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by privong 9y ago
> I doubt they're grieving lost footage. This comment by jacobr suggests there is a risk of lost footage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14998452
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Goldfish turn to alcohol to survive icy winters(bbc.com)
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by privong 9y ago
> Better hope that Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 doesn't run the Intel Management Engine This is clearly stated on the product website ( https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/ ): The Libreboot T400 comes wi
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The Internet Speculative Fiction Database(isfdb.org)
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JPL's Design for a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Neo-Humboldtian university – a model of 21st century university(kestavainnovaatio.fi)
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Black ops and the space shuttle, Pt 2: Reconnaissance missions from WASP to ZEUS(thespacereview.com)
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Cyber threats prompt return of radio for ship navigation(reuters.com)
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Predicting eclipse visitation with population statistics(greatamericaneclipse.com)
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Name-letter Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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by privong 9y ago
> I emailed them describing the problem and they emailed me back with the boiler plate suggestions about checking your spam folder that can be found on their support website. Which I explicitly said I had already tried in my support req
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by privong 9y ago
> Well you don't need to do that, because the left wing has a red light, right has green. So as long as you're comfortable with the very reasonable assumption that the plane isn't upside down, you know which direction it
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by privong 9y ago
Though I realize/suspect you're making a joke, I was curious and looked it up – there are numerical codes defined for countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric Macedonia is 807 and Greece is
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by privong 9y ago
A related, though much closer to home, experience I have had is an airplane flying through the field of view during a reasonably long exposure on a galaxy. The plane's transit left two long, continuous streaks through the image, one fr
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The Fall of Hacker Groups(phrack.org)
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NSA Collects MS Windows Error Information(schneier.com)
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by privong 9y ago
There was lots of discussion on this article ~2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14777898
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Ask HN: What is your setup for working within the (virtual) console?
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by privong 9y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14871267
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by privong 9y ago
My understanding is that potential licensing incompatibilities is what has kept ZFS from being (tightly) integrated into linux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Linux
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by privong 9y ago
I use Makefiles for two components of my research: - Compilation of papers I am writing (in LaTeX). The Makefile processes the .tex and .bib files, and produces a final pdf. Fairly simple makefile - Creation of initial conditions for galaxy
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OpenEMS: a free and open electromagnetic field solver(openems.de)
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Why Ukrainian forces gave up Crimea without a fight – and NATO is alert(reuters.com)
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The Seven or Eight Keplerian Elements(amsat.org)
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Satellites Taking Pictures of Rockets Carrying More Satellites(planet.com)
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by privong 9y ago
To add to that, the sharp cutoff at faint (large number) magnitudes is almost certainly a reflection of the fact that astronomical surveys and images have a flux limit, below which objects cannot be individually detected.
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by privong 9y ago
> First sentence on Wikipedia: "In astronomy, magnitude is a logarithmic measure of the brightness of an object..." That doesn't tell you whether the magnitudes are normally distributed though. That just tells you how the
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by privong 9y ago
> Users of other kind of networks should not worry about this kind of hack. The article is not about a hack. The article is about how the cell company or state-level actor can leverage the connectivity information that is required for an
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CNN witnesses US Navy's drone-killing laser(edition.cnn.com)
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by privong 9y ago
> the response will be fuel for ridicule if it (predictably) refuses in the grounds of being too hard If ridicule worked, this madness would have already stopped at the point where the Australian PM implied the laws of mathematics are se

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