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by skissane 1y ago
A natural moon of a moon is called a subsatellite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsatellite At present, purely theoretical: we don’t know of any. They are probably quite rare, but we don’t really know - maybe, in c
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by skissane 1y ago
> What is in the SDR is public information, so if you wanted to track them, it's not that hard. The problem is the contents of the basket changes every 5 years. It is trivial to build your own “emulated SDR” just by holding appropri
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by skissane 1y ago
IBM z/OS is officially a Unix-a very weird Unix which uses EBCDIC-but it passed the test suite (an old but still valid version, which makes it somewhat outdated) and IBM paid the fee to The Open Group, so officially it is a Unix. (Alth
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by skissane 1y ago
I still don’t think “totalitarian” is the right word. People called the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy “totalitarian” because they aimed at complete (“total”) state control of all organisations-you weren’t allowed to run a rec
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by skissane 1y ago
A century or so ago, most Western countries were "Country C" – certainly in comparison to what they are today. Did that make them totalitarian nightmares? A lot of people would describe 1920s/1930s Russia as a "totalitar
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by skissane 1y ago
It isn’t just doctors, my father isn’t a doctor (chemistry degree + MBA => pharmaceutical company executive) and I’m not sure if he’s worked this year, but he was definitely working last year (when he was 74/75). And a big reason wh
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by skissane 1y ago
My mother turns 76 this year, and she’s still practising medicine - she no longer has a permanent position, but she’ll work two weeks as a locum in one place, take a few weeks off, spend another couple of weeks as a locum somewhere else, et
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by skissane 1y ago
If normies don't procreate, then the non-normies will – e.g. high TFR ultra-conservative religious minorities such as the Amish, ultra-Orthodox Jews, traditionalist Catholics, quiverfull Evangelicals, Salafists, Velayat-e Faqih Shi&#x2
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by skissane 1y ago
I think they use the original Gregorian cutover, in which 1582-10-04 is followed by 1582-10-15, and the dates 1582-10-05 through 1582-10-14 don’t exist. However, in general, I think proleptic Gregorian is simpler. But in astronomy do what t
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by skissane 1y ago
> That test is not available in Australia even today. Pretty much every lab test is available in Australia if you are willing to pay for it; if they don’t have a local lab capable of running the test, they’ll send the sample overseas The
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by skissane 1y ago
> The is no year 0, it goes 1 BC, 1 AD. So testing whether 0 is a leap year is moot. Not true if you use astronomical year numbering: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering Which is arguably the
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by skissane 1y ago
> Let's just say "Harvard" is a third declension noun because why not. Given Harvard maintains the tradition of Latin addresses (the Latin Salutatory), I’m sure they have an official position on what their name is in Latin
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by skissane 1y ago
I wonder how the NASA copyright works given this general legal rule that US federal government works are automatically in the public domain. I know that rule has various exceptions, but I’m left wondering exactly which of those exceptions a
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by skissane 1y ago
Why does yoyoland need to use libc’s memcpy? Can’t you just use __builtin_memcpy? On Linux, if all you need is syscalls, you can just write your own syscall wrapper-like Go does. Doesn’t work on some other operating systems (e.g. Solaris&#x
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by skissane 1y ago
What's Fil-C? Okay, found it myself, looks cool: https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/ What's yoyoland? All I can find is an amusement park in Bangkok, and some 1990s-era communication softw
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by skissane 1y ago
Let's say some random country follows your advice and decides to go back to the gold standard – is that going to convince people globally to use their currency? Probably not. Because even if the currency is on the gold standard today,
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by skissane 1y ago
> Your hubris would be justified had every media outlet and pundit been talking ad nauseam about how Trump was absolutely going to sweep the field, but they didn't. Harris losing was a shock to many, many informed people. My own sen
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by skissane 1y ago
> Tangent: Protestantism is not a religion. The religion is called Christianity. I have seen this trend for quite a while of Protestants (or people born in Protestant countries) of referring to Christianity branches as religions. Decidin
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by skissane 1y ago
So, a foreign prince (not the King, his brother) enrols as a student at Harvard - would he be considered a “foreign diplomat”? He wasn’t formally acting as a diplomat, and unless he happened to be officially accredited to the State Departme
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by skissane 1y ago
The terms “yank” and “seppo” were more common in older generations of Australians. If you could go back to the 1940s, I think you’d hear both terms a lot (in certain informal contexts) One still occasionally hears “yanks”, but it is quite r
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by skissane 1y ago
I really think this is a failure of education, teaching kids that there are N continents as if that were some kind of objective truth, as opposed to the reality that the definition of “continent” is at least partially conventional, so there
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by skissane 1y ago
Not a foreign sovereign - Boris Johnson was never head of state, only head of government - a distinction often forgotten in countries like the US which merge those two offices into one. (Which is not about the UK being a monarchy-parliament
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by skissane 1y ago
I wouldn’t assume that just because Trump appoints someone to a commission, they and Trump see eye-to-eye about whatever. Bishop Barron is pretty middle-of-the-road as far as US Catholic bishops go - he’s not much of a progressive, but nor
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by skissane 1y ago
> There’s never before been a US citizen who is also a foreign sovereign. Éamon de Valera was born in New York City in 1882, and served as President of Ireland from 1959 to 1973 Bhumibol Adulyadej was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in
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by skissane 1y ago
> The correct answer is no one outside US Government IT knows for sure what is or isn't approved per their own rules Veterans Affairs actually publishes a list of approved software as part of their Technical Reference Model: https:
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by skissane 1y ago
I heard a story once about a research chemist who decided to synthesise LSD for his own use, miscalculated and gave himself a massive overdose-it didn’t kill him, but it rendered him non compos mentis for an extended period. Even domain e
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by skissane 1y ago
> Possibly, arguably this is why the LNP lost but mostly I think, Trump cost them the election. While I agree that Trump and nuclear were factors, I think a bigger factor was charisma - Albanese doesn’t have a lot of it, but at least he’
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by skissane 1y ago
Two factors I think: (1) obsessives have a higher likelihood to follow their obsession into immigration-a factor which works to the advantage of certain parts of the US, to the detriment of most of the rest of the world; (2) Australian inve
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by skissane 1y ago
> Before I go further I must point out that Australia, the UK and New Zealand had a much more difficult task than the US if or when it converts to Metric. Reason: our currency followed the LSD system—Pounds, Shillings and Pence—so we had
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by skissane 1y ago
Sure, but there is a non-zero risk that some malicious data could slip through the curation and filtering processes undetected I agree that’s unlikely, but not astronomically unlikely

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