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by wumpus 5y ago
The number of hits reported by web-scale engines like Google and Bing are fabrications. When I was the CTO of a full-web search engine startup, I'd get an API access request every couple of months by someone wanting to use hit counts f
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by wumpus 5y ago
Black holes have spin, and this process is expected to slow the black hole spin, which takes energy out of it. It's not the only known way to slow black hole spin.
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by wumpus 5y ago
That animation was made by an EHT collaboration scientist, Andrew Chael. The EHT has outsourced some animations to a firm named CrazyBridge, but only occasionally.
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by wumpus 5y ago
I rarely run into projects using just git these days, and I don't seem to have confused anyone by slightly shifting the topic.
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by wumpus 5y ago
The spiral is an overlay telling you which way the magnetic fields point.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Yes. The forward jet is already faint despite being enhanced because it's pointed towards us. We can't see the backward one until it's way way outside the galaxy.
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by wumpus 5y ago
That gets access to the repo, but not issues, actions, code reviews, etc etc.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Sure, let's make a list: * Russia built a rocket that almost put its enormous core stage in orbit -- Energia -- but were careful that it didn't. 2 launches total. * The Space Shuttle was careful to not put its enormous external ta
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by wumpus 5y ago
In my local area, garbage fees are used to pay for the losses of recycling. That's the usual thing in the US. Same thing for residential waste in landfills.
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by wumpus 5y ago
WiFi and cellphones are both wireless, but this discussion is about cellphones.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Almond milk? It's kind of like the shitty non-fat milk from powder that I drank as a kid. If I hadn't become lactose intolerant after I turned 50, I wouldn't touch almond milk unless I was making a Renaissance recipe. Given t
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by wumpus 5y ago
If you want to pick another bad example, consider "rice milk" in Asia. Not a dairy product.
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by wumpus 5y ago
"new product", one that's hundreds of years old. Check out medieval and Renaissance recipes for Fridays and Lent.
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by wumpus 5y ago
So if I'm Catholic, it's OK for me to drink almond-flavored dairy-milk during Lent? Win! From medieval and Renaissance-era recipes, religious rules appears to be the main reason almond milk is used. Because it's not dairy.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Cheese and milk products made from allergens (cashews and other nuts) are pretty careful with their labeling, because people die from nut allergies every day. Your hidden-chicken risotto would make me very ill for a day or two. I always ask
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by wumpus 5y ago
You might be surprised to learn that "milk" and "cheese" have been used to refer to non-dairy products in many cultures and places over thousands of years. In Western Europe, it's tied to meatless Fridays and Lent,
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by wumpus 5y ago
Yeah, but "Fabritio" can't measure up to "Googly-Elmo"! Fabric Cheeto? Febreze Cheeto? BTW Allegrezza d'Amore is also in Santucci. Happy to send you a translation.
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by wumpus 5y ago
That just wrecked my ability to say the name of a prominent 15th century Italian dance master. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Ebreo_da_Pesaro
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by wumpus 6y ago
I'm in Palo Alto and I pay 14 cents. Yes, we also have our own local provider.
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by wumpus 7y ago
Every performant compiler on the SPECcpu benchmarks does this.
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by wumpus 7y ago
They pay for it. In fact the most common deal is to show both google search ads and google results, then the results are free and you get a cut of the ad revenue.
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by wumpus 7y ago
Every search engine box you see on the Internet is powered by google or bing, basically, with Yandex having a tiny piece. And part of System1's business is syndicating google/bing APIs.
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by wumpus 7y ago
Qwant is powered by bing under the hood. Wikipedia is wrong about that. https://news.microsoft.com/europe/features/qwant-and-microso... -- dated May 22, 2019
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by wumpus 7y ago
Huh, I worked at a company that wrote 1.5 million lines of perl together, and we never ended up with those problems. Maybe you picked the wrong co-workers? You can screw up in any language.
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by wumpus 7y ago
One thing perl provides is a few examples of how to handle utf-8 better than Python does. To put this another way, my 10-year-old perl-based web crawler did not have a problem crawling websites with umlauts in the hostname. Python is fixing
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by wumpus 7y ago
Shakespeare used singular "they". If you want to cite your personal authority vs The Bard, you lose. Hint: he used it in gender-bent situations. Theater people tend to be progressive... 400 years ahead of the game in this instance
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by wumpus 7y ago
Too bad LLVM doesn't have a first-class Fortran, then noalias would actually work.
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by wumpus 7y ago
I had no idea pendulum existed, is there some way I should have looked it up? None of the code in tz-aware packages I've ever read used it, for example.
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by wumpus 8y ago
That's not why corporations get sued by shareholders. A corporation's objectives are whatever they say it is, and they can spend money on them however they like. They have to disclose what's going on and the risks thereof. Th
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by wumpus 8y ago
I live in the Bay Area because of the dense concentration of smart people and ease of joining/starting startups. There's more to tech than fast Internet.

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