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by fernly 5y ago
Ignore the issues of dust on the way and the minuscule data rate. The real problem is that your probe, having no way to slow down, is going to blow through the target system at 0.2c, meaning it will pass across the entire system from one si
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by fernly 5y ago
So the threat is, "Give up the weapons that could kill millions of people, or we will kill millions of people." Oooookay, got it.
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by fernly 5y ago
Indeed, came to say the same. Toward the end of the IEEE article it has this: > We’ve also triggered nuclear reactions by pumping deuterium gas through a thin wall of a palladium-silver alloy tubing, and by electrolytically loading palla
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by fernly 5y ago
Feedback: I would like to start with a simpler game, where the top left shape is given, and the challenge is to find its mate among the other 5.
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by fernly 5y ago
To me, kids and younger adults look fine, put them in current fashions and they'd pass today without comment. It's the middle-aged and older ones whose faces are really ravaged by time and experience. And the teeth, oh lordy.
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by fernly 5y ago
See https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/
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by fernly 5y ago
TIL about the Pythagorean Comma[1], the difference between two "equivalent" notes such as B# and C natural. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma
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by fernly 5y ago
The article references as inspiration, Wing, "Computational Thinking", here: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2006/3/5977-computational-thi... Wing advocates/predicts the increased use of abstrac
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by fernly 5y ago
Insight Meditation Center (in Redwood City) operates residential retreats out of a location in the hills above Santa Cruz. Here's the schedule: https://www.insightretreatcenter.org/retreats/
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by fernly 5y ago
And in this corner: Braess's Paradox, "the observation that adding one or more roads to a road network can slow down overall traffic flow through it." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
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by fernly 5y ago
I am not making this comment, because, per thedeathclock.co, I have -1.6% of my time left; and per www.deathclock.com, I died in 2016. So obvs. I am not typing this.
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by fernly 5y ago
Would not a "group of rogue planets" more properly be called a "gang"?
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by fernly 5y ago
Was any thought given to compatibility with the class/method organization of any of the numerous[0] methods of reading Excel files, particularly OpenPyXl[1]? [0] http://www.python-excel.org/ [1] https://open
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by fernly 5y ago
Thank you internet (in the form of @apollinaire) for casting before me a fascinating site that I'd never have found on my own.
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by fernly 5y ago
They had set the last weekend of January to reopen for weekends only. Then of course the ommy-cron arrived, and now it's "hang tight we will reevaluate week by week".
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by fernly 5y ago
Fantasy/adult romance: _His Secret Illuminations_ and _His Sacred Incantations_ by Scarlett Gale. Charming characters, original take on magic, dragons and evil sorcerers; but also sex. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09
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by fernly 5y ago
Can someone ELI5 why at least some of the problems mentioned can't be solved by a third-party escrow[0]? There even already exist "Internet Escrow" companies, per that article. The escrow can provide a signed message to the e
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by fernly 5y ago
Seriously? > Since a 10-bit order code, combined with 10 bits specifying a memory address, returned a string of 40 bits, the result was a chain reaction analogous to the two-for-one fission of neutrons within the core of an atomic bomb.
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by fernly 5y ago
I'll take the opportunity to self-promote my book[0], which is subtitled, "Plundering religion to benefit the Nones", and addresses precisely these points! I'd only add to your list, * Shared rituals to structure and cel
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by fernly 5y ago
So what is, or are, the "small-molecule inhibitors"? (I don't have access to the full texts of the papers.) Also, what makes them confident these inhibitors "suppress breast cancer progression and metastasis"? Does
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by fernly 5y ago
> The footage in the trailer shows what the music videos look like What, the static anime girl with a ken burns pan and zoom?
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by fernly 5y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. Non-paywalled info, plus even more & nicer graphics: https://nasa.gov/mission_pages/lucy/overview/index http://lucy.swri.edu/ don't miss http:/
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by fernly 5y ago
Also the same name as a very dubious IDE plug-in: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/pn49pa/psa_kite_is_...
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by fernly 5y ago
Video would be much more impressive if it showed loading the cargo package -- can it pick up autonomously or does it need to be loaded by a ground crew? -- and also dropping it off within a designated space marked by cones. Will the full-si
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by fernly 5y ago
On-board pilot/observer? Or remote, like a military drone operator? If you build the infrastructure for the latter, one operator could likely manage multiple craft. That said, what does either type of pilot do, if the vehicle misbehave
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by fernly 5y ago
It's magtor.tech as shown in the next post.
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by fernly 5y ago
If this[1] is the "Magtor" mentioned, they say nothing at all about this tech on their website, that I can find. [1] http://magtor.com/
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by fernly 5y ago
No docs? Don't see any, other than the readme.
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by fernly 5y ago
Off topic, DAE find that drop-down Science Mag "eyelid" banner extremely annoying? I see it both here and on the In The Pipeline blog[1] I often read. Is there a browser extension that will kill such things? [1] https:/&#x2F
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by fernly 5y ago
What's in it for the "delivery associates"? Do they get a split of the $1.25 delivery fee? Also just for curiosity, what kind of vehicle does the typical associate use? Are we talking bikes or what?

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