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by schoen 2y ago
I think there are probably factors like * latitude * time of day¹ * individual genetics (maybe including something about the anatomy of your iris? or the focal abilities of your eye?) * how fixedly you manage to stare at the sun, as opposed
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by schoen 2y ago
Yes, but I don't think there's more UV during an eclipse (even in proportion to visible light). Overall, there should be less UV than there would be from viewing the full sun. The issue you mention does come up if you have a fil
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by schoen 2y ago
That's also an issue for some scenarios, but if you're looking directly at the sun (even partly obscured), your pupils are probably already as small as possible!
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by schoen 2y ago
I've also been interested in this in the past since I slightly damaged my eye by staring at a partial eclipse as an adolescent. (I can no longer perceive any damage, but it might have permanently reduced my retinal acuity in one spot.)
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by schoen 2y ago
For anyone who doesn't know, HN user Animats is John Nagle, eponym of Nagle's algorithm. My main mental association with that algorithm is always being asked about it in "make menuconfig" when I used to compile my own Li
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by schoen 2y ago
Can anyone explain why malware distributors would prefer (or be somehow forced into using) non-default TCP ports?
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by schoen 2y ago
I've thought that it's hard to appreciate how much large tech companies (and communications and payment intermediaries) are in a terrible double bind about many content and policy issues. If they enforce some community's or c
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by schoen 2y ago
Yes, it's called "in His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die"¹ in the Glowfic Constellation. There are a whole bunch of people there writing about characters and settings from the RPG Pathfinder (which I haven
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by schoen 2y ago
Last year I read some fan fiction in which a young woman comes isekai-style from a medievalish fantasy world to present-day Nevada. To make a long story short, one thing she concludes during this experience is that God wishes to bless every
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by schoen 2y ago
For more on this topic, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_performance
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by schoen 2y ago
> In the ever-growing geo-restrictions world, this is no longer as easy as it was in the days of yore. I totally agree with despising these restrictions, but isn't it likely that more total material is available worldwide than ever
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by schoen 2y ago
If I understand correctly, I think there's a decent chance to have something similar at any given solar maximum (about every 11 years) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_maximum But it's definitely not a sur
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by schoen 2y ago
Huh? Companies have successfully invoked the first amendment over and over again.
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by schoen 2y ago
Wow! I wonder how many of those are CI systems creating a disposable test environment (or several disposable test environments) to test a single software change.
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by schoen 2y ago
Yes, you can definitely get very severe attacks from backdoored hardware. Some of them appear almost impossible to defend against with software alone. On the bright side, it's hard to imagine that many of these attacks will be self-pro
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by schoen 2y ago
There's lots of work on that problem! https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/ There are also a number of people making minimal OSes, interpreters, and compilers that you can, for example, assemble by hand and type in
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Turing-Complete User (2012)(contemporary-home-computing.org)
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by schoen 2y ago
Somewhat related could be Olia Lialina's essay "Turing-Complete User" (2012) http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/ (Sorry for the lack of HTTPS!) I don't immediately know how
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by schoen 2y ago
> sieverts of novelty Yikes! Is this clever metaphor original with you?
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by schoen 2y ago
How did that boulevard end up planted with edible wheat?
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by schoen 2y ago
Well-known to expert GeoGuessr players as a convenient way to quickly tell what country you're in on a random rural road, as different countries use mysteriously consistent different bollard styles even when their road surfaces are oth
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by schoen 2y ago
Maybe you should also use this user ID if a cyclops sends you an RFC 1413 ident request.
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by schoen 2y ago
I looked very closely at the videos for a while and managed to find some minor continuity errors (like different numbers of buttons on people's button-down shirts at different times, or different sizes or styles of earrings, or arguabl
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by schoen 2y ago
Was that intentional or unintentional?
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by schoen 2y ago
I once got to ride in an An-2 on a tourist sightseeing flight. I've always remembered the sense that the pilot didn't even bother to line up with the runway ahead of time when landing, but simply took a gentle turn onto it upon re
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by schoen 3y ago
I'm vegan and have given up almonds because I'm prone to kidney stones, and I was told that almonds have a much higher oxalate content than other nuts. Not everyone has a tendency to form kidney stones, but in my case it seems l
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by schoen 3y ago
Could you help improve my intuition about that, or give me a reference where I could learn more?
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by schoen 3y ago
In https://nandgame.com/ (mentioned elsewhere, a game version of NAND to Tetris) you start by making a NAND gate out of relays. The relays are electromechanical components, but you can choose to think of a transistor (withi
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by schoen 3y ago
How do we know that that will converge to a single constant period of oscillation? Could you have a few different-sized square waves continue to cycle through the circuit? (I've never built or simulated that, I'm just trying to im
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by schoen 3y ago
I thought there was a classic statement from the Tor developers that you shouldn't do this, but the closest that I found on the site is the part about not running an exit node from home (as it might make law enforcement more interest

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