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by kloch 5y ago
Litecoin is fast and cost efficient compared to BTC. I used to use LTC to send funds between exchanges before USDCoin was supported. I never trusted Tether. There are other coins that are faster and more efficient but they don't hav
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by kloch 5y ago
My first few domain names were registered in 1995 when the turn-around time on the email template was about three weeks. I barely missed registering kl.com. There was a minor error on my template (name servers). Three weeks later I got t
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by kloch 5y ago
Thanks! I'm a total amateur (coder && astronomer) but I'm having a lot of fun with it. I started it because I wanted to see what the galaxy looked like from outside perspectives. Unfortunately the uncertainty (noise) in
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by kloch 5y ago
Strangely, observing the universe curving back on itself is not listed.. j/k
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by kloch 5y ago
This would be a good quick hack project-- a program that accurately blueshifts JWST images.
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James Webb Space Telescope launch media kit [pdf](esamultimedia.esa.int)
196 points by kloch 5y ago|127 comments
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by kloch 5y ago
A spurious signal at LHC (that disappeared in later runs) that spurred a cottage industry of arXiv submissions trying to explain it. Authors, mostly grad students, quickly submitted hundreds of low quality articles trying to get in on the
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by kloch 5y ago
Sure the right answer will eventually prevail but the process is much worse than we like to admit. Many breakthrough advances were outright rejected by contemporary peers when first proposed. "Fermi first submitted his "tentative
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by kloch 5y ago
viXra is full of nonsense but then again so is arXiv (see: 750GeV debacle). viXra desperately needed a voting system and if it did it would likely have been much more useful and become a viable alternative to arXiv. arXiv does not accept
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by kloch 5y ago
What do you mean by junk? Spam and Abuse, or scientific papers that the reviewer simply doesn't like?
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by kloch 5y ago
Not sure if this would apply in the US but it has happened elsewhere: "It originally was designated as the "Porsche 901" (901 being its internal project number). A total of 82 cars were built as which were badged as 901s.[7]
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by kloch 5y ago
I'm surprised they don't address the reputation risk of 20M websites all sharing the same IP.
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by kloch 5y ago
This reminds me of a Newsweek magazine cover at the height of the dot-com mania in 1999: "everyone's getting rich but me!" https://backissues.com/issue/Newsweek-July-05-1999
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by kloch 5y ago
The only "design" bottleneck is where the main thread has to read processed data from the other threads via a shared mem buffer and add it to any existing value in another shared mem buffer. Reading from the source buffer is seq
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by kloch 5y ago
Thanks, I was afraid the Graviton2 was already as good as it gets. I do need to buy/build my own server however as the m6gd.16xlarge is > $500/mo even at spot prices.
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Ask HN: What server or CPU/motherboard combo offers maximum memory bandwidth?
3 points by kloch 5y ago|5 comments