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by kloch 4y ago
> Every damn body knew that the last 2 years were not representative of the future. Don't humans almost always extrapolate their present situation far out in the future?
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by kloch 4y ago
"Representative! ... Representative! ... Representative!"
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by kloch 4y ago
> if you add very big values to very small values, you can get inaccurate results (the small numbers get lost!) There is a simple workaround for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation It's usually
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by kloch 4y ago
Coincidences are everywhere in math and physics, but our monkey brains just can't accept that they are meaningless.
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by kloch 4y ago
The struggle was real before digital. I always tried to use Type IV Metal tapes and type C NR when supported. The entire line of Metal tapes by TDK were awesome. Then there was the mythical MA-XG which retailed for something like $20/t
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by kloch 4y ago
> That and Wired magazine. I would show my Dad copies of Wired back in 1993-1995. When I finally got him set up with email and Netscape his comment was: "The magazine about the Internet is more interesting than the Internet itself!&
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by kloch 4y ago
> There's a commonality that AT&T is getting at, the early internet The legacy telcos were NOT fans of the early Internet. They didn't like packet switched networks, variable sized packets, and especially best-effort delive
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Dopamine is not just the feel-good hormone(studyfinds.org)
4 points by kloch 4y ago|1 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
It doesn't matter. The appearance of the message itself usually meant the drive/disk was dead and there was nothing you could do about it. Even worse, programs almost never handled this gracefully so if you were trying to save yo
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Every Song with over 1B Spotify Streams(visualcapitalist.com)
3 points by kloch 4y ago|0 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
Does this require a user to be executing ping while a remote attacker sends a flood of exploit packets? Or is the OS always vulnerable? The article was not clear on this point.
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by kloch 4y ago
Heat pumps only work at that level of efficiency above about 10 degrees C. That is why they often have integrated electric resistance heaters.
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by kloch 4y ago
You are correct it uses very little resources, especially since most queries are http instead of https. Since there are no user accounts and it doesn't track anyone it doesn't even have a backend database to connect to. Just a cou
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by kloch 4y ago
At work: the CDN for Megaupload. I was also the guy who had to shut it down when the FBI seized it. Personal non-code project: The first adult LEGO fan conference in 2000. While I got out of that business years ago it has been replicated by
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The Center of the Earth Is as Hot as the Sun (2013)(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by kloch 4y ago|1 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
I rarely editorialize titles. In this case I felt that NASA was intentionally "burying the lede" so I substituted with a clear headline so HN readers would know what it's actually about.
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by kloch 4y ago
Aside from Webb's human rights record, isn't it wildly inappropriate for a major international scientific collaboration to be named after one of the host country's (non-scientist) bureaucrats? This is one of the greatest scie
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NASA declines to rename JWST(nasa.gov)
44 points by kloch 4y ago|39 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
LedgerX seem to be the silver lining in the FTX fiasco. Regulation worked well where it was actually applied.
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CFTC Has ‘Boots on the Ground’ at FTX Subsidiary LedgerX(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by kloch 4y ago|1 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
Were these amateur/hobbyist cubesats or were they all proposed/sourced by NASA?
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by kloch 4y ago
That's US route 50. There is indeed a similar 3000+ mile sign on the other end in Ocean City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Route_50
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by kloch 4y ago
Another issue I didn't see addressed in the article is the anti-aliasing filters on digital cameras. The filters are installed to mitigate Moire when shooting scenes with high frequency (sharp) straight lines They don't blur like
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by kloch 4y ago
> we must be very early for intelligence in the universe. Not under the Zoo hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis
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by kloch 4y ago
> As an example, we've often been told to eat more fibers to increase "flow" About 10 years ago I switched overnight from a very meat heavy diet to mostly plant based (I still eat dairy products and one or two servings of
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by kloch 4y ago
What filesystem(s) are you using for root and content? And If ZFS, what options are you using?
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by kloch 4y ago
> thousands of years ahead of us Just thousands? I would expect 100k years at a minimum and even that is only .0007% of the age of the universe. Millions or Billions of years more advanced is not out of the question. It would be interest
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by kloch 4y ago
Pretty sure it has everything to do with heat dissipation
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by kloch 4y ago
Most 50's, at least down to f1.4 were designed or based on designs from the 1960's. They have really awful optical qualities by modern lens standards. Of course a good photographer will tell you great photographs have little to do
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by kloch 4y ago
> Almost everyone will have a personal Web site. At first it seems like the author got this prediction horribly wrong, except almost everyone does have one or more social media accounts which is the modern equivalent.

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