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by queuebert 2y ago
That was a cosmic ray proton, which has probably 10 billion times the mass of a neutrino and interacts much more strongly with normal matter. A nuclear juggernaut vs a ninja by comparison.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Total energy of impact would be 120 PeV x 10^16 = 120 x 10^31 eV = ~60 kilotons TNT, or 4 Hiroshimas. So BIG boom. Since the velocity is so close to the speed of light, you can think of this like the energy released by annihilating a ping p
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by queuebert 2y ago
Neutrinos can go straight through the Earth, yes, but since they have mass their velocity is less than c.
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by queuebert 2y ago
The blog writer's final design is basically what Ford uses in the F-series these days. But Ford's dials have a couple of functions that I didn't see mentioned. First, when you turn the temperature dial all the way hot and pus
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by queuebert 2y ago
Furthermore, this "story" is actually a promotion for his book. It's amazing how many articles in legacy media these days are paid advertisements for someone's latest book.
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by queuebert 2y ago
“Then in the distance, I heard the bulls. I began running as fast as I could. Fortunately, I was wearing my Italian Cap Toe Oxfords." - J. Peterman
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by queuebert 2y ago
Could an even more minimal X server simply render one application that was launched from the console? Or would that run into issues?
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by queuebert 2y ago
I see your point, but it makes it hard for Rust programmers to grok the code, as all caps denotes a constant. Even enums are camel case.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Not really. Now when I want to uninstall something, I have to look in multiple places for its artifacts, rather than just nuking .<appname>. And there is no universal pattern of use. It's even worse than /usr vs /opt.
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by queuebert 2y ago
You mean you don't need .local, .config, .cache, .fonts, and .<appname> x <# of apps>? /s Makes me want to run off a read-only DVD.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Also a ton of ALL CAPS TYPES. Are we seriously throwing out all of the standard Rust naming conventions to adopt the ancient Windows naming-as-typing crap?
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by queuebert 2y ago
The blog writer has particularly bad handwriting, and maybe that's why he needs these tricks. I've seen a lot of math handwriting, and seriously his is among the worst. Maybe he was drawing the letters with a mouse.
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by queuebert 2y ago
It's only a small part of the barrier to entry, though. I could write Einstein's equations out in words, and most people still wouldn't be able to do GR.
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by queuebert 2y ago
I might move somewhere that gave me a person grant. The U.S. works primarily on project grants, where you are funded to do a thing, but that thing doesn't always work, and most of the time it's a bit contrived in order to appeal t
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by queuebert 2y ago
Don't forget roughly a third didn't vote at all.
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by queuebert 2y ago
We fought a literal civil war and bounced back. We've had multiple presidents assassinated but still had continuity of power. I doubt the U.S. is going anywhere anytime soon except maybe down a couple slots on the world's largest
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by queuebert 2y ago
Linux is in desperate need of a PR campaign. The popular distros are just as functional out of the box as Windows, but no one knows it.
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by queuebert 2y ago
We must buy different things.
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by queuebert 2y ago
The new problem is the factories making a lot of this stuff are heavily polluting, and we have little to no control over that because they are abroad. Part of a good climate strategy must involve regulating them somehow.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Debt to GDP ratio was not the reason for our post-WWII success.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Debt to revenue leaves out a whole other independent variable, which is other expenses, many of which are set by law. Debt as % of GDP is probably more relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United
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by queuebert 2y ago
Comments like this give me hope that we can pull through.
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by queuebert 2y ago
It's not that simple. Congress can't specify every pen and pencil expense, so they allocate large buckets. The executive can decide how each bucket is spent. Like when your mom gives you $20 to go to the movies. She doesn't
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by queuebert 2y ago
The 8th-grader understanding is that each branch does what it's supposed to do with virtuous motives. The adult understanding is that they exercise as much power as they can until forced to stop.
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by queuebert 2y ago
I think the idea is the interest on the debt will approach our ability to pay soon. That would be like your mortgage payment being toward interest only, and you were barely able to make it.
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by queuebert 2y ago
Exactly. Everyone has conveniently forgotten that he said in 2020 he would only serve one term.
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by queuebert 2y ago
That is literally the power of the Executive, to choose which laws to enforce and which to not. Congress makes the laws, and the Courts adjudicate. That is the whole basis of the federal government.
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by queuebert 2y ago
How so?
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by queuebert 2y ago
Blue no matter who is exactly how we got here. DNC needs to start now coming up with a platform and a viable candidate. They need to retire the geriatrics and start cultivating new young blood.
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by queuebert 2y ago
> following democratic processes to achieve the desired ends That has been failing for a while now. Congressional approval is in the 20% range, much lower than even Trump's. An odd fact never mentioned in the media. The U.S. is toas

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