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by pp19dd 8y ago
The linked story is just a slice of the larger story, obviously tailored to be more significant for a Canadian audience. But the larger story [Reuters report] involves a major restructuring. "GM is expected to announce it will cut the
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by pp19dd 8y ago
The wind farm theory others, including the author, have floated looks about right. Here's a video of a wind farm at night elsewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bABhodyX2nY
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Think Gizmodo is off by a couple of zeroes, and I'm not even referring to the "50 decades" part but the number of detonations. That dozens number is surely in hundreds, if not thousands. The report (PDF) describes my lower b
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Our imaginations are so limited. If they have teleportation technology, ...
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Hm. So again, my whole rant has to do with the fact that the videos (3-4 in total?) have been independently verified to have come from the Pentagon. That part has not, to my knowledge, been debunked as independent sources have FOIA'd
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by pp19dd 8y ago
You're right about that particular video. But actually there were several articles and several videos. I only linked to the first one in the series. These two will add more details- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Details please? As far as I know neither NYT nor WaPo nor others have issued any retractions.
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Hm. I'm a skeptic and I typically hit all the standard checkmarks on dismissing nutjobs. It's almost a mental stamp worn down to the nubs. But this right here reminded me of the time I scratched my head. Cue the weird release of
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by pp19dd 8y ago
$162 million. Though it's a bit fuzzy. This article is about "Sierra." Department of Energy awarded $325 million to build two supercomputers, "Summit" and "Sierra" both at 150 petaflops each. IBM took $
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by pp19dd 8y ago
If there ever was a good time for a book recommendation, check out "The Calculating Stars." Probably the most impactful part of the book is the appendix, where it's made abundantly clear how much of it was based in reality.
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by pp19dd 8y ago
It boggles the mind. All of it. The scale of space, the scale of time, our own tiny brief existence in it. The possibility that several civilization collapses occurred right here and we wouldn't know it. The possibility that life e
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Yep, it's been done before by Cornell researchers, in 2009. You provide a bunch of data to a program and it hums for awhile and derives some equations from the observation. In the story written around the time, it took positions of a
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Science Daily altered one sentence from the originally regurgitated PR, and I think it thoughtlessly corrupted its entire meaning. SD: "The blast generates two jets of gamma rays which travel out..." PR: "The blast generates
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Sure, a little caked in there. But I think it drives a point. Genetics is all about sex, even through bacterial conjugation. It's ultimately the exchange of DNA, of construction patterns. Every person reading this is a product of s
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Just to distill that statement into specifics, the "goal" as you see it literally says (1) they had no written record before, and now they will and (2) two other vendors did the actual work. There's nothing technical about i
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by pp19dd 8y ago
This isn't a post-mortem, it's a CYA report. A monthly standing meeting as a result of failure to communicate? Even if they had implemented the recommended procedure prior to the failure, this wouldn't have mattered one bit:
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Absolutely. I see nothing but benefits from having both options (incidentally was thinking PIC due to power requirements) for a project. But the "hmmm" thought was about complexity of a system as time goes on. Was imagining doze
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by pp19dd 8y ago
We're in an amazing technical availability era. For the nearly same price and form-factor size you can either have a 4 MHz low-power microcontroller working in your custom TV remote controller or a (headless) machine capable of runnin
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Nailed it for worst category. Roughly a decade ago when we 'computerized' student orientation program signups, I was in a meeting on collecting payments through that system. There were about a dozen programs new students could s
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by pp19dd 8y ago
There's a great short story by Harry Turtledove called "The Road Not Taken" that tries to jostle that view. If you can find a copy of it, worth a read.
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Late imperial era, a slightly fuzzy date range. Included emperors Marcus Aurelius, Commodus (hello, Hollywood), followed by a very turbulent period from which my favorite emperor comes from, Geta. Because you don't want to be a Geta.
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by pp19dd 8y ago
For those who haven't done any woodworking, CNC'ing or 3D printing before, this video will give you a good perspective on operational details. Take a look at this video of a bandsaw vs a CNC: https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by pp19dd 8y ago
The topography seems to agree with that, clearly visible on satellite view / 3D mode: https://www.google.com/maps/place/25°39'11.0"N+106°51'24.0"E
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Was I the only one who saw a pattern resembling the flying spaghetti monster?
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by pp19dd 8y ago
This tragedy shows the importance of inspection and cost of maintenance of infrastructure. In the U.S. there are approximately 600,000 highway bridges. It's estimated that a quarter of them are at their end-of-life mark (that avg bein
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Hmm, maybe I didn't observe that effect. First order went into effect in 1933, and second in 1942. The mine closures seem to be pretty well distributed since then, implying a healthy amount of openings and closures yearly, totaling a
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by pp19dd 8y ago
There are roughly 85,000 mines in the U.S. Of those, 62,000 are outright abandoned. Rest are either nonproducing, temporarily idled, sealed, or intermittently active. Only about 6,300 are currently active. It's not a limited resource
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Quite a few places (around 13), albeit most are abandoned or inactive sites. You can locate most of these by spotting a tailings dam of some kind on Google Maps. There are three active mines, in California and Nevada owned by Molycorp Min
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by pp19dd 8y ago
Yes, it feels that way doesn't it? The only remaining service I now use with pidgin is gtalk, but it doesn't support offline messages. Or rather, Google didn't implement them in XMPP, so as a result there is a black hole whe
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by pp19dd 8y ago
One thing that stuck out to me was flexible heredoc changes: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/flexible_heredoc_nowdoc_syntaxes

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