slowhand09

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by slowhand09 6mo ago
Why does it take 10 days? Because it's not powered the whole way. You fire the engines briefly from earth to get to near-escape velocity, then coast to the moon, all the while slowing down because earth's gravity is pulling you ba
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Artemis II Flight Map – printable pdf(plateauastro.com)
1 points by slowhand09 6mo ago|1 comments
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Lawdbot Chaos: A Forced Rebrand, Crypto Scam(decrypt.co)
2 points by slowhand09 8mo ago|0 comments
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by slowhand09 1y ago
Two what? Two yutes? What? Ohhh... Youths... Two youths... I'll see myself out.
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by slowhand09 1y ago
Very Cool! I had Smalltalk-80 back in the mid 80s and loved it. Prob forgot most by now tho. Just cool you've made it a thing again.
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US placing trackers in AI chip shipments to prevent diversion to China(seekingalpha.com)
1 points by slowhand09 1y ago|0 comments
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Rogue holes – inverse phenomenon of a rogue wave(brilliantmaps.com)
2 points by slowhand09 1y ago|0 comments
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by slowhand09 1y ago
Waiting for an obligatory WinampAI post because... It Really Whips the Llama's Ass.
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by slowhand09 1y ago
I spent approx 1 year working on a very hush project at FDA. It (I shit you not) had requirements to allow rerouting of drug application and progress reviews (workflow system) around list of folks determined to be overly zealous in ensurin
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U/ltimate homelab storage [video](youtube.com)
1 points by slowhand09 2y ago|1 comments
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by slowhand09 2y ago
I've long been a fan of HP Voyager series calculators. I used an HP-11c daily at work years ago. I still have it, an HP-15c, and and HP-12c. The 11c and 15c are both probably still on their 2nd set of batteries, after 40+ years.
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by slowhand09 2y ago
Interesting. Nobody writes about the Rural Electrification project which was to run electricity to very remote farms, then high speed internet to them. Turns out satellite (or Starlink) can do it for a tiny fraction of their budget. Also
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by slowhand09 2y ago
When I started we had a clear distinction between titles and the duties associated: Assistant (entry level) Associate (3-5 yrs) Research (7 or more yrs) Senior (typically >10yrs) We transitioned from Programmer to Software Engineer durin
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by slowhand09 2y ago
"53 teeth are from one shark and experts estimate the shark would have been close to 50 feet long."
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Meglodon Teeth(wmar2news.com)
3 points by slowhand09 2y ago|1 comments
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Why NoSQL Deployments Are Failing at Scale(thenewstack.io)
2 points by slowhand09 2y ago|0 comments
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by slowhand09 2y ago
Chang resecured himself to the space station and made his way to the main hatch while Huan brought Tiangong-3’s weapons online. The station crew had realized they were moving to war footing twelve hours ago when Huan switched off the live v
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by slowhand09 2y ago
I'm not signing up or creating a "free" account without at least seeing a sample of it. JMHO.
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Introduction to 3D Gaussian Splatting(huggingface.co)
6 points by slowhand09 2y ago|0 comments
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by slowhand09 2y ago
Good article, but the author is using low numbers for the "speeding bullet" stats. Like many jobs both around the house and industrial stuff, know what you are doing before you attempt it. But go away with the "it's t
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by slowhand09 3y ago
And those $138 billion in loans were not "forgiven". That would be the loan companies, or the universities saying "don't pay us" or "don't pay us back". What happened is AHIC said "let raise eve
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by slowhand09 3y ago
Ladies and gentlemen of the Hacker News jury, I’m just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get
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by slowhand09 3y ago
I would never believe anyone could be this stupid... until my stepdaughter was scammed out of $12k in a very similar way.
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by slowhand09 3y ago
Geez... This sounds like one of those stories where somebody had just enough charisma to convince investors and employees that he knew what he was doing, when he didn't. Developing software isn't the same as running a business.
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by slowhand09 3y ago
Didn't that happen in the 1st Spiderman movie, except the robber killed Uncle Ben...
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by slowhand09 3y ago
Love this topic. Early in my computing career I was trying to modernize our software testing. I wrote a small pgm to generate the Cyclomatic Complexity of our Fortran code. I was especially pleased after discovering an error while workin
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by slowhand09 3y ago
That's sad and unfortunate. Experts and dealers of such equipment are a dissapearing breed. I have 2 slide rules; a super cheap plastic unit from high school days, and a full-sized Dietzgen I bought for a dollar (leather case and all
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Bottom 80% of US Households Persistently Dissaves-Spending More Than Income(wealtheconomics.substack.com)
56 points by slowhand09 3y ago|113 comments
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by slowhand09 3y ago
Cue the Terminators. Wait, can it smell?
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Nvidia's Eye Contact Feature(twitter.com)
2 points by slowhand09 3y ago|0 comments

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