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by ANH 21d ago
| But apparently this was a black swan. What is your definition of black swan? This paper is from 2022 and scientists have been warning about climate change for decades. It's not like this possibility wasn't anticipated. It seems
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by ANH 10y ago
I can't tell if you're parodying HN here. This is from someone's blog and is a personal reflection on his most important work of the past 10 years. Do you expect everyone to be an historian?
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by ANH 10y ago
I did similar a few years back, but for Mars DEMs, also in PDS format. At first I despised it, but yes, there is a certain pragmatism to the format. And, yeah, the best way to figure out what was going on was to just look at the files thems
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by ANH 10y ago
Having read about historical radio astronomy and practiced signals analysis, I think they were a little more sophisticated than that. The recording in this format was made for easy perusal by a human, say, the next morning. I think that
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by ANH 11y ago
I started here: http://reactfordesigners.com/labs/reactjs-introduction-for-p... (h/t tptacek). And then I found the egghead.io videos particularly helpful. Nice bite-sized chunks, very focused: https://
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by ANH 11y ago
I do. The one I'm familiar with has large garden areas, trees for climbing/wandering around, uncultivated wilderness areas, etc. It's not a vast tract of land, but enough that it seems huge to a small person. Indoor time focu
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by ANH 11y ago
Depends on what you mean by "school" (NB the quotes in the parent comment). There is a huge variance in options for working parents of a 2-3 year old. From cramped cinder block day care -- aka The Cacophonous Petri Dish; to privat
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by ANH 11y ago
Wikipedia links to that as a hoax in Stroustrup's entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup .
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by ANH 11y ago
I might be wrong, but I believe the THREDDS server the article points to (by way of https://cds.nccs.nasa.gov/nex-gddp/ ) supports OPeNDAP, which means you can pull subsets of the data, i.e. if you've got a 40GB fi
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by ANH 12y ago
I knew about Guided Access, but I forgot it allowed you to disable specific regions of the screen. Thanks for the reminder.
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by ANH 12y ago
Nice. I'm going to put this in front of our resident toddler tonight. Bit of feedback: * I would have been willing to put down a couple of bucks up front just to try it out, even without the extras available in-app. * How about "t
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by ANH 12y ago
Of note, there is an Earth observation instrument, RapidScat, being carried in the Dragon's trunk, which will be (has been?) plucked off the capsule by operators on the ground. This one measures wind. Another, called CATS, will be simi
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by ANH 12y ago
This comment explains why I saw so many bumper cushions. And it also explains why I never want to drive in a car again.
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by ANH 12y ago
I think I'm a careful driver, and I (see other comment) recently drove into Manhattan from out of state. I almost killed several people. I don't live there, but my impression is that the expectations are so fine-tuned, that one sm
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by ANH 12y ago
I recently drove from my home near DC to Manhattan and back. Exiting the Lincoln Tunnel and heading north, my expectations of "normal" traffic behavior were shattered. I wondered why there aren't bodies littering the streets
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by ANH 12y ago
FYI, here's a Namecheap page that should show domains pending verification: https://manage.www.namecheap.com/myaccount/WhoisContactsVeri...
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by ANH 12y ago
You're forgetting the voice recognition. What if there's no barcode to scan? The Fire TV voice search is excellent -- I used it last night -- and if the Dash has similar tech then it might actually be a useful supplement to the ap
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by ANH 12y ago
Eh, looks pretty good to me. Our wants are diametrically opposed: Voice search (do care -- Apple TV search is painful), tech specs (non line-of-sight remote -- Apple TV is line-of-sight), games (eh, might be a nice diversion for a few minut
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by ANH 13y ago
This is a kind of ridiculous article. It entirely ignores NASA's Earth Science work, which gets the largest allocation of science funding in the FY2014 budget (almost $2B). Caveat: I work with a team of NASA & contractor Earth scie
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by ANH 13y ago
Works great on a i7 Ubuntu 13.10 x64 machine under Chrome 31.
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by ANH 13y ago
> When 'tptacek is wrong, he's obnoxiously wrong, especially in his inability to believe in government misbehavior For the record, this is incorrect. In past interactions he has stated his concerns over certain of NSA's &q
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by ANH 13y ago
I'm not saying I trust it to police itself. I'm trying to suggest that the environment in which NSA analysts work does have a (positive) material effect on their behavior. Non-systemic transgressions are not common. When Snowden s
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by ANH 13y ago
Folks have lost clearances and jobs. I don't know about prison time. But I do know the fear of these things happening is a motivating factor not to cross the line. But I'm just some guy...
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by ANH 13y ago
>If someone in the NSA abuses his powers, it is very likely that nobody will ever know. You mean, besides his family, friends, and loved ones when he loses his job and potentially ends up in prison. You're underestimating the amount
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by ANH 13y ago
I'd rather intel analysts have some cognitive dissonance than have absolute certainty they are always justified in their actions.
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by ANH 13y ago
Yeah, but I find it hard to believe they hadn't already included some amount of fire probability in their calculations. Isn't it possible their assumed probability is higher than the actual, since it was perhaps based on the tra
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by ANH 13y ago
Don't insurance companies have highly trained and highly paid actuaries? My understanding is they look at numbers, not headlines. I'm sure there is some sort of professional ethical standard they are expected to uphold.
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by ANH 13y ago
There are a lot of contractors sitting on the sidelines, too, made to take leave or, if they don't have leave, they go without pay. In other words, the "man hours lost" is probably much higher.
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by ANH 13y ago
The issues have been resolved, according to the NASA Ames Center Director: https://twitter.com/worden/status/376345117205876737
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by ANH 13y ago
It's nice for once to see evolutionary algorithms being used for something completely impractical.* *mostly tongue-in-cheek

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