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by shagie 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCAL_(spacecraft) > FOCAL (an acronym for Fast Outgoing Cyclopean Astronomical Lens) is a proposed space telescope that would use the Sun as a gravity lens. > ... > In order to u
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by shagie 2y ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming - https://youtu.be/CbIZU8cQWXc Not so much "sources" but rather it was a "this was not the goal". (Side bit - after watching "We Stopped Dreaming" I fi
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by shagie 2y ago
New Horizons is the ~~fastest moving outbound craft~~ launched space craft.. though this also gets to direction of travel. There are faster ones - the Parker Solar Probe did 690,000 km/h on closest approach to the sun - that's 0.
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by shagie 2y ago
It is still all completely correct. There may be some new findings, but the lunar prospector ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Prospector ) did all the work and this was written after that.
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by shagie 2y ago
The Moon is locked in rotation with its revolution. A location on the Moon that has the Earth above the horizon will always have the Earth above the horizon. Lunar night means that the Sun has set - but the Earth remains in the sky in th
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by shagie 2y ago
That is correct. The NASA page link (now 404) has a bit more on the orbits and their history. https://web.archive.org/web/20210307002503/https://science.n... And they're very lumpy. > The masc
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by shagie 2y ago
There's other economics to it at play which you hint at. The "pay a premium for no new features" tends to imply a "I paid $99.99 for this once, all future updates for bug and security patches are free". This in turn
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by shagie 2y ago
Zima Blue is the name of the story. It was made into a Love Death and Robots episode. The book Zima Blue and Other Stories is the most widely known collection that its found in (since its in the title), but it has been published in many o
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by shagie 2y ago
In the story, wine is one of the topics of conversation between Carrie and Zima. The first mention of it - and the question - "Red or white?" Zima indicated that I should take one of the seats. His hand dithered over two bo
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by shagie 2y ago
Maybe... the difficulty with how AI is advancing, it might be difficult to distinguish it from an LLM. You might even get to the callcenter problem of "initial support handled by someone following a script" before you can get pas
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by shagie 2y ago
I also recommend the written story for Zima Blue (the Love Death and Robots version was much more focused on the artistic aspect) and the question of wine.
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by shagie 2y ago
We had it. It's still out there. NNTP (and ignore cancel messages if you dare).
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by shagie 2y ago
Q&A tends to be "chunky" and asynchronous in its communication model. This comes from a reaction to the previous model of forums where it was smaller bits of data spread across multiple comments or posts. I recall going throu
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by shagie 2y ago
I always find it interesting to see the people that show up in comments that are the authorities on the matter being quoted and am reminded that hn has a very diverse readership. One of the things that this also reminds me of is the impress
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by shagie 2y ago
It happens from time to time. https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-googl... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15834800 42 comments) > These days, he often look
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by shagie 2y ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/science/vishvaa-rajakumar...
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by shagie 2y ago
It's been... almost 20 years since I looked at that. I believe that it had a slightly floating start date. NetApp fiscal quarters are: Quarter Three: October 28, 2024 through January 24, 2025 Quarter Four: January 28, 202
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by shagie 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar > The International Fixed Calendar divides the year into 13 months of 28 days each. A type of perennial calendar, every date is fixed to the same weekday ev
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by shagie 2y ago
> ... each quarter is ~13 weeks ... When I worked at Network Appliance (Q1 earnings call is August 27th), they used a strict 4-4-5 calendar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4–4–5_calendar This meant that it wasn&#x27
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by shagie 2y ago
One of the British TV shows that I've been introduced to over the past half decade of YouTube binging was Taskmaster (its British weird / funny)... and one of those tasks was to memorize the order of playing cards in 5 minutes. h
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by shagie 2y ago
> Do you think Steam reviews are coordinated? Yes. It's not even a question. Steam flags outliers too. https://store.steampowered.com/app/281990/Stellaris/ It got review bombed starting on Feb 14th
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by shagie 2y ago
One of the games that I stumbled across on Steam recently was "AI Learns to Drive" - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3312030/AI_Learns_To_Driv... It's a neat toy (not really "useful" no
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by shagie 2y ago
> ... in the sub-thread by @teddyh that has unfortunately been voted dead ... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Dead posts aren't displayed by default, but you can see them all by turning on 'showd
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by shagie 2y ago
They do... https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/01/24/no-more-nuggets-schoo... > ... > Not many schools can afford gourmet offerings like Mount Diablo’s, which also benefits from California’s year-round gro
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by shagie 2y ago
That is an interesting rabbit hole to go down... https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2003/10/07/fussy-eating-ma... > Scientists at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, University College London, won
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I believe this is a difficult problem for schools. They need to have food that meets the standards (as they are defined), appealing enough to 6 through {age} range to have them eat it, something that can be prepared with relatively low ski
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Delays getting to the airport and missing the plane. Cancelations with full refund. "Hidden city" ticketing. Layover delays. Businesses booking blocks. Flexible flights ( https://www.travelperk.com/guides&#x2F
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by shagie 2y ago
> New data show how TCS makes heavy use of employment visas reserved for managers. Ex-staffers say it was to get around H-1B rules. > ... > Kini and two other former TCS employees who filed similar lawsuits say the company repeated
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by shagie 2y ago
Jetbrains originally had a "buy upgrade model". You paid full price for the first one, and then it was half price for upgrades beyond that. To Jetbrains, this had the problem of feast or famine and the non-predictable income. Th
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by shagie 2y ago
This suggestion assumes that all H-1B applicants are highly paid technologists. While that is the majority of them, there are French immersion teachers ( https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=french+immersion+teac...

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