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by privong 1y ago
Oops, thanks. Too late to edit, unfortunately.
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Winermute Group(wintermute.group)
4 points by privong 1y ago|2 comments
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by privong 1y ago
It could partly be that, but I've generally read that the default inks are not waterproof. I was curious about this so I just did a quick non-scientific perusal of one fountain pen enthusiast shop's offerings. It shows 118 of the
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by privong 1y ago
> Left-to-right writing as a left-handed person involves a lot of pen(cil) pushing, which is a big no-go for fountain pens. > If it works for you, I'm willing to bet you're twisting your hand in a D position (going over and
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by privong 1y ago
> If you turned in an assignment written in pencil, it was legit for the teacher to use their eraser and give you an F for turning in empty paper. (They never did this but threatened it a lot). I find this slightly amusing/ironic be
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by privong 1y ago
> Radio astronomy was an accidental offshoot of this project: they noticed the reflected microwave signals from space came back with some extra noise... Perhaps you're conflating Project Echo with Karl Janksy's Bell Labs resear
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by privong 1y ago
Active discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44702782
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by privong 1y ago
> Does this project have some relation to LFE? Can you clarify what "LFE" stands for? Do you mean "Lisp Flavored Erlang" or something else?
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The 21st Century and Empty Popularity(culture.ghost.io)
1 points by privong 1y ago|0 comments
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by privong 1y ago
Indeed; Yggdrasil is also the name of a set of models of the emission from stellar populations: https://www.astro.uu.se/~ez/yggdrasil/ReadMe.txt https://www.astro.uu.se/~ez/yggdrasil/yggd
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by privong 1y ago
> Unfortunately that comes with the baggage of terrible memory safety. Isn't this unrelated to the parent post's thoughts about the benefit's of the C/C++ ecosystem (or lack thereof) for dependency management? I.e., a
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by privong 1y ago
"Hieroglyph" [0] was an attempt to address this and write positive science fiction. It was a project at ASU and a book[1] of short stories accompanied by a webpage with essays describing the genesis of the stories and responses to
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by privong 1y ago
> they can probably measure continental drift (only joking) They can! Continental drift measurements have been done using radio interfometry since at least the 1980s: https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/05/scie
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A guide to the "platonic ideal" of a Negroni and other handy tips(arstechnica.com)
2 points by privong 1y ago|0 comments
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The Last Question(users.ece.cmu.edu)
2 points by privong 2y ago|1 comments
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There's no emotion we ought to think harder about than anger(aeon.co)
60 points by privong 2y ago|42 comments
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Klemperer Rosette(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by privong 2y ago|0 comments
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Trump is pausing federal loans and grants as his administration reviews spending(apnews.com)
12 points by privong 2y ago|2 comments
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Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017)(journals.plos.org)
1 points by privong 2y ago|1 comments
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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer [pdf] (2000)(classes.matthewjbrown.net)
15 points by privong 2y ago|9 comments
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by privong 2y ago
> Magazines can make a similar comeback for niches like fashion and arts. But they will probably be funded rather differently from the ad-filled old media products. This has been attempted in the outdoors world for 20+ years. E.g., Alpin
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'spectral fingerprint' atlas of satellites aims to improve space security(news.arizona.edu)
1 points by privong 2y ago|0 comments
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Detection of Thermal Emission at mm Wavelengths from Low-Earth Orbit Satellites(arxiv.org)
1 points by privong 2y ago|0 comments
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by privong 2y ago
> What I find scary is that developers see web apps (and hence the open web platform) as no longer fashionable, and instead focus on developing mobile apps (iOS and Android). Based on my reading of the original article, I think your resp
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by privong 2y ago
> Any time he goes off on some wild tangent in his books, I assume it's because he just recently learned a lot about it and feels compelled to put that info somewhere. Stephenson discussed this a bit in the Long Now launch event[0]
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by privong 2y ago
> Considering the three body problem and extrapolating I would expect star orbits in a galaxy to be completely chaotic on long time scales? That's more or less captured by the loss cone calculation. On a very "long time scale&q
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by privong 2y ago
> I've been slowly gathering sources and information in the hopes of maybe writing a book about the Lisp Machines I would love to hear more about this. I have a friend whose mother-in-law was involved in a startup that was selling s
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by privong 2y ago
They've since updated it: > Oct 8, 2024
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by privong 2y ago
Correction: there are up to 12 of the 7 meter diameter antennas.
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by privong 2y ago
It's not a dev environment, but when I have been observing at large (inter)national telescopes, there are often a variety of sound effects in the control room. These sounds often announce a change in status (e.g., observing script star

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