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by wolfd 5y ago
The technology for moving dead satellites is long overdue. Sure, it has military implications, but it's a heck of a lot more responsible than anti-satellite missiles.
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by wolfd 5y ago
I think that the other commenter was referring to the relative complexity in JWST's unfolding/deployment. It might be possible to deploy something from Starship that doesn't need to be packed as tightly (and save on engineeri
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by wolfd 5y ago
The worse one is opening another script tag right after closing the first. XSS dream.
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by wolfd 5y ago
They're pretty much interchangable. Video frameworks like gstreamer just give you qtdemux to parse .mov, .mp4, and even .m4a or .m4v (which are just MP4s with different file extensions).
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by wolfd 5y ago
Fun fact: that watermark is created by explorer.exe, and if you're not running explorer.exe it doesn't show up. I had a box that went through one too many hardware changes and Windows decided that it wasn't on the same machin
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by wolfd 5y ago
Also from right before that paragraph in the introduction is this strange argument: > Also there are famous scientists agree that NP=P. Hilbert, a great mathematician of the twentieth century, has afamous saying: we must know; we will kn
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by wolfd 5y ago
Everyone starts somewhere.
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by wolfd 6y ago
It's tough to make gears with that many teeth, especially if you want them to mesh with smaller gears. Also, meshing against a 1-tooth gear is problematic, so you would need to probably increase that to >4 teeth to have it work. The
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by wolfd 6y ago
https://blog.google/products/search/our-latest-quality-impro... They briefly mention the statistic in the last paragraph.
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by wolfd 6y ago
Additional recommendation: The Fog of War, the McNamara interview documentary. Absolutely fascinating look into the mind of the secretary of defense at the time.
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by wolfd 6y ago
Along those lines, one thing that has bothered me is that we can't prepend files, even with modern SSDs with fancy controllers. Those controllers are jumbling the contents of a continuous disk onto different chips, and different sect
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by wolfd 6y ago
Approximately zero. They have nothing to gain from doing so, and everything to lose. It isn't a website we're talking about, adding that kind of complexity to a chip would be highly obvious to the people who integrate it, who aren
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by wolfd 6y ago
Not wanting A doesn't mean that someone supports B.
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by wolfd 6y ago
The current losses in public education will be felt on the decades timescale. I think the perspective here on HN is probably shifted due to the tech demographic, where VC and ads have provided a buffer. Systems have inertia, stuff continues
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by wolfd 6y ago
I doubt it, due to how the leak is purportedly from 2017/2018 code, and according to the tweet from SteamDB is the version that is included to Source engine licensees. The original hl2 code leak was a fan from Germany that hacked into
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by wolfd 6y ago
Competitive gamers care way too much about latency to use cloud gaming services for tournaments. Some Counter-strike players still use CRT monitors due to the latency advantage over LCD. I think that you won't see much adoption in comp
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by wolfd 7y ago
That would be true if they weren't using fuel to power it, which they are. Part of the article shows the alternator they were possibly going to use.
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by wolfd 7y ago
Old people in nursing homes don't get out much, and yet they're the ones that are dying. The fact is that the virus spreads because people don't always die from it, and so they go around spreading it to people who will. Most
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by wolfd 7y ago
It's hard to beat local compute for latency.
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by wolfd 7y ago
I still don't understand why anyone would want this. It seems pretty hostile to the users of Python without any real benefit. Maybe the benefit is the people who are pushing for the change get to smugly know that people won't do h
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by wolfd 7y ago
While some headlines may be overly aggressive, many (anecdotally) of the very serious consequences of climate change are predicted to happen on the order of 50/100 years from now. There are a couple reasons this sucks: - some people s
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by wolfd 7y ago
Any idea why they might have stopped?
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by wolfd 7y ago
It's still worth a call-out. The other line in the article that always gets me is "Sometimes, attendees [of the Gravity Research Foundation] sat in chairs with their feet higher than their heads, to counterbalance gravity." I
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by wolfd 7y ago
If someone touched me in any physical way at work I'd say it would be unwanted. It's pretty reasonable to not want other people to touch you, no matter the specific "kind" of touch it is.
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by wolfd 7y ago
This seems like a pretty big oversight on Gmail's part.
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by wolfd 7y ago
What do you mean? Is there some announcement/feature I was unaware of?
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by wolfd 7y ago
While a lot of commits, the actual content shows very few functional changes. Actually, most of the changes are indeed ads for companies that use the package.
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by wolfd 7y ago
You should probably provide a link with that. I don't know if it's fair to say that everyone here is going to pay for this, or even was considering it. Perhaps a less blaming tone might help your case?
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by wolfd 7y ago
SpaceEngine let's you zoom through _galaxies_ like that old windows screensaver was for stars. I've always sorta understood that the universe was "big", but it never clicked how infinite it really is until I zipped throu
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by wolfd 7y ago
Google bought YouTube when it already dominated the video sharing market. Stadia might not dominate the gaming market in a couple years. Google likes to kill products that don't consume all, at least, that's what it looks like to

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