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Underfunded, aging NASA may be on unsustainable path, report warns(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by gammarator 2y ago|2 comments
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by gammarator 2y ago
I ate at the Monastery many times during my postdoc a decade ago. With all but the 200” telescope fully robotic, it was already a pared down experience from the glory days reminisced about in the article. Still, it was and is a beautiful s
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by gammarator 2y ago
> can anyone actually name a feature from DarkSky that isn’t present in the current Weather app? Easy. As the screenshots show, the DarkSky main page would _dynamically adjust_ the information it shows you: adding radar, precip level, c
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by gammarator 2y ago
I’d recommend the documentary BLAST! ( https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1190065/ ) for a look at the scientific side of stratospheric ballooning, which personally would put me off wanting to ride in one.
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by gammarator 2y ago
AllTrails appears to have replaced the ai-generated description with (likely custom, human-written) text that emphasizes the hazards: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/wyoming/teewinot-mountain...
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AI and the Duty of Care(thisisimportant.net)
4 points by gammarator 2y ago|1 comments
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by gammarator 2y ago
It cracks me up how much he looks like “Dad” in the strip in those 80s photos.
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Escape from the Box(prospect.org)
5 points by gammarator 2y ago|0 comments
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by gammarator 2y ago
You can’t really trust that the LLM gets it right either, though.
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by gammarator 2y ago
Strongly seconding this recommendation. Dr. Gawanda distills down how to be led by the dying person’s priorities.
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by gammarator 2y ago
> NASA really needs to just fill their telescopes with gyros upon gyros It’s an interesting tradeoff. Missions are designed (and costed) for a nominal mission lifetime; adding more redundancy increases costs. But it’s true that the succe
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by gammarator 2y ago
This article says that she corrected her name when she posted the scanned paper to her website around 2000. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-nov-19-tm-54188...
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by gammarator 2y ago
> that people they don't like at the old place are allowed to have opinions again. Sorry, but I think that deliberately obfuscates the changes Musk has made at Twitter. See https://ketanjoshi.co/2024/04/19
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by gammarator 2y ago
See the third page of https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5473
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by gammarator 2y ago
That’s exactly why they are using commercial lenses! Canon’s modern AR coatings are so good that the performance for low-surface brightness imaging beats larger-aperture telescopes which can gather more light but scatter it around the im
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by gammarator 2y ago
Different science goals, though.
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by gammarator 2y ago
> they point to publications that look to be behind pay walls. If you click the “ADS” link you will find most will have links to a free preprint on arXiv. > other than a reduction in time required to take N images with one camera. Lif
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by gammarator 2y ago
> They're wide field of view, long-duration exposures. That used to be the way astronomers imaged space, Sorry, but one of the two example images ( https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw1946a/ ) is a si
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by gammarator 2y ago
> private company that is doing the job more efficiently than the government What?? The id verification that Clear offers is not substantially faster than the TSA examining your id. The only value Clear offers is jumping the line.
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by gammarator 3y ago
> a risk to only myself against the value of my fingers? If you amputate your fingers, the rest of us bear the cost of your reconstructive surgery through higher health insurance premiums.
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by gammarator 3y ago
I would prefer woodworkers pay more for table saws than I have to pay for their reconstructive surgeries via higher health insurance premiums.
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by gammarator 3y ago
“Removal” here means “masking”—the pixels under the bright streaks will always be scientifically unusable because the streaks inflate the noise irrevocably. (You can’t see stars in the daytime by “removing” the sun.) The 7th magnitude limit
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by gammarator 3y ago
Sorry, but “ Children didn't play in city streets because it was a death sentence.” is just wrong. Perhaps not on the major downtown arterials you describe, but there’s ample historical record of kids playing stickball and similar game
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by gammarator 3y ago
Virtually all of this is false in the US.
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by gammarator 3y ago
Be sure to plan for enormous traffic jams after the eclipse ends. Even extremely rural back/side roads will be bumper to bumper.
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by gammarator 3y ago
It’s a fine beginner program, and as the original article inadvertently shows, one common failure mode is not getting enough calories. GOMAD is tough to mess up.
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by gammarator 3y ago
Not denying that a megathrust earthquake will be a severe disaster. But I think this article is unduly panic-inducing, particularly for the New Yorker. This follow-up article by the same author is more levelheaded: https://www.n
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by gammarator 3y ago
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2022/02/03/terraform-indu...
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by gammarator 3y ago
Complain to your congressperson!
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by gammarator 3y ago
https://theneedling.com/ is excellent for Seattle fake news.

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