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by frikk 11y ago
Astro-noob here. Why can't we get better pictures from our telescopes, given that we can take what seems to be high quality pictures of things much further away? Is it because of how "small" pluto is, versus say a large galax
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by frikk 11y ago
I think you nailed it. Awesome, thanks! Although in this case it'd be the reverse -- rays moving into the corona, not out of it.
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by frikk 11y ago
hehe. That's fine. It all depends on the nature of the experiment. Typically you want to optimize a solution in a given deterministic domain. If you wish to, instead, create an open-ended evolutionary system for novelty in a non-determ
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by frikk 11y ago
One way you can use a higher mutation rate is to only mutate children, but keep the parents without mutation (as the first two children of the next generation). That way you can always remember the 'best of previous generations. Or, yo
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by frikk 11y ago
In Fargo, ND the northern lights not only were visible, but they stretched from the northern horizons, past the center of the sky, into the southern sky. The display lasted hours and were visible from the city. I've never seen the ligh
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by frikk 11y ago
why is it... in reverse chronological order?
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by frikk 11y ago
Plus, the non-native plugin support (is it shockwave?)
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by frikk 11y ago
I remember having to buy a firewire PCI port just to use my first iPod with Windows. It only worked sometimes, and I had to use some third party tool to upload music to it (or winamp, I think, had some limited support).
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by frikk 11y ago
No kidding. I can only imagine the headaches if the security drama (like upgrading bit lengths, deprecating ciphers, certificates etc) that keeps SSL on its toes were built into TCP. In this case, simplicity rules IMO.
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by frikk 11y ago
but wouldn't those be represented as individual commits (just happened to be pushed at the same time)?
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by frikk 11y ago
For what it's worth, I love my lemur from System76. It ships with Linux (that you can overwrite without voiding the warranty), and they of course guarantee that the hardware will be supported, at least by Ubuntu. The build quality has
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by frikk 11y ago
Awesome, thanks for sharing. I'm a big hard scifi fan, although I tend to stick to the middle half of the last century (there's just so much good stuff!)
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by frikk 11y ago
Meanwhile, Microsoft has gone on to open source core components of their offerings (with no signs of slowing down) and Apple (not surprisingly) is locking down developers even further with requiring signed drivers by default (I think -- n
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by frikk 11y ago
6 tabs later and a $4 copy of Permuation City on its way to me from Amazon, I had to go back and find what started me on that rabbit hole. Thanks for the recommendation, that sounds fascinating.
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by frikk 11y ago
This will break some websites that are not configured properly -- for example, a server that has several sites but only one of them uses https. Trying https on the other sites would default to the https in use. I've seen this happen on
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by frikk 12y ago
Any technical failure (non-zero chance) could result in someone being stranded. I think that's all that they're referring to.
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by frikk 12y ago
holy crap no kidding.
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by frikk 12y ago
I read Atlas Shrugged as a 15 year old, and again as a 29 year old. I think it's better suited for my 15 year old self, as I found the historical context of the book more interesting than the philosophy this time around. It also just g
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by frikk 12y ago
All that's doing (I think) is encoding the font file as base64. You're still using the font binary blog. The link itself is actually drawing/creating the font itself in CSS. Different method entirely.
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by frikk 12y ago
I've never heard the cube fire sound, but I hope to now that you've mentioned it! There's another scream sound that is similar to the wilhelm scream, but not quite it, that I hear a lot. The other one if the tesla coil from r
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by frikk 12y ago
what... is this?
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by frikk 12y ago
I agree, it's a neat trick. Especially in < 1 day! How did they get it "online"? I'm assuming that's all built into the "cart"? (wifi?)
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by frikk 12y ago
It's worth mentioning that I fully expect it to "just work" on windows as well (judging by past testing experience). The only caveat in this particular case is I'm not sure how or if my third party serial port library ha
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by frikk 12y ago
I'm an old python hacker, and while I appreciate C/C++ the most I've done with them is set up bridges with ctypes so I can call compiled libraries from python. Go, to me, feels like it has some of the expressiveness and disco
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by frikk 12y ago
I had a recent project that I built with go 1.3. It was a small project ( < 4 weeks ) but it had some interesting requirements -- my app had to be deployed to ARM (raspi), and on an OSX laptop for control, and I use a linux laptop. The c
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by frikk 12y ago
Does anyone know what kind of technology could be used for these tiny radio systems?
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by frikk 12y ago
My Chrome build has a bug that doesn't show the URL when hovering over links. I didn't even realize that it was not pointed directly at xkcd. Doh!
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by frikk 12y ago
oooh. awesome, thank you! I probably should have checked the actual link. I think my Chrome build has a bug where "show url on hover" gets disabled after some time. I guess I can blame my confusion on that ;)
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by frikk 12y ago
I'm curious as to why/how this post thinks the URL is (companyname.website)? It's obviously from the comic, but I'm curious about the mechanics. edit: derp. the url points directly at companyname.website and my Chrome bu
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by frikk 12y ago
Shouldn't the title be "YouTube Isn't Making Enough Money to Turn Profit"?

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