cobaltoxide

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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
Thank you! Why is the main link a giant screenshot?
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
At least uranium can be stockpiled.
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
Yup I came here to say this too. It's a well-known product in the self-publishing world.
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
As an ex-Googler ... That auto-delete policy was extremely annoying. And even if we turned it off, it only changed from a 24 hour deletion to something like 30 days. The chats certainly wouldn't be kept permanently. Corporate data &quo
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
There could be unintended consequences. It sounds like the recycling involves caustic chemicals. Does the recycling operation produce toxic waste or use a tremendous amount of energy? Someone needs to do a lifecycle assessment to know the f
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
Reminds me of "the dose makes the poison"
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
What is the microformat? Does it have a name or do you have a link?
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
I love it.
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
Apparently the app was originally called "Vigilante" before being renamed to Citizen.
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
That's a nice phrase, but it seems impractical given the enormous complexity of these systems.
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
"it had an eclectic résumé that included, in 1966, helping to recover a 70-kiloton hydrogen bomb that was dropped when two military planes collided over the Spanish coast." That doesn't sound right. 70 kilotons would be ver
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
> Tried to commend ironic
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
Deutsche Bahn's trip planner at https://www.bahn.com/en is fun to play with. I just tried asking for a journey from London to Sofia (Bulgaria) and it finds one instantly. Although it appears DB can't sell a ticket
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
I like to use a REPL (like MATLAB or Python) where I can enter expressions with a real keyboard instead of hunting and pecking the skeumorphic calculator GUI. This also allows me to see the history of my calculations without resorting to th
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
Air Force One is gigantic: a modified 747, with offices, bedrooms, etc. That would not fit inside of Boom's aircraft.
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
The part of Boom's argument that makes absolutely no sense to me -- their argument about how they will be "sustainable" because they will burn SAF -- is that the same argument could be applied to traditional commercial subson
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
> The practical truth is that if we required this level of scrutiny for every conviction to stick, we’d multiply by an order of magnitude or two the number of guilty criminals who cannot be convicted. The standard for criminal conviction
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
Personally I find it embarrassing that we use a device with gigabytes of RAM and millions of pixels to emulate a 19-button device from half a century ago.
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
> offer surprisingly good customer service many of today's tech giants seem to thrive with the opposite approach: offer no customer service at all.
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
> How many lives do you think would be saved by capping speeds to 60 MPH on I5? The speed limit was in fact 65 MPH until 1995.
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
A peculiar workflow of REPL-driven programming environments is that the running program is eventually "saved" by writing the state of the virtual machine to disk. There may be no source code to rebuild from, if the program was bui
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
2006 is ancient history. But also, it's a basic interview technique to explain your thinking out loud.
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
https://kittyhawk.aero/ used to use Haskell to develop their flight control software. The strong type system of Haskell is touted as ensuring that entire classes of bugs can't occur (like accidentally adding different
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by cobaltoxide 4y ago
> Apple is the biggest company on earth Hardly. It is number six on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r... And does not even appear on this list: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by cobaltoxide 5y ago
Planned obsolescence is Apple's bread and butter.
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by cobaltoxide 5y ago
I guess Shakespeare did write it that way, but I've always heard the saying as "Not all that glitters is gold." Perhaps he took some poetic license at the expense of logical correctness.
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by cobaltoxide 5y ago
> Kinda hard to make that call given you don't know what kind of lifestyle OP is accustomed to, or where they even live. Well, they are 35 years old and have $600k, which says something.
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by cobaltoxide 5y ago
Suppose you retire at 65 and live to 90. That's 25 years. $600k is $24k/year for 25 years. Of course your investment may grow in the meantime; but there will also be inflation. I would suggest that $600k is insufficient savings fo
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by cobaltoxide 5y ago
> The clever thing about interferometers is that they're actually measuring space and time in two different dimensions concurrently I would say that we measure space in two different directions concurrently. > and then lookin
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by cobaltoxide 5y ago
> when space is stretched dimensionless particles traveling through that space are not stretched, because they are dimensionless. Or perhaps better, objects in space stretch, but their momentum vectors don't stretch. This is an inte

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