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by troymc 4y ago
"...some recent studies suggest that Planet Nine could be a dark object, such as a primordial black hole..." That's a neat idea.
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by troymc 4y ago
Another quote from the same article: "There might be enough natural hydrogen to meet burgeoning global demand for thousands of years, according to a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) model that was presented in October 2022 at a meeting of
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by troymc 4y ago
Yes, you can do it with waves of water in a cake pan if you like. Any waves will do. The most amazing thing about the double slit experiment is that you get a wave interference pattern when you send photons towards the slits one at a time
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by troymc 4y ago
You could start by reading the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment That article also covers many variations of the experiment, and the many ways to interpret the results.
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I read the headline and thought, "Maybe the 1040ST is something like the IRS's income tax form 1040EZ, i.e. a variation on the standard US income tax form 1040. How exciting!" Nope. If you filled one of these and sent it to t
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by troymc 4y ago
Probably not. "Credential stuffing" means getting a big list of formerly-leaked usernames and passwords and trying them everywhere . It mainly targets people who use low-entropy passwords or who reuse the same password on multipl
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by troymc 4y ago
Wilderness backpacking/camping trips are a great use case for (laminated) paper maps. You really need a good map, and you don't want to be dependent on an electronic device that has many failure modes (e.g. running out of power, g
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by troymc 4y ago
It's a plausible hypothesis. I'd like to see data.
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Headsets might be a niche market, but "leaving reality" is a huge market if you count video games, movies, TV, novels, short stories, plays, musicals, ... There's a story I love to recount on this topic. A dad asked his kid w
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by troymc 4y ago
There's also Rec Room, with a similar number of monthly active users. More numbers can be found at https://www.metaversed.consulting/blog/metaverse-universe-q1...
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Yeah, the characters have legs !
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There was a recent episode about Ogham on the "Gone Medieval" podcast: https://shows.acast.com/gone-medieval/episodes/ogham
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Agreed. It's no wonder there's a whole industry built around helping people understand the semantics of the tax forms. “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” -Inigo Montoya, The Princess Brid
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by troymc 4y ago
Here's the IRS definition of "digital assets": https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe... "Digital assets are broadly defined as any digital representation of value which is rec
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That list reminds me of the various kinds of Behavioral UML Diagrams.
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Check out "geometry nodes" in Blender (which is open source).
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The usual answer is, "Find a "technical co-founder." How do you do that? Maybe ask Google; it should find relevant blog posts, articles, etc. The problem is worth solving, and I'm not sure Amazon has the right incentives
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by troymc 4y ago
GitHub Pages have the unfortunate anti-feature of being impossible for normal people.
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It looks like Rune still has a bitwise XOR operator: @ https://github.com/google/rune/blob/main/bootstrap/database/... That innovation does seem like a potential footgun.
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by troymc 4y ago
I'm guessing that the page designer just went to a stock photo site, did a search for "code" or something similar, found that image, licensed it, and inserted it. Job done! I asked TinEye [1] where I can get that stock photo.
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by troymc 4y ago
Here's the website of La Casa dei Pesci : https://www.casadeipesci.it/
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Here in Canada, the downramp into many underground garages is heated so that snow melts on contact, and the ramp doesn't get covered in snow/ice.
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by troymc 4y ago
GnuCash is free, open source, and will do whatever you need. There are a gazillion other options, free and paid; that market is already a "red ocean," so I wouldn't advise jumping into it with your own somehow-better software
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by troymc 4y ago
Ubuntu 22.04 with everything default. When I go to the "Files" app and open a PDF, it opens the PDF in my default web browser at photopea.com, i.e. it's not an "app on my machine" so it doesn't show up in the a
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I recently switched back to using Ubuntu as my desktop OS, and was intrigued to see that Photopea was the default app to open many file types, including PDF. I thought that was odd because while Photopea is free-of-charge, it's not com
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Maybe there are only 7 keyhole arrows in the entire world, and each one costs a zillion dollars to make, and you have to wait three days before shooting one again, to let it cool down. Maybe not.
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If you look at the software designed specifically for script/screenwriting, it almost always produces scripts that look like that, even the very latest modern software. Examples are celtx and Final Draft. Why? Maybe convention, maybe s
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It seems everything on Pluralsight is free until Sunday, not just XSLT and XPath.
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VSCode wasn't always so noisy with suggestions; it's gotten more like Clippy over time. I'm sure the devs think they're being helpful. Anyway, here's how to turn off extension reccomendations: https://cod
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by troymc 4y ago
While looking over my GitHub account settings just now, I noticed that you can now designate a successor: > By clicking "Add Successor" below, I acknowledge that I am the owner of the @ttmc account, and am authorizing GitHub to

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