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by kloch 4y ago
I actually agree with you there. I was just trying to imagine a scenario where it made sense from Sagan's perspective.
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by kloch 4y ago
> One does not seriously attack the expertise of a scientist using the undefined phrase "butt-head." But one does seriously attack the expertise of a scientist using the undefined phrases "crackpot" or "crank&quo
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by kloch 4y ago
> C is sort of a dead C is like a table saw without a blade guard. Simple yet precise, powerful, flexible, and will cut your fingers off if you aren’t careful. But it’s often exactly the kind of dangerous saw we need sometimes. There’s n
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by kloch 4y ago
This article must have been written by someone who has never experienced it.
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Observation of S4716–a Star with a 4 yr Orbit around Sgr A*(iopscience.iop.org)
2 points by kloch 4y ago|0 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
Getting a number you like (especially if it's 4-digit) vs random pick by the RIR. According to their previous sales page, 5-digit ASN's have been selling fairly fast at ~$2,000 level even though as you point out you can get one fo
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by kloch 4y ago
Exactly, the first thing I thought of is was the (modern) IETF involved with this
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by kloch 4y ago
There is a market for AS numbers too (filter by ASN) https://auctions.ipv4.global/
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RS-449(twitter.com)
2 points by kloch 4y ago|2 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
It depends on the dynamic range you are working with and they type of operation. Dynamic range is critical with addition and subtraction but usually not important with multiplication and division (where only maximum exponent ranges are of c
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by kloch 4y ago
Repeated summation can compound rounding errors and reduce the effective precision of floating point encoded numbers. Doubles have ~16 decimal digits of precision but adding a billion doubles together sequentially (simple summation) could w
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by kloch 4y ago
In the mid 1990's someone in my office put pop tarts in the microwave and mis-typed the time by an extra digit or something and walked back to his desk. The entire 7 story building was evacuated and the fire department called because o
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by kloch 4y ago
> a highly fixed supply (synthesizing it is prohibitively expensive) This is what gives Bitcoin much of its value as well. > Gold is conceptually very similar to bitcoin, except gold can't be forked or copied This touches on anot
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by kloch 4y ago
Does anyone else remember a joke/malware DOS program that circulated on BBS's in the very early 1990's that promised 98% compression of any file? It just shortened the size in the FAT table (or similar gimmick that would resu
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by kloch 4y ago
In this case the tension is not between SEC and Wall Street but between the SEC (which regulates stocks and bonds) and the CFTC (which regulates commodities and derivatives). Most people in Wall Street and the crypto community want cleare
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by kloch 4y ago
George Carlin had a classic bit on the topic of evolving names for PTSD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSp8IyaKCs0
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by kloch 4y ago
It depends on if it's a fully domestic cat or one that has spent significant time living on it's own in the wild (stray/feral). I've seen a domestic cat play with a mouse until it's dead, then act like it doesn&#x27
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Misguided call for a 7-Zip boycott brings attention to FOSS archiving tools(theregister.com)
2 points by kloch 4y ago|1 comments
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by kloch 4y ago
I’m this case it’s not about the story which was only marginally interesting. It’s the cinematography, the color timing, the sets, the costumes. Blade Runner was a masterpiece in those areas (when combined) and defined it’s genre/aesth
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by kloch 4y ago
Truly retro. Only thing it's missing is setting the background to match Mosaic/Netscape gray.
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by kloch 4y ago
Many central banks including the Fed are looking into CBDC's. While not quite the same as the distributed consensus based algorithm of Bitcoin, there are too many benefits to governments/central banks to ignore the technology. The
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by kloch 4y ago
It took many thousands of years to switch from gold/silver money to paper (fiat) money. It was tried many times and failed each time until the US succeeded in the 20th century. Even that final transition took 38 years to complete from
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by kloch 4y ago
I should contract myself out to shopping malls. - Any store I notice as I walk by might be gone in 2 years - Any store I walk into is likely to be gone in 1 year - Any store I actually buy something from has about 6 months left... (this onl
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by kloch 4y ago
The gap between SI prefixes and their base-2 approximations grows as sizes get larger. Before 1GB HDD’s the file system overhead was a much more dramatic effect so it didn’t really matter to consumers which prefix convention they used or ho
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by kloch 4y ago
> because of course disk vendors quote everything in the smaller SI units). SI prefixes should be (and are) the rule rather than the exception. It only made sense to measure ram in base-2 units because they are manufactured according to
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by kloch 4y ago
> For simple terms since you’re obviously not in the field, ask yourself where is money created? If you say central banks, go back to Econ 101 and study better this time. The Fed itself directly created 8T USD since 2009 (QE). Some of it
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by kloch 4y ago
Be careful what you ask for. Revealing your existence to alien species could be one of the dumbest mistakes you could make in the universe. Especially when our technology is not even capable of interstellar travel. Thus any species that co
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by kloch 4y ago
Don't for a second think we would not be one of the hostile ones. Remember, it's not scientists who will control our interstellar diplomacy, it will be politicians and generals.
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by kloch 4y ago
It’s hard to overstate the value of Wikipedia to humanity. I hope there are lots of copies of it in government survival bunkers around the world. I wonder if they keep an offline copy on ISS?
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by kloch 4y ago
There is an exception under part 97 (covering amateur radio licensees) for emergency communications. I suppose this will depend on the contents of his transmissions and if they were truly necessary and justified and if "normal communic

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