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by firebaze 6y ago
I was a long time reader of this blog. I'm not anymore since the focus shifted from informing to educating (i.e. assuming readers are stupid). There are much better astrophysics- and astronomy related blogs which stick to science (my c
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A Tale of Drunk Worms and Random Walks (2019)(almostsurelymath.home.blog)
27 points by firebaze 6y ago|1 comments
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The Sun is more active now than over the last 8000 years (2004)(mpg.de)
47 points by firebaze 6y ago|23 comments
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by firebaze 6y ago
To emphasize your point: if I don't consider my own code legacy after a year at most, I'd assume I didn't improve in that time frame.
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by firebaze 6y ago
Sorry, not a native speaker and reading too much strange english books, which could spoil my writing. Could you point me to one or two specific errors I made in order to help me improve? If you're referring to s:he and so on, that is o
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by firebaze 6y ago
We had a member in our team who was quite sharp, understanding of user relevant functionality/aspects, who could code semi-complex stuff all on his/her own (of course without consulting anyone else) and whose every line was the mo
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by firebaze 6y ago
If you're able to find a way to use peoples desire for playing to solve hard problems like curing cancer, you'll deserve a nobel prize. You'd be turning work into fun, and that into solving hard human problems. If you get the
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Ask HN: Bitbucket pipelines, ready for large-scale SaaS project(s)?
1 points by firebaze 6y ago|0 comments
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Evidence for Primordial Black Hole Final Evaporation (2009)(arxiv.org)
1 points by firebaze 6y ago|0 comments
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by firebaze 6y ago
Just trying to give insight into the reasoning. If this is considered hypocritical by you, what would not be?
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by firebaze 6y ago
From my own experience with colleagues doing ML: because they don't trust google anymore. Rumor says it's related to the reason we're migrating from angular to react: the risk google will deprecate technology X is not quantif
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by firebaze 6y ago
They are not. Simply believe this, and you'll be fine :)
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by firebaze 6y ago
Simply stop taking twitter seriously. If there's something posted which interests you, read it. If not, ignore it. Whatever emotion it causes in you, just walk around the block and ignore it. Just don't give a s..t, and twitter
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by firebaze 6y ago
Resist implementing back doors. That's about the most important way to help others in the long run.
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by firebaze 6y ago
If there's one platform I don't think of as toxic, open to new ideas, suppressing flame-wars and censorship, it's hacker news. It's by far not perfect, occasionally interesting stuff is flagged, but generally speaking if
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Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery(nzherald.co.nz)
58 points by firebaze 6y ago|13 comments
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by firebaze 6y ago
1) so much non-fringe it boggles my mind. This is basic. 2) let's say 50% fringe, at most. 3) 25% fringe. Most of the relevant science buys into this, and not just b/c it sounds nice. 4) Reasonable conclusion, if the stated theory
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by firebaze 6y ago
This made me laugh, SCNR.
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by firebaze 6y ago
The decay chain of most isotopes, accompanied by their respective probabilities are known, as well as the decay products of the given decay (which includes decay energy + mode - alpha, beta or gamma, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia
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Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index(astrosociety.org)
219 points by firebaze 6y ago|70 comments
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by firebaze 6y ago
The most relevant problem right now is not to produce (clean) energy, but to store energy. Hydrogen could be produced in areas which could not be used otherwise, as long as water exists - making the worse energy conversion efficiency a bit
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by firebaze 6y ago
If you immigrate, you emigrate. If you successfully immigrate (let's say in the U.S.), you have skills sought there. Those skills are probably also in demand in your origin country. You'd stand even more of a chance to be one of a
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by firebaze 6y ago
Still, atmospheric CO² is the food for plant life. We're overdoing the output of CO² by ~3 orders of magnitude, granted, but I'd guess 500W on top of basic needs should be in the ballpark of sustainability for a living entity on t
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by firebaze 6y ago
Please no Kardashian on HN.
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by firebaze 6y ago
If I had to guess what Musk had in mind when starting the Tesla Brand, it's this. No, not a fanboy, but believing into Musk's visions.
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by firebaze 6y ago
Our favorite bug for newbies using moment.js: const somedate = moment(...somedate...); const oneMonthLater = somedate.add(1, 'M'); const dateToCheck = ...; // between somedate and somedate + 1 month if (dateTo
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by firebaze 6y ago
I didn’t downvote, but that’s quite a strong claim which would definitively benefit from at least one supporting source.
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by firebaze 6y ago
If any of them would be broken, a new one would emerge with the flaw fixed. And so on. This is a race which cannot be won, expect by applying total control over encryption. Which obviously would mean a state of total control from my point o
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What Is a Singular Limit?(backreaction.blogspot.com)
2 points by firebaze 6y ago|0 comments
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by firebaze 6y ago
Complex things cannot be explained easily. As such, from this perspective, it doesn't matter if a complex topic is named by a person or by some abstract, ridiculously compressed word describing an aspect of it. But on the other hand, n

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