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by glaurung_ 8y ago
Haha yeah pretty much! I think there's one our two where the alt text is just "..." or something like that, but it's always there. A lot of the pictures in his what if posts have an alt text too!
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by glaurung_ 8y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt that way. That article was horrifying.
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by glaurung_ 8y ago
Switching products like this seems to be very common on Amazon. I always make sure and go to all reviews and check the most recent before ordering. Review Meta is also a great resource for weeding out less trustworthy reviews.
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by glaurung_ 8y ago
Not sure about big bang, but there's a scene in the most recent season on Silicon Valley about this scenario.
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by glaurung_ 8y ago
Complete speculation here, but this is my guess: Once accelerated to/past light speed it is possible to "make the jump to hyperspace" which is like going through some sort of wormhole. This allows a ship to travel from point
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by glaurung_ 8y ago
Your comment reminds me of frustrations I ran into when going the opposite direction in college. I majored in mathematics (focusing on pure math) where the goal is typically to produce a solution which is as elegant and readable as possible
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by glaurung_ 8y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1095/
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by glaurung_ 8y ago
> the contemporary idea of work having to be the end-all to one’s identity, purpose and meaning in life. This is something that bothers me a lot. The default answer to any question about who we are is something like "Ohh, I'm
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by glaurung_ 8y ago
Math major here. When in school, I almost exclusively used PDFs of my textbooks. My desktop at home had three monitors: a 21x9 ultrawide on the bottom and two 16x9 monitors above. This meant I could have LaTeX, a web browser, and three
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by glaurung_ 8y ago
That's weird. It works normally in the "Matterialistic HN" app's built in browser.