astrobase_go

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by astrobase_go 1y ago
I game using Steam on Pop_OS![1] with a home-built AMD machine and, while I know there are some background processes (Proton) that run to establish and maintain a compatibility layer, it's nearly seamless to me as a user. The most I re
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by astrobase_go 3y ago
I think your company is PSE, correct?
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Climate change adding 50 homers a year in MLB, study says(apnews.com)
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Quantum computing hits the desktop, no cryo-cooling required(newatlas.com)
1 points by astrobase_go 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to assess interviewee math skills without test questions?
6 points by astrobase_go 6y ago|14 comments
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Fertilizing the Ocean with Iron (2007)(whoi.edu)
38 points by astrobase_go 6y ago|50 comments
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Ask HN: Contributing to open-source UX/UI without great programming skills?
8 points by astrobase_go 8y ago|2 comments
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by astrobase_go 8y ago
I try to be in bed by 9pm and up by ~4:30am most days, including weekends. If I sleep in on weekends too much, it ruins my schedule for the following week and I feel exceptionally tired on Mondays. (Late 20s, work a 7-3 as an engineer, marr
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by astrobase_go 9y ago
I agree with your opposition to this development with respect to people moved per unit of energy consumed. I think development funds are much better spent on improving the efficiency, reliability, and capacity of mass transit systems for la
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by astrobase_go 9y ago
there's also this gem: "I'm not a professional photographer. I'm merely a hobbyist." o_O
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Under threat: Cyber security startups fall on harder times(reuters.com)
8 points by astrobase_go 9y ago|0 comments
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by astrobase_go 9y ago
indeed; for those who may not be familiar, see 'behavioral economics' [0] for the ways that known quirks in human reasoning can be used to game consumers. don't buy a house without learning about it. there are two great books
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by astrobase_go 9y ago
the roads in and around the cleveland metro area have high traffic loads; undergo long periods of fluctuating cold temperatures during the winter; and get nailed periodically by lake-effect snow and ice. as such, they experience lots of fre
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by astrobase_go 9y ago
i would agree here. both of my parents and the wife have just as much time logged on their full-updated 5s' as well and, save for foreseeable decrements in battery performance, they think their system performance is generally indisting
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by astrobase_go 9y ago
at a $700 price point for two years of os updates and three years of security updates, it seems runner-up to iphones with four year (or more) timelines on os updates, maybe longer for security updates, for a comparable price point.
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by astrobase_go 9y ago
+1 here too for a Linux version. this might also help you expand to markets like academia, where vector-based graphics are desirable and often used in paper and technical document creation, and where Linux is frequently used as well.
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by astrobase_go 9y ago
this is one the only articles i've ever read where "honking" is used in a serious capacity as an adjective.
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by astrobase_go 9y ago
I think what's needed is a strategy for making actual data analysis an easier and more visible component of the peer-review and publishing process. Submissions are typically sent to three people for review, and the decision to accept o
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by astrobase_go 9y ago
take it for what it's worth, but according to this bbc article published in 2014... > "The latest US spy satellites, in comparison, are reported to be able to pick out objects less than 10cm (4 inches) across." http:&#x2F
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by astrobase_go 9y ago
for those of you so inclined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_station-keeping
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by astrobase_go 10y ago
There really should be a legend on here: 1) There are boxes of two different colors here, light green versus yellow. I read the Iliad in high school, so I forget if there are actual differences that the creator was attempting to codify. I s
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by astrobase_go 10y ago
From TFA: > We test individually each one of the 150 VPN apps under consideration. > Two people executed a total of 5,340 tests manually for three months and connected to all end-points mentioned in the GUI of a given VPN app. Okay, t
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by astrobase_go 10y ago
Reads article about the identity of Shakespeare, still doesn't know the identity of Shakespeare. But seriously, if you need a tl;dr search for "It's at this point," read that paragraph, and note that what she found was t
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by astrobase_go 10y ago
Agreed, also anecdotally. I'm a sub-30 with a dedicated workspace, and I find that it mentally partitions leisure from work--something I find important while working in a space that's usually devoted to leisure. I would be interes
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by astrobase_go 10y ago
While the linked explanation makes obvious parallels between the lambda calculus and other programming languages, I think Rojas is even yet more accessible: http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS03/alpi/lambda.p
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by astrobase_go 10y ago
Asked and answered decades ago[0,1]. [0]: https://people.hss.caltech.edu/~camerer/Ec101/JudgementUncer... [1]: http://www.math.mcgill.ca/vetta/CS764.dir/bounded.pdf
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Ask HN: What's your experience with human errror in cybersecurity?
1 points by astrobase_go 10y ago|0 comments
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by astrobase_go 10y ago
Depending on which version of Android you're running, you may be pleasantly surprised. Manually encrypted an HTC One m9 (Lollipop) and found no noticeable performance decrement, and now with it enabled by default in Marshmallow it&#x27
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by astrobase_go 10y ago
For Mac, FileVault2. For Debian, LUKS full-disk. It's tangential, but while on the topic of securing lost laptops, you should also password-protect GRUB and BIOS. Ideally, all three will use different passwords that are relatively long