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by rmcpherson 9y ago
To clarify, no one's taking MOND nearly as seriously as WIMPs in terms of funding for experiments to test it. That said, the lack of evidence has lead to increased interest in alternative theories that could explain the phenomenon. Som
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
This finding certainly weakens the case for MOND. The authors write that in the conclusion of their paper, as quoted in this article: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/galaxy-seems-to-lack... MOND can n
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
I used "strongest candidate" not as my opinion (I don't know) but that is how physicists see the various possibilities. Certainly WIMP research has received the largest amount of funding in experimental physics as compared to
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
I was talking with some physicists from Fermilab last week about dark matter (I'm a physics enthusiast but certainly no physicist) and one thing they were discussing was how current dark matter experiments are constraining possible dar
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
This general problem discussed in this article, a technological change affecting the perceived nuclear arsenal balance, is a reminder of the existential peril of nuclear weapons that we have seemingly forgotten since the fall of the Soviet
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
Not to mention the acceleration needed to achieve orbital velocity with a catapult. Seems like insanely high forces on the payload. I’d love to see how they solve this.
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
I wonder what the difference is between the 6 used in the benchmark in the article and the iPhone X that would cause these different results. They both support speculative execution. Either way, encouraging results to a fellow iPhone X user
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
Why would longitude affect an image like this? Can you elaborate?
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
Having brewed award-winning IPAs I would take issue with that statement but luckily there is much more to the craft beer world than IPAs. You mentioned you like sours but hops are often used to interesting effect in sours as well. Sour beer
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
The IPA of today bears little resemblance to the original including differences in hop varieties, process, purity of yeast cultures. The proliferation of hop varieties and investment in hop research, especially in the last 20 years, means t
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
One of the biggest problems with hoppy beers is that they have a short shelf life (less than 90 days even when packaged well, much less when dissolved oxygen is present) but distribution issues and lack of education means that most IPAs are
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Two Weeks on Ice in McMurdo Station, Antarctica(nytimes.com)
1 points by rmcpherson 9y ago|0 comments
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by rmcpherson 9y ago
Yes, humans evolved from an animal whose back was horizontal, parallel with the ground. Our spines are not an optimal solution.
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by rmcpherson 10y ago
I do as well and know several other people that have admitted to falling asleep to Hardcore History. I wonder what it is about, drifting off to graphic accounts of historical genocides.
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by rmcpherson 10y ago
I know of one [1], the Bruderhof, that maintains communal ownership of property and has existed for almost 100 years. It's not easy to do, though, so perhaps an exception that proves the rule. They do have some thriving businesses that
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by rmcpherson 10y ago
I haven't read the good life but this immediately reminded me of the song by Pete Seeger "Maple Syrup Time" where he mentions Scott and Helen. Looks like it's referenced in the book as well. https://books.goog
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by rmcpherson 10y ago
Having to leave home country, friends, and community is a steep price to pay for ethics. And the dirty work still got done, albeit ineptly. I think you proved my point. As morgante said below "If you can professionalize a certain set o
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by rmcpherson 10y ago
I don't know how common this is in general, but an ethics course was a required part of the engineering core curricula at my school (Case Western Reserve). Ultimately, though, an ethics course isn't going to make people stand up f
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by rmcpherson 10y ago
Location: Atlanta, GA Remote: Yes Technologies: go, kubernetes, distributed systems, gcp, aws Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B74PTRwLSU8EUmRuazU0UmNzU3... Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right opportuni
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by rmcpherson 10y ago
On our code base, we're seeing >2x build speed increases vs. go 1.6! Compiling the entire go monorepo, including vendored dependencies, dropped from 73 seconds to 29 on 4 CPUs when moving from 1.6.3->1.7rc6. Huge improvements to
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by rmcpherson 10y ago
This is interesting. Can you suggest any resources that lay out concrete proposals for how this could work in practice? Are there examples of where it has already worked in the world? Some questions: 1. Wouldn't there still be a need f
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by rmcpherson 10y ago
This was demoed at Google I/O for Project Tango, featuring furniture from WayFair among others. It's not true VR but AR, which actually works better for this application. Until consumer project tango hardware has shipped in quanti
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by rmcpherson 11y ago
You're right. No research has shown that, for otherwise healthy people, drinking water beyond what your body tells you to drink has any health effects. Hydration also does not have to come from water to be effective. The 8 cups a day r
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by rmcpherson 11y ago
Is there any information available about how these cars take evasive action or attempt to reduce damage in the event of an imminent impact? The article's wording makes it sound like the car was at fault for the crash by re-entering the
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The Lives and Lies of a Professional Impostor(nytimes.com)
75 points by rmcpherson 11y ago|18 comments
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by rmcpherson 11y ago
I thought I remembered seeing your graphics work before in go posted on HN. Yep: https://github.com/fogleman/pt Is this an evolution of that work, at least in terms of the learning process?
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by rmcpherson 11y ago
In S3 tests on c3.8xlarge instances, I've seen 8 Gbps throughput on both uploads and downloads using parallelized requests. Testing with iperf between two of the same instances maxed out about 8 Gbps as well so the throughput limitatio
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by rmcpherson 11y ago
That's true, although the latest stock ubuntu HVM AMIs (14+, I believe) have the SR-IOV driver already and use it by default. Older AMIs need to have it installed and enabled on the AMI. I believe enhanced networking is only available
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by rmcpherson 11y ago
For go auto completion in vim, vim-go with youcompleteme works well for me. It's not tags-based, based on the source AST, shows method signatures as well.
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by rmcpherson 11y ago
Great video, the nature article is much more informative than the one linked. From the nature article, it seems this was the first video of natural bidirectional lightning, not triggered by rockets or aircraft: "In contrast to studies

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