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Astronomers Discover Third Galaxy Without Dark Matter(keckobservatory.org)
8 points by mr_mitm 4mo ago|5 comments
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
After an injury, you may want to get an MRI to help you recover and determine best course of action. If an MRI cost a million dollars, or a single MRI scan took an entire day (which means every machine within driving distance will be booked
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
I'd like to push back on that comparison. At least unlike Weinstein, Wolfram produced a genuinely impressive and useful piece of software, which empowers scientists and students worldwide. While his physics work is a little questionabl
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
Most, if not all of these are just syntactic sugar. You can simply write `#heading()` instead. Although I'm not sure if there is an equivalent in math mode.
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
Have you tried showing Claude your output, or simply telling it to look at the PNG output? Together with some design or frontend skill you should get reasonable results.
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
You can pass a JSON structure to a Typst document and render it however you like. No need for a templating engine or anything like that. Pandoc probably uses latex under the hood, and Typst is order of magnitudes faster. Also, much better e
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
Thanks for your insight, much appreciated! However, regarding this: > Much like operator overloading in other languages, catcode changes in TeX can indeed be misused and are sometimes confusing, but they're also a pretty useful solu
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
Using LaTeX is mostly fine, except for the endless compile times, useless error messages, lack of unicode, etc. like the GP said. I'm maintaining an internally used LaTeX document class and the development experience is even worse. TeX
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
My understanding is that ffmpeg is probably incredibly close to the metal, with tons of assembler mixed in. I imagine doing the same in Rust would include lots of `unsafe` blocks and a similar amount of assembly, so it wouldn't change
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
Why are we still focusing on docx so much? Is anybody printing these at all? If not, I have to assume people are putting information in a big free text field, arranging the text like they sit at a type writer, and then other people have to
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
I've been playing around with declarative container configurations: https://github.com/AdrianVollmer/ContainerConductor (It's not ready, don't use it!) It will always introduce friction, though. Modern s
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
This comes up often, particularly on Reddit, and I don't think we're doing us any favors by counting it as social media. It has a few substantial differences to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, et al: - The focus isn't o
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
You contribute to the stress-energy tensor by having mass or energy. That directly influences spacetime curvature. The Einstein field equations tell you how precisely. If that answer doesn't satisfy you, I'm afraid that's all
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
Same way you bend space. In GR, time is just another dimension of a slightly different flavor.
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
AFAIK uv installs python packages only. This fetches and runs binaries from Github.
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
Ghosts are also a thing in quantum field theory
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by mr_mitm 4mo ago
It's a hard problem. How do you prove you own an account if you lost all proof of ownership? Especially so if an account was never tied to your real name, in which case you could at least rely on government ids.
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by mr_mitm 5mo ago
Gambling creates addicts, and addicts are more likely to act in desperation. They might steal, default on debt, or kill themselves and are less productive members of society. I bet societies with lots of addicts are much less likely to thri
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by mr_mitm 5mo ago
That's literally the plot of the first act of Casino Royale. I'm just now realizing the irony of the title.
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by mr_mitm 5mo ago
You probably mean the Solvay conference. I just wanted to append this link to your comment: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/So... It really is a remarkable picture, but I&#
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by mr_mitm 5mo ago
We should specify which subscription plan we are talking about. You seem to be talking about the Anthropic Claude Max plan. I think it's consensus that these flat rate type of subscriptions are loss leaders, as they come with restricti
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by mr_mitm 5mo ago
As a German, metal umlauts look so confusing
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by mr_mitm 5mo ago
Interesting that they only have one rule in common with the predecessor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95
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by mr_mitm 5mo ago
Who in their right mind bets on bug bounties to cover their basic needs? They should be highly employable with these kind of skills.
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by mr_mitm 5mo ago
How would that leave them homeless?
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by mr_mitm 5mo ago
You wouldn't spell out URL, SSH or HTTPS on hacker news either. I understand it's frustrating, but you can't accommodate everyone.
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by mr_mitm 5mo ago
The concepts of rest mass and relativistic mass are considered outdated. In modern physics, "mass" means what they meant by "rest mass". Here some indication I'm not making this up: https://hsm.stackexcha
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by mr_mitm 5mo ago
Mass is not the same as energy. Mass can be converted to energy or has energy, but a photon, for example, is massless while carrying energy.
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by mr_mitm 5mo ago
It's a non profit publication according to their about page, but my understanding is that the Simons foundation has deep pockets.
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by mr_mitm 5mo ago
Yes, there is no law of conservation for mass like there is for energy. Fusion is a good example for why it's not conserved. The teacher was right.

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