martinclayton

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   by martinclayton 3y ago

   The piece seemed a bit wooly to me. This bit caused a little twinge of pain: Signals from such a transmitter placed on a planet spinning around a foreign star would drift in time when observed from Earth, "the same as when an ambulanc
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   by martinclayton 3y ago

   Front and rear lights seem to have diverged in design recently. They don’t look similar at all when illuminated. It gives some sort of character to the otherwise sameness. To me, half of them look like Angry Birds. Presumably replacing th
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   by martinclayton 3y ago

   Indeed! Carry burn about 4% per hour a pilot friend mentioned last week. Flying is more like space flight than driving in this respect.
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   by martinclayton 3y ago

   Bottom end of the range: 10^7Kg per year would be about 27.5 tonnes per day. The article references another piece[1] where they quote 54t per day, a similar number. There's then an estimate made of how much of that is Aluminium - 1%. I
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   by martinclayton 3y ago

   This topic has come up a few times before. Most commented thread was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17384177
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   by martinclayton 3y ago

   It's a fantastic project - I wish it and you every success!
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   by martinclayton 3y ago

   I'd guess the Reg got SKAMPI from the page they link to on the SKAO's own website, dated 24th Jan. this year: https://www.skao.int/en/news/512/ska-mid-prototype-dish-crea... No idea where the the Do
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   by martinclayton 3y ago

   Used this for a camera project in 1992-3. We had a 16MB machine and our images were 14MB, so we couldn't squeeze in to Windows 3.1. Worked a treat, and was much easier to work in the flat memory space it offered IIRC.
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   by martinclayton 3y ago

   Dated WBM link to the Clay Shirky blog post in the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20051129091414/http://www.shirky... Must have been taken down from shirky.com since so WBM's last capture is a
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    Missed it, darn.
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    I think the timeline and price tag are overly optimistic, but agree we can expect massive benefits from the lift capability of Starship. The cheapest big telescopes I could find with a quick trawl are the Hobby–Eberly Telescope and its &quo
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    Not new, but interesting to me. I didn't know Adam Curtis is (or at least was) a BBC employee. In the interview it says HyperNormalisation cost £32,000 (Wikipedia say $80,000...) which, what ever you might think of it, seems remarkably
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    https://archive.is/symyO
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    http://archive.today/pojZq
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    http://archive.today/TqkYR
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    https://archive.is/nzu39
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    Might work: https://nitter.poast.org/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Apaulg+sinc...
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    Starship from Florida(youtube.com)

    2 points by martinclayton 3y ago|0 comments
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    I fear an AI narrating my life would be less Attenborough and more Sir Robin's minstrels in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    Agreed. I'm on macOS, recently migrated from Outlook, no problems. I moved local folders over one-by-one; a slight chore, and lost a few messages, but single figures out of thousands.
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    Seems Jim Lovell is now the oldest living Apollo astronaut. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    Same here. I have no trouble "closing the laptop", but I can't stop my mind from problem solving. Fortunately for me I don't have any of the "soft" concerns you mention. The practical side is clear: close the
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    Thanks for that. Interesting serendipity: Samuel Goudsmit, a co-proposer of the idea of electron spin, was scientific leader of Operation Epsilon, which captured the Farm Hall detainees.
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    I used to work for Starlink. The one that was good for astronomy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_Project
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    Folly in the Darien led to the loss of Scottish independence. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    https://archive.ph/LOd6K
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    Our release tool is called "Roderick", as-in the Monty Python "Life of Brian" sketch. TBH I don't think about the Roman Empire much apart from that, I mean, what did they ever do for us?
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    And polarimetry!
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    If these events associate with solar motion through the local interstellar cloud perhaps the onset will take a while, and that will allow for some mitigations to be made, even if there is no way to predict when that might happen. ... what i
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    by martinclayton 3y ago

    I have two ... things ... I don't know if this type of phrase has a technical name. my minute newt my migrating grating The first one is minute as in very small. The second one the grating referred to a noun (as in diffraction grating)