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by troymc 3y ago
"Did you try turning your computer off and then back on again?"
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by troymc 3y ago
The distance between Earth and Neptune oscillates with a period of about one year because Neptune moves around the sun much slower than the Earth does. The Earth-Neptune distance oscillates between about 29 AU and 31 AU. I checked your calc
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by troymc 3y ago
These are all good improvements. Thanks! My thinking now is that you could send the spacecraft out to Neptune and do a gravity-assist maneuver there, sending the spacecraft into a large orbit around the Sun, with a high perihelion.
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by troymc 3y ago
I wrote that the proposed system was inspired by the TOR network, not that it literally uses the TOR network. To send a message across the TOR network, you wrap it in a bunch of layers of encryption, and then each TOR node removes one lay
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by troymc 3y ago
The up-front capital expenditure might be high, yes, but it might be possible to recoup that by charging fees for the service once it's working. The Chunnel had a high capex too. In any case, I just wanted to show that working timelock
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by troymc 3y ago
Here's a way to encrypt something with an actual timelock, which works because physics. More specifically, it works because there is a maximum speed that information can travel through space: the speed of light. Step 1: Generate a la
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by troymc 3y ago
Everyone keeps nattering on about AI, but this is the big story.
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by troymc 3y ago
I always suffuse Audacity with Academy
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by troymc 3y ago
They have light sources on the inside of the plane, like lamps and stuff.
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by troymc 3y ago
All new cars, including Toyta Corollas, have a lot of software in them, and it should be updated from time to time, e.g. to fix bugs. For example, see: https://www.toyota.com/firmware-updates#
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by troymc 3y ago
When I first heard the term "Windows Copilot", I assumed it was something like this, but so far it seems way less useful.
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by troymc 3y ago
That's the cheesiest link yet.
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by troymc 3y ago
It seems that the thing they're measuring is the amount of instantaneous power that all the new "sources" could deliver at once, assuming they're able to deliver right then, and at max-output-power. In other words, it&
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by troymc 3y ago
You must have signed an employment contract when you accepted your job offer, and you should have been given a copy. If not, just ask for a copy. You don't need to say why.
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by troymc 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt. This is not formal legal advice etc. etc. You should re-read your employment contract, and any other official company terms and conditions of employment. Some employers do say that
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by troymc 3y ago
I guess the artist could just give a link to their external e-commerce store hosted by e.g. Lemon Squeezy or whatever.
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by troymc 3y ago
Another solution would be to hire some folks with proton packs to lasso the ghosts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_pack
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by troymc 3y ago
Here's an even crazier idea: get the players (i.e. the people bowling) to reset the pins by hand, manually. To make that safe, just let them deploy some walls along the lane while they do that. The person currently doing the resetting
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by troymc 3y ago
Santa Claus calls them reindeer, therefore Santa must be Eurasian. Everyone in Finland knows that he lives in Finland. Canadians, however...
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by troymc 3y ago
Fun fact: Reindeer and caribou are the same species, Rangifer tarandus .
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by troymc 3y ago
Like the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz .
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by troymc 3y ago
I don't think I've ever seen the ⏼ symbol, only ⏻, but maybe I'm weird.
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by troymc 3y ago
Snow tires are something you drive around with every day, in the winter months, to improve traction, whereas snow chains are something you put on when there is a layer of compacted snow & ice on the road. You definitely don't drive
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by troymc 3y ago
Pierre Auger Observatory is a project with scientific collaborators from all over the world. The initial construction costs were shared by 15 different countries. Ongoing work and upgrades are paid by a variety of international funding sour
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by troymc 3y ago
No, I haven't tried to run Affinity apps on Linux. I do use Linux (desktop) quite a lot, but I haven't found anything quite like Affinity Designer for Linux, i.e. GPU-accelerated vector graphics rendering. For simple projects, I o
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by troymc 3y ago
Affinity makes some great alternatives to Photoshop and Illustrator (and you only pay for it once rather than monthly). They have a 40% off deal for Black Friday. See https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/
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by troymc 3y ago
419 I'M AN AGI
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by troymc 3y ago
I was thrown into a bottomless pit, but I reasoned that it must have a wall, right? So I said that I maneuvered like a skydiver to get to the wall, and then climbed out. But the AI didn't seem to think that bottomless pits have walls.
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by troymc 3y ago
One of the requirements is 500GB of available storage space on your computer?
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by troymc 3y ago
Kevin Scott (the CTO of Microsoft) interviewed her in an episode of his podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/simone-giertz-inventor...

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