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by jychang 6y ago
You can calculate the orbital velocity of an object from your distance from the object. v=sqrt(G m/r) where v is the velocity, G is the gravitational constant, m is the mass of the black hole, and r is the distance from the black hole.
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by jychang 6y ago
That was 1812, though (plus the hundred days). There wasn’t any big German military defeat since the Congress of Vienna system until WWII, a period of over a century. Imagine the USA’s military ego, but instead of losing Vietnam in the 70s,
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by jychang 6y ago
The venn diagram of "celebs who are influential" and "fans who are data hoarders" don't overlap as much as you think. The latter tend to be a much nerdier group than the general population.
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by jychang 6y ago
Additionally, the USPS is incentivized to do this because they’re underfunded. Amazon has money, so they’re forced to do business with who can help pay the bills.
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by jychang 6y ago
> We're able to mask symptoms but have absolutely no proof about underlying reasons That's true for a ridiculously large amount of non mental illness diseases, too. In fact, I'd say the majority of non-microbial/cance
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by jychang 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ben174 His resume says he was an engineer at LowerMyBills between November, 2003 to June, 2004.
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by jychang 6y ago
Seems like a chance to combine it with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755693
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by jychang 6y ago
> "At least one in-person class" doesn't make any sense. Either in-person classes are safe, and the rules can go back to pre-pandemic, or they aren't, and forcing students and professors to attend them is dangerous an
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by jychang 6y ago
Hilariously, Microsoft production servers are also set to the MSN default homepage, even though most forests are firewalled off from the entire internet. So the homepage doesn't even load.
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by jychang 6y ago
Strictly speaking, "company drops support for software X" isn't always a bad thing, when it forces people to move on. For example, Windows XP dragged on for far too long, and there's a good argument that it should have b
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by jychang 6y ago
This is one of those ideas that sound good in theory but then immediately causes bad effects. The problem with cutting and pasting isn't bots, it's people. Uncle Joe posting 5 links a day from <bad news source> is completely
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by jychang 6y ago
For consumers, yes, they only focus on cameras/lenses. This isn't true for professionals, who literally earn a livelihood from their cameras. Canon Professional Services will repair and airmail your lens with a next day turnaround
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by jychang 6y ago
This is the biggest factor. Canon Professional Services offer extremely good support for their cameras. Nikon Professional Services are good too, but not quite as good as Canon's. And Sony... is lagging very far behind. Canon also is k
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by jychang 6y ago
> Apple didn't sell iOS Strictly speaking, Apple sold iOS for a while. iOS 2 was a $10 paid upgrade for iPod touch users.
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by jychang 6y ago
Well, the WWDC rumors have been talking about ARM macs for weeks. If you were TSMC or Fujitsu and wanted to take advantage of a day where ARM was trending, you could schedule the announcement around WWDC without cooperating with Apple.
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by jychang 6y ago
Scott is the type of individual where literally any side of a political debate can write a hit piece with some quotes, because he considers ALL the sides of a debate. Unfortunately, that's a rare trait these days.
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by jychang 6y ago
You can easily find Scott's last name in multiple places. He makes a point though, being able to dig out his last name is very different from publishing it in the New York Times.
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by jychang 6y ago
Meh. You're in tech. The CEO could be a dildo on a stick for all I care, the only thing that should matter are the products itself. Otherwise you're just buying into a cult.
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by jychang 6y ago
The non Pro iPhones, non Pro iPads, Apple TVs, HomePods, maybe the Mac Minis if external GPUs are pushed as an alternative to integrated GPUs.
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by jychang 6y ago
There's a surprisingly large number of ARM docker images. You can partially thank the Raspberry Pi for that.
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by jychang 6y ago
What are the largest benefit for iterm2? I use it but honestly I don't see much improvement over Terminal.
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by jychang 6y ago
Not much, I'd imagine. It'd be like getting FB stock options upon joining and having it drop in price when the stock market tanked in March. That's the point of stock.
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by jychang 6y ago
Yeah, that's just the flu or some other disease. It's a bad flu year. If it was actually covid-19 community spreading in December, then we wouldn't be talking about a few thousand deaths now in April, we'd be talking abo
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by jychang 7y ago
> I am interested to learn more about how they solved it if not brute force. https://people.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maarb/papers/cubesv1.pdf
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by jychang 8y ago
You realize that CVS is a big company like Walmart or McDonalds, right? This person is parodying people who you're disgusted at.
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by jychang 8y ago
Ugh, why can't rational people see how this is an instance of "black and white thinking" cognitive distortions? Life isn't a binary black and white, as much as software engineers would like it to be. One side says "
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by jychang 8y ago
The same way regular vision works under snow. Snowflakes are opaque to visible light too, so it'd work the same way human eyesight works for drivers currently.
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by jychang 9y ago
I think the biggest issue with people is a lack of introspection, and this example shows the issue here. Most interactions are too meaningless and therefore difficult to self improve on. I don't know what's the best system to make
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by jychang 9y ago
I agree it's simplistic, but that's not particularly overly naive. The kickstart of the industrial revolution very much benefited from the disappearance of a large "free" labor source, and it was probably one of the prim
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by jychang 9y ago
Well, yeah. They can opt to not pay the "risk tax", by simply not going down that career path. Not every construction job is rebuilding a high risk dam spillway. Not every aerospace engineer job involves stepping into a 100% oxyge

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