dtgriscom

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by dtgriscom 8mo ago
Thanks for the tip. My local library has it; I'll grab it tomorrow.
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by dtgriscom 8mo ago
Take another look at the article; it addresses exactly this.
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by dtgriscom 8mo ago
Flashback to a Robin Williams bit, where Marlon Perkins of "Wild Kingdom" directs his assistant to circumcise a water buffalo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFbhByVMhXM&t=45s
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by dtgriscom 9mo ago
I've always wanted a DWIMNWIS code editor: "Do What I Mean, Not What I Say". These days it's likely that AI at least tries to provide this.
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by dtgriscom 9mo ago
I wish that first graph was better; having the vertical scale (transistor count) be logarithmic would make it much easier to read.
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by dtgriscom 9mo ago
Goodness gracious; I remember having a copy of that in my teens. Wonderful.
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by dtgriscom 9mo ago
A nice, relaxing trip to Mordor.
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by dtgriscom 9mo ago
I like the licensing. It's released under their own (mildly profane) license to everyone. However, there is an exception: use in the Linux kernel is governed under GPL 2.0.
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by dtgriscom 9mo ago
I went to the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics in 1979, where we learned APL with all its glorious obscure characters and overstrikes. Lots of fun.
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by dtgriscom 9mo ago
Are fiber splices really only a 0.02dB drop? That only a 0.23% reduction in signal (if I have my math right). Impressive.
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
I'm convinced that gratitude is a superpower. If you can recognize and acknowledge the many good things that come your way, your life will get better, as will everyone else's.
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
People are having kids earlier and earlier these days.
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
> after a nar nar day in pow pow cuttin freshies up to your nippy nips Translation, please?
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
"Nanosensors" is useless technobabble. But I bet you could do it by carefully monitoring the rocking of the iceberg in waves. Watch the period of the berg's movements; as the melting brings it closer to instability, the perio
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
Tumbling, just like a generic front-load washing machine.
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
Ideally, there'd be a way to subtract lag. (A non-causal network switch? Would be big business...)
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. Spirited Away's image of a train moving through shallow water has always grabbed me. https://www.ghibli.jp/works/chihiro/#&gid=1&pid=43
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
I misread the title as "Japan jaw-opening phone app stores to go into effect"... strange imagery...
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
Just for fun, I set it up with six bodies, each 1 unit mass and at 1 unit from origin, but along the three different axes (an octahedron). No initial velocities. Start the sim, they fall towards the center, and then BLAMMO they rocket off i
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
The article lists a "Snake Bridge on the Macclesfield Canal". Here's a spiral bridge on that canal, but not the same one: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Spiral+Bridge/@53.2849203,... https:
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
It's a new world, where politicians claim they can cut prices by hundreds of percent.
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
These are meta-stable, in that only a perfect initial state (positions and velocities) will be stable. Even then, I expect quantum uncertainties would kick in at some point. (In the simulator, the default system goes unstable at about 500 s
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
Visual steganography.
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
Very, very cool. Two things I noticed: - This is a real rotary engine, where the pistons and cylinders rotate about the crankshaft, and are attached to the propeller - The pilot had to keep a constant down angle on the elevator to keep it f
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
The classic, from 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
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by dtgriscom 10mo ago
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
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by dtgriscom 11mo ago
OK, HN physicists: how did this work? My first guess was that the beam of Cf252-emitted neutrons, when it hits the U235, triggers new neutrons moving in the same direction, rather than in random directions. This would ensure that any tertia
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by dtgriscom 11mo ago
And, in some circumstances, they'll oscillate.
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by dtgriscom 11mo ago
> the satellite system provides appreciably lower latency than distribution over the internet Is that true? Round trip to/from geostationary satellites is about 240ms. And, with most stations using HD encoding, which adds 8 seconds
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by dtgriscom 11mo ago
I have a 30-year-old Frigidaire upright freezer in my basement. I'd been assuming for a while that it's wasting power due to leaked refrigerant or some such, but I borrowed a power logger from work, and whadda ya know: it's a

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