Ankaios

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by Ankaios 4mo ago
Apple's behavior regarding ads is especially annoying to me. I deeply dislike that they allow Uber and Lyft to advertise via iOS notifications. Apple should inflict massive penalties on them for that anti-user behavior. Apple also adve
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by Ankaios 10mo ago
Europe and Japan are great at the former, the latter no chance. Europe and Japan should be totally capable of producing super inexpensive batteries. They just don't, at the moment.
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by Ankaios 11mo ago
If you have Republican senators or a Republican House rep, call their offices and tell them what you think of this.
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SpaceX Starship 36 Anomaly(twitter.com)
282 points by Ankaios 1y ago|538 comments
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by Ankaios 2y ago
Here's a proposal for an amendment restricting the pardon power: https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congress... Here's the proposed text: SECTION 1. The President shall not have the powe
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by Ankaios 2y ago
~200,000 m/s is unfathomably fast. It's about 110,000 fathoms per second.
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by Ankaios 2y ago
Here's the Nature article that the university press release links to: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08234-x
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by Ankaios 2y ago
Turns out the Google AI's 15-day forecasts are for the weather in Mountain View. Which I can forecast 15 days out, too.
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by Ankaios 2y ago
Well, I guess now democracy dies in anticipation of darkness.
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by Ankaios 2y ago
They're currently discussing how difficult it was to design a credit card reader for the Robotaxi that would reliably fail whenever it detects cash in the passenger's wallet.
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by Ankaios 2y ago
Non-software-developer humans often use things called "lamps" to illuminate spaces at night. Unfortunately, illumination inhibits effective nighttime coding.
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by Ankaios 2y ago
Is "Moon Policy" anywhere near the ballot box? Particularly for senators? It is in Huntsville. I suggest you read up on former Senator Richard Shelby.
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NASA Ends VIPER Project(nasa.gov)
9 points by Ankaios 2y ago|1 comments
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by Ankaios 2y ago
I guess it's time for someone to start selling token tokens.
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by Ankaios 2y ago
Why is science reporting such irredeemable clickbaity trash? Not just from the mainstream media with commercial motive, from whom I naturally expect trash, but also from nonprofit universities of all places. Seriously, who is the intended
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by Ankaios 2y ago
NASA's current and near-future science missions: https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/smd-flee...
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by Ankaios 3y ago
A lot of bookstores and restaurants do more good than harm, and we tax them.
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by Ankaios 3y ago
But can it get down to the Titanic? Yep. Getting back up to the surface might be a challenge, though.
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by Ankaios 3y ago
The world's first non-repairable car. Minor fault, major accident, or inevitably-degraded battery? No problem!, just throw it away and buy the latest model, like you would with a phone or tablet! You wanted an upgrade anyway, didn&#x2
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by Ankaios 3y ago
> So far as I can find the last time Congress bothered to pass a budget was 2016 with the prior one in 2010. The last time Congress passed a budget was for last fiscal year (FY 2023): https://www.congress.gov/bill/
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by Ankaios 3y ago
Eh, I cut Forbes some slack. It's easy to accidentally swap the purchase value with the current value.
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by Ankaios 3y ago
Wikipedia claims the plant generated 16 TW h of energy in 2019. At $6 billion for five years of generation, that corresponds to about 8 cents per kilowatt hour. That's not great, but it doesn't seem like highway robbery to me. See
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by Ankaios 3y ago
Maybe the astrophysicists will even be able to get our timeline back on track after the LHC screwed everything up. To fix the timeline, we just need to build a bigger accelerator. Sincerely, Your friends at Fermilab^WGoogle
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by Ankaios 3y ago
The Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06602-7 , and A corresponding "News and Views" piece: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03101-7
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by Ankaios 3y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I think the name "Firefox" is fun and endearing, while "Mozilla" is ugly and ponderous. I say this as someone that has been on the Web since Mosaic and almost entirely used Netscape-heritage
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by Ankaios 3y ago
When I visited Arecibo [...], the intern giving me a tour told me that Arecibo was essentially the main way we had to detect asteroids that might hit earth. Arecibo wasn't used for detecting asteroids—it was used to characterize aste
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by Ankaios 3y ago
In the grand scheme of things, this type of mission wouldn't cost that much, but so far, nobody has made the decision that making sure Earth doesn't get hit by an asteroid is worth an investment of a few hundred million dollars.
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How does your company use Linux for workstations and laptops?
3 points by Ankaios 3y ago|1 comments
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Intelligence Agencies Warn Foreign Spies Are Targeting U.S. Space Companies(nytimes.com)
6 points by Ankaios 3y ago|0 comments
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by Ankaios 3y ago
There have been many studies about what could be done to deal with asteroids that are on track to impact earth and the simple answer is 'nothing'. The National Academies report that you link to down-thread did not state that n

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