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by shagie 2y ago
One of the channels that I follow is "What is Going on With Shipping" (its mostly about ocean going supply chain things and started with the Evergiven)... and today's video is: War of the Jersey Shore! | Did Iranian Navy Carr
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by shagie 2y ago
If the time slices are 1-2 and 2-3 (or 3-2), will the timing of event 2 introduce a bias? Currently its: 1-2 vs 3-4 7-8 vs 5-6 ... If event 2 is being used as common, would it then be: 1-2 vs 2-3 4-5 vs 3-4 ..
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by shagie 2y ago
That was a design choice copied from perl. The perl design choice can be seen in https://perlmaven.com/what-are-string-and-numeric-contexts https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop#Additive-Operators Though php does
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by shagie 2y ago
Layers are pulled. If foolang image has: layer c layer d layer e And then fooadmin image is FROM foolang:latest (and the more stuff) and builds the layers: layer f layer g ... then a user pulling fooadmin pulls
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by shagie 2y ago
From the original https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/how3.html > To create each random bit, we wait until the first count occurs, then measure the time, T1, until the next. We then wait for a second pair of pulses and
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by shagie 2y ago
Seven years ago, PBS Space time did an episode on Are You a Boltzmann Brain? https://youtu.be/nhy4Z_32kQo (this was also linked in the 2020 post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22080393 )
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by shagie 2y ago
It's a browsing about https://wiki.c2.com/?WhyWeHateLisp And that does get into the "25 years ago" area. Really neat place to browse and see as a historical record of discussion from back then. The issue is
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by shagie 2y ago
Chuck E. Cheese’s, Silicon Valley Startup (2013) 122 points by duck on Jan 22, 2017 - 14 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13453427 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013&#
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by shagie 2y ago
In my own philosophy of photography, I've got a generalized (and admittedly overly simplified model) of: For me / For others Memories / Emotions There are photographs that I take that are "memories for me&qu
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The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts was one of the books recommended to me on this subject. And even saying much more than that may be a spoiler. I also recommend the book.
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by shagie 2y ago
The relevant xkcd is https://www.xkcd.com/1185/ The implementation of stack sort is https://github.com/gkoberger/stacksort/ and hosted on https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort
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by shagie 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6959326 > Scala feels like the Perl of the modern era: there is more than one way to do it. There is value in that mode of thinking, and Perl is a better language than people give it
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by shagie 2y ago
As a perl programmer from decades past (I transitioned to Java during the perl 6 winter), I've been finding that groovy and even more recently scala are really nice tools for what I'd have traditionally done in perl. When doing th
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by shagie 2y ago
One of the recent videos that I watched was RealLifeLore : How Africa’s Geography Traps it in Endless Poverty https://youtu.be/Y8m95sCDEf0 A chunk of it is about the nature of the lack of good harbors along the coast that w
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by shagie 2y ago
It mostly finishes on page 93. Pages 94-100 are references. The remainder of it is then "Prototype Rulebook: Stardew Valley"
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by shagie 2y ago
Here are some other examples - http://messybeast.com/mosaicism3.htm Francisco is the example I picked since he's likely the most well known of tortoiseshell (supposedly) male cats. I suspect that some of the claims tha
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by shagie 2y ago
Messybeast ( http://messybeast.com and more specifically http://messybeast.com/catarchive.htm and http://messybeast.com/genetics-index.htm ... and much much more) is the site I've found fo
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by shagie 2y ago
Cat coat color is an X linked gene, so there's no representation of it on the Y chromosome. Let's denote this as Xo and Xb for the genes. An orange female cat is XoXo, a tortoise shell / calico cat is XoXb and a black female
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by shagie 2y ago
Genetics says that this is also true for black cats (that most black cats are male). However, less is said about them and there's less meme / awareness about female black cats being less common. I suspect this is that an intact
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There's also https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/videos/2024/137/01J... which shows Spitzer, Webb, Hubble with rotating images at the same image size.
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by shagie 2y ago
Is there another source for this information that isn't twitter with infographic style posts? They've got a different paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15152 ... is there an equivalent for the ghost enginee
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by shagie 2y ago
> those numbers are probably based on source code contributions The other part of that is a "more senior developers tend to do things outside of things seen with git commit." Meetings, commenting on code reviews, and documen
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by shagie 2y ago
I would reference an older article on super computers and the nuclear weapon arsenal. https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatacenter/news/252468294/C... > "The Russians are fielding brand new nuclear wea
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by shagie 2y ago
CGP Grey The Maddening Mess of Airport Codes! https://youtu.be/jfOUVYQnuhw I'd rather deal with designing tables to properly represent names.
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by shagie 2y ago
The paper for it is readable - Fast Reconnaissance Missions to the Outer Solar System Derived from the Gravitational Field of Jupiter http://www.gravityassist.com/IAF3-2/Ref.%203-143.pdf (1966) Also fun to play with is
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by shagie 2y ago
I stand corrected on the inverse square. I still hold that it would be possible to send and detect signals set with intention with not too much more advanced technology than what we have.
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The Arecibo Message Turns 50(scientificamerican.com)
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by shagie 2y ago
Omnidirectional source, yes. However, beamed sources don't fall off that way. A search for optical laser emission from Alpha Centauri AB - https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/516/2/2938/6668
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by shagie 2y ago
In unix, that is split https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_(Unix) (and its companion cat). The problem is that on DOS (and Windows), it didn't have the unix philosophy of a tool that did one thing well and you cou
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by shagie 2y ago
It appears to be rather unchanged since the earlier devices. http://www.centraltimeclock.com/security/watchclock.php (the brochure and manuals are interesting) And an old one ( https://youtu.be/xwkIzphN

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