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by dysfunction 4mo ago
Especially because in most ways it actually isn't better in the app. Even on an iPhone 17 it is usually quite slow and hangs frequently. Offline reading SHOULD be a clear advantage to the app, but it is completely inconsistent about wh
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by dysfunction 1y ago
I don't believe so, unless the object had such a powerful telescope it could image Hubble itself in high definition and literally see where it was pointing, which would require an absurdly large lens. A telescope like Hubble absorbing
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by dysfunction 2y ago
I would counter that the "modern" Penn Station (at least prior to the recent projects) is worse at that "fast and safely" objective. It's much harder to navigate a maze of tunnels than to navigate a large, open stat
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by dysfunction 2y ago
Lots of other stations built in the same style in the same period remain well-preserved and functional- Grand Central in the same city, opened 3 years later, being a prime example.
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by dysfunction 2y ago
This one feels especially relevant with the recent development about ChatGPT unintentionally cloning its user's voice: https://qntm.org/perso
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by dysfunction 3y ago
There's a difference between concluding that scientific research is wrong and concluding that it is fraudulent . The latter is a claim about the character of the scientist involved, alleging them to have taken unethical if not illeg
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by dysfunction 3y ago
Maybe not 95%, but quite a lot of truck owners when surveyed essentially never use them for towing or hauling https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/pickup-trucks-f150-size-wei...
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by dysfunction 3y ago
Streets may not have gotten wider in a given city/town since then, but there's been a lot of population growth and development in that time in the sunbelt where urban planning has favored very wide roads. So even if roads themselv
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by dysfunction 3y ago
SF proper is more like New York in that respect, it's much more dense and walkable than the average US city. The other bay area cities not so much.
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by dysfunction 4y ago
That may be true, but it's worth noting that the length of a "generation" of stars varies wildly depending on the type of star. Stars like our Sun might only live 10 billion years or so, but red dwarfs live 100 billion years
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by dysfunction 5y ago
Previous company I worked at had a policy that you needed to include a photo of yourself with the current date written with any PW reset request, but of course that doesn't work as well at a 2000 person company as at a 100 person start
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by dysfunction 5y ago
Downtown Brooklyn has a lot more new luxury highrise buildings with fiber wired in from day 1, as compared to pre-war brownstones in other neighborhoods where even _if_ Verizon has fiber on your block your elderly out-of-state landlady and
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by dysfunction 5y ago
When someone has a long history of making false claims, it doesn't mean their current claim is automatically wrong but it does mean their argument for it doesn't count as strong evidence for the claim, IMO.
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by dysfunction 6y ago
If you had really good shock absorbers you could intercept at an orthogonal trajectory and have the impact knock you into the desired trajectory... not practical but fun to think about.
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by dysfunction 6y ago
"Asteroid-sized" in this case isn't all that big- 100m long is a similar size to the ISS, though it probably masses a lot more.
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by dysfunction 6y ago
My coworker's theory was someone was waiting for the holiday's end to deploy something risky. And I'm in that boat of depending on Slack for alerting... in fact my team was also waiting over the holidays to deploy more robust
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by dysfunction 6y ago
One other factor I was taught (as an American) that I don't see mentioned here was the Russian Revolution. The nominally-democratic provisional government allowed the pro-entry camp to frame the war as democracies vs. authoritarian emp
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by dysfunction 6y ago
I don't know about Microsoft, but at IBM for example engineers with a 4-year eng/CS degree start at band 6, but the bands below 6 do exist, just not for that role. I'm guessing it's similar at MS.
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by dysfunction 6y ago
I think the usual approach is to proxy the other domain (or subdomain) to a path on your user-facing domain. E.g. if mysite.com is making requests to api.mysite.com, you would proxy api.mysite.com to mysite.com/api.
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by dysfunction 6y ago
Sweden has far and away the highest death rate of the Nordics, over 11 times that of Norway. I really don't think the data supports your point. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
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by dysfunction 6y ago
It was already the case for several weeks in NY that school-age kids could pickup free packaged meals from any school, the change in this announcement is expanding that to include adults.
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by dysfunction 8y ago
At least the Kindle and Kindle app can read books from other sources, they don't force you to buy from Amazon.
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by dysfunction 8y ago
I too hate the idea of paid toilets in public buildings like train stations in Europe, but dense, non-car-focused cities in the US like NYC or San Francisco also have public restrooms few and far between. Most fast-food places require you t
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by dysfunction 8y ago
Perhaps you meant Atlanta was the one that burned to the ground and got a do-over?
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by dysfunction 9y ago
Ion thrusters have tiny acceleration, which is why they're best on deep space missions (slow and steady wins the race). I wouldn't think they'd be practical for this type of thing, which you'd want to go one or a few kil
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by dysfunction 10y ago
So, Marauder's Map for the whole world?
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by dysfunction 10y ago
We wouldn't be able to see the probe itself, rather we'd see its laser. The planet outputs (or reflects) vastly more total light than the laser, but the laser is pointed directly at the receiver and can output more light in that s
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by dysfunction 10y ago
> Volvo > not a luxury car
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by dysfunction 10y ago
There is a practical reason for tiny modules in client-side JS that doesn't exist with Python: page load times. If your base layer is going to have third-party dependencies, they better be tiny and do only and exactly what you need. Th
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by dysfunction 11y ago
People who live in climates where it gets cold in the winter, turn down their thermostats at night, and get up in the middle of the night to pee?

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