smingo

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   by smingo 4y ago

   There is a correlation between BTC and GPU / graphics card price. And there's the stupid quantities of energy devoted to mining. At some point, processing bitcoin will become uneconomic. It will then be unspendable, and the pri
2. 32.▲
   by smingo 4y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_Derwish
3. 33.▲
   by smingo 5y ago

   Chomsky talked of "Manufacturing Consent". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
4. 34.▲
   by smingo 5y ago

   It's good stuff. It might be good to have an option to have a time threshold based on when the typing starts, not when the word appears. In that way, the time taken to recognise the word becomes irrelevant.
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   by smingo 5y ago

   Well that actually makes it almost plausible for Hubble to capture an image of JWST According to Wikipedia, the order is: Sun, L1, Earth, L2. So L2 is always in the night sky. I don't see issues with focus. 1.5M km is effectively inf
6. 36.▲
   by smingo 5y ago

   Would Hubble be able to resolve Webb? Or vice versa?
7. 37.▲
   by smingo 5y ago

   So much is wrong on this page - poor choices on the diagrams, erroneous text. And no obvious ways to suggest corrections.
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   Concerning amount of errors on BBC comp. sci. revision page(bbc.co.uk)

   2 points by smingo 5y ago|3 comments
9. 39.▲
   by smingo 5y ago

   There is this Erlang unit, for the number of simultaneous calls a telecommunication system can handle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(unit) It's dimensionless, because it multiplies the rate that calls are
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    by smingo 8y ago

    Did you manage to configure SPF correctly in your DNS records?
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    by smingo 9y ago

    We could call the resultant algorithms "simulated ant kneeling".
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    by smingo 9y ago

    There is https://www.wikitribune.com/ which is supported both through subscriptions and donations. It's early days for Jimbo Wales's latest venture.