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by phildenhoff 5y ago
The author writes "since Mars has 38% of Earth’s gravity, it can only retain an atmosphere of about 0.38 bar". My understanding of atmospheres work is, at best, non-existant, so does anyone mind explaining what happens if we over-
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by phildenhoff 5y ago
Another note to the developers of this site: I'm not sure if you've tested with Safari, but if you attempt to upload a file over 1 GB you'll get a number of prompts asking if you'd like to allow the website to use an amo
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by phildenhoff 5y ago
I was very excited to check this out, as I imagined `Wormhole.app` was a MacOS package for `magic-wormhole`, but, alas, it's just a web app with a very similar name.
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
That's an absolutely science-fiction-esque paper. I can't believe that's real, and I'm surprised to see such little follow-up research. I assume it's not practical to generate the light transport data with any reaso
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
The site seems to be fried, but a Wayback Machine archive is available: https://web.archive.org/web/20210322182029/http://www.mattmi...
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
I think that explanation is only about Hydrogen molecules and hydrogen atoms, not Hydrogen vs. Helium. There's a free textbook available here [1] that explains that atomic sizes decrease across the periodic table and increase down. In
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
That’s an amazing example! I’ve had the pleasure of trying out the mapping part of D3 for a client job recently and while it’s been a bit overwhelming, seeing demonstrations like that really show how powerful it is. And, to some extent, why
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
Seeing all the phrases my old colleagues used has really solidified that leaving consulting was a good choice for my own sanity. Stop trying to ping me on a go-forward basis to utilize and action upcoming synergies in a fulsome manner!
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
If you manage a website like this, I implore you to spend an hour and think about someones first-time experience when they land on your site. - The logo goes to the homepage - the "gpl-violations.org" link goes to the homepage - t
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
Are votes on HN 1-to-1 with activity, or at least roughly linear? I know Reddit scales votes based on the subreddit's popularity, but I always thought seeing posts with 4000 votes seemed suspiciously low. Certainly this site _feels_ li
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
Matrix can solve that problem if you lean more into it. There are a number of applications you can run called “bridges” that can pull all your WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack messages into Matrix rooms and push your replies out as your
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
I would _love_ to abandon RSA, but Azure DevOps requires my SSH keys are RSA and no matter of fiddling with my public key on input seems to change that. At my home, and on our infrastructure, I only use ECDSA, but when providers _require_ R
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
It says from 40 minutes to 30 seconds , not minutes.
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
No it isn’t. There’s ample research showing that shorter lines are more readable. Check out the sources on this page for more details: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
I don't personally agree with the political structure of the U.S. and it's knock-on effects. The fact that the U.S. is one of the few countries without free and universal healthcare is mind boggling. Social safety nets safe lives,
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada Remote: Yes, on-site is preferred Willing to relocate: Yes, within Canada and Europe Technologies: Python, Chef.io, SQL, Azure DevOps, Javascript (Vue.js & Svelte), Scala, some C++ LinkedIn: https:/&
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
Yes, and Mozilla is run out of Mountain View, California, so that's a very specific location where getting tech executives is expensive. Could they get someone cheaper elsewhere? Absolutely. Is it worth it to pay more to get a CEO that
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
When you compare Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Wind, Solar, and Hydro, Nuclear comes out by far as the safest technology [1]. Coal is incredibly dangerous directly - mining and operation are generally unsafe. Hydro has had some terrible acc
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
That's the price of a CEO, just like salaries in the hundreds of thousands are the prices of software devs. Of all places I would expect Hacker News to get this.
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
Not necessarily. I worked on the team the managed the OS for an embedded hardware project (radio equipment) and our disk was partitioned four ways: 1. current operating system 2. previous operating system (and next, on upgrade) 3. data part
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
Yeah I tried similar tactics using Richard Feynman as the teacher. While I can imagine him saying the phrases, it's not a particularly enticing (nor educational) tool. The website keeps repeating the same information. Opening up the li
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by phildenhoff 6y ago
Hi all! Creator here. I saw lots of blog posts online about signing Git commits using Keybase, but they all require you to export your keys into gpg. Since Keybase's command line tool allows you to sign and verify messages out-of-the-b
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by phildenhoff 7y ago
Semi-related to this discussion is the novel _Seveneves_ by Neal Stephenson. Essentially, the premise is that the Moon gets hit by a Very Large Thing, and humanity has to prepare for Earth being hit by some very large bit of the moon. Part
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by phildenhoff 7y ago
Hi! I have some questions about the role but it looks like your email isn't in your bio. If you get a chance, do you mind emailing me? phil at denhoff dot ca