patrickwalton

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   by patrickwalton 3y ago

   I'll throw out that another option is to categorize at the time of purchase with an envelope budgeting app like Qube money. Using Qube has been life changing for our family.
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   by patrickwalton 3y ago

   Fascinating. This may weigh down the Drake equation, particularly in reducing the average time civilizations survive on planets with high gravity because their ability to become multiplanetary and survive great filters is limited.
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   by patrickwalton 3y ago

   I think the networks actually get more reliable not less, because they're designed to be redundant and you have so many nodes one failure is tolerable. That's how it is for us at www.careweather.com. I guarantee Starlink isn'
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   Ultra Low-Power E-Paper Picture Display [video](youtube.com)

   2 points by patrickwalton 3y ago|0 comments
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   by patrickwalton 3y ago

   Very cool! Just a heads up your Google play button just takes me to the apple store
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   by patrickwalton 3y ago

   More than anything, this is great evidence that traditional aerospace has greatly overestimated the risks of using mass-produced terrestrial hardware.
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   by patrickwalton 3y ago

   My Dad left us 30 TB of data when he passed. I trimmed it down to 2 TB and tried to use Google's desktop sync app to upload it to cloud. It ran on my work computer during COVID for 8 months straight before finishing. When I tried to ba
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   by patrickwalton 3y ago

   Utah already has had surgeon general's warning billboards for some time.
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   by patrickwalton 3y ago

   Not to mention there are a lot of competing concepts for shipping decarbonization. I wonder how the costs compare.
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    This is so cool! I've wanted to make something like this for years. I did the math for using Spaceport America as the sun and Pluto would have been as far as Wyoming.
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    Merry Christmas!!
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    He was just 18 years ahead of his time...smh. 2040 is when Tolkien is slated for public domain.
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    I became really interested in this topic after having my first roast chestnuts a couple years ago! Some of the interesting things I learned: - Chestnut deforestation due to blight was a substantial portion of global deforestation in the ear
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    Skyfield is so well maintained and documented that we actually use it to process tracking data for our own satellites and plot additional orbit parameters like beta angle, altitude, etc.
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    Same problem with elevation markings on terrain layer.
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    Yep, I commented here that my company, Care Weather, is working on that problem. Goal is to provide hourly updates of ocean surface winds. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38038558
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    > Otis intensified so quickly that it basically outran the ability to measure how intense it actually was. We're working on this problem at Care Weather (www.careweather.com). Current wind sensing satellites only measure ocean surf
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    For publishing, I've found Barnes and Noble Press to be incredibly cheap and useable.
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    We saw shrinkflation with our apartments when they went from a central dumpster to expecting everyone in an 8-unit complex to line up cans on the road
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    How many years away is fusion energy?(link.springer.com)

    1 points by patrickwalton 3y ago|3 comments
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    There are some that are free to most people, but not all are. The satellite industry very commonly uses NASA Debris Assessment Software to prove to the FCC that they won't create space debris.
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    Sounds like the beginning of the space horror film "Life"
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    I think the other "first" was that the system wasn't designed for controlled re-entry. They just used re-purposed the orbit maintenance propulsion system.
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    Tetration: Notation for N-Repeated Exponentiation(en.wikipedia.org)

    2 points by patrickwalton 3y ago|1 comments
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    I saw this on my account actually! One day I was a family user on my brother's plan, the next I was a prime subscriber without my consent, using my payment method on file. I reached out to class action lawyers but no one responded. Rea
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    I need someone to make an AI-show filter for removing laugh tracks.
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    I have type 1 narcolepsy and the prospect of being able to work laying horizontal in bed while my muscles are 90% shut off from a sleep attack is worth at least $3k.
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    I'm trying to get some general knowledge of how databases are typically managed to avoid staying in Notion workaround longer than I have to. I'm just unfamiliar with other solutions so I don't have anything to compare against
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    by patrickwalton 3y ago

    I'm just using notion_client, a Python wrapper for the Notion API which says it's a Python version of the reference JavaScript SDK. https://pypi.org/project/notion-client/ Would sqlite or postgres still
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    Ask HN: How to upgrade my personal project database from Notion

    4 points by patrickwalton 3y ago|4 comments