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by watersb 1y ago
This great illustration looks like it might have been inspired by a National Geographic poster. Here's the one they say is from October 1999: https://www.natgeomaps.com/hm-1999-the-universe I remember this one was an u
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by watersb 1y ago
> I almost want to go back and look at the math of how fast they must have been going While there's a rough polynomial (v =~ c * w^3, I think) for post-TOS Star Trek warp factors, the only consistent rule: a starship travels at a
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by watersb 1y ago
I'm reading "Tomorrow!" by Philp Wylie, a novel published in 1952 about the preparation (or lack thereof) of the citizens of a fictional Midwestern US city, and the aftermath of nuclear war. Wishful thinking, terror, social c
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by watersb 1y ago
> The US public and government officials had no idea how bad it was in the USSR. My wife's grandparents had a subscription to "Soviet Life" magazine, beautiful postcard photos and articles about the glowing future of man
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by watersb 1y ago
> Was US ever a liberal democracy? People had much less liberties in the 1950s than today, Your question deserves an answer. The US was a liberal (post-Enlightenment) democracy. Senator McCarthy was eventually kicked out of Congress for
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by watersb 1y ago
Hameroff has a whole universe of publications and conferences on the nature of consciousness: https://hameroff.arizona.edu/ His publication of the book "Ultimate Computing" in _1987_ was astonishing. I found it in
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by watersb 1y ago
288 "efficiency" cores. That each have 26 execution ports, can retire up to 16 ops per cycle.
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by watersb 1y ago
HyperCard inspired the initial development of Tcl/Tk. The scripting language, HyperTalk, was picked up by WingZ, which was mostly a spreadsheet sort of application... but I think the layout was similar to Numbers on macOS.
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by watersb 1y ago
XDG directories for macOS dotfiles is my hill to tilt windmills. To make it extra fun, my $HOME directory is immutable: chflags uchg "${HOME}" (Simply setting it read-only would work too.) Preventing arbitrary writes in $H
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by watersb 1y ago
Segal's Law: "A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segal's_law
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by watersb 1y ago
To be clear, Apple does not require a DUNS number for developer registration.
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by watersb 1y ago
> Image asking someone where they’re from only to be told a US state, and only the state. Atlanta or Tbilisi?
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by watersb 1y ago
I've always found database structure diagrams to be useful, and I like tools that synchronize editing the structure via the diagram or the SQL code. I believe the macOS app OmniGraffle can do this, like Microsoft Visio on Windows. I cu
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by watersb 1y ago
I dunno, a vast sea of parking spaces with the occasional building sums up suburbia for me. But ok, it's not called "SimSubUrbia"...
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by watersb 1y ago
It would be a US simulator if it also required at least two parking spaces for each of the hundreds of thousands of cars.
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by watersb 1y ago
> A compulsion to give design notes without any reasoning on something you've just heard of? Me! _o/ Compulsion to give feedback before thinking! So happy to be here.
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by watersb 1y ago
Upvoting because similar comments here suggest that you are not alone. People are having trouble distinguishing between '//' and '\\'.
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The OSL Open Source Lab Needs Your Help(osuosl.org)
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by watersb 1y ago
The Open Source Lab at Oregon State University provides hosting and hardware and programming support for a number of open source projects. The University now faces significant funding cuts and can no longer support the Lab. Industry and pri
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by watersb 1y ago
They put them back! Sections 9 and 10 of Article I As of noon, Pacific time Wednesday. Yet the Wayback Machine's latest crawl currently has the version without those bits about Habeus Corpus and Emoluments.. https://web.arch
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by watersb 1y ago
If your investors are convinced you need to relocate, then you go with that, I suppose. But. I grew up in Georgia, started my career in the Bay Area, then left again due to housing costs and commute times. I believe you can find excellent p
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by watersb 1y ago
I'm not sure. But as a child, I didn't understand what it meant to "study" for a test. Didn't you read the book? Just look at the book in your head! That sort of visual memory declined sharply after puberty. I was s
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by watersb 1y ago
Python 3.14 adds strptime() https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/41431 "The new constructor is equivalent to datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, format)[0:6]))."
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by watersb 1y ago
Yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, the first nuclear bomb explosion. When I moved to Socorro, New Mexico in the final years of the 20th century, I found trinitite in my front yard. I think. I was starting some computer
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by watersb 1y ago
> As an example, here's the official Alpine package: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/h... > It comes with no grammars installed and it's up to the user to in
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by watersb 1y ago
My older Kindle Fire HD 10 flips over to DNS over HTTPS if it can't see Google on port 53. I've tried to add a couple of rules in iptables on my Ubiquiti Dream Machine (UDM), but the out-of-box configuration on the UDM is pages an
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by watersb 1y ago
https://youtu.be/QGw-cy0ylCc Is this an asynchronous architecture CPU?
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by watersb 1y ago
Sincerely hope that's sarcasm. I'm not aware of other private companies doing significant astronomy. Some defense contractors have built incredible spacecraft, including space telescopes and planetary probes. But those missions ar
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there-is-only-XUL
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by watersb 1y ago
Could be a satellite that moved into the frame during green. There was a livestream presentation and press conference up on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/live/Zv22_Amsreo?si=zQLeGfJokZoCPkji At time 1:38:19 - one hou

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