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by hanoz 6y ago
Indeed I should have asked if both planets just happened to be passing behind the star? Alternatively, have they just been superimposed beside the star at arbitrary positions? I'm still none the wiser.
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by hanoz 6y ago
Do both these planets just happen to be passing in front of the star then, because they would typically be a mile or so outside the image at that scale wouldn't they?
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by hanoz 6y ago
> "many academics use writing as a tool for thinking... and don’t think about the reader" That would explain an awful lot about my university reading experience.
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by hanoz 6y ago
Hmmm! Starting to sound more like the alternative hypothesis...
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by hanoz 6y ago
Well clearly it's not a straight copy of that.
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by hanoz 6y ago
Is it a straight copy, or just a case of the surprising effectiveness of stock phrases considered harmful?
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by hanoz 6y ago
But in my brief attempt to answer my own question I only found pages detailing pico balloon launches from the UK.
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by hanoz 6y ago
Why is the UK (in the unusual company of Yemen and North Korea) an important "do not transmit zone"?
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by hanoz 6y ago
If anyone in the UK is thinking about getting a foundation license, you might like to know you can now sit the exam entirely online, as the practical assessment component is currently waived.
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by hanoz 6y ago
If anyone fancies having a play with FT8 without any ham equipment, I was surprised to find I could do so using a regular "world band" shortwave receiver. It does need to have SSB (single sideband) mode, I'm not sure how comm
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by hanoz 6y ago
I've heard it said that the crowded cabin was one of the attractions for some, given whom you might literally be rubbing shoulders with.
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by hanoz 6y ago
Lovely piece of work. Scary how active those old gas lamp mantles are (in the video). Makes me wonder how radioactive your average campsite is, given that those things tend to crumble to dust when you change them.
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by hanoz 6y ago
> "some of them have fallen straight on their face, indicating they died very quickly. Others are obviously dying more slowly, like the ones that are wandering around" This seems a bit of a strange analysis. Could they not ha
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by hanoz 6y ago
I don't suppose the struggling non state supported private renters whom you outbid to buy these houses, which they might otherwise have been able to afford to buy themselves, but who are now paying rent to some other landlord instead,
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by hanoz 6y ago
When gun stocks are the market's biggest risers, that really should be telling you something about the prospects for the rest of it. You'd have thought.
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by hanoz 6y ago
Because of an unfortunate inability to distinguish the Bristol Channel from the English Channel... Wouldn't it also take the inability to distinguish North from South to mistake Wales for France on that basis?
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by hanoz 6y ago
> I'll be in the pub by the end of the year. You may be in a pub by the end of the year, but you won't be in a pub at the end of the year, because at that point we'll locked down in the midst of a second wave of coro
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by hanoz 6y ago
The best thing about coming up with and then buying a great domain name for your new business idea is that thinking of one uses so much creative and analytical energy, diverted from considering the business itself, and delivers such a dopam
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by hanoz 6y ago
Fair point. It is difficult to fairly price a thing in terms of a debauched currency.
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by hanoz 6y ago
I'm convinced that the markets, which, let's remember, were high on the hog all throughout the obvious impending catastrophe of this virus sweeping in from the east at the beginning of this year, until the moment reality was shove
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by hanoz 6y ago
I heard British prof Steve Jones on the radio recently say that 15 minutes in the middle of the day was enough at this time of year.
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by hanoz 6y ago
Sounds more plausible than the 50% estimate put out two months ago by Oxford.
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by hanoz 6y ago
What is it with Haiku? The whole 5-7-5 structure just doesn't ring true with me at all. I mean, I get that it is enigmatic, but it just seems like it's enigmatic purely by virtue of not having any other redeeming quality.
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by hanoz 6y ago
> and you should be proud that you had the talent to perform at our level for the time you did. My main takeaway is: they sound a bit bloody full of themselves.
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by hanoz 6y ago
You may as well stick with Unity and Unreal if you need support for console builds because from what I hear there's no point in waiting for Godot.
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by hanoz 6y ago
As opposed to the usual on-BBC background of an impressively scholarly bookshelf, with a copy of your own book casually prominent.
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by hanoz 7y ago
Not a website, but I miss a weekly email newsletter called NTK (Need to Know). I'm not sure how many HN readers were NTK readers, but I bet all NTK readers are now HN readers.
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by hanoz 7y ago
A good more general rule is not ever to buy anything from anyone who has initiated the first contact. Not sure that's going to be an entirely popular thought on a forum of entrepreneurs who live and die by their marketing to an extent,
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by hanoz 7y ago
An anti nuisance call policy that has served me well and I try to get my folks to adopt is that if there is the merest hint of a delay between my hello and the caller's response, I put the phone down immediately. I don't think I&#
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by hanoz 7y ago
> Hell, I can go to S3 right now, put a gig out there, and a million hits only cost me pennies. A million hits on a 1 gig file would cost you $50,000.

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