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by floxy 6mo ago
Is there a disproportionate frequency of earthquakes in Japan? My mental model is that there would be a uniformish distribution of earthquakes all around the Pacific ring-of-fire. But even living in a U.S. state with a Pacific Ocean borde
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by floxy 6mo ago
Surely you can use EML to do root finding approximations also.
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by floxy 6mo ago
It might not ever make it beyond the prototype stage, but: https://aptera.us/
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by floxy 6mo ago
Schwarzschild radius for something with the mass of the electron seems like it would be ~1.35*10^-57m. But I guess that is for a neutral object. I suppose the electric charge might be enough to keep it from collapsing into a black hole?
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by floxy 6mo ago
>You think there's nothing about "politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities" that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" that isn't "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"? Correct
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by floxy 6mo ago
Maybe this will spur reddit to allow users to create accounts over Tor? That's a feature I'd actually consider paying for.
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by floxy 6mo ago
Anyone have the stats for how the enrollment trends have been for CS programs at universities? Has there been a noticeable drop-off, potentially due to concerns of AI reducing/eliminating entry-level/junior roles? I suppose ther
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by floxy 6mo ago
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
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by floxy 6mo ago
>we can talk about something that doesn't involve the Iran war, ICE etc. And yet, you did bring them up.
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by floxy 6mo ago
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601017
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by floxy 6mo ago
I want humanity to continue to be explorers. The Moon is a good next thing, then asteroid mining, humans on Mars and Venus, and eventually colonizing the Milky Way.
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NASA Artemis II Launch Day Updates Blog(nasa.gov)
3 points by floxy 6mo ago|0 comments
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by floxy 6mo ago
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/03/30/nasas-artemis... "countdown clock started ticking down" "to a targeted launch time of 6:24 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1."
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by floxy 7mo ago
Sweet. About the same number of transistors used in the Intel 4004.
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by floxy 7mo ago
Yo! Apparently not enough em-dashes or bullet points.
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by floxy 7mo ago
Just because people get murdered doesn't mean that laws against murder are useless. Although I don't have any evidence of that.
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by floxy 7mo ago
>> that Google spends >$1B/year to develop. Isn't this downright crazy when you think about it? Seems like we need to start from scratch. Create a minimal bytecode (like webasm or whatever) that writes to a virtual fram
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by floxy 7mo ago
Thanks for doing this. I really like the idea of open/transparent government.
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by floxy 7mo ago
How in the world does "int argc" not make the list? But good to know that "frit flies" does.
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by floxy 8mo ago
>How much precedence is there for machines or tools getting an author credit in research? For a datum of one, the mathematician Doron Zeilberger give credit to his computer Shalosh B. Ekhad on select papers. https://medium.com
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by floxy 8mo ago
>the shapes we see were apparently at the quantum scale I thought that was sound waves? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=baryon+acoustic+oscillations&t=ffa... ...unless you are thinking about something else?
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by floxy 8mo ago
>you probably aren't going to get any advantage by trying to build one in Earth orbit. People want to put a radio telescope on the far side of the moon, so that it doesn't have interference from terrestrial RF sources: https:&
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by floxy 8mo ago
It seems like this is saying that of the people who choose to rent a house, they pay less per month in housing costs than those people who choose to buy a house. So there isn't an accounting for the difference in houses that people wa
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by floxy 8mo ago
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Ft...
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by floxy 8mo ago
>I’m not even convinced humanoid robots are going to pan out in general. I want one personally, so it can rake the leaves, mow the lawn, tend the garden, do the laundry and dishes, replace the roof, etc., when I'm old. But they sh
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by floxy 8mo ago
What magnitude response rate would you expect? 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%? Have you ever benefited from following up on a cold email?
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by floxy 8mo ago
Today's story, from NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/30/nasa-updates-... General Artemis II blog: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/artemis/
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by floxy 8mo ago
Might as well link directly to NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/ https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/26/nasa-moves-st...
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by floxy 8mo ago
Ah yes, Slackware. I remember downloading something like 15 floppy disks over the 56k modem for my first install. Maybe a v1.1 kernel?
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by floxy 8mo ago
>Also, is it weird that I still remember the specs of my first computer, 22 years later? Only weird because you were only 6 years old. My first computer was an IBM XT clone, with the full 640k of RAM, a 30 MB harddrive, 5 1/4"

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