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by kloch 4y ago
More precision would require an atomic (hydrogen or cesium) clock on each satellite, and periodic adjustments for relativistic effects, just like regular GPS and other GNSS systems. An intermediate improvement might be a small/lightwei
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by kloch 4y ago
Coincidences are everywhere and our monkey brains generally have a hard time accepting that they are just coincidences. One example that will make any physicist bang their head on their desk: 3 * l_P / alpha_em^2 = 9.10543E-31 m Which
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by kloch 4y ago
> If you're reading this, then this Gamma Ray Burst is not going to hurt you. This reminds me of something my dad would say when I was a little kid afraid of lightning. He would say “By the time you hear the thunder you have already
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by kloch 4y ago
I wonder if there is an offline backup of Wikipedia on ISS? There should be. And on every manned space mission.
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by kloch 4y ago
> All the time our customers ask us - how do you make money doing this? The answer is simple: Volume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KodqIPMbyUg
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by kloch 4y ago
Understood, but it still would be very interesting to see the area with JWST's full range of instruments.
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by kloch 4y ago
Have they released any images of the galactic center yet?
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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog (1993)(en.wikipedia.org)
10 points by kloch 4y ago|1 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
Hackers was released September 15, 1995. The newest version of Netscape you could have been using the day it came out was 1.22. Netscape 2.0 came out three days later (September 18, 1995) and included first support for javascript, java, and
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by kloch 4y ago
Everyone knows Angelina Jolie, but did you know Jonny Lee Miller (Zero Cool) has had a prodigious acting career after Hackers? https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001538/ My favorite character of his was Sherlock Holmes
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by kloch 4y ago
Do they at least make the left turn?
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by kloch 4y ago
Now the million dollar question: Does price follow hashrate, or hashrate follow price?
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by kloch 4y ago
I'm left handed and had a lot of trouble using tap until I realized my thumb was covering/shorting out the chip. If I hold cards in my right hand tap works great.
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Radio Shack Model Store and Citiline Credit Card Training (1980's)(youtube.com)
1 points by kloch 4y ago|0 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
You may want to look at Lyx, a WYSIWYG Tex editor https://www.lyx.org/
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by kloch 4y ago
> i’ve had the pleasure of flying on a vision jet before — it’s a really cool aircraft that flies almost as fast and high as much more expensive jets It’s a really cool aircraft but It’s nowhere close to the speed or service ceiling of m
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by kloch 4y ago
The delay in publishing a "proper" standard was due to the incredible success/usefulness of the defacto K&R standard. But as you point out that was hard to find outside of Unix. I suspect this was mostly due to the effort
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by kloch 4y ago
In 1972 1DM = $3.643 so it's probably $170,189 (1972) -> $1M (today).
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by kloch 4y ago
ETC is also waiting in the wings with feature parity to ETH but remaining POW. Some hashpower has already migrated to ETC, doubling in the past two months: https://2miners.com/etc-network-hashrate
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From Great Resignation to Great Regret?(statista.com)
2 points by kloch 4y ago|0 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
The colors are real but exaggerated during image processing by pushing color saturation much higher than normal. I took a pic of the moon in 2018 and noticed the colors when playing around in Lightroom. At first I thought it was artifacts f
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by kloch 4y ago
Some folks just prefer BSD over other variants. I learned on old school SunOS so that might be why I prefer it. SysV based Solaris left a bad taste and Linux just seemed unnecessarily weird. 386/Net/FreeBSD was fast, a stable, sim
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by kloch 4y ago
Alcohol killed my dad. It's an absolutely horrific way to die. Your organs shut down one by one over an extremely painful two month period. Family members can do nothing except watch. You can't even donate part of your liver, medi
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Miracle On Second Avenue – Fixing a major phone exchange after a fire. (1975)(youtube.com)
2 points by kloch 4y ago|0 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
Post-war mass production was many decades old by the 1970's when Orange and Yellow were the dominant colors, and everything in our lives (cars, furniture, buildings, appliances, etc.) was vastly more colorful.
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by kloch 4y ago
There is a Concorde on display at the Museum of Flight near Seattle. You can walk down the aisle but the seats themselves are protected by plexiglass. The seats do look very cramped and the windows are very small. The museum of flight is am
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Ceers Epoch 1: Color Images Release(ceers.github.io)
1 points by kloch 4y ago|0 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
Another thing guaranteed to attract spam is a public contact email on a domain name.
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Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by kloch 4y ago|0 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
From wikipedia: > Consequently, the only way that hidden variables could explain the predictions of quantum physics is if they are "nonlocal", which is to say that somehow the two particles were able to interact instantaneously

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