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by manicennui 3y ago
While I fully support more craft being sent out of the solar system, we are making some mind blowing discoveries in the solar system itself. I recommend watching a good video (or article with images) about what we discovered with Cassini.
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by manicennui 3y ago
There are many, many unmanned missions happening now making amazing discoveries. Cassini was nothing short of mind blowing. I'm somewhat sympathetic to your claims, and I wish more people were intellectually curious, but there are very
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by manicennui 3y ago
This entire concept is wild to me as someone who is incredibly ignorant about space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere#Heliopause
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by manicennui 3y ago
I was curious how Voyager 1 is powered. The answer is radioisotope thermoelectric generators (nuclear batteries): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge... Seems we believe that they will last unt
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by manicennui 3y ago
You are either being disingenuous or incredibly oblivious. People want to know what our elected officials are saying in private with lobbyists and campaign contributors.
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by manicennui 3y ago
It's curious how these problems are highly correlated with the police doing questionable shit.
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by manicennui 3y ago
"Broadcom has moved forward with plans to transition VMware, a virtualization and cloud computing company, into a subscription-based business. As of December 11, it no longer sells perpetual licenses with VMware products. VMware, whose
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Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales(arstechnica.com)
3 points by manicennui 3y ago|2 comments
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SQL Murder Mystery(mystery.knightlab.com)
1 points by manicennui 3y ago|1 comments
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by manicennui 3y ago
“ There's been a Murder in SQL City! The SQL Murder Mystery is designed to be both a self-directed lesson to learn SQL concepts and commands and a fun game for experienced SQL users to solve an intriguing crime.”
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by manicennui 3y ago
"LoveByte’s Tiny Code Christmas is an event to help you take your first steps in demoscene sizecoding with Lua based fantasy consoles like TIC-80 and PICO-8! Over 12 days, from the 11th to the 22nd of December, learn the effects and te
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Tiny Code Christmas(tcc.lovebyte.party)
3 points by manicennui 3y ago|1 comments
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by manicennui 3y ago
A large number of CS programs are already glorified Java training courses.
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by manicennui 3y ago
Trying random things seems to be how a large number of professional software engineers do their jobs. Stack Overflow and now CodeGPT seem to contribute to this.
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Researchers have identified new elements of whale vocalizations(vice.com)
127 points by manicennui 3y ago|78 comments
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Live Mouse Tracker(livemousetracker.org)
1 points by manicennui 3y ago|0 comments
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by manicennui 3y ago
No, it is terrible. Most instant coffee is better. National fast food coffee is better at this point. Good coffee is worlds better.
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by manicennui 3y ago
FYI, you should just assume that plastic isn't being recycled, even if you put it in the recycling bin.
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by manicennui 3y ago
There are drip machines that will make one cup and even if you had the roaster grind the beans for you, it would probably be far, far better than anything you can get for a Keurig.
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by manicennui 3y ago
And how many non-technical users do you know who do this?
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by manicennui 3y ago
The difference is that most people don't write their business logic in a single flat function in most programming languages, and there is a good chance that individual pieces would have tests.
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Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?(aphyr.com)
469 points by manicennui 3y ago|259 comments
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by manicennui 3y ago
I think a lot of people might be missing this part: "Modular inputs - it’s also modular in the sense that we can add inputs (via cartridges we call 'pods') to add all old and new and future display inputs: RGB, composite, SCA
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Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor(checkmate1500plus.com)
67 points by manicennui 3y ago|59 comments
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Broadcom CEO tells VMware workers to 'get butt back to office'(fortune.com)
3 points by manicennui 3y ago|0 comments
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Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better(indianexpress.com)
8 points by manicennui 3y ago|7 comments
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Broadcom cuts at least 2,800 VMware jobs following $69B acquisition(arstechnica.com)
2 points by manicennui 3y ago|0 comments
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by manicennui 3y ago
Comments like this make it difficult to take the HN community seriously.
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by manicennui 3y ago
Not using something more intuitive than cron's schedule format seems like a missed opportunity.
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by manicennui 3y ago
I have never had to do anything like this, and I have never applied to more than a few companies before receiving an offer except during the dotcom crash. Even then it wasn't dozens of companies.

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