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by stefco_ 9y ago
I am one of those people. If I couldn't access funds due to some service problem, I would stop using the service unless I saw a good admission of the problem, and explanation of cause, and a description of what the company will do to a
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by stefco_ 9y ago
Totally agree. This strikes me as a reckless strategy. The transportation authorities are quite literally training people to ignore their eyes when they see obstacles. You could argue that drivers should treat a crosswalk the same as a re
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by stefco_ 9y ago
There is a paper trail and oversite further up the chain. This might improve if officers all wear body cameras, but for now, it can create a situation where some demographics get an unfair amount of attention from the police while unaffecte
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by stefco_ 9y ago
I actually agree about their software quality but I worry about software compatibility and unpatched vulns, and I like a few recent features, like icloud notes. So I upgrade. But I prefer the old ones in a lot of ways too.
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by stefco_ 9y ago
MacBookPro7,1 (mid-2010) in Chrome! It's definitely slower than new computers, but usually I don't have trouble with nice JS libraries unless a page is drowning me in tracking software. Just tried it in safari, and it was equally
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by stefco_ 9y ago
> Forgotten Notebooks Am I the only one who immediately assumed that this was an electronic sensor setup logging to some sort of ruggedized laptops that were somehow forgotten and later retrieved? I started thinking about the circumstanc
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by stefco_ 9y ago
This also seems to be the equilibrium solution that academia has reached. You have your specialization, but your whole department has events and colloquia and discussions meant to stir the pot and move information between groups.
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by stefco_ 9y ago
I saw that second notation in some stack overflow answer and had the same epiphany. Cute notations like this make shell scripting fun (and convenient for so many use cases). This article is great for having both a nontrivial FIFO and a no
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by stefco_ 9y ago
I wouldn't call this "lightweight". Every action has about a second of lag on my laptop. I know that my 7 year old MacBook is slower than a lot of machines that are going to run this, but there are plenty of slower machines
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by stefco_ 9y ago
I hope at some point we'll start including recycling/disassembly and replacement externalities into price somehow. I don't know how you would do that in a fair way, but it is frustrating that there aren't a ton of correc
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by stefco_ 9y ago
This was a little vague... does anybody know how exactly degradation and disturbance cause carbon emission at such high levels? Is it just decomposition of dead organisms? If that's the case, this doesn't seem much different than
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by stefco_ 9y ago
>Smart search: We built Page Shot to not only capture a screenshot, but to capture lots of metadata as well. Page Shot extracted text and other attributes from the underlying pages and stored it along with each screenshot. In practice, t
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by stefco_ 9y ago
Yeah, but I believe that those effects are usually from near the source (which is part of why we can use details of the spectrum over time to infer source structure and composition). There might be cases I'm not aware of, though.
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by stefco_ 9y ago
Don't forget the upgrade factor. I find it totally ridiculous that you're forced to buy external enclosures for pro-grade equipment instead of just having a nice, toolless access panel for upgrades. I miss the tower Mac Pro, which
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by stefco_ 9y ago
These gorgeous, physically-correct simulations are about as close as you'll get for now: https://www.black-holes.org/explore/movies
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by stefco_ 9y ago
But we won't detect them with LIGO. We will need a lower-frequency detector, like the space-based LISA design, to do that. It's just like how we have optical telescopes for visible light and radio telescopes for light at different
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by stefco_ 9y ago
BH/BH mergers are in our sensitive frequency band for less than a second, and they get louder and higher-frequency until their peak volume, at which point they ring-down to silence. Neutron stars should spend longer in our sensitive ba
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by stefco_ 9y ago
Yeah, my 7 year old middle-of-the-line MacBook pro is still kicking, so I haven't had to seriously think about upgrades. One of the annoying things is that I won't be able to make my next MacBook last that long because I won'
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by stefco_ 9y ago
Yeah, I don't expect anything better from them. I'd love to see some kind of decent open-source linux distro for phones, but I'm not holding my breath for the near-term future.
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by stefco_ 9y ago
Yes, it seems to be. The privacy and security emphasis is one of the main things keeping me locked in.
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by stefco_ 9y ago
That is a different effect. Interstellar dust is extremely diffuse; it is just vacuum with the occasional chunk of matter absorbing some fraction of light. It can then reemit blackbody radiation, but that is different than what happens in c
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by stefco_ 9y ago
Agreed. iCloud's antics keep forcing me to seriously consider android. Their refusal to give you FS or cache access is similarly infuriating; I stopped using my old 16GB purely because I couldn't selectively control what was store
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by stefco_ 9y ago
This is exactly what's keeping me in Apple's garden... I hate how they're moving core MacOS services away from open source, how they don't document their APIs, how they lock down their phones... and yeah, I miss my headp
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by stefco_ 9y ago
I agree with both of these statements. My hacker side wants to get an android for all of the obvious reasons, but I really appreciate the fact that Apple's marketing interests are aligned with my privacy. I also appreciate that they ar
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by stefco_ 9y ago
Yeah but another idea is that it is isotropic, which is borne out by observation. This leaves a few obvious possiblities: 1. It's infinite and homogeneous 2. It's finite but periodic (like the Earth; go straight long enough and en
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by stefco_ 9y ago
A nuke wouldn't emit measurable GWs, but it would emit seismic waves. There are seismometers that are highly optimized for this task; LIGO, on the other hand, has extremely advanced damping technology designed to filter out seismic and
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by stefco_ 9y ago
We predict that the speed of light and the speed of GWs is the same. One benefit of EM followup is that you can test this hypothesis (you should see roughly simultaneous GW and EM radiation); if it isn't true, then our understanding of
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by stefco_ 9y ago
> What happens to that energy, though? Energy is conserved, even with gravitational waves, correct? Yup. It's like ocean waves carrying energy. The difference is that it's hard to interact with GWs, so instead of "riding&q
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by stefco_ 9y ago
One problem is that supermassive BHs merge at very low frequencies; they merge before their orbits get fast. LIGO's sensitivity range is in about the same range of frequencies as the human ear. NSNS mergers reach our sensitivity sweet
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by stefco_ 9y ago
Another point worth making: we gain more by upgrading than by running. Since our search volume is naturally the cube of our max search distance, a twofold increase in range yields and eightfold yield in search volume, and hence event rate.

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