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by troymc 3y ago
An observation: Computers are already really good at chess, better than most people. You might say that we've passed the "chess singularity." But many people still buy chess boards, play chess against each other, travel to ch
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by troymc 3y ago
True, so the bank robber should be tried for bank robbery. The question here is whether the bank can get back some or all of the stolen money, i.e. can FTX customers get back the money & cryptocurrency they gave to FTX for safe keeping,
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US Space Force's first official painting(space.com)
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by troymc 3y ago
Also not a two-layer hoarfrost. https://www.britannica.com/science/hoarfrost
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by troymc 3y ago
Here's a modern take: https://typst.app/
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by troymc 3y ago
> It's like Latex all over again. LaTeX, or more generally, the TeX family, never went away. It's still the go-to toolkit for writing journal papers in most of the STEM disciplines. Moreover, Nota is not a direct competitor t
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by troymc 3y ago
The second sentence of the abstract says, "Rather than executing computations on Bitcoin, they are merely verified..."
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by troymc 3y ago
I'm not sure "social engineering" is the right terminology here. Maybe "threatening" or "shaming"?
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by troymc 3y ago
One way to find out: find job listings, apply for some jobs, and see what happens. A GitHub profile with lots of personal projects is a good thing to have. Learn from any feedback you get. P.S. GitHub's "Available for hire" c
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by troymc 3y ago
It seems they stopped working on it in April 2022, for the most part: https://gitlab.com/nakst/essence/-/graphs/master?ref_type=he...
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by troymc 3y ago
Main-belt asteroids don't have a very cohesive lobby group.
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by troymc 3y ago
You might be right, but there are already many products out there that have been violating that trademark policy for quite some time, e.g. GitLab, GitKraken, SmartGit, ... My guess is that Software Freedom Conservancy (a nonprofit) has more
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by troymc 3y ago
Most (or all?) of iNaturalist's code is open source (typically MIT), see https://github.com/inaturalist A lot of iNaturalist data is open data, see https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist-open-d
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by troymc 3y ago
Bonus: a table of the brightest currently (and recently) observable comets: https://heavens-above.com/Comets.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspec...
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by troymc 3y ago
According to the Minor Planet Center, 25 comets have been discovered this year (for a total of 4589 known comets, some of which are "lost"). https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/
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by troymc 3y ago
The "high" barrier to entry does act as a filter today, but I should add that in the 1990s, it was considered relatively easy, not so different from using email; it's only with the existence of modern social networks that t
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by troymc 3y ago
The Big-8 Board was re-established, or if you like, it rose from the ashes like a Phoenix. (The Phoenix story is about one bird coming back to life; there's nothing about an increase in the size of some group.)
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by troymc 3y ago
Yes, of course there are specific cases where it's clearly a dumb idea to share the idea with someone else. The usual saying is that all that really matters, in the end, is the execution of the idea. If that were strictly true, there w
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by troymc 3y ago
"...moving twice the speed takes 4X the energy..." That's not quite right. The power required to maintain a constant velocity v against a constant drag force of F is P = Fv. With air drag on a car moving at highway speeds, th
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by troymc 3y ago
I guess this comes a few iterations after, "Consider a spherical cow..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
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by troymc 3y ago
Pachyderm has data versioning / data version control built-in. I guess other tools do too.
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by troymc 3y ago
That's one way to do it, but it's extremely challenging. The sales tax can depend on where the buyer is located , where the buyer is from , where the seller is located, and where the seller is from. There are ~1000 jurisdictions
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by troymc 3y ago
The site currently says, "There are currently 168268 bands..." Even spread over 20 years, that's a lot of bands to vet!
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by troymc 3y ago
You can check out any time you like But you can never leave from https://genius.com/Eagles-hotel-california-lyrics
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by troymc 3y ago
They have a bunch of "installers": https://usebottles.com/appstore/
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by troymc 3y ago
They have an installer for Autodesk Fusion 360: https://usebottles.com/app/#fusion360
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by troymc 3y ago
Mojo [1] Mojo is another approach to solving "the two-language problem," similar to what Julia is trying to do, but the code looks like Python. Mojo is being designed by Chris Lattner [2], who knows a thing or two about language &
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by troymc 3y ago
Unlike the author, I'm not very worried about Wikipedia. Yes, they ask for donations, but that's not a sign that they're dying; donations are their main revenue source. That might be unusual among the web's top sites, bu
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by troymc 3y ago
I was in the local drugstore yesterday, and browsed through the latest National Geographic in the magazine section. It cost $10 Canadian dollars to buy just that one single print issue (including a big map insert). Which is actually quite l
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by troymc 3y ago
Yes, and this page [1] has a nice big-picture graphic showing where money comes from and where it goes. Not directly mentioned there is the income they get from selling merch in their store [2]. I guess it's small compared to their oth

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