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by mturmon 7y ago
Here is a movie of automatically-identified active regions covering 1996, as a comparative: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/data/mdi/mdi-tarp/mdi-browse/ql-mta... This movie was made from the science data produ
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What a nice article, that touches on a couple of issues in solar physics: o Because you have a big object, and a lot of photons, it's possible for amateur or less-equipped astronomers/departments to make a significant contributio
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I think part of the point is that the clock does not determine when we can start to relax quarantine, it's our readiness/ability to detect and tamp down breakouts.
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That agents of President Nixon kidnapped and beat the wife of one of his cronies to silence her seems unbelievable, but it's true. E.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mitchell#June_1972_kidn... This was al
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by mturmon 7y ago
The helicopter was very controversial, because it’s a technology demo, and adds mass and risk to the overall mission without addressing its science goals. It was on the edge of being descoped for a long time.
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The logogram in OP suppresses Google’s four colors, and so did the one on Google’s blog: https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/appl... Also, the Apple logo is first. I wonder how this was decide
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The stone houses are cold in the Northeast, and the brick or stone ones fall down in earthquakes in the West.
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by mturmon 7y ago
In general, any thermally-conducting path from outside to inside will reduce the insulating value of the wall by a lot . The standard framing method used in American houses is described in basic terms here: https://en.wikipedia
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by mturmon 7y ago
I love your description, but want to add one heresy. I use a microwave to heat the water. Where I live, my tap water is a pretty consistent temperature, so I can use a consistent time on the microwave to hit the right sub-boiling temp eve
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by mturmon 7y ago
I think the argument is that it's possible for a kid browsing to, in a succession of clicks, go from (for example) a surfing website to something they really shouldn't be looking at. These clicks may be naive curiosity on the par
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by mturmon 7y ago
I wonder if the Zoom TOS allows them to monetize this kind of conversation in any way?
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by mturmon 7y ago
A used Aeron for in the neighborhood of $400 might work. Assuming you’ll continue to use it, this really is a “hurts once when you buy it, rather than a little every time you use it” thing.
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by mturmon 7y ago
OMG. I hadn’t read Right Ho, Jeeves in ten years and it’s perfect for today. Beautiful clean interface and I have not noticed any typos so far. Kudos.
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If one’s actual goal is to make oddball statements that lead into mazes of self-conscious, hyper-rational explication of minutia, then the ranking served its purpose.
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Consider brevity. Consider staying with the matter at hand. You have diverted the question to “maximizing happiness for all humans”. This is substituting the original bounded problem (“which of these finite candidates do I support in 2020
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by mturmon 7y ago
> ...here's my current ranking of the candidates: 1. Sanders 2. Trump 3. Biden (well, more like 999. Biden)... > ...literally can't fathom the idea that a person could hold my stance... I'm not blinded by rage, but thes
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by mturmon 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename
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Isaac Asimov is another.
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> To say IV users and gay men were "generally deemed to be sinners" who didn't deserve to be cured is a vast exaggeration. Certainly there were and are people who think this way, but the general population, both lay and me
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by mturmon 7y ago
I think the author is only interested in the box model that TeX uses insofar as it influenced the typeface design. He’s contrasting TeX’s “box and glue” setup with the rigid matrix design needed by Monotype faces, and the much more express
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An analogy is a literary device, but not all literary devices are analogies.
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Smartest comment so far in the thread. The issue of cloud egress has been known and worked at NASA for a decade now, and the article treats it like an OMG moment. Historically, data have been stored and processed on-premise but NASA has be
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by mturmon 7y ago
The Supreme Court has suspended sessions that have oral arguments, starting today: https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/press/pressreleases/... “The Court’s postponement of argument sessions in light of pu
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by mturmon 7y ago
Relatedly, the Supreme Court has suspended sessions that have oral arguments, starting today: https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/press/pressreleases/... “The Court’s postponement of argument sessions in
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by mturmon 7y ago
I first met eqn in the mid 1980s. It was amazing that you could write pretty complex math with just a few special literals like “sup” and “sum”, and the braces. It turns out that compositionality is so strong in math that it’s most of wh
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> ... mostly use it to clean parts ... Yep. I just used some to clean shipping grease from a cast iron table of a machine tool. Worked great, and less volatile than paint thinner/mineral spirits.
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That's exactly the kind of rule system I had in mind, and it seems like it would fit into the scheme of the OP. Thanks.
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This is fun to see on HN, which has shown a (justifiable) affection for L-systems. I wonder if an example that is closer to the original root of L-systems (biological/botanical shapes, like trees) would be a nice addition the the initi
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Here's the way I try to relate postmodernism to people familiar with CS. The relation "means" or "signifies" is a predicate taking 3 arguments: a source-text term, a conceptual definition, and an interpreter. That
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The Bush administration did let the mission in Afghanistan creep from crippling al Qaeda, to reconstructing Afghan society so that al Qaeda could not return. This is what pulled us in to trying to dismantle the Taliban as well. Remember t

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