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by privong 7y ago
> No, underestimated. Oops, yes. Wrote that backwards. Thanks for the correction.
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by privong 7y ago
> if requiring dark matter to explain galactic physics can be dispensed with by a distance correction, doesn't "we've been underestimating distances all this time" serve as a simpler fact of galactic physics than need
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by privong 7y ago
It's worth nothing that the authors of the original NGC1052-DF4 article claiming little to no dark matter have disputed the conclusions of the Trujillo+2019 (i.e., the paper the phys.org article is based on): https://ui.adsa
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by privong 7y ago
Location: Northern Florida Remote: Yes or on-site Willing to relocate: Yes to: USA, Canada, or Europe Technologies: python, statistical methods, data-model comparisons, LaTeX, some experience with: C, Racket, SQL, system administration. La
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by privong 7y ago
> the Hubble telescope is practically obsolete (and indeed obsolete, since it will be de-orbited soon). This isn't quite accurate. Hubble has ultraviolet capabilities that are impossible to achieve from the ground (due to the atmosp
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by privong 7y ago
> JWST is for researching high-redshift object - the most distant things we can see in the universe. It's not a planet-hunter. JWST is a general purpose observatory. It will make significant advances for high-redshift objects. It wi
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by privong 7y ago
> The satellites are hard to spot already, To the naked eye, perhaps. But large telescopes and their instruments are incredibly sensitive. So even if the satellite constellations are minimally visible to the naked eye they can still have
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Haskell for Readers(haskell-for-readers.nomeata.de)
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by privong 7y ago
The twitter thread (and most of the discussion here) is focused on the optical impact of these satellites. As @watersb mentions in a reply[0] these satellites will likely have an impact on radio telescopes. I've found conflicting infor
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by privong 7y ago
From a reddit thread[0], there are preliminary TLE data here[1] and you can enter that into gpredict[2] to show when you might be able to see a pass. Edit: I wasn't able to easily find newer TLEs from the NORAD database, and I don&#x27
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Should ethicists be inside or outside a profession?(lesswrong.com)
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by privong 7y ago
Title is missing the trailing digit, should be "in 2018".
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by privong 7y ago
The linked page says flickr is down for planned maintenance. There's not really anything informative/educational on the linked page. Not obviously anything that "gratifies ones intellectual curiosity" as suggested in the
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by privong 7y ago
> Racket can probably do everything you want (i.e. serve as its own 'LAMP stack'). Here's a quick tutorial on web applications in Racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/index.html
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by privong 7y ago
I think you and @Kiro are in agreement. My interpretation of @Kiro's comment is that most of the world doesn't do employer-provided insurance, so that aspect of @ggm's comment would essentially only apply to the US.
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by privong 7y ago
> why not have both and also allow remote ? let the employee decide which one they prefer. The article is about home floor plans, not business offices.
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Mojave Phone Booth(en.wikipedia.org)
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by privong 7y ago
Very neat. An online demo of it is here: https://avanor.se
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The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus(astrothesaurus.org)
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Why Science Needs Philosophy(pnas.org)
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by privong 7y ago
> The project goals are admirable. And when it's up and running it's great. But it's incredibly finicky to maintain and it's quite challenging to install. Agreed. I guess I could've been more specific in my origi
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by privong 7y ago
I was excited about MediaGoblin[0] for a while, but it seems development has mostly stalled. The last release was in March 2016(!). Things were going smoothly until they seemingly started devoting their resources to implementing federated s
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by privong 7y ago
> I do think that the reaction that they are impossible to drink from is more than a little silly, though. Maybe if you leave the straw in the drink for many hours it will collapse on you? I haven’t tried that. I've had some paper s
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Ways of Hearing(radiotopia.fm)
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by privong 7y ago
Here's a link to the paper itself, since the APS article only links to the main journal page: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.08...
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by privong 7y ago
There is a racket port; I do not know how complete it is, though a quick look at the open issues suggests not all the pieces are there yet: https://github.com/bennn/mechanics The most recent version of `scmutils` I see
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by privong 7y ago
Who also wrote "Functional Differential Geometry": https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geome...
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Analyzing the First Images of Russia's Special Missions Sub(thedrive.com)
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by privong 8y ago
This reminds me some of what I've read about Blackwing pencils (originally made by Eberhard Faber Company), which were discontinued in 1998. The originals (NOS) were apparently quite sought after once production ceased. California Ceda
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by privong 8y ago
Neal Stephenson has been involved with Long Now and the 10,000 year clock since 1999 and that involvement led to Anathem: https://www.nealstephenson.com/anathem.html

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