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by staplung 4y ago
The article mentions that the majority of the launches have been for themselves (i.e. Starlink) but neglects to mention exactly how many. Does anyone know?
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by staplung 4y ago
CotEditor is great. I've been using it for years, though not as my primary editor. It feels like a spiritual successor to TextWrangler. In some respects it feels a little old-school in that it's not afraid to use multiple windows.
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by staplung 4y ago
Loved Scorched Earth. Had this fun bug/feature related to the weapons market. Between rounds you used your earnings to buy more weapons for the next round. There was an option to make it a "free market" which meant that the p
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by staplung 4y ago
William Gibson wrote a piece for Wired back in the day about his obsession with mechanical watches.[1] He puts it thus: ``` Mechanical watches are so brilliantly unnecessary. Any Swatch or Casio keeps better time, and high-end contemporary
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by staplung 4y ago
Horses also sweat. We don't seem to be too bothered by it (although I cannot claim to know what a sweaty horse smells like). Also, cats and dogs do sweat a little, mostly through their paws.
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by staplung 4y ago
Yeah, the first time I went to Tokyo I was excited to see that the train to/from the airport would be passing through Chiba. When we got there I thought: "Huh. Not what I was expecting." There is a passage in the book with a
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by staplung 4y ago
These machines are pretty good...if you think of them as clocks with a bunch of useless buttons. As a social experiment they should try to maximize frustration by randomizing the keyboard layout and implementing ELIZA as the user interface.
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by staplung 5y ago
I feel like their slogan should be lifted from Mr Lee's Greater Hong Kong: "Whether seriously in business or on a fun-loving hijink, make yourself totally homely in this meager environment. If any aspect is not utterly harmonious,
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by staplung 5y ago
One word: branding I was a Googler many, many moons ago and IIRC this actually came up in orientation.
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by staplung 5y ago
There are several ways. The "traditional" route is to study Crab at Crustacean U. Another popular method is to attend a Crab bootcamp where they teach you the basics like walking sideways and dealing with eye stalks. Lastly, I hav
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by staplung 5y ago
Unfortunately, for any of us that own that edition I assume it's illegal to post a scan but I did find a picture of the cover of that issue at amazon so you can at least see the Morse code "get wired" he mentions in the artic
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by staplung 5y ago
I was using my phone for contactless pay but stopped during the pandemic because I realized it was more cumbersome than using a credit card to do the same thing. The phone tries to scan my face, fails because of the mask, then just waits fo
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by staplung 5y ago
Whenever I encounter a latin/greek medical term I often amuse myself by translating it into colloquial English. lithotripsy = stone crush presbyopia = old man eyes streptococcus = chain of spheres contusion = bruise
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by staplung 5y ago
Surprised that no one has mentioned https://theuselessweb.com . That's how I was first introduced to Zombocom, among many, many others.
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by staplung 5y ago
Orwell wrote an essay about Kipling[1] that might be worth reading if you want to know about more about him. Orwell's take: "Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. It is better to s
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by staplung 5y ago
And of course, At the Dam , one of my all time favorite pieces of non-fiction http://deathray.us/no_crawl/others/atthedam.html
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At the Dam (Joan Didion)(deathray.us)
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Mercedes-Benz gets world’s first approval for automated driving system(arstechnica.com)
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by staplung 5y ago
Seems like yet another lesson from Clay Shirky's "A Group is its own Worst Enemy"[1]. From the talk/essay: It’s obvious that there are no groups without members. But what’s less obvious is that there are no members w
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by staplung 5y ago
It's like a matrix applied to a building.
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by staplung 5y ago
My understanding is that the 4680 cell doesn't have any better energy density than what Tesla is currently using (the 2170). Yes, it has 5x the energy of the 2170 but it's also 5.5x bigger in volume. In essence, the energy densit
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by staplung 5y ago
Go (2009), TypeScript (2012), Julia (2012) and Swift (2014) are all contenders
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by staplung 5y ago
In many ways I feel like Clojure is a better Lisp than Lisp itself. Syntactic niceties like support for vectors/maps/sets are, once you've gotten used to them, hard to do without. And although it's orthogonal to the synt
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by staplung 5y ago
That's a cool projection that I had never heard of. One thing it's also going to do is mess up the cardinal directions. E.g. in North America, north will be to the left. Might make things slightly confusing when you're trying
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by staplung 5y ago
It's fun to think about all the things that are in the library. E.g. your exact genome, or the genome of a T. Rex. A hi-def version of every movie ever made, encoded in a suitable format that respects the limitations of the allowed &qu
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by staplung 5y ago
Rust is cool and all but I feel like the code examples would have been a bit more didactic in e.g. Julia since there's less distracting complexity in those types of languages. Here's a somewhat equivalent translation of the first
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by staplung 5y ago
The link doesn’t seem to specify which variant of D. Did I miss that part? Discussion here seems to be mostly around D3.
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by staplung 5y ago
Come on _scientists_...they're obviously petrified Pokéballs.
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Perhaps this is a quibbling point but the Great Oxidation Event happened more than 2 billion years ago, long before plants evolved. Most atmospheric oxygen was "created" by cyanobacteria. In fact, plants - along with all other mul
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by staplung 5y ago
Best definition of a city ever: “bolide sensor”. Love it

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