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by nullhole 11mo ago
Futurama used the alien alphabet to get around this because, as the commentary said, they didn't want to use another 555- number.
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by nullhole 1y ago
This bit from the FAQ stuck out to me: Can you add complex filters and sorting? The intent of this site is to be a simple reference rather than a comprehensive search index. If you would like to do more complex analysis, try entering
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by nullhole 1y ago
Maybe I'm prudish, but I really dislike the term 'enshittification'. It sounds ugly, and it makes what would otherwise be polite discussions vulgar. 'Degradation' seems to carry most (all?) of the same meaning and d
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by nullhole 1y ago
Dvorak's cello concerto in b minor, Rostropovich vs Yo-Yo Ma (I'm strongly in the Rostropovich camp, myself)
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by nullhole 1y ago
'Sophies Choice(s)' is an inappropriate reference to throw around for cell phone hardware decisions imho.
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by nullhole 1y ago
Also PROJ, the quiet bit closer to the core that does projections. The sqlite db alone that's packaged with PROJ is a pillar of knowledge that one can only marvel at. The most authoritative and wide-ranging collection of projection&#x2
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by nullhole 1y ago
> deleting accounts that haven’t logged into their service in some arbitrary amount of time One year, to be exact: https://proton.me/support/inactive-accounts
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by nullhole 1y ago
I have a Pioneer DVD player of the same vintage, and it's still working to this day. The remote is sturdy, too. Currently lives in a summer house but gets regular use.
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by nullhole 1y ago
Lidar points aren't points, they're spheroids centred on the most likely location
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New hope for Alzheimer's: lithium supplement reverses memory loss in mice(nature.com)
6 points by nullhole 1y ago|0 comments
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by nullhole 1y ago
It's tracked by some national agencies, for example NZ has a deformation model. This link has a summary & links to some lectures about the deformation model: https://www.linz.govt.nz/guidance/geodetic-system&#x
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by nullhole 1y ago
That's roughly my understanding. Worth noting too that your original, pre-LPS[1] position/orientation/trajectory is coming from other sensors with their own error bars, namely your IMU and whatever information the ground can
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ESA’s Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration (2024)(esa.int)
86 points by nullhole 1y ago|19 comments
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by nullhole 1y ago
A lot of strong opinions in the article, but Ebert wasn't stupid and wrong. He said - correctly, I think - that there was a sense of awe and wonder at the first dino scene, with the Brontosauruses : "But consider what could ha
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by nullhole 1y ago
I've worked with similar data in the past. As you say, nothing but respect for agencies that make such useful data publicly available. Are there any other standout national agencies you've dealt with? And, have you seen any degrad
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by nullhole 1y ago
It seems like that'd work as long as you restrict yourself entirely to the pip interface. Stray outside of that, and you start accumulating a real dependency on uv itself.
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by nullhole 1y ago
> “Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can’t help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.” — John Sheehan, S.J. Before Israel? Like before 1947? When half the place was
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by nullhole 1y ago
The entire country of Chile. Türkiye's just a spoilsport in this game.
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by nullhole 1y ago
Some years ago I tried to get a crater on the Moon (or alternatively Mars) named after Willard Boyle. His (and Smith's) contribution to the practice of astronomy should be unquestionable. The naming wasn't possible at the time bec
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by nullhole 1y ago
Heh, my thoughts exactly! Those chips are also useful for getting better positions from navigation signals. One could imagine using them to help filter out spoofed signals, for example.
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by nullhole 1y ago
They exist[0], but aren't cheap (~$1400 US/chip for the base model). [0] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/clock-and-timing/co...
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by nullhole 1y ago
> Buybacks do not do that any more than dividends do. There's at least a clear relationship if the dividend is reinvested. If the dividend is spent, though, eg by someone in retirement, then they're different. Under buybacks, t
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by nullhole 1y ago
> Does anyone know if there's any kind of metrics for healthspans? Meaning the "good" part of life before it's just doctors, medicine and retirement homes. The metric I've come across is Quality Adjusted Life Yea
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by nullhole 1y ago
Probably this: https://www.trumpstore.com/product/trump-2028-hat/
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NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix(theregister.com)
342 points by nullhole 1y ago|88 comments
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by nullhole 1y ago
What’s the name of the other group?
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by nullhole 1y ago
I'd be neat to have information displayed while driving a car. A subset of information currently displayed on a dashboard would be an obvious first choice (speed for one). You could also maybe perhaps tie in a car's knowledge of a
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by nullhole 1y ago
A soft brick would be a brick before being fired in an oven, no? So maybe the term shouldn't be 'soft brick' but rather 'muddied'. "That updated muddied my device, I had to clean it up with a restore"
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by nullhole 1y ago
Well, PC also means Personal Computer, and letter also means element of alphabet, so it's not like there isn't room for confusion
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by nullhole 1y ago
I mean, the stunt they pulled to effectively release CS2 as free-to-use abandonware was pretty good. Still use it to this day, still works fine.

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