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by foxyv 1y ago
I am very happy about the newer 'java.time' package in Java. ZonedDateTime, Duration and Instant are my favorite classes. Everything is based on Unix epoch and UTC which makes converting times very easy. I'm bookmarking this
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by foxyv 1y ago
The fact that we don't have a high speed rail network in the United States is a travesty. Air travel is the least economical form of public transit. We pack human beings into these planes like meat in a can just to make them affordable
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by foxyv 1y ago
> how would this system cope with the rats? This reminds me of a recent... incident with my dryer. Went to clean out the vent and stuck my hand in there to pull out the lint. Big mistake. Revenge of the squirrel mummy! Ack!
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by foxyv 1y ago
This makes Walmart pay really attractive. I get the receipt as part of the pay system.
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by foxyv 1y ago
I think there are entire books written on this subject. Oil, Israel, shipping passage, Christian nationalism, and communism. The USA has been fighting wars in the middle east since the marines landed on a beach in Beirut in 1958.
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by foxyv 1y ago
Solar radiation is roughly 1 kilowatt per square meter. Human beings generate about 0.1 kilowatts. A good suit will try to reject as much of that kilowatt as possible. Also your dark side will radiate heat but the temperature differential i
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by foxyv 1y ago
> Would EVA spacesuits be able to radiate that much away if it was really that hot but for the atmosphere absorbing some? Yes! The tiny number of particles are moving really fast, but there are very few of them. We are talking about vacu
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by foxyv 1y ago
It's 60 petabytes. To understand the scale of the data, This would cost about $1.2 million per month to store on S3 standard or $240k per month on Glacier Instant Access. To transfer this much data to/from AWS would cost about $3
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by foxyv 1y ago
This reminds me of a story my dad always told. One time the organs of body had an argument. The brain said "I am the most important. I allow the body to think and avoid danger. If I die the whole body will die with me." The heart
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by foxyv 1y ago
When we see power outages in Texas the cell networks will stay up for about 5 minutes until everyone switches from WiFi to 5G for their internet and crashes the network.
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by foxyv 1y ago
I can think of a few cases where this would be a good idea. IV drug users, those engaging in risky sex, sex workers, hospital workers after accidental exposure, HIV positive mothers, those with drug resistant HIV, people with HIV positive p
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by foxyv 1y ago
He does seem to be quite capable of making promises that he cannot keep. He never did figure out a new Iranian nuclear deal after breaking the first.
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by foxyv 1y ago
Only 6.2% of congress is Jewish. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/01/03/faith-on-the...
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by foxyv 1y ago
Yeah, there has been very little effort to de-escalate or reconcile by either side.
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by foxyv 1y ago
America has a history of anti-Muslim rhetoric. Before September 11th, it was a part of the country but not part of the core American identity. Since then it has become a defining characteristic of our politics.
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by foxyv 1y ago
I get the impression that Israel is making bloody hay while the sun shines. They have an extremely favorable political climate to engage in some extreme military actions. Russia's stalled invasion of Ukraine and the election of Donald
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by foxyv 1y ago
In air to air combat, there is a concept called a "Trade." Essentially, you place yourself in a guaranteed to die circumstance to ensure the death of the enemy. A lot of BVR air combat is a giant game of chicken. Who will stay hot
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by foxyv 1y ago
One interesting case of this is Neuro and Vedal on Twitch. People are developing a parasocial relationship with an artificial personality. It's really exciting to see her become more capable as Vedal adds more hardware and software. It
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by foxyv 1y ago
Some toxins are cumulative. Mercury is a common example. Repeated exposure to arsenic also causes a ton of different cancers.
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by foxyv 1y ago
Calorie counting is so unreliable it hardly even matters. The calorie measurements are way off. There are so many sources of macronutrients and they are all digested differently and lead to so many different amounts of "Fuel" for
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by foxyv 1y ago
Most opioids do not damage organs. They typically just change our central nervous systems and suppress breathing which is how they ultimately kill. The brain will die long before organs during oxygen depravation. Alcohol, amphetamines, and
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by foxyv 1y ago
Why? That would be like taking a flight to China to buy a gallon of milk.
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by foxyv 1y ago
The inevitable answer is money. It was done with a firehose filled with money. iSpace is running on a $50 million budget. The moon landing was $250 billion in today's dollars. Edit: To put that in perspective, SpaceX has invested about
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by foxyv 1y ago
For those who don't know, the helium we use for party balloons is mostly the accumulation of Alpha particles in petroleum reserves. When that helium is released it floats into the upper atmosphere and boils off into space. All other me
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by foxyv 1y ago
Sounds is a funny thing. My physics professor once had us calculate the energy in the sound of an entire stadium and it wasn't enough to heat a cup of coffee. Sound just doesn't have that much energy. For a few hundred watts you c
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by foxyv 1y ago
Same here. When I'm teaching coding I've noticed that LLMs will confuse the heck out of students. They will accept what it suggests without realizing that it is suggesting nonsense.
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Ahh yeah, the alternative. AI can free you from your job so you can be hunted for sport!
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Flat land isn't necessary. Take Switzerland for an example. Mostly you just have to pry your country out of the car lobby's cold dead hands.
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by foxyv 1y ago
> "Eventually we won’t even need you and you can go get a hobby to spend the rest of your life." I think the problem is that the statement is more like: "Eventually we won't even need you and you can go die in a ditch
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> I trust the experts in this field That is a pretty good idea.

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