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Advice to a Young Scientist/Engineer (2015)(funraniumlabs.com)
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out!
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
Has ChatGPT so thoroughly defeated https://xkcd.com/810/ that we are now suspicious of constructive comments? What a world...
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
I barely remember the actual story in cryptonomicon, but his tangents on who fucked who in Greek mythology, how to eat cereal with a beard, how to assemble a Linux distro with such an obtuse user interface as to defeat Van Eck Phreaking, or
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
This is funny, both Fall and Diamond Age are Stephenson novels I haven't managed to get through, but of the ones I've read (and enjoyed!), the endings have been as follows: Remade - massively stretched my suspension of disbelief.
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
Haha thank you. I meant to check that before clicking submit.
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
For anyone interested in the SR-71 (and other Cold War era spy planes), Skunkworks by Joe Rich is a fascinating read with lots of fun details about their development. Also, fun fact - in 2025 we will cross over into a period of history wher
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
Does anyone know of any studies on the long term health of children who go through programs like this? I see this sentiment a lot, and can even think of annecdotes of people this describes in my own life, but haven't seen much attempt
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
Like this? $ echo "(2/3)*3-2" | bc -l > /dev/null && echo "0"
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
> It's also kind of amazing that the dam was essentially destroyed with a single guy and a single (large) jack hammer. I was thinking the same thing. I know that being a heavy equipment operator is probably mind numbingly boring a
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
That makes sense. My napkin math says 3.2x larger radius would mean ~33x larger volume, so it's less than twice as dense as earth and pressures at the core would be much higher (57x?) so it seems feasible that it wouldn't have to
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
It sounds like you've always lived in relatively new/high end houses then. Older houses might have a dedicated 240 plug for the dryer and the stove if they're not natural gass, but for everything else there are plenty of home
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
Don't forget the workday is not just 8 straight hours for most folks, there's a 30 to 60 minute lunch in the middle of it which if you're in the office is 100% wasted time.
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
This is really interesting, though I unfortunately don't read Polish. For each ring deeper, do you dig out under the bottom ring until it slides down and another can be added to the top of the stack? That sounds terrifying having a wh
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The Passing of General Georgelin(friendsofnotredamedeparis.org)
2 points by gibspaulding 3y ago|0 comments
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
I've used LibreOffice Draw for this with fairly good results just inserting text boxes on top of the necessary fields. It's not the fastest, and probably is a bit overkill for the job, but it does work!
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Roger_Mallinson_and_...
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
I've been using discord for a decade or so and think I've only used video once or twice in that whole time. I'm also close to 30 though. I guess it's generational. Edit: Oops, you added your age! Apparently it's
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2023 Kai Cenat Riots(en.wikipedia.org)
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
I was thinking the same. I've been working from home on a rural DSL connection for the past 6 months. 10mbps down and 2mbps up. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but Teams calls do seem to handle it surprisingly well.
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NASA hears ‘heartbeat’ of Voyager 2 after losing communication(cnn.com)
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
Here's a fun/terrifying Wikipedia rabbit hole for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid... I think my favorite is when we accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb in someone's yard
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
This hurt my brain. I guess we envision inside and outside on different sides. Not sure if this is any clearer, but the door will close itself if the bottom hinge is offset from the top in the direction the door opens. Picture the angle o
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Literature Map – The Tourist Map of Literature(literature-map.com)
1 points by gibspaulding 3y ago|0 comments
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Y Combinator (Mathematics)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
Yep, it's been great for me for knocking together scripts in Python where I know there will be a way to do something like open a csv file and read it into a list of dicts, but am not familiar enough with the ecosystem yet to know exact
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
The PE firm has managed to charge more, clean less, AND bring in enough customers that the gym is overcrowded? I'd be looking elsewhere too, but from a business perspective that sounds like a roaring success.
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
A second computer is actually a pretty typical setup for streaming. One PC actually runs the game, and a capture card sends the audio/video output to a second PC that runs your streaming software. Either way though, no matter how you
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
> Native Americans conducted controlled burns for thousands of years until they started getting shot by forestry rangers a hundred years ago. I've been thinking about this lately. My wife and I were reading about a study of an old
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by gibspaulding 3y ago
That's insane to think about. Extrapolating down to 0% brightness means the actual compute required to manage the network connection and decrypt and render the video, plus anything the OS is doing in the background happens in maybe 2

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