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by nsilvestri 6y ago
LSST/Vera is probably the project most impacted by these satellites. Per my contacts, smaller scopes like LBT/Keck/MMT aren't as drastically affected yet. But if we start approaching 100k+ satellites, even they will be h
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
> Image sensing devices can use knowledge of satellite orbits to suppress reading a particular pixel at particular time if a satellite is expected to shine towards that pixel This is functionally the same, but a less flexible technique,
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
In a recent interview on the H3 Podcast Andrew, the man behind AGNB, said (paraphrasing) that the crazy people find the camera. Something attracts them to it.
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
I'm sure you don't have to look too far to find someone who believes all software should be free (and open source).
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
Iteration speed is momentum. Waiting multiple minutes for code to compile or an environment to boot up kills the momentum, and it takes time to recollect the 7 +/- 2 things I was holding in my brain.
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
The calories we tend to think of aren't the same as the calories that we think we know. In regards to energy intake and eating food, a calorie is actually a kilocalorie. So your 10,000 calories to ride a kilometer is actually 10 kcal.
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
You do , which is why it ends up being easier to attack kings in the past. Because you can't change the past, only create new timelines, attacking a king from any previous board state means that the attacking piece must be captured.
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
Outer Wilds does the whole "puzzle game without feeling like one" better than any other game I know.
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
I am on the older end of Gen Z and have noticed the opposite. Snap was cool from 2014 until 2019 but now Insta has a slight edge. I still use both but it varies by whom I'm talking to: some friends I talk to on Snap and some I do on In
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
Instagram didn't "win out" against Facebook. They fulfill two different roles with a few duplicated features.
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
I might generally agree, but there are some very cool applications of this feature. The rhythm game Rhythm Doctor moves the window in sync with the music. [1] Surprisingly it even worked on i3wm via Wine. I would be sad if similar things co
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
I think it's heavily dependent on the company and the employee and that blanket statements about it oversimplify the issue. Full-remote companies like GitLab seem to have an effective remote-work culture, while others seem to be strugg
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
LSD is not associated with major organized crime groups like cartels. It tends to be manufactured domestically in the Pacific Northwest and in semi-rural locations across the US.
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
Not that I necessarily disagree with the conclusion, but your argument would suggest that anyone using antidepressants or other medications in order to function "normally" aren't experiencing real emotion.
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
You absolutely can drop those frames. Exoplanetary transits are generally in the range of 1 to 4 hours, and hundreds of exposures may be taken in that time. In my undergraduate I studied astronomy and some of my classmates did an exoplanet
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
Exposures are generally taken frequently enough that any that would be problematic for data can simply be dropped. The satellites aren't permanently positioned in the sky. Geostationary satellites permanently lose any data behind them
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
I suppose they could have known by using a tool such as the one linked in this post.
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
I used to disagree with this before realizing that I cared more about them being changed than I cared about the words in the first place. I don't care what the words are. This is a smaller change than learning a new JS framework, and I
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
The desktop wiki feature is awful, but it's awful in the same way that any of the pseudo-markdown for setting in teams is awful. The WYSIWYG editor constantly doesn't recognize backtick monospace formatting, or is overzealous in h
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
Although regular WFH and pandemic WFH are functionally the same, being forced to work remote has a different effect on me than elective remote work. As someone who prefers working in the office, mandatory indefinite WFH is much more...menta
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
I needed to read this. Just today I realized today that my ego was distracting me from learning and being effective at my job. I am a new dev, <1 yr experience, and I've often found myself not reaching out for help when I need it. F
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
It's not like that's not already possible. Any person who would want to do that could already easily get their hands on it.
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
Working on high resolution monitors allows me to do LLRR splits. Also the couple second I save from not moving my mouse I think is a worthwhile tradeoff. i3wm's floating mode doesn't really make me _lose_ anything, either. All ups
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
As someone who has taken part in DC protests, we were gassed, pepper sprayed, stun grenaded, and shot with pellets in order for the president to take a photo at a church. It is incredibly naïve and downright incorrect to suggest that the po
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
The one officer who was immediately involved has been charged; the other three have not. However this case is more of the straw that broke the camel's back. It's freshest in our minds and is the face of the protests, but as a whol
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
The _votes_ aren't manipulated though. The content is exactly the same even if the person "stole" it. It's immoral and scummy, certainly, but I wouldn't consider it vote manipulation by my definition.
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
I've never been approached about marketing once, but I am not prolific like other users. I imagine you have to be in the top 100 or 1000 users in order to get those sorts of offers. The closest I've experienced was when I organica
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
I'm distinguishing it between the "intended" way of using the site by making posts and then the community organically votes on it, and some unintended "manipulated" way where content is artificially voted upon or ot
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
It's just a game to try and get a higher score. Like HN points, karma doesn't actually get you any special benefits.
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by nsilvestri 6y ago
Purely psychological. The most I've gotten out of it is that I've been active in a community for people with 100k+ karma for over 6 years, now, so I have some digital social ties that I'm grateful for.

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