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811.
by pkaye 5y ago
The Juno spacecraft is orbiting Jupiter right now. I think the mission got extended for another couple years.
812.
by pkaye 5y ago
I think they are going for zero Covid so entire buildings are quarantined for weeks if anyone is sick and those who fail tests are send to Covid camps which are overloaded because Omicron spreads so easily. The government is supposed to dis
813.
by pkaye 5y ago
I think these are essentially nomograms. I seem to recall in college engineering back in 90s they taught us how to design nomograms for simple functions.
814.
by pkaye 5y ago
My old cat could tell I wanted her to come with a slight nod of my head. Of course cats are quite independent so I couldn't command her all the time but if it wanted company and got the nod, she would be running with joy in my directio
815.
by pkaye 5y ago
Turns out we are a NPC, not the main character.
816.
by pkaye 5y ago
Some audiologists are now using 3D ear scans. They can send the scan data electronically to the manufacturer. https://hearing-balance.natus.com/en-us/products-services/ot...
817.
by pkaye 5y ago
That is the modern experience part.
818.
by pkaye 5y ago
Now I know how to get funding to develop a cool programming language!
819.
by pkaye 5y ago
Should have been called Apple Juice.
820.
by pkaye 5y ago
Personally I think they are exaggerating how long the actual work takes. However trades are in high demand due to significant remodels and commercial construction so it might long time to find someone.
821.
by pkaye 5y ago
I had panel upgrade in the bay area back in 2019 which cost $3200. Changed the service panel, weatherhead and ground rods.
822.
by pkaye 5y ago
> So I wonder if the recent rise in union interest is a symptom of the fact that in the U.S. a lot of industries have been monopolized or oligopolized, and the union option is starting to look increasingly more appealing every year. Don&
823.
by pkaye 5y ago
The EU also has sanction against Lebanon. These sanctions are typically against specific individuals and not the entire population.
824.
by pkaye 5y ago
Used to get Vicks inhalers with it. I don't know if its still available.
825.
by pkaye 5y ago
I wonder what is the vetting for the W-1 visa though? Can people just incorporate a business and get a visa? Or does it need minimum funding and employees? Should the individual have particular skills or experience in that field?
826.
by pkaye 5y ago
I feel like Firefox fumbled a bit in the early days of Chrome that many people switched over to Chrome.
827.
by pkaye 5y ago
In my experience at US universities, our course grades were determined by 2-3 midterm exams and a final exam. A common weighting scheme was 3 x 20% for the midterms and 40% for the final exams. Sometimes they had 10% weight for homework, la
828.
by pkaye 5y ago
I think that English being the many language makes it a bigger target since it's a common second language spammers can learn.
829.
by pkaye 5y ago
There is already an experimental slices package btw. It will be part of the standard packages once the finalize it. https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/exp/slices
830.
by pkaye 5y ago
They use a RAD hardened FPGA to handle the avionics. The Snapdragon is for the less critical activity.
831.
by pkaye 5y ago
I thought the rover uses an RTG (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators) for power.
832.
by pkaye 5y ago
So does that mean it might be of use to non American healthcare systems which have less to deal with billing?
833.
by pkaye 5y ago
Ukraine is not a NATO country while Estonia is a NATO country.
834.
by pkaye 5y ago
Musk's long term goal is taking humans to Mars and everything else is a stepping stone to getting there.
835.
by pkaye 5y ago
Nothing like spending tons of computer power to duplicate the experience of technology limitations we had to bare with in the past!
836.
by pkaye 5y ago
Maybe they saw it was inevitable since the EU is already doing this. Maybe a majority the citizen of these countries are okay with the tradeoffs.
837.
by pkaye 5y ago
For leaded fuel, the European countries banned a few years after US so there was still some exposure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Phaseout_and_ba...
838.
by pkaye 5y ago
Now we replace it with fifty million JavaScript libraries for a web interface.
839.
by pkaye 5y ago
Some of the priorities are earth like planets that we are already aware of and early galaxies close to the big bang time. The light from back then would have shifted to the infrared spectrum due to red shift.
840.
by pkaye 5y ago
If they could get a bigger cargo bay on a rocket, a lot of the risky folding mechanisms could have been removed. They could have used a design closer to the Hubble, Spitzer or Neowise. The next telescope being planned out is LUVOIR which be

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