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by troymc 5y ago
"It's not a bug, it's a frammish."
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by troymc 5y ago
The vast majority of the living things on Earth didn't start off on a lab bench, they just mutated and evolved "out there," in nature. Therefore the converse is not true.
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by troymc 5y ago
This article implies that all energy in the US, including electricity, comes from petroleum, but in the US, very little electricity comes from petroleum-based sources. It comes mostly from burning natural gas, burning coal, nuclear fission,
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by troymc 5y ago
Citation needed.
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by troymc 5y ago
The squirrels will eat all the reward food.
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by troymc 5y ago
Yes: use actual biology and biological processes. Just like life already does. It doesn't cost millions of dollars and megawatts of power to create and run a dolphin or a crow.
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by troymc 5y ago
To be fair to the original author/freelancer, they didn't "complain on HN." They wrote a blog post, and someone shared it on HN. But yes, this does seem like something for the courts to sort out. In Saskatchewan, I'
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by troymc 5y ago
Don't forget Katzenzungen (cat tongues)! https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0061BPM2S
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by troymc 5y ago
The refractive index of air is very close to that of vacuum (which is 1), so most Starlink transmissions between nodes (ground-satellite, and satellite-satellite) will travel at near light speed.
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by troymc 5y ago
NFT.
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by troymc 5y ago
Indeed, I suspect there's a good case for fair use as parody or satire (but I'm not a lawyer and this HN comment should not be interpreted or used as legal advice).
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by troymc 5y ago
Ah, I see what you mean. Yes.
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by troymc 5y ago
The LHC uses electric and magnetic fields to accelerate charged particles to near the speed of light inside a circular vacuum tube. To picture a tether sling, imagine a lighthouse on the Moon with a giant arm sticking out of its side, and t
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by troymc 5y ago
You can build something like this, but much bigger , and with no external casing, on the Moon or anywhere with little or no atmosphere. Professor James Longuski and his students at Purdue University have done quite a bit of research on thi
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by troymc 5y ago
Here's your answer: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-we%27re-...
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by troymc 5y ago
Pragmatically, many developers can just use the APIs provided by Unreal Engine, Unity, Godot, Qt, or whatever and let them figure out how to support various GPUs.
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by troymc 5y ago
Here in Saskatchewan, it was unusually dry this year, so the amount of hay was way less than normal. I heard figures like 10% to 20% of normal in some areas. As a result, the price of hay went way up, and some people are getting hay from as
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by troymc 5y ago
Centralized and decentralized networks already co-exist and I see no reason why that won't continue.
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by troymc 5y ago
It might not be irritating to you but it is irritating to me.
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by troymc 5y ago
The use of the word "crypto" to mean "cryptocurrency" in this article is irritating because in the context of tech, "crypto" can also mean "cryptography" and I'm pretty sure Stripe already has lo
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by troymc 5y ago
The article says, "Japanese chipmakers had dropped out of the race for large-scale chip development by the 2010s and instead contracted out the production of cutting-edge semiconductors to companies like TSMC." and the new plant &
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by troymc 5y ago
A simpler sorting algorithm might be: until sorted(A) {assign a random order to the elements of A} There are n! ways to assign indices to the n items, so the expected time for the algorithm to complete grows at least as fast as n!, i.e. not
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by troymc 5y ago
The future price of $499/month seems too high. You are not the only option in this space. See Slip, for example (at https://www.slip.so/ ). They charge $0 per month plus %10 of sales.
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by troymc 5y ago
It was news to me. I hold USDC because I thought every USDC was backed by a US dollar. That's what all their statements said. I don't even know what commercial paper is. Why did they find the need to back some USDC with that? Is s
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by troymc 5y ago
This sounds like the plot for a really fun movie.
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by troymc 5y ago
It might have started at AWS, but it seems they really want it to have a broad set of contributors under the Linux Foundation umbrella. "We [at AWS] invested over a year to recruit partners with the right mix of resources, expertise, a
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by troymc 5y ago
I disagree. I learned a huge amount of information about Quadriga from that podcast (A Death in Cryptoland). It wasn't produced by some random Joe in his basement. It was produced by the CBC, Canada's public broadcaster and a Cana
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by troymc 5y ago
While that's true, I doubt that will ever be a problem for ALiEn or Flickr.
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by troymc 5y ago
You can turn that off: Settings - Advanced - Escape Key - flip the switch
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by troymc 6y ago
Vermicelli translates loosely to "little worms."

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