miteyironpaw

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by miteyironpaw 1y ago
Yeah someone who is 40, comes out at roughly 82 which I thought was close enough. Also it is funny to enter famous old people's birthdays and see "110% complete".
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by miteyironpaw 1y ago
Yeah I figured that 80 was a pretty good approximation because the average life expectancy in the US is 77. It surprisingly doesn't increase as much I would have expected as you age so I didn't account for that effect.
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by miteyironpaw 1y ago
If you would like a little more existential dread https://ttl.hex.nz/
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by miteyironpaw 3y ago
There's an old xkcd comic related to this https://xkcd.com/191/
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by miteyironpaw 3y ago
1999 even! Here's a wayback machine capture from Nov 1999 with the current theme https://web.archive.org/web/19991117022152/http://slackware.... Honestly a really good theme that's stuck around
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by miteyironpaw 3y ago
Also at this speed a space ship a 100 m wide viewed from earth would appear to be 0.3125 nm wide or roughly size of a single water molecule. It would certainly be a way to travel! note: not a physicist so my understanding may be off.
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by miteyironpaw 4y ago
An oversimplified explanation is that AC has less transmission losses over medium distances while high voltage DC has less transmission losses over extremely long distances. I found this stack-exchange post that goes into some of the detail
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by miteyironpaw 4y ago
Looks like it's reporting a negative Celsius value when it should be positive and Fahrenheit.
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by miteyironpaw 5y ago
Isn't spam filtering a large part of what these clichés are used for, or at least what the people using them think they're for? e.g. "That's just your opinion." "Now is not the time." "Here we go agai
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by miteyironpaw 6y ago
That's how I feel too although it's the hardest category for me to judge objectively
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by miteyironpaw 6y ago
Quite often ISPs chuck you behind a NAT now which makes things harder.
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by miteyironpaw 6y ago
I run an instance of Selfoss. I found this thread because selfoss polls hackernews via https://hnrss.org/frontpage?count=1