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by thamer 5y ago
I was curious about the cost and looked it up, the estimates I found were in the $5-15 billion range. Not that it's out of reach or anything, but it's quite a bit more than $3-4B. For example, this TSMC fab planned in Arizona is e
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by thamer 5y ago
This article is pretty vague. What does it even mean to ban Facebook "from using data from WhatsApp users"? Facebook "uses data from WhatsApp users" to support basic features like authentication, is that banned now? What
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by thamer 5y ago
In the tiny bubble of radius ~130 light-years that we've managed to send radio waves to, maybe. The radius of the observable universe is about 46.5 billion light-years, who knows what else is in there. The ratio between these two numbe
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by thamer 5y ago
Not to be confused with Hacker News' /classic: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic /classic uses the same ranking system as the regular front page but only counts votes from early users, defined as accounts
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by thamer 5y ago
Good find! Some of these products though… Princes Beef Paste 75G, description: "Beef Paste with Minced Chicken". Price: £0.50 (≈ $0.70) Good for him that he enjoys his four(!) "sandwiches with paste" for lunch, but this
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by thamer 5y ago
The New York Times' Visual Investigations team published an article and video a few weeks ago showing how they had tracked a tanker smuggling oil to North Korea. It's a fascinating maze of shell companies and dark ships using all
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by thamer 5y ago
I would second this suggestion. I was querying CSV data imported into SQLite this weekend, and it was extremely easy to get started. SQLite is pretty snappy even for tables with millions of rows. SQLite supports defining columns without a t
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by thamer 5y ago
The video linked in the parent post explains that the Manhattan eruv has never been down. A rabbi goes all around on Thursday and repairs are made on Friday if needed. Even when the Thanksgiving parade knocked down some wires or after hurri
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by thamer 5y ago
5,200 metric tons over the whole planet is about 10 micrograms per square meter on average (assuming the distribution is even). Looking for a way to compare this number to something I could relate to, I found that "an average grain of
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by thamer 5y ago
Here's my chance to plug something I wrote long ago (back in 2012), and revived earlier this month. I used the train/bus/riverboat schedules from Transport for London (TfL) to create an animated view over 24 hours of every si
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Emotet malware self-destructs after cops deliver time-bomb DLL to infected PCs(theregister.com)
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by thamer 5y ago
This reminds me of the theory that the Rapa Nui on Easter Island also suffered from self-inflicted "ecocide", cutting down all their trees to build their legendary Moai statues and ending up with no birds, unstable soil, erosion…
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by thamer 5y ago
Let's hope they don't close your account. In Futurama's "A Fishful of Dollars"[1] Fry discovers that the $0.93 he had in his account when he was cryogenically frozen in the year 2,000 had grown at 2.25% a year to al
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by thamer 5y ago
It's not the case. There are consequences to the proportion of some nucleotides, the most well-known being the GC-content[1], or proportion in a sequence of bases being G or C (G pairs with C and A pairs with T). There are benefits to
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by thamer 5y ago
Apart from the new features added in C11 or C17 that others have mentioned, both Beej's Guide and Modern C also cover threads and string encoding (neither of these topics are covered in K&R 2nd edition, as far as I remember). Beej&
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by thamer 5y ago
Indeed, this is incorrect. He didn't die in prison but his death was likely precipitated by the conditions of his imprisonment. From Wikipedia[1]: > In March 2005, in Orsha prison, Marynich suffered a cerebral stroke. The stroke was
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by thamer 6y ago
You don't need a professional camera for this. There are a few apps like Camo[1] or NeuralCam Live[2] that let you use a smartphone as your webcam for a much better image quality than most webcams. Just get a phone clip with a flexible
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by thamer 6y ago
I've tried to get `act` to work several times over the past few months, and never managed to get even a basic workflow to run locally. It kept giving cryptic errors that I had to dig into their code to figure out (e.g. requiring a GitH
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by thamer 6y ago
The article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/climate/nft-climate-chang...
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by thamer 6y ago
Cloudflare folks: do you have plans to support subdomains? I've been using AWS CloudFront and am pretty happy with it, but the performance claims made by CloudFlare were intriguing enough for me to give it a try. I tried adding somethi
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by thamer 6y ago
About 117M tons a year: https://www.statista.com/statistics/716037/global-banana-mar... So about 130 bananas a year per person? That seems like a lot: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=117
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by thamer 6y ago
Astronauts[1] also report seeing random flashes of light from time to time, believed to be due to high-energy particles interacting with their optical nerves, or cells in the retina, or maybe neurons too. Space is not a very friendly enviro
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by thamer 6y ago
Wayback Machine has it[1], but there's not much more content than in Gruber's summary. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150429225603/https://mesospher...
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by thamer 6y ago
Interesting to read this. I interviewed 3 different engineers from Mesosphere in 2015 or so at a time when it seemed like the company was tanking and everyone was looking for a new job. At least for the people I interviewed, there was nothi
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by thamer 6y ago
Not saying I did this, but in theory you could download the data from one of the links in this thread and grep for your name: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26682774
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by thamer 6y ago
I went to Egypt in 2012 and visited the Royal Mummy Room in the Egyptian Museum, it was unforgettable and one of the top highlights of my trip. I had seen mummies before at the Louvre in Paris and at the British Museum in London, but this w
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by thamer 6y ago
Indeed I found my name and phone number in the new Facebook leak, but my email address wasn't listed. I would recommend people check for themselves.
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by thamer 6y ago
Betting on whether someone is still alive by a certain date is probably against the rules of this prediction market, but this is a classic way (read: academic) to implement a hitman service with some level of safety between the participants
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by thamer 6y ago
It's quite possible that some people will eventually contract COVID-19 and die from it, even several weeks after getting their last immunization shot (supposedly at a point when they're fully protected). It just didn't happen
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by thamer 6y ago
> I like to think of it as I am ~1/10th as likely to get the disease as I would be if i had not been vaccinated. > Is this what they mean in this? Yes, that's what they mean. And even for the vaccines that are ~60-70% effect

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