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by gmiller123456 1y ago
They're all the same satellites. It's actually impossible to have a satellite just orbit at the poles.
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by gmiller123456 1y ago
If it helps, I have several methods of computing the Sun's position at varying degrees of accuracy/complexity, and some sundial code at https://www.celestialprogramming.com/
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by gmiller123456 1y ago
Not really anything in there regarding the sundial. I'm guessing that was put in there metaphorically for clickbait reasons. Knowing quite a bit about sundials I was genuinely curious about how that would work, as a typical (horizontal
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by gmiller123456 1y ago
There are a handful of Earth centered, geocentric standard reference frames. The most used today is the Geocentric Celestial Reference System (GCRS). It should be obvious that if you want to compute where to point a telescope, a transforma
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by gmiller123456 1y ago
I guess I must be. Where did he "point out the difference between new and used"? All I see is "But newsflash: used is different than new", then the explicit declaration 'you can't say "Tiny PCs are cheap
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by gmiller123456 1y ago
I actually unsubscribed from Jeff's channel after he published that video. Anyone claiming the lack of a used RPi market means we have to ignore the used market for everything else is just an idiot. I'm going to compare the two no
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by gmiller123456 1y ago
Get an esp32 board for $3 and plug it in.
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by gmiller123456 1y ago
Have to say my experience differs from what most here have had. Mostly I just saw no improvement over using Google. It still returned lots of results that were paywalled, lots of results with more ads than content, results that didn't
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
At least of the people who've been on the debates, the motive is quite clearly money. They all have apps, merch, blogs, or Youtube Channels they make money from.
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
Not sure "fascinating" is the word I'd use. While there might be some people that are genuinely confused, the flat Earthers that I've seen debate people who went on the Final Experiment are nothing more than pathologica
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
Atmospheric refraction does not matter for this method as it is not based on the time of sunset. Yes, the actual sunset occurs later than the observed sunset, but the relationship between the reflection and the observed position of the Sun
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3B1B: The cosmic distance ladder with Terence Tao, part 2 [video](youtube.com)
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
Another explanation is that the LLM doesn't know it's discussing a prohibited topic until it reaches a certain point in the answer.
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
The current coordinate system is based on extremely distant radio sources. Ground based scopes found some bright galactic sources which GAIA aligned to, and is measuring everything relative to those. And now GAIA is the defining source of
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
The goal of the keogram is to give a quick overview of sky conditions so you can see if there were clouds, aurora, or other interesting activity. No information is discarded, as the user keeps all of the data, the keogram is just a way of
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
You've got much better weather than we do. Here's mine from near Louisville KY (from Aug 2023 to Aug 2024) https://www.facebook.com/groups/101640086556073/posts/794426...
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
You get so many respondents, you can give them all different combinations. Each race you disregard the losers, and when the population gets low enough you might miss a race, you just say "hey, I predicted x races, call Bob to confirm&
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
Everyone already know which xkcd applies to this, right?
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
It was a book on positional astronomy, I don't remember the title.
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
I was reading a book from the early 1900's, and it referenced using computers to calculate some complex algorithms. Threw me for a loop, and I finally realized the author was talking about people. Apparently it was a thing to send lon
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
You don't have to look far to find one language naming itself to associate itself with another language it isn't really related to. E.g. C# has very little in common with C. But, ironically, it's popularity likely played a
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
>How do you steal Open Source? Stealing isn't just a legal concept, it also applies (among others) in a social context where you "steal someone's joke" or "steal someone's girlfriend". With open source
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
Article says "copyright 2000" at the bottom.
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
To be USFC/FIDE legal, the board has to size with the pieces. Even though it's not likely to be used in a tournament, it would just look odd being sized differently.
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
A spherical cuttoff limit is also not how the human eye sees. Light can travel from any distance to reach your eye. The view frustrum is an optimization, and there will always be cases where it fails.
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
The existence of a hacked DLL doesn't mean notepad++ had anything to do with it.
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
My favorite was "the most configurable application ever" and was only one line: #include "/dev/tty"
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
[Warning: bad joke ahead] Every day at noon a soldier fired a cannon to signal it was noon. A guy was curious as to how he knew when to fire the cannon. So he asked the soldier, who told him "the guy in the guard station gives me a s
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
One situation that already uses two doubles, which you may already be familiar with, is the International Astronomical Union's Standards of Fundamental Astronomy library. It uses two doubles for the date in order to be able to be able
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by gmiller123456 2y ago
The problem with putting different options in different places is that a lot of people will only ever see one of the options.

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