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by mabbo 5y ago
It's easy to see how basic science like this leads to people flocking to not-fully-proven solutions. I need to not catch COVID-19 for around five weeks. My wife is due to give birth, and if I'm COVID positive I can't be with
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by mabbo 5y ago
> people have been shelling real money for virtual items for a long time I think the difference is that at least to someone , those virtual MMO goods had value. You could wear the stupid hat. You could buy in-game stuff with the virtual
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by mabbo 5y ago
My wedding and engagement photos are backed up in a basic S3 bucket. I plan to do the same with any important family photos. It costs next to nothing. The redundancy levels of S3 are way better than anything I can make.
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by mabbo 5y ago
While the device itself is sloppy, for many organizations it's probably easier to install and less likely to be detected than a software-based attack. How frequently does IT run scans of what software is running on the server vs how of
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by mabbo 5y ago
Galaxies like this truly challenge MOND theories of modified gravity. If there is no such thing as dark matter, why doesn't this galaxy behave as the others do? It has the same amount of normal matter as it's neighbours, yet acts
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by mabbo 5y ago
This is just textbook rent-seeking. Like the classic example is someone setting up a barrier on the river and charging boats that want to pass through. There's no value being added by the person blocking the river. Just the same, when
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by mabbo 5y ago
Oh I agree it's not quite the same as in the article. I was comparing to what the parent comment was saying about large pneumatic tube networks in ages past.
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by mabbo 5y ago
This sort of system is used today in many modern industrial facilities. Case in point: Amazon warehouses. Lots of the mechanical automations inside some of those warehouses are powered by compressed air in open loop systems. As the conveyor
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by mabbo 5y ago
You know even more than me. I was just going off the wiki pages for Monsters Inc franchise and Finding Nemo franchis, which list 3 and 5 attractions each.
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by mabbo 5y ago
"A Bugs Life" - Box office: $363.3 million "Monster's Inc" - Box office: $577.4 million "Finding Nemo" - Box office: $940.3 million "WALL-E" - Box office: $521.3 million $2.4B worth of ideas, not
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by mabbo 5y ago
When I travel anywhere for more than 5 days, I typically just buy a local sim card when I land. Usually saves a lot of money. Sure, people can't call me on my usual number, but I see that as an additional benefit. I'm on vacation.
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by mabbo 5y ago
"Ship it out of country" in what sense? It burns the energy, providing no real value except that the coin 'exists' on the ledger. You can't use the coin for any real purpose. Crypto finds where energy is cheapest an
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by mabbo 5y ago
Heard an excellent perspective on the Kazakhstan situation the other day and how it relates to bitcoin. The Kazakhs are protesting and rebelling over high fuel prices. But why would fuel prices be high in a country with large oil and gas re
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by mabbo 5y ago
Name both in the lawsuit. Someone has to pay for the work done.
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by mabbo 5y ago
The full list of the first set of scientific missions is available here: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-progra... The overall idea is that JWST can see very faint objects in the infrared sp
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by mabbo 5y ago
I think linguistically the term can be hard to parse. If any one of 344 pieces were to fail during deployment, then all of the deployment has failed and the entire $10B was a loss. Consider the engine in your car- how many single pieces of
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by mabbo 5y ago
These products have a goal of protecting sites from bots that can guess the answer. They have a financial incentive to present the most effective filter: ones that AIs can't seem to get through but real humans can. This makes me think:
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by mabbo 5y ago
As someone currently learning how to lift weights, I would love to be the guinea pig of a lunar exercise program. At 16% gravity I should be able to deadlift over 1500 lbs and bench 1000 lbs!
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by mabbo 5y ago
A: Because children pass COVID-19 on to older people who are highly likely to die. It's like saying "Why fight forest fires? Very few people live in the forests." Because the fire will grow and burn down all the cities. And a
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by mabbo 5y ago
Remember that no matter how far from the earth you get, you're always being pulled by it, decreasing velocity. The Webb left earth moving at 7km/s, but now is going less than 1km/s. It's going to let Earth's gravity
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by mabbo 5y ago
I can see understand idea of paying companies to keep an invention secret. But I'm annoyed at calling it a 'patent'. The very nature of patents is that the government grants exclusivity of the invention to the inventor, so lo
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by mabbo 5y ago
Yes and no. It would lower the operations costs of hardware, hopefully (that's the entire goal of this article) but you'd need more people resources to manage it, I would guess. Mesos and containers automate a lot of thinking work
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by mabbo 5y ago
I have to wonder why the authors skipped the potential solution of removing containers and mesos from the equation entirely. If you gave this service a dedicated, non-co-located fleet, running the JVM directly on the OS, and ran basic autos
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by mabbo 5y ago
I used to be like this as well. Vacations of less than 5 days were meaningless because it took me that long to stop thinking about work! But I managed to un-learn this habit. I work 9:30 to 5:30. I turn off my work brain outside of that. It
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by mabbo 5y ago
There's a Christmas every year. A major telescope launch is apparently once a generation.
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by mabbo 5y ago
I say it in the third person, but I actually joined Shopify in October. Development can be done locally, or it can be done via on-demand containers in the cloud with the IDE loading the code over a remote mount of the containers filesystem.
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by mabbo 5y ago
It's developed at Shopify, where every developer in the company was handed a new M1 this month. I presume it will support ARM based chips pretty quickly.
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by mabbo 5y ago
The reality is the Americans footed most of the bill. That gives them certain authority. Even as a member of a highly involved country (Canada) I can acknowledge that on this road trip, they're the driver of the vehicle and they get to
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by mabbo 5y ago
Hard part is done- now for the really scary part. Hundreds of deployment steps will follow. Each one has to go perfectly. If it doesn't, the JWST fails and tens of billions of dollars and 30 years wasted (by some definition of 'wa
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by mabbo 5y ago
I have a simple rule for shared libraries: only write them for things that are hard. Specialized algorithms; time/date calculations; complex custom business logic shared across the company; code generation libraries that generate code

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