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by nuccy 4y ago
Technically the comparison is not totally fair, that Hubble image was taken in visible light, while Webb's in infrared. Dust blocks visible light stronger, so background stars are effectively hidden from Hubble, but not from Webb. Here
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by nuccy 4y ago
There was/is also a BBC TV show from late 90s about a "spacecraft" of the same name[1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquila_(TV_series)
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by nuccy 4y ago
Funny inconsistency indeed. Muon is ~206 times heavier than electron... and it is also unstable :)
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by nuccy 4y ago
Webb resolution is about 0.1 arc-seconds (wavelength dependent) [1]. Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) resolution is about 25 micro arc-seconds (wavelength dependent) [2]. So roughly speaking, since you cannot really compare the two, since they
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by nuccy 4y ago
The galactic center image won't be as fancy, unfortunately. Resolution of Webb is far-far-far too low to see anything related to the black hole, the best we could do is enhance the view of the stars near Sgr A* [1]. 1. https:/&#x
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by nuccy 4y ago
To generate soft x-rays/UV you don't really need an accelerator, since high voltage (not that high actually, since required kilovolts can easily be achieved) is enough to produce photons of those energies. Vaporization you mention
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by nuccy 4y ago
Thanks for answering. Since you mentioned your work on text-to-3d, what are the ways to enhance the image/3d model to actually be photo-(or rather reality)-realistic? Even (presumably) hand-picked examples from google on the linked pag
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by nuccy 4y ago
This aircraft was flying using the Coandă effect [1] (also see video [2] at 1:38), it was aerodynamically unstable and required active control. It was definitely ahead of its time. It would be great if some of those "crazy 40s-60s conc
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by nuccy 4y ago
Table 3 in [1] seems to suggest that there are many other places (some in Europe/EU/NATO) where company tax is lower than 20%. From the blog post it seems author moves for the attitude rather. 1. https://taxfoundation.o
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by nuccy 4y ago
I frequently hear about "startup-favourable climate" in Estonia, but how good it really is and at what stage. A good analogy may be tourism. When you come as a tourist to a village in a middle of nowhere you get all the hospitalit
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by nuccy 4y ago
Yes, buttons on the steering wheel are ones of the most useful ones, though even they become capacitive e.g. in new VW, BMW, Tesla Plaid. I have a VW car with a basic HUD (2015-ish era HUD, where a glass pops up). It can show lane keeping s
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by nuccy 4y ago
/sarcasm Or you can just burn it like Russia does [1] in enormous scales, just because they cannot stop gas production while reducing the transport to Europe to increase economic pressure. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r&#x
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by nuccy 4y ago
Due to stochastic nature of interstellar magnetic fields, cosmic rays, trajectory of which are bent by those, are practically observed from all directions, so even if solar system distorts its own magnetic field this will have almost no ef
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by nuccy 4y ago
Sure. I never had a chance to assemble Lego from those days, but from unboxing/assembling videos [1] it seems that the manuals were either hand drawn or photos, so definitely it was a manual work. 1. https://youtu.be/xu
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by nuccy 4y ago
It is interesting how it is done by Lego themselves. Given the quality and accuracy of the manuals I always assumed that they are machine generated.
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by nuccy 4y ago
Wasn't new knowledge assimilation from talks the reason for Microsoft infamous Twitter chatbot to be discarded [1]. Despite such ability it definitely was not sentient. I rised this point in another thread on HN about LaMDA: all its an
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by nuccy 4y ago
I'm honestly wondering why software companies look into chips, especially ones with near to zero hardware experience. Can't they instead invest into optimization of software, or re-doing software for their specific need. Why don&#
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by nuccy 4y ago
I would personally call telegram/viber/whatsapp/et al. groups/chats/channels "dark web", since information is not indexed there and is basically decaying over time. In about a decade or decade and a half a
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by nuccy 4y ago
The overall topics coverage and meaning are indeed amazing, but what I find fascinating, is that the AI never (actually just once, but to confirm a negation) says no. All the questions, like "do you have personality?", "do yo
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by nuccy 4y ago
A surprise for me was that lightning is only USB2 and one-sided, so at any moment it is plugged half of the pins is unused. Additionally it has exposed wires, in case of charger failure, USB-C provides a better protection.
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by nuccy 4y ago
They didn't move, they added an option to select: USB-C or Magsafe-2 (it is incompatible with original Magsafe BTW), both work fine. I've actually switched to Macs already when USB-C was introduced (late 2016), so I totally missed
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by nuccy 4y ago
Well, given that JWST has at least 2000 worse resolution that EHT (see my comment below on that topic with some links). Thus the blurriness of this observed object is just a result of enormously small size versus distance to it. Any star ob
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by nuccy 4y ago
Likely it is not about the mass, but about the arrangement of clumps of matter circling around the super massive black holes in the accretion disk. During the presentation they speak about much shorter time-scales for Sgr A* in comparison w
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by nuccy 4y ago
The EHT reveals the black hole shadow of about 50 micro-arcseconds [1], while JWST has resolution of about 0.1 arcsec [2], thus resolution of JWST is more than 2000 worse. It is physically impossible (regardless of the exposure time) for JW
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by nuccy 4y ago
Thanks for the advice, I frequently struggle with cmd+` since I have to use both MacOS and Linux regularly. Actually to remap cmd+` to option+tab there is no need to use any third-party apps, the settings (at least in Monterey) are availabl
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by nuccy 4y ago
Interesting, how "designed for EMI shielding" (as written on the product page) works then. The charges in the shield should be able to move not just in Z but also in X&Y to actually work as a Faraday cage.
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by nuccy 5y ago
I totally agree with what you say. To add on that, effects of Russian war in Ukraine may have extraordinary effect on global climate, given that to limit consumption of Russian oil and gas Europe invests more in renewables and even consider
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by nuccy 5y ago
Kind of a joke: that's how a time traveler (not very clever though) would look like deciding to get some money returning to past :)
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by nuccy 5y ago
Or just a simple microphone recording cheering audience noise for 10s...
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by nuccy 5y ago
A tour of Hostomel Airport by Antonov AN-225 pilot Dmytro Antonov on April 1st, after russian forces left Hostomel.

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