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by lmilcin 5y ago
The path of this probe to get those encounters looks like magic. How do they find these?
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by lmilcin 5y ago
And the reason for this is there is usually "a guy" that mistakes his current love for X with X being better than every other competing product. Sometimes what happens is that somebody buys X, X is expensive, and so now everybody
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by lmilcin 5y ago
The choice of technology by developers and their managers is guided in large part by trends rather than by wholly rational decision process. The type of database should be dictated by the application requirements. Relational databases provi
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> This was novel to me. Listening to music negatively affects your ability to focus? I guess it's time to throw out my headphones... Not so fast. Actually, listening can help you focus IF it helps you block some other distraction
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by lmilcin 5y ago
It does not. But a lot of people flocked to HN to see what is going on or because they did not have their other alternative.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I disagree. MBA is a way of getting some specific type of knowledge. For a determined person they can do it on their own, the information is and has always been accessible (if you care to read books). I think what changed is a perception of
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by lmilcin 5y ago
It is. It is like saying that access to Stack Overflow diminishes and undermines status of elite software developers. The reality is a lot of people do not know how to use the "democratized access" they get. Being able to log in a
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by lmilcin 5y ago
There is a fundamental difference between being incompetent at waging war and organized, systematic action to erase an entire group of people simply because of their genes. If you really want to compare Nazi to US you would have to imagine
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by lmilcin 5y ago
It is bonkers. But the only way we can even have that video is because the molecules are being frozen in the crystalline lattice. As far as I know there exists no recording of actual molecules in a liquid (except maybe for something extreme
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by lmilcin 5y ago
The individual atoms are much more mobile than the crystalline structure here. They are probably moving way too fast to be captured on a time scale that the crystal grows. Think in terms of trying to make video of a tree growing and expecti
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Sooo.... what exactly is your professional experience in the area? I own an electronics lab, design and produce my own circuit boards, I have worked for many years in embedded space including for Samsung. I am not professional electronics e
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by lmilcin 5y ago
What I mean is that it is almost never possible to prove who caused ESD damage. It just fries some unfortunate internal part of some integrated circuit. And I can understand companies not wanting to deal with this. When I design electronics
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Well somehow I missed that (and also I am from Poland which means the sticker is still enforceable here). But being amateur electronics engineer myself I actually agree with the "warranty void if opened". Handling electronics safe
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Of course they are still saying "do not open". It voids warranty. But they are not going out of their way to make it hard.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Welcome groupthink. You are only allowed to teach assuming you don't hold your own views on things.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I think main reason is our flawed education. The tasks you are being given at school are usually constructed so that they fit the idealized knowledge you just learned. What it teaches people is to short cut the critical path of reasoning wh
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by lmilcin 5y ago
That is why I specified "General Purpose". The moment you know something more about the data there might exist an opportunity to exploit that information to improve the algorithm. Which is an interesting topic in itself. Many time
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Sleep sort is meant as a joke. Obviously, everybody understands there exists no O(1) GP sorting algorithm.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I have worked for an acquirer side of the business where I implemented the credit card application but also took part in complete certification process and day to day business. For a normal credit card transaction, most of the fee goes to t
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Pretty sure Apple would still be there. Remember, it is not just Apple that would be hit. All their competition would also. And out of all companies that produce phones Apple has probably most cash on hand. They have something like 200B USD
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by lmilcin 5y ago
You still don't seem to understand. You need 12-13km/s to get to anywhere useful from Mercury. Closer to Sun than Earth there is only Mercury and Venus and nothing else. For example, if you wanted to build a base on Mars using res
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> Mercury itself is light enough to cancel that out. No, it does not cancel it out. You need about 12km/s delta V to get to Mercury from Earth and then the same to get back. Remember, if you need to lift anything from Mercury, you n
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I don't think so. I bet nobody is ever going to make that mistake at FB again after today.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> So basically, everything I used to be able to get in a phone book. Honestly, at this point all of that information should just be considered public, because it obviously is. I am honestly shocked at your proposal. In a real paper book
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> Edit: downvote all you want. Complaining about being downvoted is shunned upon on HN and is unlikely to cause people to stop downvoting. It brings nothing interesting to discussion and actually reduces density of interesting things.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
No, there are very few people who actually do this. People collectively do hard things when they are profitable. Profitability here in most broad sense possible. US did not send men to Moon because it was hard. It was done because US was in
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Why extract mineral resources from a planet that is so deep within Sun gravitational field that you have to expend more energy to get stuff from there than you would to get stuff from Earth surface? Why do that if you have billions of flyin
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I disagree. Tell me, how putting actual human on Mercury helps building a megastructure? It is not like they will be able to do shit while on the surface of Mercury. They would be just sitting idle in a single polar crater that happens to b
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Except colonizing Mercury is of relatively little value because of how little surface of it is usable, impossibility of terraforming the planet, how difficult it is to get there or back and that it does not help to reach any other interesti
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I am no expert, but I think it is very likely most of these craters are from very early life of the planet, before there was life on Earth. Orbit of Mercury is very well cleaned of any other bodies and must have been like this for billions

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