bigbillheck

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by bigbillheck 3y ago
The formula on wiki has a distance squared term in the denominator tho?
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> The path loss equation violates conservation of energy ie the frequency or wavelength term depending on how it's structured cannot be in the equation. Why is that?
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
There's been at least 50 years, probably more like 60 or 70, of advances in the art (much less pedagogy) that those students have and the bridge engineer did not.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/kill-your-lawn
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> So if we just put CRIPSR in animals, it will protect them Why do you think this is the case?
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Nobody even knew CRISPR existed until the late 80s, and nobody realized that you could use it (with Cas9) for gene editing until the 10s. They're not exactly writing a new JS framework here.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Yeah, I should have specified that I was making no claims as to the modern accuracy of the trivia.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Sounds like they should have the resources to make sure they're not polluting.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
We've got a pretty long-standing partnership with horses too.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
"Won't", not "can't".
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
That's one possibility, another one might be that it's easy to write "is buried" when you meant "was buried" and can be hard to catch the error.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
I spent most of the first 30 years of my life surrounded by and friends with one flavor of deeply religious Christian or another (if my high school had had an 'interfaith' club, the faiths would have been 'Baptist' or &#
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
They were getting fantastically rich.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
God willing I'll never have to fly again but failing that if I had the option of safely getting knocked out for the duration I'd take it.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Checking his twitter he's also a culture warrior who's mad about a lot of things including apparently some poll from Gaza.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
I went to go log in to see what I had left there, first off it wouldn't let me see the one review I had written, and second I'm now stuck in a "community" popup that won't let me proceed without employment info.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
PRC's planning on 2030: https://spacenews.com/china-sets-sights-on-crewed-lunar-land...
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Editors not knowing who sent in a document is one of the pillars of the double-blind system.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Please don't post kink fantasies on the hacker news forums.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Katie Mack has a response to this kind of take: https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:72bt6f...
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> It's one of those "the risk goes up the longer it's attached" type things. I presume it looks like a bell curve. These two statements contradict each other.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> Twitter was way worse with bots before Elon's takeover, This has not been my experience. I locked my account a month or so ago but up to then I was reliably getting two sexbot follows a day (and there's a pile of follow reque
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Looks like he should be working for a VC.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> The Reddit UI/app/experience hasn't changed in years That's not true, the UI's gotten much worse.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
What would that reason be?
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
In the sense that there's evidence of a problem with planes right now, and the question is if that problem was already there, whereas there's evidence of IDF war crimes right now, and the question is if they've always been do
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
There's a whole lot of open problems in cosmology, nobody's going to be out of work if they solve this one.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
"mundanes"? Really?
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> On the hand, HN is a forum for entrepreneurship and business. If HN had been around in the late 80s I think there would have been a lot of people defending the real estate developers who inspired a particular DBZ villain.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Going by observations, the rule here seems to be that you can say whatever horrible things you like as long as you maintain decorum.

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