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by flubert 6y ago
> What's the problem with something concrete like kg/sqcm kg isn't a measure of force. And the world will be a nicer place once we retire the oddball prefixes of centi, deci, deka, and hecto.
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by flubert 6y ago
Thanks. I also found: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/490524/evaporati...
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by flubert 6y ago
I wonder how charge evaporates from a charged black hole? And does it do so at a rate that is different from the mass? i.e. does most of the mass evaporate away, and then the charge?
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by flubert 6y ago
Would geometric algebra simplify a CAD program (or are there any CAD system that use geometric algebra)? Would learning geometric algebra make synthesis of mechanical linkages easier (planar/spherical/spatial)?
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by flubert 6y ago
Any data available that quantifies that effect of asymptomatic transmission? Are they the main driver of new infections or a minor player?
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by flubert 6y ago
>HN's perspective on lockdowns might be skewed by the fact that most of us here live in places that actually did have a good faith reasonable response to COVID, but it didn't really work in the absence of a coordinated nationwi
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by flubert 6y ago
Covid-19 death rates: Sweden: 60.53 per 100k Denmark: 13.11 per 100k Finland: 6.69 per 100k Norway: 5.53 per 100k https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
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by flubert 6y ago
Is anyone in the U.S. using thermal cameras to spot individuals with a fever? I live in a smaller city, not really close to a big metropolitan area, but I haven't seen a thermal camera in use yet. I see they are available on Amazon,
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by flubert 6y ago
Does anyone have statistics on mask wearing compliance in public? Seems like someone could use ML to identify people with and without masks. Last time I went out shopping it was 100% compliance (and using a mask correctly) as near as I co
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by flubert 6y ago
Simon Peyton Jones also work for Microsoft, so maybe add Haskell to the list.
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by flubert 6y ago
For anyone interested in the underlying data, I believe this is the most quoted piece by the popularizers: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1661F ...that has the full-fault events at ~500 year intervals, and the
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by flubert 6y ago
>The real concern is that people are wasting money on multivitamins that would better benefit their health if spent elsewhere, Paranjpe said. Curious if there would be a concrete suggestion to replace the $5/month on vitamins. Full
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by flubert 6y ago
Maybe also add Idris? https://github.com/chrrasmussen/Idris2-Erlang
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by flubert 6y ago
General recursion is equivalent to goto. It is nicer when recursion can be wrapped up in a higher level combinator (map, fold, etc.) or other even higher level abstraction. That's one thing the array languages (APL, J, etc.) got righ
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by flubert 6y ago
>Laptops aren't $100 brand new Getting close? https://www.newegg.com/p/0G6-00ZK-002K5?Item=9SIA6Z72ED8144 https://www.newegg.com/p/1TS-003M-00001?Item=9SIA7Z046M4434
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by flubert 6y ago
>already high tidal forces. Tidal forces are low for supermassive black holes, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole#Descri...
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by flubert 6y ago
>A software malfunction in a microwave oven, or some other device with a heating element, could cause a house fire... Now I'm curious. Does anyone know the manufacturer and model number for a microwave for which this is true? Have
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by flubert 6y ago
>...If, in order to "really" enter a programming culture, I need to both "be solving a significant real problem in the real world" and exercising "the freedom to change the language, the compiler, the OS or even
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by flubert 6y ago
Off-topic, but has anyone ever taken the time to dive into: http://alternativephysics.org/book/GPSmythology.htm ...which claims that the "standard" account of GPS needing relativistic adjustments is not corre
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by flubert 6y ago
What other applications would a 4-5 order of magnitude more sensitive detector have? There are obvious applications to geology mentioned in the paper. How would that sensitivity compare to LIGO?
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by flubert 6y ago
Depends on the spatial resolution I suppose, but being neutrally buoyant (like an airship or hot air balloon) would seem to be much harder to to detect, since you are the same average mass as the air you are displacing.
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by flubert 6y ago
Is this targeted more at users of the condition system, or implementers who are writing their own common lisp compilers? From the Amazon blurb: >In part 1 of The Common Lisp Condition System, the author introduces the condition system us
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by flubert 6y ago
I wonder how much time per day the average person contemplates the 480,000 annual U.S. deaths caused by tobacco? https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...
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by flubert 6y ago
Isn't the slash on the zero digit going the wrong direction?
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by flubert 6y ago
I wonder how many lines of code were behind the QNX demo disk? http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html
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by flubert 6y ago
>Not sure what can be done. Though I am tempted to go see what a 9,000 line OS looks like. I think you are going to like STEPS: >The overall goal of STEPS is to make a working model of as much personal computing phenomena and user exp
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by flubert 6y ago
>But what about the people who will be rejected because of their genes? That is illegal in the U.S., with the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/policy-issues/
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by flubert 6y ago
Is this a nerd sniping thing? It has been a while since I've wrestled with Perl, but I suppose the recursive file search would keep it from being a one-liner. 4-5 "reasonable" lines maybe? Definitely less than 80 character
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by flubert 6y ago
You made me curious enough to walk downstairs and weigh it. I've got "Catalog 126" (copyright 2020), and it weighs in at 7.92 pounds, and is 4168 pages long.
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by flubert 6y ago
Yes, maybe 4 times per year. Probably should do it more. I receive BCC'ed mail more frequently, but that frequency should be higher. There should probably be a feature in Outlook that stops and asks "Are you sure?" and mak

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