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Human experience of space and time in the physical world(twitter.com)
1 points by kloch 3y ago|0 comments
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by kloch 3y ago
Life/partner changes required switching from owning a home to renting an apartment, at least for now. I have a strong preference for high altitude/views so ended up in a high-rise apartment.
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by kloch 3y ago
I recently moved from a forested mountain to the center if a very small city. Even though there is a freeway 1/2 mile away road noise isn't bad as this area still has significant WFH %. It did take me 6 months to adapt to the very
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by kloch 3y ago
Dryer static charges are probably a few keV at most so yeah that shouldn't make it through a metal envelope. However, I wonder how well shielded the electronics are. In a poor quality design even the static charge fields themselves mig
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by kloch 3y ago
Apparently there are a lot of amazing papers about to come out https://twitter.com/andrasgaspar/status/1658914819100098560?...
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by kloch 3y ago
> but they are highly sensitive to beta I’m not familiar with Geiger counter design/specs but would the considerable static electricity send some electrons into the detector and cause a false positive beta hit?
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by kloch 3y ago
This makes perfect sense from the perspective of a language designer/computer scientist who is trying to keep their design clean and consistent. It makes no sense to an end user that expects an argument you pass to BigFloat to be treat
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by kloch 3y ago
I've just started getting into Julia for one of it's best use cases: It's super easy to do arbitrary precision math. But you have to be very careful when using string literals with BigInt or BigFloat: julia> setprecisi
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Miniature IMSAI 8080(twitter.com)
1 points by kloch 3y ago|1 comments
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Is Betelgeuse getting ready to explode?(bigthink.com)
16 points by kloch 3y ago|2 comments
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Is Betelgeuse Going to Pop?(twitter.com)
3 points by kloch 3y ago|3 comments
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by kloch 3y ago
The first web browser that integrated text and graphic (Mosaic) was two years old but it was Netscape that really kicked things off with the general public. Netscape was only a few months old at this point. Another essential component was r
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by kloch 3y ago
Here's a great comment on another video linked in the comments of this video: Me in 1995: I can't wait to see what fantastic technology we'll have 25 years from now! Me in 2020: watching videos of people buying computer
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by kloch 3y ago
Not Germany but here's another one showing very calm shoppers, even during Christmas season: Raw footage inside Sears with Atari 800 and 2600 (1982) [video] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32282081
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Why do mirrors flip left-and-right but not up-and-down?(bigthink.com)
2 points by kloch 3y ago|1 comments
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by kloch 3y ago
I just want to say this was one of the most enjoyable articles I have read in a long time. It's informative, respectful to critics, and exudes a "confident but restrained" tone that is so rare in public discourse these days.
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by kloch 3y ago
This implies the outage was affecting their Pilot's ability to get accurate weight/balance data.
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by kloch 3y ago
> Since fast.com is a Netflix ip Technically the website fast.com resolves to an Akamai IP, but the speed test it loads uses a Netflix owned IP.
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by kloch 3y ago
Working (!) source code should absolutely be required BUT there should also be a requirement that it not be unnecessarily complicated or obfuscated. Otherwise malicious compliance would be common.
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by kloch 4y ago
Yes. Their design reminds me of WIRED magazine from the 1990's, not at all like web pages from the 1990's.
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by kloch 4y ago
The crash itself isn't usually that loud but airbag deployment can be 170 db which is very dangerous to hearing.
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by kloch 4y ago
This was true in the early 1990's but I rarely hear a car alarm these days. There was one particularly annoying car alarm that was popular in the 1990's that had a sequence of "police/ambulance siren" sounds. Bieww
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by kloch 4y ago
Trivia: There is a street named after him (Rodger Bacon Dr.) in Reston, VA. Right across from it is Isaac Newton Sq, where the lab that discovered the Reston Ebola Virus was located. Around the corner is Michael Faraday Dr.
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by kloch 4y ago
> you can supercharge accuracy to basically 100% for up to 13 digit addition and >90% after. Is the ~13 digit limitation due to the model itself (how/how well it was trained) or simply the use of double precision in the model wei
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by kloch 4y ago
The most important thing: Put the heat where you want the solder to flow to, not where it's starting from. This also applies to soldering/brazing copper pipes.
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by kloch 4y ago
> At first this looks great, but there is a problem. What happens when the source string minus the null terminator is as long as the size of the destination string? The answer is that the destination gets filled with all the characters o
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The age of average(alexmurrell.co.uk)
992 points by kloch 4y ago|474 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
To ease the disappointment, here's an unrelated jwst image that was released today: https://esawebb.org/images/potm2303a/
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by kloch 4y ago
One example I recently ran into with large image files, specifically a 24GB PNG file, which of couerse requires much more working memory when uncompressed: Gimp: Opens this image successfully without complaining. It takes a while and uses l
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Scientists offer evidence that Venus is volcanically active(phys.org)
2 points by kloch 4y ago|0 comments

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