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by nwallin 7y ago
It's easy to run horizontally in an attic or basement. The hard part is getting off your butt and doing it. Like every other side project.
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by nwallin 7y ago
I'm struggling to see how starlink will affect those telescopes. Please explain?
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by nwallin 7y ago
We absolutely use short exposures. It's actually more important for us than the pros because the mounts are a lot less stable and polar assignment is far worse. Doing a lot of short exposures is a lot easier than nailing your polar ass
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by nwallin 7y ago
It really won't. Satellites are invisible if they're in the Earth's shadow. By the time useful observation can begin, there's an enormous swath of the sky that will have zero visible satellites in it. Diversify your obse
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by nwallin 7y ago
Arecibo and VLA aren't affected by starlink at all. Those are radio telescopes. They don't even need to wait until nighttime to observe. It's only an optical/ir problem.
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by nwallin 7y ago
Taiwan isn't the threat. China annexing (or otherwise disrupting) Taiwan is.
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by nwallin 7y ago
The biggest problems faced by most companies are logistical problems. Doesn't matter if it's cutlery, bits, people, or shit. Your company's biggest problem is probably ensuring the right stuff is in the right place at the rig
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by nwallin 7y ago
Very uncommon. I would wager fiber is more common than DSL. DSL has a relatively limited range compared to cable, and the US is more rural/suburban than Europe. So ISPs put more effort into cable. Economy of scale meant that cable won
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by nwallin 7y ago
That inconsistency was subject to an immense amount of scrutiny by thousands of scientists for over a hundred years. Albert Einstein received a Nobel Prize for resolving the inconsistency. The theory that ultimately resolved it is called qu
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by nwallin 7y ago
Note that "cover up" in the case of flight IA 655 meant "making bullshit excuses". (The Navy immediately claimed to have shot down an Iranian military fighter, but on the same day announced that they were wrong and it wa
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by nwallin 7y ago
Audiophiles won't use onboard audio. An unshielded DAC in the electrically noisy environment of a motherboard (or worse, SOC) is bad juju. It's measurably worse than a cheap but isolated and shielded external DAC. Measurable with
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by nwallin 7y ago
"Security" in the context of a game console manufacturer means its users are unable to execute unlicensed code on it. So if Spectre or Meltdown are a concern, the system has already been compromised. It's not another layer on
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by nwallin 7y ago
Rust can throw away constness in unsafe blocks, which carries the same caveat emptor that const_cast carries.
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by nwallin 7y ago
> But I think the chances of life being slim are more down to the difficulty in the bootstrapping stage rather than the environment being too inhospitable to host life. I'm 100% in agreement on this. My argument is that with no ocea
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by nwallin 7y ago
What's the difference between this and a normal warrant, where they take every scrap of paper and electronic equipment in your house? If your objection is that it's weird Google has kept that data, sure. I get it, I use DuckDuckGo
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by nwallin 7y ago
The problem is that the atmosphere and weather is global. Meaning that snow that falls on the cold side will never melt or evaporate. Therefore there's probably no liquid water. Liquid oxygen is dense enough for icebergs to float over
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by nwallin 7y ago
> Instead of more cores, give me more ALUs. It kinda didn't work that way though. In practice, all of your ALUs, including your extra ones, were waiting on cache fetches or latencies from previous ALU instructions. Modern x86 CPUs h
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by nwallin 7y ago
That's not a thing. The problem isn't self referential statements. The problem is much larger, and self referential statements are the easiest way to construct a counterexample. Self referential statements are a symptom, not a cau
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by nwallin 7y ago
Wow thanks! Yeah that wasn't clear to me at all. I hadn't considered the need for a floating point library that is less precise (and less performant!) than the 32/64 bit native types.
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by nwallin 7y ago
Suggested title: "Survey: How Spreadsheet.com users use spreadsheets." I think there's sufficient difference between the average spreadsheet user and the sort of person who would sign up for a website like spreadsheet.com AND
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by nwallin 7y ago
I think you're missing the point. Cars represent freedom the same way a semitransparent American flag flapping in the wind superimposed over a bald eagle represents freedom, not the way a library card, bus pass, and a health insurance
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by nwallin 7y ago
How does this compare to boost::multiprecision? https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_72_0/libs/multiprecision/do...
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by nwallin 7y ago
Yes. Planets that are smaller than Earth are much more likely to have their hydrogen stripped away by their host star, leaving them without water. Planets that are larger than Earth are likely to have their growth accelerate into gas giants
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by nwallin 7y ago
The X395 is available with 16GB RAM. Don't recall screen resolution. Looked into buying one but my XPS13 developer edition's warrantee doesn't expire until next October. My next laptop will be a Zen 2, regardless of whether o
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by nwallin 7y ago
In this particular case, I'm pretty sure it's the children who are wrong.
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by nwallin 7y ago
Performing the instruction is a 90% solution. You do a 90% solution for the CPU, a 90% solution for the PPU, a 90% solution for the sound, etc, and implement the dozen or so most common backswitching chips. Then 75% of games are playable an
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by nwallin 7y ago
If I were to pie in the sky dream up a replacement for git, I'd have it store the AST of the parsed code instead of a text file. It would solve a lot of problems with refactoring crapping all over the history. Like I said, pie in the s
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by nwallin 7y ago
Can you compare ggplot2 to matplotlib? 90 seconds of googling didn't seem to indicate to me that ggplot2 is particularly different, either in terms of its power or expressivity, than matplotlib. Those 90 seconds of googling constitute
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by nwallin 7y ago
> write good code within the constraints of a fast paced business environment [...] It’s not always vital to the business to have a good code base. You're on the edge of contradicting yourself. If the business environment is fast pa
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by nwallin 7y ago
First of all, your original post claimed that the official documentation is good. I posted an example of where the official docs are dumb and wrong. You posted a random blog article and a stack overflow answer as a rebuttal. Just so we&#x27

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