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by mrb 8mo ago
I dislike with passion the answer "because Rayleigh scattering". When someone asks why, especially if a child asks, the default answer should be the simplest correct answer : Because it's the color of the atmosphere, specifi
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by mrb 8mo ago
Ok that makes sense, thanks for the reply! Maybe document this "percent or so" error in the FAQ since it is about 16 times bigger than the (other?) ~0.0685% error you mention that can be caused by the AEQD reprojections.
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by mrb 8mo ago
Reply to my edit #2: I realize the "To" point 41.0181,77.6708 is just the coordinate of the center of the 1°-wide horizon line. The actual farthest visible point according to your analysis is probably this peak in the west half of
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by mrb 8mo ago
For a 3D rendering of the longest sightline, see this direct panorama rendering: https://www.udeuschle.de/panoramas/panqueryfull.aspx?mode=ne... Note that technically my link is a slightly longer sightline (longer by 7
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by mrb 8mo ago
Hi Tom it's Marc, I'm glad to see you finished your sightline project ! Any clue why you report the longest sightline as "530.8 km" when it seems to be actually 538.1 km? That's what my code calculated ( https:&#x2F
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by mrb 8mo ago
Whenever this discussion comes up I liked to point out that even in the computer industry, prefixes like kilo/mega/etc more often mean a power of 10 than a power of 2: I gave some examples in my post https://blog.zorin
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by mrb 9mo ago
Nothing was unnecessary since the goal was having fun & learning.
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by mrb 9mo ago
Very impressive build! It's amazing what one can do thanks to CNC and FLPCB manufacturing services readily available to any motivated hacker. One tip for the author who noticed the camera being warm: measure its power consumption, and
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by mrb 9mo ago
"pushing 996" What does this mean? You mean they have close to 1k employees? Odd typo or odd way to say it.
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by mrb 9mo ago
Tx fees make up a bigger and bigger fraction of miner rewards over time.
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by mrb 9mo ago
"Bitcoin's security inevitably weakens over the coming years due to diminishing miner rewards (denominated in BTC)" That's incorrect. Security scales with USD-denominated rewards, not BTC-denominated. And there are 16
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by mrb 10mo ago
"On the subway, I'm missing a lot of my normal setup [...] I don't even have an internet connection " There is no cellular data in the NYC subway? I had to look it up online and apparently there is but coverage is quite
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by mrb 10mo ago
Thanks for this CDC link! So the pedestrian death rate and the overall road traffic death rate is about three times higher in the US compared to other high-income countries... Mind-boggling.
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by mrb 10mo ago
Only way to change that it to shame them for it: "Cloudflare is so incompetent at detecting and managing outages that even their simple status page is unable to be accurate" If enough high-ranked customers report this feedback...
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by mrb 10mo ago
That's awesome, and impressive you were able to build that. As an angel investor, my first question would be: how do you deal with financial fraud? Like users exploiting your app for money laundering via donations then spending... Any
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by mrb 10mo ago
" Yet, EU vehicle safety regulations have supported a 36% reduction in European road deaths since 2010. By contrast, road deaths in the US over the same period increased 30% " I thought this stark difference might be partially exp
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by mrb 10mo ago
"I was 8.5W over" As I suspected :-) Also note that by measuring "36W POE consumption" you are excluding the AC-DC conversion losses from the switch's PSU which further makes the comparison a bit unfair. IOW your
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by mrb 10mo ago
" the NAS in idle consumes more power than my UNAS Pro with 4x8TB HDD and 2X8TB SSD, as well as a Mac mini M1 with a 2TB Samsung T7 SSD, and my 4 access points and 4 protect cameras combined. " I know that's not true. I say t
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by mrb 11mo ago
Yup. That's exactly what experts said of American Airlines flight 191 which was basically the same engine mount, same failure. Engine flipping over the wing.
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by mrb 11mo ago
Unpopular opinion: the real source of the problem is not scrapers, but your unoptimized web software. Gitea and Fail2ban are resource hogs in your case, either unoptimized or poorly configured. My tiny personal web servers can whistand thou
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by mrb 11mo ago
A funny coincidence is that the solar system was formed 4.6 billion years ago which is exactly when the universe's rate of expansion peaked according to figure 3. If you want to believe in an intelligent creator—not that I do—it's
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by mrb 11mo ago
Another thing my dad demonstrated to me a few weeks ago: you can grab a nettle by the base, move your hand upward, and as the nettle is sliding through your closed hand, it won't sting at all. This is because the sting cells are orient
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by mrb 11mo ago
What an extremely confusing blog post! I don't understand why it seemingly presents profiles as a new feature? Firefox has had profiles for years. What the heck is new? I had to click the other link https://support.mozilla.o
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by mrb 11mo ago
Oh woah, very insightful discussion thread you found there. So the tl'dr is: the leading very preliminary theory is that the MD-11's left engine fell off the wing just like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ
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by mrb 11mo ago
They should match the acronym and call it No Evil Systems Tolerated, or No Evil, Sane Tech firmware (N.E.S.T)
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by mrb 1y ago
It doesn't take $100 to transfer. Fees are currently around $1. You are off by a factor 100! Also, Bitcoin can process far more than 7 tps through the Lighting network. I wonder where your misconceptions come from?
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by mrb 1y ago
I agree that if the goal is to be educational, it's an excellent interesting project. But there is no need to make dishonest claims on their web page like " the software performance is far below the speed of wire "
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by mrb 1y ago
You are right. It's amusing how this pattern emerges often: an unoptimized tech stack gives mild performance results. This is "good enough" for most people. Over the years everyone seems to assume that's just the way it
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by mrb 1y ago
I can't think of a scenario where this is useful. They claim " Full-throttle, wire-speed hardware implementation of Wireguard VPN " but then go on implementing this on a board with a puny set of four 1 Gbps ports... The stand
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by mrb 1y ago
It'd be a pleasure to chat about this! Hit me up by email: m at zorinaq dot com Actually, to be exact: I just checked my data and I forgot that technically the 2nd and 3rd longest sightlines I discovered are slight variations of the Pi

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