michaelwilson

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by michaelwilson 1y ago
I thought I also heard that the people who agreed to buy Twitter's debt got the deal sweetened with some XAi stock. Sooo, did that debt get paid off, and they got XAi stock. If so, buying that Tesla debt might not have been the complet
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by michaelwilson 1y ago
Wait, wasn't there a "sweetener" for recent X debt buyers that they'd get XAI stock? The levels of .. self-fertilizing transactions here boggles the mind. I guess that's the idea.
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by michaelwilson 2y ago
People don't talk about it now but when he first started the "established" telescope making folks spoke derisively of him, his techniques, and his telescopes. Why? To start with "we" - he and his students - made the
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by michaelwilson 2y ago
I made my first 10" telescope - rough and fine ground, polished, figured, and built the telescope and mount at 10 under the instruction famous (later) John Dobson in San Francisco. It's not hype to say he was one of the most signi
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by michaelwilson 2y ago
Thanks to the generosity of Stewart and Tiny Speck releasing all the artwork and other assets for the game into public domain, a few non-Flash versions of Glitch showed up. One, Odd Giants ( https://oddgiants.com/ ) is partic
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by michaelwilson 2y ago
Let's just hope we're not on his "People to Haunt" list.
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by michaelwilson 2y ago
...under "a few" to 20 kilometers of ice even. * Richard Greenberg suggests "a few" kilometers. * Robert Pappalardo suggests ~20 kilometers.
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by michaelwilson 2y ago
"More than anything, I think it's good for things to end" You know who else said this (in spirit)? Bill Watterson, author of Calvin and Hobbes. There are few other people I'd be proud to be in the company of :-).
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by michaelwilson 3y ago
So does this include paying off all their past obligations, including, but not limited to: Rent(s), Vendor Payment(s), Employee termination and back pay, etc, etc? And this are only the debts which have been talked about _publically_.
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by michaelwilson 3y ago
There's a story that when Cameron pitched it, he wrote one word on the board and the studio was sold: $Alien$.
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by michaelwilson 4y ago
I often wonder if it's the writing that's bad or the translation. I really get the impression lots of the sentences and paragraphs are stilted translations which don't succeed, either because of the translator of the inabilit
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by michaelwilson 4y ago
It may appear that this may get Musk off the hook for buying Twitter because "Look how bad they are!" but, as I recall, Musk's problem is that his offer with without contingency - e.g. "Yah, I'll buy it, whatever&qu
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by michaelwilson 4y ago
I've actually asked scammers ("Amazon" or "Apple" representatives who are calling me to help me with a "problem" with my account) this question: "So, tell me, do you go home to your Mom and say "
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by michaelwilson 4y ago
Was "Manchin" taken? Seriously, they should use this mechanism to call out legislators that refuse to act on client, or, even worse, block client action. They should also include international figures - "Heat Wave Bolsonaro&q
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by michaelwilson 4y ago
Well, at the risk of your productivity: https://www.oddgiants.com/ It's in "Alpha" and works pretty well. Enjoy!
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by michaelwilson 4y ago
Heh. Read the news lately? . Religious Cults. If you look at the religiously inspired insanity in US Laws and Politics recently, coupled with what's going on in, say, Afganistan, I'd say "check". . Doomsday preppers. Che
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by michaelwilson 5y ago
The "magnificently colored images" are false colored unfortunately - the colors are derived by assigning colors to wavelengths which are faint or invisible to the human eye: purple to ultraviolet, reds to infrared, etc. I learned
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by michaelwilson 5y ago
How can you be a "former quantum physicist"? Did you somehow unlearn everything that made you a quantum physicist? Maybe you meant to say "formerly paid to be a quantum physicist"? :-)
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by michaelwilson 5y ago
But does it flow through wires? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY
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by michaelwilson 5y ago
I heard this as part of "You should think of Meta, Metamates, self", as in "Ship, Shipmates, Self". My first reaction was "So, where does you family fit into all this?" This sounds like someone who read the his
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by michaelwilson 5y ago
Agree. Wolves use a highly coordinated attack, where lead dogs harry the prey and are replaced as they tire. Also, you need more than a simple strategy to take down an animal that can hurt you by kicking you with sharp hooves, poking you wi
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by michaelwilson 5y ago
Thus, the "Aft Momentum flap": https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/deploymentExplo...
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by michaelwilson 5y ago
Sadly one of the the problems is, it's dark where it is. The mirror side is in complete darkness (because of the sunshield), and the sun side is blazingly bright (because of the reflective sunshield). This is the unfortunate reality of
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by michaelwilson 5y ago
I've heard of a situation where people exercised their options at the stock's high point (because of the 90-day limit, or just plain ignorance), but by tax time the stock had dropped precipitously because of an accounting revenue
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by michaelwilson 5y ago
As I recall, with the Hubble, and presumably the JWST, there were scientific "precedence" rules which limited access to the observational data to the scientist requesting the observation for some period of time. This was to preven
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by michaelwilson 5y ago
So you haven't heard the one about Ted Cruz's father being behind it?
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by michaelwilson 5y ago
Huh? The X1D-II and the XCD lens series is well regarded by pro photographers and shows well in independent technical reviews. The body is ~$5750 which is not peanuts, but it's not $50K either.
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by michaelwilson 5y ago
This book on Curiosity by it's chief engineer (who went on to work on Perserverance) covers that and other tradeoffs well: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1588344037/
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by michaelwilson 6y ago
It turns out that they took 640lbs (!) of weight to mars to be tossed off at various points during EDL. The video is worth watching if you'd like some more of the nitty-gritty behind the process: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by michaelwilson 6y ago
There is a problem with Drobo Devices connected via Thunderbolt and Mac OS Big Sur RC2 (and probably Big Sur Release). Their Customer Support page says: "NOTE: Drobo Thunderbolt had been working properly up to RC2 posted on Nov. 11. If

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