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by gattr 10mo ago
I had such blocks as well. For a recent take on this, I can recommend Kapla, typically come in a large (a couple 100s) box of skinny rectangular cuboids. I had fun doing, ahem, preliminary testing, before gifting them to my niece.
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by gattr 11mo ago
Once we develop more efficient propulsion (fission, fusion, light sails, etc.), would you like for someone to catch the Voyagers and bring them back into a museum? I myself am not sure. (Perhaps a "live museum" instead, keep them
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by gattr 11mo ago
I think it's a wrong way to look at it. In addition to DNA information content, one should count also the complexity of the proteins and higher-level structures in the gametes.
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by gattr 11mo ago
From the report: > To conduct the CT scans, the large mass was evaluated by a third-party laboratory under NTSB supervision. This facility had a range of scanners with different power and energy levels and could scan large masses using a
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by gattr 11mo ago
Shameless plug: active region (and sunspot group) 4274 has already produced several X-class solar flares, alas, I didn't manage to catch one during my short weekend imaging session. Though there was a nice prominence; 38-min time lapse
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by gattr 1y ago
On a somewhat related note, I like the IO shield of my new MSI motherboard - the USB ports are tersely labeled "5G", "10G", "40G" (and a few lingering "USB 2.0").
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by gattr 1y ago
> Stored on mobile phones, the ID would contain details including a name, date of birth, residency status and crucially a photo - which would distinguish it from National Insurance numbers. Surely it will be possible to also store it on
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by gattr 1y ago
I used to do it as well with a cheap second-hand IXUS 230 HS. It could run (at least) 48 h off a 7.2 Ah 12 V AGM battery, snapping a photo every 3 s (I used a fake-battery power adapter and a small DC-DC converter.)
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by gattr 1y ago
Another interesting project might be capturing host star light curves for transiting exoplanets. For a number of closer ones, it can be done conveniently from a backyard with just a photographic lens. Here's one amateur using ASI178MM-
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by gattr 1y ago
To be nitpicky, our uranium and thorium were made via r-process (rapid neutron capture), which is not the kind of fusion occurring in the Sun at present. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-process
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by gattr 1y ago
Earth's spin comes from the parent molecular cloud which formed the Solar System (including any impacts during the protoplanetary phase.) And that ultimately from density fluctuations after Big Bang, and the way they led to coalescence
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by gattr 1y ago
You could always restore from incidental backups (hairbrush, etc.).
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by gattr 1y ago
On a more positive note, LLMs (or their successors) could be used to create a perfect tutor. Taylored for every individual, automatically adjusting learning material difficulty, etc. But yeah, first we'll go through a few (?) years of
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by gattr 1y ago
You jest, but if you encountered towels with print of the logo of a programming language you detest?...
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by gattr 1y ago
Indeed, cf. Tunguska event ([1]) from 1908. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
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by gattr 1y ago
Related: When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk [1]; TL;DR: VCRO is capable of imaging spy- and other classified US satellites. An automated filtering system (involves routing through some government processing facility) is in place
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by gattr 1y ago
It's also in his previous book "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics", along with a lot more. Strongly recommended (even though after reading a lot of Greg Egan, my views on conscio
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by gattr 1y ago
I agree, but I'm a bit disappointed it will probably come to this, instead of having a mano a mano like in the movie "Robot Jox".
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by gattr 1y ago
Here's a comparison of bad and good seeing (captured with a D = 90 mm telescope with a solar Hα filter): https://app.astrobin.com/u/GreatAttractor?i=246828#gallery Technically speaking, in the first half of the vi
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by gattr 1y ago
I'd like to try this kind of setup (coding from a lounge chair with just a keyboard tray & trackball, yay!), "dumb monitor" would be sufficient - but since switching to high-DPI displays in 2016 I really need this to be 4
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by gattr 1y ago
I'm not into Warhammer, but out of curiosity, how did they check that? Scrape a sample off each figurine and run it through a mass spectrometer or something?
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by gattr 2y ago
I've experienced only three improvements in video games that felt ground-breaking & jaw-dropping: 1. Sprite-based -> 3D sandbox world (in my case: Stunts , F29 Retaliator , Gunship 2000 , Wolfenstein 3D ) 2. Hardware 3D rend
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by gattr 2y ago
You can use superscript Unicode characters on HN: km·h⁻¹.
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by gattr 2y ago
A few decades from now, in the biohacker/modder community: "Recap your noggin with our reinforced-glass-ceramic dome!".
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by gattr 2y ago
On the one hand, I'm pretty sure Zelenskyy has had similar exchanges with Biden and the members of his administration in the past few years. And I understand (I think) the realities here: the US isn't doing anything out of the goo
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by gattr 2y ago
On a related (?) note, I was taken aback by the scene from "Kill Bill 2" ([1]), where Bill makes a sandwich for Bibi and... cuts off the crust. And it was the soft "toast" bread anyway. Doing this was not a thing when I
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by gattr 2y ago
Good point, we don't have to exactly follow the "astronauts in a small tin can, where everything must work flawlessly" way. With Starship (or its future iteration/successor) we can: - assemble a quite large interplanetar
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by gattr 2y ago
Perhaps the whole situation will finally convince the "I don't mind, I have nothing to hide" crowd about the need to scrutinize & limit as much as reasonably possible the personal data collection and retention by governme
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by gattr 2y ago
Yes, but please observe SI rules [1]: it's millischwarzeneggers. > This means that they should be typeset in the same character set as other common nouns (e.g. Latin alphabet in English, Cyrillic script in Russian, etc.), following
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by gattr 2y ago
Makes you wonder what will come first: - energy-efficient, long-lasting, mechanically optimized robotic "birds" - good-enough understanding of the avian brain connectome & operation, such that all you need is a bunch of fine w

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