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by tgflynn 6y ago
Four pilots in two different aircraft plus the radar operators all confused in the same way. What are the odds of that ?
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by tgflynn 6y ago
> I have yet to see evidences that aliens have cause a UAP Neither have I but the title of this article is "why look at flying saucers", not "why believe in ET visitation". > We even have pretty good psycho-sociolo
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by tgflynn 6y ago
To dismiss all evidence of UAP's out of hand as "illogical" is just as unscientific as to accept them as being proof of ET visitation. It may be that all these claimed observations are the product of some sort of collective p
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by tgflynn 6y ago
This article makes for an interesting read. I'm not qualified to evaluate its historical claims but its claims about the current state of science in the Muslim world don't agree with what little knowledge I have in that area. Th
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by tgflynn 6y ago
OK, in that case I'm not a good person to be giving advice since that's not something I've ever succeeded in doing but I'll try anyway. I think you need to be clear about what it is you're looking to get out of peop
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by tgflynn 6y ago
What is your goal here ? Do you want to build some software solution, open source it, start a company to solve a problem or what ? Without more information about your goals and some more specifics on the problem domain I doubt you'll
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by tgflynn 6y ago
> Of course "some" is assumed. That's not how it initially parses for me, and I think for most people. As for the emotional investment, for this one case certainly not, but this same pattern keeps coming up time and time a
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by tgflynn 6y ago
I think a more accurate title would be something like: SETI Project Proposes Building an Observatory on the Moon
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by tgflynn 6y ago
I'm fed up with titles like this that suggest that an entire scientific community, or at least some body with a legitimate claim to representing the interests of that community, wants something when all that is really happening is that
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by tgflynn 6y ago
One of the reasons for studying math is so that your tools, whether it's software today or formulas or tables in the past, aren't just mysterious black boxes to you but something you can understand and figure out from first princi
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by tgflynn 6y ago
> I have never used anything remotely related to calculus. Really, you've never had to calculate an amortization schedule or the time value of money ?
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by tgflynn 6y ago
If you can afford a million dollar house you can probably afford private schools.
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by tgflynn 6y ago
How is hydrogen a greenhouse gas (and what do you mean by "indirect") ?
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by tgflynn 6y ago
Any piece of javascript code on any website you visit is going to be running inside of Firefox on your local network. I don't know how widespread these kinds of attacks are but they are reasonably well known which is why these port bla
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by tgflynn 6y ago
Hmm. There's some more information here: https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/portbanning . I'm up-voting your original comment because it does seem like a potentially valid concern, at least
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by tgflynn 6y ago
Do you have a reference for "Browsers block many ports" ? I thought there are even ssh clients that run in javascript in the browser. That wouldn't work if browsers were blocking access to port 22 for outgoing packets/c
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by tgflynn 6y ago
Your argument would apply equally well to a book. A book is nothing but a sequence of symbols chosen from a small finite set. Therefore a book is actually a recipe for recreating itself because the book tells you exactly how to arrange it
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by tgflynn 6y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I think you are misunderstanding paragraph b: > In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, o
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by tgflynn 6y ago
One question I have about your idea is how small is small ? If your detection threshold is too low you'll be dispatching drones to people's campfires or grills. If it's much larger than that the fire will be too big for any
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by tgflynn 6y ago
This reminds me of the binaural beat technique ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemi-Sync ) that the Monroe Institute has been claiming for decades is a way to induce out of body like experiences.
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by tgflynn 6y ago
If life exists in Venus' atmosphere and it's carbon based shouldn't we have detected evidence of organic molecules, notably methane, by now ?
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by tgflynn 6y ago
That's essentially what Python's struct module does.
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by tgflynn 6y ago
Probably whatever language you're using for the rest of the project. Of course it's most straightforward to do in C but most higher level and/or scripting languages provide some sort of API for dealing with binary data becau
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by tgflynn 6y ago
I would be very surprised if there wasn't some exception for papers published abroad. Otherwise they would be potentially ignoring a lot of information about candidates.
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by tgflynn 6y ago
I was high school age in the early 80's when MRI machines were first getting deployed and I was very interested in the technology back then. I remember reading books/articles that claimed that within a few years there would be in
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by tgflynn 6y ago
Very bad things. That's always been one of the key factors limiting helicopter performance.
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by tgflynn 6y ago
Of course the traditional answer to this question would be to do a Ph.D. in physics. If that isn't an option there are usually more specialized books in specific research areas beyond the level of undergrad/beginning grad-level te
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by tgflynn 6y ago
Are all of those drawing significant current though ? If you just have some small component with an odd voltage requirement that doesn't need much current couldn't you supply it with something a lot simpler than a dc-dc converter
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by tgflynn 6y ago
> If you want to miniaturize electronics you need to miniaturize the inductors used in power conversion Hasn't that problem mostly been solved already with switch mode power supplies that are pretty small. With most personal electro
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by tgflynn 6y ago
Yes, I got the same impression. It seems like they're also confusing a small number of official reports with old war stories on a website for veterans who used to be stationed there. Overall this story seems far less interesting than

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