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by sjackso 2y ago
Davidman had a lot of influence on the writing of "Till We Have Faces," but it was published before her death. "A Grief Observed" is the book Lewis wrote about the grief that followed.
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by sjackso 2y ago
The 1918 influenza pandemic killed tens of millions, disproportionately affecting young and healthy adults. Does that not qualify as super-deadly?
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by sjackso 2y ago
As a datapoint, yesterday's lockout affected my Apple ID that is based on a ~25-year-old mac.com address.
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by sjackso 3y ago
The creator of this github repo is the same person who publicly called for the release of the infocom adventures after Microsoft acquired Activision. (HN discussion from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378
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by sjackso 3y ago
Ah, yes-- but if you shop around, you can find a telescope of that aperture for less. Here's one for a mere $132k! https://explorescientificusa.com/collections/optiques-fullum...
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by sjackso 3y ago
Christchurch is the logistics hub and support base for the US presence in Antarctica, so I believe all US facilities on the continent conduct their work in that time zone.
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Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea(blog.zarfhome.com)
203 points by sjackso 3y ago|160 comments
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by sjackso 3y ago
Maybe this has been fixed in recent models, but ten years ago it was easy to experience baffling laptop sleep states if you happened to set a working macbook down on top of another, similarly-sized macbook with its lid closed.
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by sjackso 3y ago
The effort-to-results ratio is definitely better on the visible light side. Pictures are exciting, and much easier to explain. A lot of smart amateurs discuss all things astro at the Cloudy Night forums; the subforum where topics such as r
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by sjackso 3y ago
Similar experience here. I went to a new dentist who had one of those machines and he told me I needed at least nine fillings. I declined and found someone else. Over 16 years and multiple moves/new dentists since then, maybe three o
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by sjackso 3y ago
The detector is made of thousands of light sensors arranged in a a km-scale 3D grid. When a neutrino interaction causes a flash of light inside this volume, multiple sensors detect the photons with nanosecond-level time resolution. So a 3
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by sjackso 3y ago
I recall reading about the craft using gasoline as an incompressible floatation fluid, but I hadn't realized the scale: 100 tons of gasoline, making up 2/3s of the craft's mass.
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by sjackso 3y ago
The timing and text of this announcement certainly suggest that they've been gearing up to be a launch title on Apple's headset. Which makes me wonder if Apple's been funding development, perhaps for some time.
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by sjackso 4y ago
A local hobby shop sold a kit with ten bits, 1.0mm down to 0.1mm, which I bought on a lark several years ago. The middle sized bits are occasionally useful to (carefully!) finger-drill a tiny hole through a plastic part. They're rigid
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by sjackso 4y ago
Good news - you are describing a game that exists! It's called Overload and is the spiritual successor to the Descent series, written by the original creators of that series. There is a small but active multiplayer community. (Find i
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by sjackso 4y ago
To make matters worse, university staff software engineering jobs usually pay 1/3 to 1/2 of comparable jobs in industry (even after excluding FAANG-level outlier salaries), and in most cases offer no meaningful career progression.
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by sjackso 5y ago
Sunless Sea comes to mind.
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by sjackso 5y ago
I have a little experience with both the old and new Supermicro stuff. The new x10 IPMI experience is a lot like the old x9 java app experience, except you don't have to dig out an ancient computer to make it work. (Which feels great
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by sjackso 5y ago
Double and triple chording is part of what makes the Descent-series games (as well as Overload) so interesting. Your ship moves freely in all directions, and your speed is proportional to the square root of the number of independent directi
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by sjackso 5y ago
Alternative to escape in vi and vi-alikes: control-[ I recommend committing this to muscle memory. It takes two fingers, but is more comfortable than reaching for escape on most keyboards. I prefer mapping caps lock to control rather than t
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by sjackso 5y ago
If you're interested, here's a thread of telescope nerds discussing that exact usage: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/692954-how-black-is-the-b...
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by sjackso 6y ago
Lots of good suggestions in this thread. If you have a pair of binoculars already, get some kind of tripod for them, or improvise something with a reclining lawn chair -- anything that can stabilize the binos and let you point them upwards
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by sjackso 6y ago
It really adds a dimension to Eisenhower's famous speech: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are
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Joe Knows Electronics – The End of an Amazon Era(joeknowselectronics.com)
3 points by sjackso 6y ago|0 comments
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by sjackso 6y ago
For a more in-depth look at Project Chariot and the general strangeness that surrounded it, find yourself a copy of The Firecracker Boys: https://www.amazon.com/Firecracker-Boys-Dan-ONeill/dp/046500...
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by sjackso 6y ago
Yes, illogical though it be, the fact that my eyelash dust might be motile bothers me less than seeing live arachnids in my food.
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by sjackso 6y ago
I once bought a piece of mimollete cheese on a lark. When I ate it later that day, I was extremely impressed by the rich and nutty flavor, and wondered how I had reached adulthood without knowing about something so delicious. So I looked i
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by sjackso 7y ago
That quote is from the article, not Kierkegaard himself. There's a lenghy answer to your question here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_S%C3%B8ren_Kierk...
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by sjackso 7y ago
You may want to check out the forum site Cloudy Nights. Here's a thread in the amateur telescope subforum about the instrument that discovered this comet. There's a photo of the telescope and of Borisov four posts in to the threa
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by sjackso 7y ago
I read the situation as being worse for Linux (3 CVEs, including one remotely-inducable kernel panic, spanning many versions) than for FreeBSD (1 CVE that can be exploited to slow down a target system in the latest major version). But even

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