nesyt

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by nesyt 3y ago
Radio telescopes often are much larger than JWST and/or are interferometric arrays, which in either case remain impractical to deploy to orbit.
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by nesyt 3y ago
State and Main run parallel to each other (in SLC at least). The zero point for north/south in SLC is S Temple, not State.
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by nesyt 6y ago
When I developed a clenching habit, I resolved it by training myself to put my tongue in the correct position in my mouth. It is pretty simple: with your lips closed but your teeth not touching, place the tip of your tongue right where your
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by nesyt 6y ago
Gödel, Escher, Bach - the book by Hofstadter.
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by nesyt 6y ago
The thought of humanity destroying the environment to get the oil and then, in a fit of panic and at great expense, pumping it back into the ground, caused me to erupt in laughter.
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by nesyt 7y ago
Thanks for the straw man. American WW2 mobilization didn't kill ten million people - that's not an intrinsic attribute of a country focusing on something. Think also new deal / public works projects like the Hoover Dam (many
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by nesyt 7y ago
This is just an advertisement for the company. It doesn't really say anything substantive. "Google bad, we better!"
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by nesyt 7y ago
That's true but they can take (nearly) straight paths to their destination without stopping and idling, and are smaller and lighter.
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by nesyt 7y ago
This is true of most (perhaps all) big tech (perhaps all) companies.
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by nesyt 8y ago
They're both offshoots of Smith's movement.
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by nesyt 8y ago
That's not true. You can do conditional premoves on the analysis board.
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by nesyt 8y ago
Parent meant that Sony marketed the PS2 with undelivered promises.
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by nesyt 8y ago
I liked it. It made me happy and sad.
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by nesyt 9y ago
Dumb joke notwithstanding, the fourth farmer remains in the field? How's that 'fooling the baboons'? Or is the whole comment supposed to be nonsense?
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by nesyt 9y ago
I'm not the target market and I don't have any idea how to use your tool. The UI reminds me of old grayscale Mac OS. Salespeople are (usually, I'm stereotyping) 'dressed to impress'. Maybe you should put a tie on yo
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by nesyt 9y ago
Are you against this? Flexible working hours that can bend to accommodate very malleable human lives seems better than rigid adherence to traditional schedules for the sake of it.
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by nesyt 9y ago
One of my favorite papers is a pretty short but famous one: Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~kleinsch/Gettier.pdf
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by nesyt 9y ago
Different universities work differently in the US. Some have categories of majors, like UW [0], where some are free to declare but others have requirements/prerequisites. [0]: http://www.washington.edu/uaa/advising
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by nesyt 9y ago
It'd sell just like butter coffee sells.
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by nesyt 9y ago
Why bother simulating human thought? It's not the only road to Rome.
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by nesyt 9y ago
It's divisible to the 'satoshi'[0], but could be changed in the future. [0]: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/114/what-is-a-sa...
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by nesyt 9y ago
>This makes it slightly more expensive than you think. 365.25 / 30 * $10 == $121.75 vs. $120.00 if it was per month. Slightly indeed.
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by nesyt 10y ago
I'm not sure where the parent is drawing that claim from but I imagine they could continue to exist with government subsidies.
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by nesyt 11y ago
24/7/365 is dead. Long live 24/7/52!
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by nesyt 11y ago
Maybe space tourism increases public interest in interstellar travel?
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by nesyt 12y ago
I think parent meant the many different ways to be non-zero.
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by nesyt 12y ago
Is that a built-in feature or do you use an extension?
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by nesyt 12y ago
The bomb lab discussed elsewhere in this comment thread.
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by nesyt 12y ago
I've never read that, what is the resulting equilibrium?
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by nesyt 12y ago
I'd like to see more of these surreal mundane-but-apparently-life-changing headlines: PolyView Wants to Change the Way You Change the Channel on Your TV LeftFootRightSock Wants to Change the Way You Tie Your Shoelaces CordSucker Wants

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