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by wiml 1y ago
It's normal and expected for a paper's editorial board to publish endorsements. The Washington Post had been doing so for decades, and had one ready-to-go until Bezos stepped in and nixed it.
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by wiml 1y ago
Dang. I hadn't heard. RIP.
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by wiml 1y ago
Sound Transit operates LINK (what gp was talking about) and Sounder (not light rail, operates on BNSF tracks, coaches are made by Bombardier and seem to be in use by many commuter rail systems). Not sure what you're referring to.
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by wiml 1y ago
I don't think this is meant as a test to determine whether someone is an adult. I think this is meant as a guide to how to conduct yourself once you realize that you are an adult.
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by wiml 1y ago
SETI uses the gap between the H line and the OH line (the "water hole"). The whole region of the spectrum is kind of quiet for reasons, and the H/OH area is (perhaps parochially) thought to be a natural place for other water-
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by wiml 2y ago
Odin's records have no B-sides, because everything Odin writes is fire!
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by wiml 2y ago
I think it's because it alters the moral context of the act that you're going to take anyway. If I pick up a piece of litter on my own initiative, that's an act of virtue. If I pick it up after a petty authority tells me to,
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by wiml 2y ago
We have some experimental data on this, though, since jetliners and volcanoes both inject sulfur into the stratosphere. The global air traffic halt of 2001 and the aftereffects of eruptions have been heavily studied. (It would be ironic if
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by wiml 2y ago
Here's a survey article from the late 80s which should have a rich references section for you: Ghiorse & Wilson, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2164(08)70206-5 I think there are two strands: petroleum companies
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by wiml 2y ago
I think diamond is even more thermally conductive than either. A quick google finds a number of companies working on silicon-on-diamond.
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by wiml 2y ago
I would say that is roughly 83% effable
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by wiml 2y ago
I'll just flip my copy of Ignition! open to a random page and build a car around that...
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by wiml 2y ago
As long as you match the phase of the positive and negative frequency components you'll get real output
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by wiml 2y ago
Also "putting in 12–15 hour days". I don't know what this company's value prop is but it's not their software.
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by wiml 2y ago
It's not unheard-of for English speakers to use it that way — "I was driving down the road and came to a Y", meaning a fork or branch.
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by wiml 2y ago
Link the evidence, then. Numbers, not vibes.
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by wiml 2y ago
That's not an assertion I'm going to take seriously without evidence.
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by wiml 2y ago
The actual docs on python.org are quite readable and probably a lot more accurate than random blogspam / LLM glurge pages
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by wiml 2y ago
Back of the envelope (and some quick googling), a large container ship burns hundreds of tons of fuel per day, at a cost of 700-1000 $/t. Plus, all that fuel occupies tonnage that isn't carrying paying cargo. If you can save on th
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by wiml 2y ago
Fusion used to always be 30 years away, more recently 15 years.
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by wiml 2y ago
Why do you think this? Every observation narrows the range of possible trajectories. After the initial discovery, a lot of observations were scheduled.
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by wiml 2y ago
I've seen energy-harvesting remote light switches for sale — they supposedly get enough energy from the physical act of flipping the toggle to send a few radio packets. I haven't used one in the real world though.
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by wiml 2y ago
Okay, but after the mammoths I think we should de-extinct some giant South American ground sloths.
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by wiml 2y ago
At $oldjob our Git repos had all been created by importing history from SVN, and that SVN repo had been created as an import from CVS, so there were some fairly old timestamps in the history. Only about a decade older than Git, though. Noth
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by wiml 2y ago
It would be nice to have an equivalent of caniuse for Parquet settings (encodings, compression codecs, other features)
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by wiml 2y ago
A good president isn't a "ruler"
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by wiml 2y ago
The problem is the president seeking yes-men and sycophants. Do you think it would be reasonable for you to have to submit your voting history before posting on HN? Why not?
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by wiml 2y ago
I think it originated with CMU's email system (the use of the "+" sign specifically).
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by wiml 2y ago
A good excuse to link this SR-71 yarn: https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blac...
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by wiml 2y ago
I see quite a lot of non-tech people on Mastodon. Many are academics, but many aren't.

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