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by once_inc 9mo ago
Building an app for winter sports. You can download the map for a ski resort, and use the map to see where individuals in your group are, and suggest meetups (summits) on the map, and everyone gets a personalized route generated to that poi
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by once_inc 10mo ago
Add in some evolutionary strategies, and you have the recipe for a good sci-fi book: a fungus in Chernobyl rapidly outpaces its competitors due to its ability to absorb radiation. Each iteration grows and reproduces faster, until it is so b
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by once_inc 1y ago
My mind immediately translated OKLCH into "Oklachroma".
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by once_inc 1y ago
This! Since our money is being inflated away, hard assets like precious metals, bitcoin, and real estate get bid up because those with cash bleed out purchasing power.
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by once_inc 1y ago
Assuming our models of the universe are correct, and faster than light travel is impossible. There are very strong reasons to believe this, but perhaps we can cheat by stretching and compressing space around us.
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by once_inc 1y ago
Without having checked the study because I can't open the link on this machine: does it also take recycling of the metals into account? There's also cost in placement (which are very significant in places like the North Sea for in
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by once_inc 1y ago
My experiences with tiling window managers is that they struggle in judging a modal screen like a confirmation box or detachable/dockable mini-containers like the interface of certain programs like GIMP. Considering those as new tile-a
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by once_inc 1y ago
Bitcoin mining is currently at 52% renewable. This is a very significant number, since most other industries aren't nearly that renewable. Are you going to go for a plastic or paper car because steel foundries aren't producing ste
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by once_inc 1y ago
Another alternative to using an exchange is to actually spend the bitcoin on a good or service. There's quite a few places where you can use Bitcoin to buy things, like web hosting, socks, coffee, and more.
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by once_inc 1y ago
Expected time to first block confirmation is always 10 minutes. If the last block was found 10 minutes ago, then the expected time to the next block is still 10 minutes. It is always 10 minutes until it is actually found, at which point it
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by once_inc 1y ago
Is this not the same program that Jon Steward was astounded by due to its lack of effectiveness ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4KK3SIAT48 )?
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by once_inc 1y ago
You can quite easily flash you Kindle with new firmware that is more forgiving and abled.
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by once_inc 1y ago
As always: there is nothing inherently wrong about either plastics or carbon fuels. The problem is in using it in incorrect situations. Plastics are perfect for transporting an preserving foodstuffs in. Cheeses, meats, etc all have signific
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by once_inc 1y ago
I loved this dialogue in Monkey Island 2, where this is basically the first NPC you talk to, and the dialogue options get wordier and wordier to the point of overflowing all screen real-estate. Perfectly sets the stage for the remainder of
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by once_inc 1y ago
Large black holes do have significant accretion disks that do impact their visibility and can and will spew forth vast amounts of radiation. Anything caught in their event horizon gets pulled in and is never seen again. Anything near it bum
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by once_inc 1y ago
"internet creationist" make you sound like God either chose you to be a content creator, or ordained the internet into being...
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by once_inc 1y ago
Darktable is an excellent lightroom replacement that does exactly what you need it to do for people that open it once every 5 months.
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by once_inc 1y ago
For the mouse pointer thing: you can shake your pointer left and right rapidly, and it will increase in size. It's quite handy to find the pointer.
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by once_inc 1y ago
I've had a similar experience where Dutch surnames were translated from English to Dutch by Excel for some reason. Since many Dutchman have a surname prefixed with the Dutch word "van" (which means "of") Excel dutif
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by once_inc 2y ago
If there is a self-sufficient colony there, and it consists of people from a single nation, it will be targeted. Only a non-political, mixed-heritage colony of scientists and farmers might be overlooked.
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by once_inc 2y ago
An antarctic base/colony would not solve a number of issues: 1. A meteor strike can be big enough to obliterate anything on what was once the surface. It can heat the entire globe to 100 degrees Celsius due to tektites bombarding the s
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by once_inc 2y ago
The X account BitNorbert has livetweeted most what was said during the court proceedings. Wright babbled about how external systems that hosted his files had changed the metadata in an attempt to extricate him from the mess he left himself
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by once_inc 2y ago
Rightfully so. Wright has a grating personality, with an obnoxious air of superiority. He claims to have coded up bitcoin v0.1 while simultaneously being unable to explain to a judge what an unsigned integer is. The trial was a complete win
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by once_inc 2y ago
I've recently been looking into the natron theory, which I also like. Instead of chiselling out big granite blocks and moving them long distances, you use a bucket of powder and a lot of wood ash to chemically form rocks.
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by once_inc 2y ago
Interesting to see the credits of Sky Travel at the end and having an item "pagetable.com" which is currently a C64 dedicated page. It must be one of the longest running pages on the internet...
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by once_inc 2y ago
How did I go through 4 decades of life without knowing about the en-passant capture? I've never heard of it before...
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by once_inc 3y ago
That would be very difficult to say since we've never really been in an Austrian economic system. Austrians will point out that the knob twiddling done by Keynesians is a method of postponing or spreading out the pain of a recession ov
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by once_inc 3y ago
Starlink wasn't allowed to be enabled in that area due to US military dictates.
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by once_inc 3y ago
> I’m reminded of when Musk had the Ukrainian sea drones disabled in the middle of an attack because they were using Starlink terminals. The Russian ambassador had contacted him and had told him an attack on Crimea “could lead to a nucle
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by once_inc 3y ago
Great example of a topic explained through clear, concise descriptions that are aided in a very large part by graphics. Kudos to the author.

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