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by nsilvestri 7y ago
But satellite collisions can, and indeed already have, happened: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision
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by nsilvestri 7y ago
The Galilean moons are hard to see with the naked eye because the light from Jupiter is overwhelming. It is much easier if you use a distant object like a lightpost to just barely block out Jupiter.
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by nsilvestri 7y ago
"we won't hire him because he will reveal sensitive data if we don't pay him"
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by nsilvestri 7y ago
In order to compete, I think it's important that there is some way to import existing data from competitors (read: Google). I would like to switch to try it out, but I don't want to spend several hours uploading or manually enteri
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by nsilvestri 7y ago
We only really need to send telescopes to space for observing the wavelengths that are otherwise absorbed by the atmosphere. Adaptive optics are almost unbelievably effective at cutting out the interference that the Hubble telescope is prac
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by nsilvestri 7y ago
It's this; I'm guilty of doing it, and I believe there is a comment from /u/GallowBoob of him admitting it, but I can't find it. Sometimes a post just doesn't take off simply by bad luck, and it's easier t
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by nsilvestri 7y ago
To preface: I have over 650,000 reddit karma, mostly collected from 2014-2017. Roughly 150,000 of this is from posts, the rest comments. I completely agree that mods can push their own agenda about their subreddits; they have almost complet
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by nsilvestri 7y ago
Kubuntu -> Manjaro KDE was a transition I made when I was still distro-hopping. I used Octopi as a pacman GUI which was super easy to use compared to Kubuntu's. Now that I've learned how to use pacman, I've still never had
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by nsilvestri 7y ago
Google is an ad company that profits off of users' personal information. Mozilla has demonstrated itself to be privacy oriented. HN users are generally privacy oriented. It's not surprising there is a big push to use Firefox, espe
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by nsilvestri 7y ago
Services like http://nova.astrometry.net/ provide celestial location data of any image of the night sky. Plug the image into it and check that it is indeed Vega.
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by nsilvestri 7y ago
The attention switching idea seems consistent with my own experiences. I dated a girl with pretty severe ADHD; whenever she watched Arrested Development (a very fast paced sitcom with a lot happening) she would turn into a zombie and be alm
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by nsilvestri 7y ago
A misconception probably due to an overestimation of how far away space really is; the ISS only orbits at roughly 240 +/- 30 miles, and the (admittedly arbitrary) boundary of space is at 60 mi (100 km).
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by nsilvestri 8y ago
> trading off performance (user productivity) for flexibility (developer productivity) Is this not something that can be helped with more advanced compilers?
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by nsilvestri 8y ago
If you're already familiar with vim, I've heard good things about Spacemacs: http://spacemacs.org/
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by nsilvestri 8y ago
I moved from 2x 23" 1080p monitors to a 32" 4k monitor with 100% scaling, and vastly prefer the 4k monitor. I have effectively quadruple the screen space, but with the option of extra vertical real estate without the visual barrie
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by nsilvestri 8y ago
Checking whether a cube is valid is effectively a random-state generator; i.e. it randomly chooses one of the 43 quintillion possible states. Generating random moves biases towards certain scrambles. This is why the World Cube Association g