shagie

11 ms·

91.
by shagie 2mo ago
And in remembering another paper... it wasn't about a black hole but rather quark matter... Two Seismic Events with the Properties for the Passage of Strange Quark Matter Through the Earth - http://www.geology.smu.edu/~
92.
by shagie 2mo ago
No. I was adjusting a classic quote about something that is decried as awful and no one wants to do... except all the other alternatives are worse. It's not so much that people want to use Jira... or that they're forced to use
93.
by shagie 2mo ago
Can one detect passage of small black hole through the Earth? - https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3438v1 A physics stack exchange answer about it: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/55184 The most relev
94.
by shagie 2mo ago
Not quite so undetectable... in theory. PBS Spacetime - How Many Black Holes Are In The Solar System? https://youtu.be/wh75ubECL8I And then How to spot tiny black holes that might pass through the solar system - https:&#x2
95.
by shagie 2mo ago
How to spot tiny black holes that might pass through the solar system - https://www.sciencenews.org/article/primordial-black-holes-s... And the referenced papers: Probing primordial black holes and dark matter clumps i
96.
by shagie 3mo ago
> ... Many forms of issue tracking have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that Jira is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that Jira is the worst of the issue trackers except all those
97.
by shagie 3mo ago
That's its own fun rabbit hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(astronomy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time
98.
by shagie 3mo ago
... And then there was Sweden. Instead of flipping the switch in the 1500s... or 1700s... they instead did a slow roll out until they finally flipped the switch and did a big leap. https://www.americanscientist.org/article&#
99.
by shagie 3mo ago
> Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. Unfortunately, the tracking industry is pushing back – and so far, t
100.
by shagie 3mo ago
There was a talk by M. J. Dominus ... "Design Patterns" Aren't https://perl.plover.com/yak/design/samples/slide001.html While the narration of the talk itself is likely lost to time and "p
101.
by shagie 3mo ago
I'm moderately disappointed that Fort Point in San Francisco isn't listed. Things like Fort Dearborn in Chicago are listed, but all that remains is markers of the perimeter... while Fort Point is a structure that you can visit and
102.
by shagie 3mo ago
The suggestions that I've seen for astronomy on the far side of the Moon have largely been about radio astronomy rather than optical. The lack of the ionosphere which otherwise blocks and distorts 10 meter and longer radio and using t
103.
by shagie 3mo ago
The far side of the moon would be useful for a radio observatory where one can block the noisy Earth while taking advantage of the ability to construct large collection area dishes (think Arecibo in a crater - https://en.wikipedi
104.
by shagie 3mo ago
https://blog.codinghorror.com/farewell-stack-exchange/ Jeff had stepped away in 2012. While there was some lingering activity in 2013 and 2014, it was way down from when he was part of the company. https://
105.
by shagie 3mo ago
Often the people curating the questions are also the ones who are answering them. Their goal (loosely described) was so that if you pulled up the front page of the site, you'd find questions that are interesting to read and answer. If
106.
by shagie 3mo ago
My most recent read of Dune was after Foundation in order (side bit: bailed at Foundation's Edge because it got too "preachy"). One of the things that I had stumbled across was that Dune was an argument against the utopian
107.
by shagie 3mo ago
Playing with the trajectory browser at NASA is kind of neat. https://trajbrowser.arc.nasa.gov/traj_browser.php?NEAs=on&NE... The "view" at the bottom has an animation of the various routes. They're all E
108.
by shagie 3mo ago
From the archives ... How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work? https://space.stackexchange.com/q/14383 Feb 3, 2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243303 And related...
109.
by shagie 3mo ago
It's not NASDAQ as a whole... it's NASDAQ 100. https://etfdb.com/index/nasdaq-100-index/ are the ETFs that track that index.
110.
by shagie 3mo ago
Also in the 90s... I remember they were HP Bobcats. We had two of them in a student lab and user directories weren't on a separate partition... so things filled up. And they kept getting filled up. One of the people who ran the lab f
111.
by shagie 3mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20021014120633/http://www.ping-t... They had 20 game machines (for the day)... > Each gaming computer has a 1-Gigahertz Athlon, 21-inch Monitor, GeForce 2 GTS, Sound Blaste
112.
by shagie 3mo ago
A nostalgia point for Tribes... There was a lan gaming place back when people had dial up... and that place had a T1 to the store that had double low double digit ping times when triple digit was common. Tribes was one of the games installe
113.
by shagie 4mo ago
That becomes a question of discoverability and the "what about bumping ancient threads". Consider trn and rn of old. I recall the first news reader that I used wasn't threaded and it was neigh incomprehensible unless you wer
114.
by shagie 4mo ago
I was a contractor at Sun in '97, Palo Alto campus. Initially they put me in a shared office, and that was ok. Later, I got moved to a hallway. My machine had a hard reboot that first night... I lost my unsaved work and at that point
115.
by shagie 4mo ago
It's a matter of spending 200 to 300 hours of practice on it. Learning cursive (and other skills) in school is about trying to make sure opportunities for professions are not excluded. While cursive is not a foundational skill (compa
116.
by shagie 4mo ago
You can get a manual typewriter (hammer rather than ball) on Amazon for about $200. Brand name ones run in the $300 - $400 range. A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons - https:/&#x2F
117.
by shagie 4mo ago
It helps with fine motor skills at a time that people are capable of learning them. ... And there are jobs that use those skills. Correlation between handwriting, drawing skills and dental skills of junior dental students - https:/&#x
118.
by shagie 4mo ago
That is the interesting reason. While the retraction brings into question the anecdotal evidence for the windscreen phenomenon ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windshield_phenomenon ), there are other studies with oth
119.
by shagie 4mo ago
> However, he has been adamant that vaccines are incredibly important for the military ... https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/smallpox-inoculation-revolu... > During the 1700s, smallpox raged through the Ameri
120.
by shagie 4mo ago
Possibly. I was trying to find one with capture in the summer or early fall when it was a lot warmer out. https://web.archive.org/web/20210708150410/https://www.nrel.... The thermosyphon took it from 90

More ›