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by pp19dd 6y ago
Re: kube-system. Remoteness is the right word. I've always been fascinated by Tristan da Cunha. Wrote to the island administrator (regularly rotated from England) when I was back in college and found out all that I wanted to. There a
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Different ocean, but I always get a kick out of slowly zooming out in this view: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tristan+da+Cunha/@-37.0673...
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by pp19dd 6y ago
The ice accretion from a few weeks ago weighed down and broke a couple of branches 8-10" thick in my back yard. When it warmed up, I took a saw, a machete and an axe and converted it into firewood over the next few hours. All togethe
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by pp19dd 6y ago
'He lives in the forests north of Sala on the family land.'
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Lets get our facts straight here. Does the Perseverance rover contain libcurl? It has ffmpeg, so, ... "on the planet" could be changed to "two planets in this system." [1] https://twitter.com/FFmpeg&#x2
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Huh, and thank you. I stand corrected. I'd immediately recognized it from NASA's apod from the olden days, but did not absorb the copyright line: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap051222.html 2005: "Credit &
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Wallpapers: Background01.jpg: cropped stock photo - https://tineye.com/search/175c2f3b87139c4d3bc47ed955f147eed6... Background02.jpg: cropped istock - https://tineye.com/search/a3f7a9618a4b53a69ccf
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by pp19dd 6y ago
That's just amazing. Last year I realized you can still download winamp (they ... freed it??) and it has that bizarrely good milkdrop 2 visualizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO2YkCvOhNE - it's mindblowingly
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Thank you! Has one of the best renditions of 'drunken sailor.'
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by pp19dd 6y ago
It was a good reminder that creation of many things takes overlapping disciplines. It reminded me of a joke about a mathematician optimizing a farmer's operation. He returns after several months bursting with excitement, promises of i
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by pp19dd 6y ago
And very useful. We used them to power shortwave radios in '93, during the war in the Balkans to figure out what the heck was going on since there were communication blackouts.
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by pp19dd 6y ago
"Genetic analysis of the microbes revealed they belonged to more than eight known bacterial groups, many of which are commonly found elsewhere in saltwater where they play important roles in breaking down organic matter. "
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Oh, no, sorry - I deliberately didn't interpret the validity of the claim or try to address it. I don't live in the dream land, and I try to double check reality best I can. To this day all I have from all this is head scratching
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Might be worth something to watch part of the Lex Fridman interview with one of the pilots, David Fravor. The entire podcast is four hours long and goes over his career and experiences, I'd argue establishes him as a competent naval o
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by pp19dd 6y ago
I don't know the provenance of this stuff, any of it, it's presented as a raw dump so legwork is on us but at least individual PDFs are OCR'd. Firebugging the site and adding a rule for a:visited { color: purple } helps out
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Systems can be complicated and even the smallest detail can be dangerously revealing to a scrutinizing eye. "Allied intelligence noticed each captured tank had a unique serial number. With careful observation, the Allies were able to d
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by pp19dd 6y ago
One problem is the complexity. To expand on what someone else said about US having 51 governments, the Federal government is also further fragmented. 2+ million people, and 5-10 million contractors (individuals who aren't full time e
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by pp19dd 6y ago
For what it's worth, estimated combined mass of all currently cataloged asteroids in our system (currently just over 1 million) is less than our moon's. Doubling mass of our moon wouldn't change the orbit: https://
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by pp19dd 6y ago
If you haven't seen Bert Hubert's breakdown of the Covid vaccine source code, worth a look: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source... Think he describes a reality where we know a l
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Any radio / power transmission experts here to chime in on that 982.002 MHz frequency? I'm not wearing a tinfoil hat here, but started wondering about the theoretical purpose of a monotonous 982.002 MHz signal. Best my both brain
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by pp19dd 6y ago
For what it's worth regarding working at cross-purposes, most people anywhere tend to generally think of U.S. government agencies as these very focused monolithic hives filled with people who are mostly all on the same page. But same a
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Not sure that you really should. Or that you were incorrect. The 'rounded year 1900' was the very onset of both vehicle conversion to horseless, and the onset of registration legislations, but not necessarily its enforcement. It
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by pp19dd 6y ago
France required identifying plates as early as 1783 for horse carriages in various form and then made it standardized as of August 14, 1893. Germany followed in 1896, to keep track of its growing vehicles. First state in USA, New York, re
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Thanks kindly, will take a look.
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Thanks for the pointer, will check it out.
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Does anyone have a good solid modern guide or pointers on making easy 3D stuff in text/CLI mode (not x-windows, etc), and hopefully using a convenient library? I'm trying to make a simple fast-booting instrumentation display. I p
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Think you'll find it hard to find a reliable generalist primer, but there are plenty of singular examples to consider and find interesting things. 1 - Book: A Bridge Too Far - until Cornelius Ryan wrote the book in 1974, operation Mark
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by pp19dd 6y ago
On the other side of that coin, roughly in the 90s over there people started picking frequent fights over the order of the two words. Some wanted Croat-Serbo variant (hrvatsko-srpski). Others shrugged as they were neither and didn't
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Thanks for the read recommendation, it's now my next book on the list.
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by pp19dd 6y ago
Aye skipper, that's a good idea.

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