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by nickhalfasleep 5y ago
I wonder if this counts as the first resource extraction beyond earth? Many samples have been taken and returned by people and machines.
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by nickhalfasleep 6y ago
Imagine if we held a war, and nobody could afford to come?
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by nickhalfasleep 6y ago
This is an arms race to keep control of their browser market share.
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by nickhalfasleep 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobsen_v._Katzer involved GPL code.
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by nickhalfasleep 6y ago
It's clear the winner here is not the citizens of Great Britain, but of those who use London as a secret store of their unusual wealth, which now escapes EU oversight.
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by nickhalfasleep 6y ago
Ski traffic to Denver.
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by nickhalfasleep 6y ago
Absolutely nothing about fraud in these. Interesting, considering who or what would validate that these actions are occurring in front of an actual user.
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by nickhalfasleep 6y ago
From time to time, he would answer questions on Twitter. Once someone asked him “What did you think of the (German fighter jet) Me-262 the first time you saw it?” His response: “The first time I saw an Me-262, I shot it down.” A fast eye an
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by nickhalfasleep 6y ago
The Titanic split into two parts too on the way down.
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by nickhalfasleep 6y ago
What is interesting is that you may not get the same habitat you started out with. The current forest may be what is overgrown for over a hundred years. What grows well after a fire might be different trees that thrive in the current climat
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by nickhalfasleep 6y ago
I went back, got a "Your AntiVirus is out of date" ad next.
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by nickhalfasleep 6y ago
Could also have been brought to the upper atmosphere by a piece of earth blown off earlier. Would be epic to find it might even be shared earth DNA-based life. But it's most likely just unusual high temperature processes in the Venusia
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by nickhalfasleep 6y ago
It's incredibly complex and has exceptional engineering challenges to make work. That much cryogenic hydrogen and massive temperature differences is as the limit of engineering possibilities.
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by nickhalfasleep 6y ago
If Microsoft is smart, they will continue to support large productivity applications in major industries that don't fit into an app store model. The kinds of things that work better on a full Windows 10 machine.
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by nickhalfasleep 6y ago
0K implies no Brownian motion at all (no thermal energy), so there would be no force to keep the molecules apart.
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
Anything nano-size needs nano-power. Solar panels? Chemical batteries? Small nuclear plant? In the end, thermodynamics saves us from grey goo. And if you try to co-opt a biological process for fuel, say ATP, then your nano-bot is a tasty tr
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
I wonder if contactless will also gain favor as being less likely to spread disease. If you just wave the authentication device, it is less likely to communicate surface contamination.
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
The day they provide this, is the day they are clearly signalling the end of macos.
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
Or an app that provides a link to a remotely hosted desktop or mobile environment to surf / run apps from.
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
Some men just want to see the ABI Burn. I think there are many compelling arguments to "living at head" and committing to breaking backwards compatibility. If it means making many base constructs of the language as performant as
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
Sounds like a good way for criminals to find illegal grow ops.
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
I was camping with my father above Tuolumne Meadows near Yosemite in 1986. We just had sleeping bags, no tent. As we bed down for the night, four tiny black diamonds silently flew overhead to the west. Absolutely creepy to see things so abs
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
The worst part of this, the realization that the K-T boundary was the fallout of a nuclear exchange.
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
I wonder if you might find evidence in near-earth orbits. Would a geosynchronous satellite stay in place after 400 m.y.a? Or a descent stage of a moon lander, perforated by impacts, from a Troodon?
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
No mention of Power-over-ethernet?
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
I have this setup for my parents to allow them to print to their chromebooks. This will be annoying as heck to replace.
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
I hope the Piql polyester film material is good at binding flint knapped stones to spear shafts. Could be an agile pivot for descendants in a thousand years.
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
I wonder how much fuel and maintenance could be saved on airliners if airports had giant electro-magnetic catapults like naval carriers to accelerate and launch aircraft without consuming as much fuel at high power.
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
Remember that CCT color temp (K) is about the equivalent ideal blackbody radiator. Think "white hot"
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by nickhalfasleep 7y ago
In dual-motor (front, rear) Tesla vehicles, each motor is on a different gear ratio for optimal power bands.

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