ubertakter

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by ubertakter 7y ago
> And incredible motion, the spacecraft is whipping by the asteroid quickly No it's not. The whole point of the Hayabusa2 mission is to go to the asteroid and stay there. In fact it landed on it and grabbed a sample back in March.
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by ubertakter 7y ago
> The article is substantially more sensational than the IAU letter is is based on The article uses simpler language, but doesn't seem more sensationalist. > The satellites are hard to spot already I'm not exactly an amateur
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by ubertakter 7y ago
3) If you have a machine that blasts people with ionizing radiation, it needs some kind of hardware safety interlock.
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by ubertakter 7y ago
I can see the webloids headlines now: "Should you eat dirt: Newly discovered fatty acid 10Z-HA helps cure burnout!" /sigh If only it were so easy.
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by ubertakter 7y ago
A friend and I who have been around (not in) the "4 letter agency who shall not be named" have decided one of the problems is after the last "mall" program they started hiring people directly out of college instead of ou
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Yeah... after skimming through his feed I am not inclined to support him in any way.
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Great article. One small mistake in it. Pretty sure it only fired 700 rounds/minute, not 7,000.
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by ubertakter 7y ago
So, what's their average total caloric intake? Hmm... 2400-2700/day[1] which is not in the Lancet article[2], but I did find that in an American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reference[3]. It appears they get lots of exercise, whi
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by ubertakter 7y ago
I was kind of thinking along the same lines as the OP until I read your comment, in particular "It’s about being able to share ones ideas and document your interests". I really like the idea (and it seems obvious to me now) that y
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by ubertakter 7y ago
I just skimmed through the PDF (not that it has much content). I can't believe someone paid for that. Clearly I'm in the wrong business.
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Not exactly the best written article. I think the author was a little out of his depth. The original paper is in the arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06372# Other related work of interest: https://www.natur
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Something like (or exactly) software systems safety methods should be applied to critical systems (such as aircraft systems). DoD does this for all of their critical software. And I say "something like" only to indicate there may
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by ubertakter 8y ago
As part of my job, related to activities at China Lake Naval Weapon Station, I've worked on a test range in Coso, about 45 miles northwest of the area mentioned in the article. I've also been down to Trona and Searle Lake. I can&
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by ubertakter 8y ago
So you're saying (correctly I think) that it doesn't have anything to do with the CD itself but everything to do with how the album was engineered. CD's don't magically introduce compression, it's about the producti
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by ubertakter 8y ago
Late to the party here, but if touching the cable introduces noise no matter which software you run, maybe you have a ground loop problem or a really poorly shielded cable. You might try a different, decent quality cable. If that doesn&#x27
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by ubertakter 8y ago
What!? If the aircraft is pressurized, then the cargo area is pressurized too. There aren't any aircraft that have separately pressurized compartments. That would be a very bad design. Also, I would suspect that the bottles were bagged
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by ubertakter 8y ago
I don't think any engineers deemed any available information about Columbia as "insignificant", not that there was very much information to go on due to lax execution by camera tracker teams. Management on the other hand wa
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by ubertakter 8y ago
Interesting. My band mates and I decided not to turn on that feature. It seemed like it would be rather annoying.
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by ubertakter 8y ago
I could hear it. So well that in the full sentence it now sounds like the phrase is being sung. It will take a while for that effect to "wear off". That being said, it may be related to something about western music scales. If you
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by ubertakter 8y ago
I'm a little late on this reply, but I'll explain my philosophy for what it's worth. It has apparently been effective with my daughter (who is now nine years old). Don't treat your child "like a child", treat t
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by ubertakter 8y ago
Continuing in to off-topic-ness, I had to replace the heater element on our Samsung dryer at about 6 years of age or so. It wasn't hard, but I have really good mechanical aptitude (for lack of a better way to put it). I think you shoul
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by ubertakter 8y ago
Not disparaging, but how likely is it that someone doesn't know who John Carmack and reads Hacker News? Surely the Venn diagram of those two sets doesn't have much overlap...
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by ubertakter 9y ago
I like this idea, and do it for a domain or two but am not currently using it for private email. Are you just talking about using a domain registrar and using an email redirect? Is there a better way to do it? I can see wanting to grab the
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by ubertakter 9y ago
I have a hypothesis, though I haven't had a chance to dig through existing research to determine if it's an idea worth pursuing. The basics of it are that there is a condition that has the same symptoms of type 2 diabetes, but isn