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by jcurbo 8y ago
They have to find another object first. They'll be looking using LORRI, but it was hard enough finding MU69 that the probability is pretty low. Regardless, they'll also be using NH like we still use the Voyagers, for instrument
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by jcurbo 8y ago
This right here. Doesn’t completely solve the problem, but at least gets rid of the obnoxious sound.
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by jcurbo 8y ago
Relevant HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175757
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by jcurbo 8y ago
In this case, though, I don't mind because Phil Plait is a well known science communicator whose articles actually add useful context. I don't mind that his article is linked (although I did go straight to the video first, but I a
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by jcurbo 8y ago
I completely agree, as a long term WU user I am continually frustrated by their newer site design. The 10-day view is my favorite one but their site reliability and speed are atrocious. Like others in this thread I've been wondering
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by jcurbo 8y ago
I'm gonna need a link to this Hand Burger paper, sounds very interesting. (Jokes aside, this is a great post, thank you for sharing)
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Safari Content Blocker Evaluations – 9/26/18 Edition(brooksreview.net)
1 points by jcurbo 8y ago|0 comments
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by jcurbo 8y ago
This is a great document, thanks for sharing. Since it's 20 years old, I wonder if there are any newer references that are as concise? Surely HCI/UI/UX prinicples have come a long way since 1998.
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Extended Validation Certificates Are Dead(troyhunt.com)
186 points by jcurbo 8y ago|104 comments
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by jcurbo 8y ago
"Most people I know practice some variant of a digital leave-no-trace rule: don't post photos in publicly-trafficked areas of the internet, or if you do then don't say where they were taken. It's not so much gatekeeping
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by jcurbo 8y ago
Do you have a recommended AI mod for Civ V? It'd be interesting to get back into it with something like that. I've only ever really played vanilla Civ. (since 2...)
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by jcurbo 8y ago
Former employee, but I was thinking the same thing when I saw the story.
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by jcurbo 8y ago
Turn Left at Orion is a popular suggestion (see sibling comment) but the other question is what do you want to do, what part of astronomy interests you? Amateur astronomy is a vast field and depending on what you're interested in, you&
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by jcurbo 9y ago
In this case it's the OpenMW reimplementation of the Morrowind engine, which is fantastic and rapidly maturing (and capable of playing the game right now, they just continue to add features). http://openmw.org The Bethesda
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by jcurbo 9y ago
See also: John Carmack's plan file updates. https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive
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by jcurbo 9y ago
Thanks, this is interesting! I work at JHU/APL where there are people that do similar stuff, although I don't personally. The APL Astronomy Club is actually in the midst of trying to get some of our unused scopes & equipment
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by jcurbo 9y ago
This is fascinating (as an amateur astronomer), have you written anything else on the systems design of these types of instruments, or have any good pointers? I imagine for large instruments there is a massive amount of data involved and l
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by jcurbo 9y ago
Guessing Backblaze is getting a lot of hits right now, their site is slow for me.
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by jcurbo 9y ago
I always think of this as the "Stack Overflow approach" since I was listening to their podcast when they were building it and that's what they elected to do: https://blog.codinghorror.com/building-servers-for-
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by jcurbo 9y ago
Another U3415W owner here, it's the best monitor purchase I've made in years. I previously had a 27" and two 24"s and replaced the 24s with the U2415W. I do programming and gaming on it and it's excellent for both
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Type Systems for Beginners: An Introduction(gilbert.ghost.io)
5 points by jcurbo 9y ago|0 comments
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by jcurbo 9y ago
Two of my favorite books about sailing are: Sailing Alone Around the World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_Alone_Around_the_World about Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail around the world alone Confessions o
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JSON Feed(jsonfeed.org)
2 points by jcurbo 9y ago|0 comments
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by jcurbo 9y ago
Risk reduction - pretty well explained above. Experimentation - Standard definition. Trying out stuff. Concept-of-operations development - take the experiments and turn them into instructions and procedures for normal operations. Think of
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by jcurbo 9y ago
It's still a thing, see: http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/eligibility-requ... I lived in Germany for three years in the '00s so I'm ineligible.
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by jcurbo 9y ago
The main issue I've heard about is that LEDs are generally more wide-spectrum than sodium vapor lamps. This leads to a lot more sky glow (light pollution). There's a good webpage about this here: http://www.flagstaffd
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by jcurbo 10y ago
Much like Reddit, the value at SA is in niche sub forums. I haven't looked at GBS in years but still visit places like Ask/Tell, Book Barn, etc as well as specific game threads. (Is this like advanced "there's a front pa
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by jcurbo 10y ago
iterm2 on OS X is really good, maybe the gold standard as far as I'm concerned.
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by jcurbo 10y ago
Mother Jones did a major piece on this several years ago. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...
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The Future of Ransomware(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
3 points by jcurbo 10y ago|0 comments

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