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by wumpus 5y ago
VTA restarted service a couple of days ago.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Looks like the tech that Intel has been attempting to get to work and be cost effective for several decades.
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by wumpus 5y ago
One easy one is charging electric cars. If they can be plugged in both at work and at home, there's a huge opportunity to charge when there's excess production.
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by wumpus 5y ago
"nearby universe" is astronomy jargon.
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by wumpus 5y ago
The EHT can resolve the two super massive black holes which are the largest on the sky. The Milky Way's SMBH is a relatively small one, but it's close enough to make up for that.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Over billions of years, the angular momentum of the stuff falling in changes.
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by wumpus 5y ago
The stuff falling onto the black hole has an orientation -- it forms an accretion disk at the "equator". If the black hole is spinning, it has poles. We expect all black holes to be spinning. This is a subtle change in the shadow
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by wumpus 5y ago
That's a pretty funny analogy! And a nicely accurate one. This movie ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nMUqy8Rfp0 ) shows what M87* looks at various resolutions.
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by wumpus 5y ago
We're looking down on M87* from one of its poles. The image from the paper is viewed close to the equator.
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by wumpus 5y ago
This is usually called the "shadow" of the black hole. The press release we're discussing calls it that.
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by wumpus 5y ago
He's not a native Russian speaker, despite many years of following the Soviet/Russian space program.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Starliner has a heat shield and a thruster that points in the correct direction... in the service module, which is dropped before landing. Dragon has a very minimal trunk with no thrusters. As a result, the best thrusters it has are 30 degr
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by wumpus 5y ago
Dragon is not so good for reboost, but Cygnus is now qualified to do it.
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by wumpus 5y ago
> It's really not clear to me how much disabling all those optimization costs in the real world. I assure you that SPECcpu scores are a lot lower, if that's what you care about. And yes, it's extremely helpful to do major
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by wumpus 5y ago
> Yes, indeed it is the case with fused multiply-add operations, as I wrote below in another thread This is not always true. Some FMA operations round after the multiply, and some do not.
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by wumpus 5y ago
> No more getting slightly different result when changing platform, OS, or even just updating libm Optimizing compilers are usually used with flags that cause them to break IEEE754. Still, it would be nice if results from low-optimizatio
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by wumpus 5y ago
You should watch the documentary Tim's Vermeer.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Honestly, this is the only proof I'm willing to accept for the survival of any low-revenue service that Google provides! But still, google code didn't live.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Why yes, these cheeses already on the grocery store shelf are usually made from non-dairy milk (example: nut milk) and fermentation. The article talks about an unsatisfactory one at the beginning.
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by wumpus 5y ago
> lab-made cheese is far away from being in the shelves My local grocery store has a ton of them, mostly based on soybeans or nuts like cashews. Presumably you had something different in mind?
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by wumpus 5y ago
Did you mean centuries? Look in your favorite pre-Reformation European cookbook for the special recipes for Fridays and Lent.
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by wumpus 5y ago
It would be fun to talk to you about it -- I moved to the part of Palo Alto with underground lines in 2013 -- but people are downvoting me, so, sorry.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Well, you could do your part by stopping saying 100%.
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by wumpus 5y ago
The Bay Area has a long-running plan to bury all of them anyway.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Saying 100% is a bad idea, because an endless stream of people are going to tell you it's not 100%. Look back at previous HN conversations about anyone claiming their software is 100% fault tolerant, or that their datacenter has 100% u
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by wumpus 5y ago
During a pandemic [of that disease]? You bet you can! [Edit: added a clause]
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by wumpus 5y ago
Let's say you have a child under 12 and an elderly immune-suppressed person in your house, the first of which can't be vaccinated and the second doesn't have much of a reaction to the vaccine. You, vaccinated, return to norma
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by wumpus 5y ago
That's two comments in a row where you've started off with an insult. And your data? TWO EXITS.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Great that you have all of the answers, do you have any sources to back up the need for thinning?
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by wumpus 5y ago
Actually one of our problems near the coast in California is that invasive eucalyptus trees are much more flammable than native trees.

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