5y ago
If you want something a bit DIY but very capable, check out the openFlexure scope. It's a 3d printed body to which you can add an objective and it has a 3d printable micropositioning stage and Pi camera mount.
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by beecafe 5y ago
If the experiment invalidates your old model, eventually you need to come up with a new one.
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by beecafe 5y ago
these are actually quite easy to make at home - just mica powder (often sold for makeup) and water (and colouring). The alignment of the mica flakes with the flow creates the patterns. see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by beecafe 5y ago
If your compression algorithm worked for just one fixed set of data, then you could just store that fixed data in the decompressor and achieve infinity compression of the data to 0 bits.
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by beecafe 5y ago
No, you can't. Consider applying your compression algo twice, or N times. If it gets smaller each time, then eventually you could compress anything to a single bit.
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by beecafe 5y ago
Why shouldn't it apply to the HN comment section?
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by beecafe 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiconfessionalism
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by beecafe 5y ago
Absolutely. If you say something came before the universe, then you need a new word to describe that, and what was previous called the universe is no longer (by definition/need for a term to encapsulate all). Personally I don't b
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by beecafe 5y ago
Belief in being created requires belief in some being (your creator, or their creator, etc...), _not_ being created - the prime mover. Unless you believe in an infinite regress of creators I guess.
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by beecafe 5y ago
You should consider it then! Having concrete data about anything in a peer reviewed form is always valuable.
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by beecafe 5y ago
Dog eat dog vs dog entrench power (and not be eaten)
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by beecafe 5y ago
If you actually wanted to be paid for the value you bring, you should look for profit sharing/commission rather than freelance work
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by beecafe 5y ago
In the same way you took the money.
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by beecafe 5y ago
Almost all colour astrophotographs you see are made up of a composite of many bands, like UV, IR, X-ray, etc (and visible), with colours mapped to the different wavelengths. The instruments collect many wavelengths because it allows us to s
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by beecafe 5y ago
We need large scale coherent perfect absorbers [0] before we can do long distance power beaming. Other than that with a solar pumped laser (spread out over many m^2 on the ground to reduce the death-ray-ness) you could get decent efficiency
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by beecafe 5y ago
Unity does it by default, but it breaks everything.
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by beecafe 5y ago
I wonder if a more sophisticated software system could use a the motion blur as a velocity estimate to improve tracking accuracy
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by beecafe 5y ago
It's more like, 1/time (i.e, frequency), is what has been defined by the observed atomic oscillator frequency, and the second is derived from that. A real weird unit is km/l or miles per gallon, which cancels out to a unit of
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by beecafe 5y ago
FWIW the equivalence between NFA and DFA requires an exponential space increase to encode the NFA as a DFA, with an exponential space blow up you can encode a lot of things as DFAs (I'm pretty sure you could encode a Turing machine tha
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by beecafe 5y ago
OTOH, one could argue that reducing the amount of emotional energy spent at work leaves you with more to give to your loved ones/spend as you please. I agree that all you mentioned doesn't actually achieve this though
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by beecafe 5y ago
Basically when you modify an orbit with a single impulse - short rocket burn, bumping into something, etc - the resulting orbit will still intersect that point (unless you reach escape velocity). So those pieces should return to that piece
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by beecafe 5y ago
The usage of the word probably implies the same about this take.
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by beecafe 5y ago
This wouldn't work as you could have a semicolon in a string, to handle that you would need to know when you're in a string, and due to the existence of backslash escapable quotes in strings, you can't do that with a regex* *
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by beecafe 5y ago
The solar panels efficiency has to be higher than the mirror's to not just melt in the same way.
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by beecafe 5y ago
Perhaps human algorithms are more like proteins, assembling together according to their types.

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