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by privong 6y ago
> I'm completely out of my depths here but hear me out: could pulsars be observed with such a thing? That would definitely be the icing on the cake. In principle, yes. But I think in practice it would be difficult at best. Pulsars
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On Missing Data Sets(github.com)
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Debunking Handbook 2020(climatechangecommunication.org)
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Uru People(en.wikipedia.org)
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An/URC-117 Ground Wave Emergency Network(en.wikipedia.org)
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by privong 6y ago
> Enforcing it is free: you can send your own cease and desist for free. Enforcing it is free if your time is free.
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Free-space optical links for space communication networks(arxiv.org)
46 points by privong 6y ago|25 comments
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by privong 6y ago
Issue 63 of Alpinist magazine had a climbing history of Nanda Devi, that I recall included some discussion of the nuclear device: https://shop.holpublications.com/products/alpinist-magazine-...
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by privong 6y ago
> Military conscripts who were assigned to motor maintenance The OP was asking how people might watch a video like this, not who is watching it. In 1937 broadcast television was relatively new and few people owned a tv. For example, the
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by privong 6y ago
It's not tech per se, but the "Golden Webinars in Astrophysics" series has a number of talks on a wide range of topics. The lectures are given by senior and well-respected people in their sub-fields. They are available in Eng
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by privong 6y ago
I think that's the processor only? I'm basing that off the paragraph after the table, which says: > AMD’s EPYC 7742 which still comes in at $6950 A couple quick searches (Amazon, Newegg) show people selling the CPU-only for thi
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by privong 6y ago
> Growing food also requires tons of fossil fuel etc. Yes, but I don't think they're doing much of that in the immediate area around Las Vegas (which is what the parents of my original comment were discussing).
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by privong 6y ago
Science as well. There's the oft-quoted: ‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is famili
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by privong 6y ago
I suspect that transport for getting the necessary food and goods into town is almost all fossil fuel based (semi trucks and trains).
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by privong 6y ago
> The Beatles, Elvis, even Dylan played a lot of covers of old blues tunes or other songs that had been lost by that current generation and were made popular again. > I don't see a lot of Beatles songs being sampled, because it c
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Should Rockets Have Only Free Software? Free Software and Appliances(gnu.org)
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by privong 6y ago
I'm not sure. It seems like a fairly normal combination of things for people who self-host. My stack is pretty much the same, except I use gogs instead of gitea, and I'd add `Lychee` for photo sharing.
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The Math Behind Epidemics(physicstoday.scitation.org)
1 points by privong 6y ago|0 comments
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by privong 6y ago
More comments on this from ~4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25208313
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by privong 6y ago
> Even that is clickbaity - it fails to account how likely it was to find such a star in that volume of space. Yeah. I should've been more clear that I was only meaning that as a summary of the article, not as a replacement title.
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by privong 6y ago
I second these recommendations. I've been using khal and khard (plus `todoman` for to-do list management). They're all nice tools that work well in my CLI-focused workflow. And `vdirsyncer` is a key component, that syncs to my oth
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by privong 6y ago
> How would you fix it? "Astronomer finds an exoplanet which fits exclusion criteria if WOW! Signal is intelligent in origin"? As far as I can tell there's not even evidence of an exoplanet around that star (likely becaus
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Apple wants privacy 'nutrition labels' on all new and updated apps(theregister.com)
8 points by privong 6y ago|1 comments
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Female big-game hunters may have been surprisingly common in ancient Americas(sciencenews.org)
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by privong 6y ago
> Also, you listed the incorrect URL. The correct one is [1], which is an Android and iOS App. Oops, thanks for correcting me on that!
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by privong 6y ago
> Yet-another login to manage before I am get to sample the data... window closed. I am not their target demo anyway. My understanding is that eBird is only for recording sightings, and not for doing identifications. For identificatio
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by privong 6y ago
> Likely the British Military research projects. Sounds similar, but whatever I had read was about the US intelligence community. Perhaps it was Edward Snowden's book.
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by privong 6y ago
> We should make a GPT-based generator of USA secret codenames ;) I'd read somewhere (can't remember where, unfortunately) that program code names were randomly generated by selecting words from two lists. The idea is that, if
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by privong 6y ago
> That graph looks like a hockey stick. Is it really accelerating or are we just getting better at detecting it (this makes more sense)? I suspect it is a piecewise combination of two linear functions. There was probably a ~fixed sensiti
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by privong 6y ago
Tedious, but that's only twice a year. I think this one hits even harder: > When he's not changing the time, Fjodor's job includes spending one full day a week winding up the mechanical clocks to keep their pendulums swing

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