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511.
by jfk13 5y ago
And a stable enough ruler.
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US airlines warn of impending 5G flight disruption(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by jfk13 5y ago|0 comments
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by jfk13 5y ago
1/1025 of Jupiter's orbital energy sounds absolutely huge . Of course, it's supposed to say 1/10²⁵, which is quite different.
514.
by jfk13 5y ago
If you're going to use terms like Memento Mori, please at least spell them correctly and consistently.
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by jfk13 5y ago
I presume Schrödinger's cat will be issuing a statement shortly. Maybe something along the lines of "I wouldn't be caught dead sitting on his lap".
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by jfk13 5y ago
> a fictional character Harry Potter is a fictional character. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character. Bilbo Baggins is a fictional character. They never existed outside of their authors' (and then readers') imaginations, alt
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by jfk13 5y ago
Dan Brown and Nikos Kazantzakis are novelists, not historians.
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by jfk13 5y ago
> how did Google reach this position? In part, at least, by relentlessly promoting Chrome on their (hugely popular) web properties, as well as other advertising channels. Was it legitimate for them to use their dominance of online search
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by jfk13 5y ago
There was Opera, before it moved to the Blink world. Whether it was popular enough to count, I don't know.
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by jfk13 5y ago
That's also very cool, despite being superseded. Amazing the things a primitive machine could do. Yeah - the Sharp's (optional) built-in thermal printer was much higher resolution (with a 24-dot print head, resulting in around 200
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by jfk13 5y ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_My_Own_Grandpa
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by jfk13 5y ago
Pony? I was hoping for at least a unicorn.
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by jfk13 5y ago
I got my "portable" computing start by travelling around South Asia with a Sharp PC-5000 (1983; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_PC-5000 ) in a briefcase. Those were the days...! [edit: And what did we do w
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by jfk13 5y ago
> Only one prediction is worthy of confidence - the world of technology will increase at an exponential rate...and the world will improve. I'm not actually very confident about that last part...
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by jfk13 5y ago
Ah, I remember that convention from my youthful electronics-hobby days! I always assumed that the idea was to reduce the risk of misreading due to overlooking the decimal point (or interpreting a random speck of dirt/ink/whatever
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James Webb Space Telescope extends secondary mirror(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by jfk13 5y ago|0 comments
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by jfk13 5y ago
If asked for race, I suggest answering "human".
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by jfk13 5y ago
Here (in the UK) we went for a walk this afternoon, and I noticed primroses in flower... at least a couple months too early. I guess they're hoping some confused bees will come along...
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by jfk13 5y ago
There are a bunch of comments already at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29755603 .
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by jfk13 5y ago
"Turned back"? Maybe they should be impounded. (Or just sunk?) That might get their attention.
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by jfk13 5y ago
There's also the Secret Weapon featured in a Dad's Army episode: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5sazsy
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by jfk13 5y ago
When the iPad appeared, I thought it'd be a great option for my elderly and non-computer-savvy father; but the whole touch-screen thing turns out not to work well for him. Shaky, rheumatic fingers too often trigger the wrong thing and
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by jfk13 5y ago
The OED entry[1] for forget ( v .), under sense 1(b), has citations going back a couple centuries: > b. To fail to recall to mind; not to recollect. > 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 12 He says much the same of rabbits and onio
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by jfk13 5y ago
Surely that would be a private library. Even if you invite the public to use it at no charge.
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BBC Bitcoin mining report used in crypto-scam(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by jfk13 5y ago|0 comments
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Anti-5G necklaces found to be radioactive(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by jfk13 5y ago|0 comments
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by jfk13 5y ago
> Is this just protifing on a topical craze Of course. > What experience does in-game NFTs offer to players The warm glow of feeling they're the trendiest kids.
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by jfk13 5y ago
"But... War starts at midnight!" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Death_of_Colonel_... )
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by jfk13 5y ago
> Look at truly innovative companies - every year they can can 10% or so of the lower performers So you're a fan of stack ranking, huh? I thought that was pretty widely discredited, and "truly innovative companies" know be
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by jfk13 5y ago
Yes, sounds like this could be a wise move. My dad (now 95, living alone in his 3-storey house since mum died around 7 years ago) had one installed a few years back, and although he doesn't always use it, it's invaluable for the t

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