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   by tocs3 2y ago

   I would like to see some of the faceted garnets found. The ones in the pictures all look natural to me.
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   by tocs3 2y ago

   What do you give up when you stick to rational numbers apposed to real numbers when dealing with nature? I could see some things like pi would point to real numbers but in nature we will never get "exact" measurements anyway. Are
3. 453.▲
   by tocs3 2y ago

   Could, is there talk about, nature being rational and not real (as in the number systems). Things could still being infinitely small but still discreet. As an armchair physicist I think this is a brilliant idea.
4. 454.▲
   by tocs3 2y ago

   I used to be a fan but now I think his world view is much more "Whatever suits me for the moment." There maybe times when that matches up with whatever others might believe or want but it is not to be relied upon.
5. 455.▲
   by tocs3 2y ago

   I have been wanting a Morse Code keyboard for years (I was a wearable computer hopeful around the turn of the century [1][2]). I've built a couple morse code keyboards in the past. One with a scavenged ps2 keyboard, a giant messy hack.
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   by tocs3 2y ago

   I suppose they did the same sorts of things pianists did before pianos. Edit: and built radios.
7. 457.▲
   by tocs3 2y ago

   I would like to know where to get a good hyperspectral imager.
8. 458.▲
   by tocs3 2y ago

   How many Hacker News readers can understand what is said and being asked here? I would like to know but my math knowledge is not nearly up to it. Do even more (much more) experienced mathematicians have to study it for a while or does it mo
9. 459.▲
   by tocs3 2y ago

   I suppose telling this story will also turn into a festive tradition.
10. 460.▲
    by tocs3 2y ago

    I have seen the add and did not think anything of it. It is not much different or any more mindless than a lot (maybe most) other adds these days.
11. 461.▲
    by tocs3 2y ago

    I think it may be we are all missing some crucial information.
12. 462.▲
    by tocs3 2y ago

    As far as I remember, they have always been there.
13. 463.▲
    by tocs3 2y ago

    I do not have a lot o say here but that I appreciate this post.
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    I am glad to see Ted Chiang listed as well as Martha Wells with the murderbot "All Systems Red". I would like to add Diaspora: A Novel by Greg Egan. The bit about Wang's carpets (sort of Wang's Tiles) was my favorite bit
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    I did not even think to look. Now that I have, there is another link [0] that breaks up the data into numbers of home of by age (I think the number of homes axis is a couple orders of magnitude off but is still representative). [0] From 202
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    I 55yo. I think any people 40s+ would have meet 90-100 yo family members in their youth. I lived in in a 1870s house in a town in Connecticut and most of the houses on Main St. were of that vintage. It is not so uncommon in New England. Of
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    "132 years old seems older to an American than it does to you" As an American, I take some small exception here. I have met people who were alive when this letter was written. 132 years was a long time ago, but not that long.
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    I am sorry to see that they closed. I visited several times while I was living in Connecticut and it was a nice store with a pretty broad range of products. Would also like to mention "Altex" of old in San Antonio TX. They have mo
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    How much of this real and representative of what happened. Is this a "based on a true story" sort of story?
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    >> "Stores switched from having an incentive to give out as few plastic bags as possible to save money to having an incentive to give out as many as possible to make money" The large stores around me (in a free plastic bag z
21. 471.▲
    by tocs3 2y ago

    I have been been looking for similar technology recently. So thank yoou for the post. I do not really have time to look at it right now. Does anyone have any thoughts.
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    Would be more interesting if reference was given.
23. 473.▲
    by tocs3 2y ago

    Maybe show some of the 2D cellular automata.
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    I would have thought the vibration from the engines would produce error of greater that 1/2 cm. Still, it seamed to have worked well. So, there you go.
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    I agree with your sentiment (I think) but Musk is not in government. He is one of the ones paying out for favors.
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    I have been working on PE problems for most of 10 years. One thing I would sort of like to do is make a library (mostly I have been using python) for some of the more common functions. Do you have anything like that?
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    Do you have a favorite?
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    Has here been any work done to find out about the average HN user? It seems like it would be a hard thing to do but it might be interesting to see. I do not even know what sort of metrics would be useful to measure.
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    I have spent a little time with Project Euler. Is it very popular with those here at HN?
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    by tocs3 2y ago

    I enjoyed seeing starts orbit around Sagittarius A* ( https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1825e/ ). Seeing it a little closer up will be exciting (2029 is a ways away though). Other astronomical time lapse vid