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by sxp 6y ago
https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1294653961211752448 > Friends, at the request of the original author, I have deleted the thread entitled "What's going on with Intel?" He was not comfortable
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by sxp 6y ago
This article is mostly fluff. It doesn't get into any interesting technical details. The core bits are: > Mr. Kokorich, 44, is one such entrepreneur. In 2017 he founded Momentus, a California-based company that seeks to revolutioniz
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by sxp 6y ago
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/podcast-discussions-in-order-o... has links to discussions about the graphs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock also has more info but fewer graphs.
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WTF Happened in 1971?(wtfhappenedin1971.com)
10 points by sxp 6y ago|5 comments
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The RSTHD Keyboard Layout(xsznix.wordpress.com)
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by sxp 6y ago
> How do you feed your children in this scenario where neither parent works? How about medical bills? FIRE. If your life plan involves having kids, you'll need higher FIRE number, but it's still possible. Medicial bills are al
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by sxp 6y ago
A slightly cheaper option would be to get a bunch of Pi Zero W devices. They're $10 + SDcards. They would rely on WiFi which might be acceptable if the use case allows having a few dozen radios chattering next to each other. If not, th
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by sxp 6y ago
> Having children is very expensive, so it’s hard to make that work with FIRE. On the other hand, van life and tiny houses are logistically prohibitive to having children. This is debatable. If neither parent is working and they have the
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by sxp 6y ago
Is this a paid ad on the BBC? If What3Words was an open database, it would be a decent system. But it's a proprietary database on top of GPS controlled by a company that aggressively uses the DMCA: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by sxp 6y ago
Javascript and Python have similar capabilities, but they're missing the stream fusion optimization mentioned at https://chrisdone.com/posts/stream-composability/ Javascript: a = [...Array(20).keys()] p
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by sxp 6y ago
This needs either a (2013) or (1973) tag in the title. It's a good video and worth watching like many other Bret Victor videos.
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This gets into etymological arguments about what a "witch" is. > The sisters, who were known to be herbal healers, swore their revenge, the story goes. A "witch" in certain contexts could be an evil apothecary: https
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by sxp 6y ago
They were at 75% in 2014. They might be closer to 100% now. Ever since I learned about IKEA's CGI work, I always take more time to browse their catalogs. https://web.archive.org/web/20141230115206/http:/&
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by sxp 6y ago
One way of approching this issue is The Kolmogorov option proposed by Scott Aaronson: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3376 It can be summarized as " Instead the iconoclast can choose what I think of as the K
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by sxp 6y ago
There is an interesting sci-fi version of Mormonism's baptism of the dead & Tipler's Omega Point in Charles Stross's Accelerando: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler
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by sxp 6y ago
> Video shot by O’Shea and provided to OPB shows a dark screen as O’Shea narrates the scene. Metadata from the video confirms the time and place of the protesters’ account. It would have been nice if they linked the video. https:/&
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That doesn't apply here. Nuclear war & nuclear winter wouldn't necessarily be an extinction event. It would result in millions of deaths and a regression in quality of life for those who remain, but they most people would be a
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by sxp 6y ago
If you're an optimist, there is the view that neither side of the Cold War wanted to die. Excluding the truly religious people who believe that dying and going to heaven is better than being alive, most people want to avoid their own d
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by sxp 6y ago
This online skychart has useful info on when & where to look: https://theskylive.com/planetarium?objects=c2020f3
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Thanks for doing the math. This article is complete clickbait bullshit. Performing a histortical price comparison without accounting for inflation or some other price index will result in nonsensical results.
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> Conrad was ... the author of several technical books, including the classic "Land of Lisp". That book has very interesting art. I hope he brings that style to the game. I hope he does something strange like implement the game
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by sxp 6y ago
https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich/blob/master/rich/console... shows that's it's directly using escape codes: http://ascii-table.com/ansi-escape-sequences-vt-100.php
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U.S. Coronavirus Cases Are Rising Sharply, but Deaths Are Still Down(nytimes.com)
22 points by sxp 6y ago|12 comments
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> He told me it would be a mostly positive piece about how we were an interesting gathering place for people in tech, and how we were ahead of the curve on some aspects of the coronavirus situation. It probably would have been a very nic
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The easiest way to settle this argument is to just run ARM Linux apps on Android via Termux + Proot: https://github.com/adi1090x/termux-desktop While one can quibble over whether Android "is" Linux, it's
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by sxp 6y ago
> What's most striking to me as someone who has heard over and over again about how air resistance is a X^2 property, is the extent to which short (and presumably slow) trips punch above their weight in terms of range consumed per m
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To understand the difference between a small pupil and a large one, it's useful to understand how "aperture" settings work on a camera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture Specifically, bright light r
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by sxp 6y ago
Key points: * "The study asked for 1,000 volunteers to provide blood and swab samples and answer a survey, however only 382 Roosevelt sailors participated. The volunteers were not a representative sample of the crew population..."
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New study of USS Theodore Roosevelt shows how Covid affects young healthy adults(stripes.com)
4 points by sxp 6y ago|1 comments
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I've heard this fact phrased as "the time between the construction of the pyramids and 0 AD is more than the time from 0 AD to present day" which blows my mind every time I think of it.

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