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by staplung 2y ago
You can do anything at Zombocom. The only limit is yourself. The infinite is possible at Zombocom!
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https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=paleoburrows
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It's hard to know what to make of this because while you've included the output JSON you haven't included the input PDF so I have no idea how to interpret what it's actually doing.
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I feel like the headline is seriously misleading. The TL;DR is basically "the authors observed pockets of several hundred people spontaneously behaving like one fluid that oscillated" over an 18 second period. That hardly seems to
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When Apple built their Maps it was presumably easy to justify the cost because it was dangerous to stay reliant on Google for something so essential to mobile. But maintaining a useful map system has got to be fantastically expensive as
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by staplung 2y ago
> Whereas the entire point of paying a premium for Apple products is that you don’t get subjected to any side hustles The App Store is already filled with paid search results.
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All the calculators that I just tried for the article's expression give the wrong answer (HP Prime, TI-36X Pro, some casio thing). Even google's own online calculator gives the wrong answer, which is mildly ironic. [ https:/&
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by staplung 2y ago
An interesting aspect of PDFs that I didn't know until quite recently is that they're a subset of PostScript and that in fact accounts for some of the heftiness. PostScript is a full-on programming language (albeit an unusual on
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by staplung 2y ago
Not to undermine what they did in any way but one thing the Mexica had that favored a strong grid with central planning was that each new bit of the city was built on land that had to be created from scratch. If you're going to build a
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by staplung 2y ago
At $0.05 per rat, you'd have to kill 330 rats per hour to make minimum wage (in NYC it's $16.50/hr).
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Yes, they have been. The growing tip of a root is called the root apical meristem[1] but the short story is that they work effectively by being tiny and taking years or decades to develop, so not all that helpful in terms of making things e
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by staplung 2y ago
Of course the SPICE is vital to space travel. Travel without moving, as long as you don’t consider telnet to be moving.
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Following Dolli Dimples nightmare decent into booze and drugs and Jasper T. Jowls repeated arrests for excessive drooling, the wheels really came off. Pasqually ended up in an psych ward after an acute psychotic break, Crusty the Cat contra
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by staplung 2y ago
On it's own, probably not that much. We know that amino acids can form in interstellar space and have in fact observed clouds of them in star-forming regions[1]. Finding them on a non-planetary object in our own solar system is certain
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by staplung 2y ago
A bit of lore that I learned in my networking class in college was that the RFC name was chosen as tongue in cheek in that by the time a proposal gets to the RFC stage, comments are very much not appreciated. You're supposed to comme
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It's worth mentioning that cable breakages happen quite often; globally about 200 times per year [1] and the article itself mentions that just last year, two other cables and a gas pipeline were taken out by an anchor. The Gulf of Finl
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by staplung 2y ago
It actually understands roman numerals, to a certain extent. E.g. `say LVIII` will say "58". However, `say MCMLXXIX` speaks some gibberish that ends in the word "six", for some reason. It also knows how to say numbers up
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by staplung 2y ago
> I'm hedging here; it feels to me that OCR-ing normal text that never left the digital realm should be 100% reliable, but I'm not a specialist in that subfield so I surely must be missing something... A string set in a given f
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by staplung 2y ago
> (can amateurs pick up pulsars?) In theory, yes but it's supposed to be pretty tricky. Since it looks like you're up for making antennas, maybe this is for you: https://britastro.org/wp-content/uploads&#x2
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by staplung 2y ago
Okay, I did a little more digging and it seems you're right eszed! Even undersea cables can increase their bandwidth, at least in some cases; seems to be dependent on some modulation factors that I don't fully understand. If I&#x2
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by staplung 2y ago
Yeah, the amplifiers need 10,000 volts. The way the cable is constructed is to have the fiber pairs inside a copper tube (there's some other stuff in between too). The voltage is carried by the tube. The ocean itself serves as the grou
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I'm no expert either but a complicating factor for undersea fiber-optic cables is that they need amplifiers every N kilometers. So even if the cable itself could theoretically support more bandwidth, the amplifiers might not. The ampli
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> So do we sometimes lay cables on top of other cables down there? I don't know exactly how often this has occurred but I'd guess it's relatively rare. The companies that operate in this space are very specialized and soph
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Hard to tell. The cynical response is that the novelty is that it's coming from Stanford. The perhaps more correct response is that the novelty is the mechanism of triggering the apoptosis and the specificity. Here's a paper from
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Don't be foolish. We may one day cross the Atlantic in an aeroplane or conceive of a motorised carriage capable of traveling 50 miles per hour but some dreams are simply impossible!
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The BBC produced a great series, The Secret History of Writing . There's a segment where you can watch some Chinese speakers experiencing this while being prompted to write mildly uncommon words like "cough" or "embarra
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For fun I tried "Formalizing" the original Ecclesiastes verse that Orwell uses in Politics and the English Language , where he translates it into modern English. The original text is: "I returned and saw under the sun, that
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The tennis player in question is Michael T. Joyce. You can read the article on Esquire's site: https://www.esquire.com/sports/a5151/the-string-theory-david... but it's DFW so it's 15k words (approx
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Remains of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine Found on Everest(arstechnica.com)
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Please tell me they called it HooverCoin. Such entrapment. Very problem. Wow.

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