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by tappaseater 4d ago
The commenter is referring to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Whilst most of the universe is a dark void, if you tune a radio to a certain frequency, there's a faint, static buzz in the microwave part of the spectrum. It is hear
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by tappaseater 2mo ago
Anthropic bought Bun, so they kinda, sorta had to make this work. I am sure the cost at $145,000 in Claude time will get some attention. I am curious how this will work going forward from FOSS perspective. Will humans be allowed to modify t
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by tappaseater 2mo ago
It's funny you should say that, because the next release apparently directly addresses this. Including startup to tray. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/close-tray-starting-154
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by tappaseater 3mo ago
Incredibly well said.
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by tappaseater 5mo ago
ne.general, alt.fan.karl-malden.nose, meowww wars, Stephen Boursey. Anyone else old?
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by tappaseater 7mo ago
Nitpick: It's called Contributor and supposedly has the same features of the previous subscription. It still feels like a setup for future degradation by some marketing genius.
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by tappaseater 8mo ago
The whole section that introduces Zaphod is so apt for Trump. It talks about the president's position not being to concentrate power, but to distract attention FROM it. It really feels that way to me, anyway.
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by tappaseater 10mo ago
I used to follow the balloon projects that hams would launch. A mylar balloon with a tiny 50 milliwatt transmitter and GPS, solar powered on the 10Mhz band tracked thousands of miles away.
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by tappaseater 1y ago
You’re right — H-1B is dual intent. But my main point still stands: conflating H-1Bs with “immigrants hollowing out the middle class” is misleading. H-1B was designed to address shortfalls in skilled labor by granting temporary work authori
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by tappaseater 1y ago
I've seen plenty and even tossed them as streamers as a kid. I've also seen many scratched CDs lying at the side of the road.
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by tappaseater 1y ago
It’s important to clarify that H-1B is a non-immigrant visa — you don’t get to stay if you lose your job. That matters because the debate isn’t about immigration itself but about how the program functions. H-1B was meant to supplement short
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by tappaseater 1y ago
I often wonder why compact disc was the bridge technology to full digital and not DAT.
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by tappaseater 1y ago
I'm probably not thinking this through, so go easy, but why wouldn't tracked panels also produce a normalized power curve? My assumption behind the question is that they follow the same track as Sol every day, which doesn't v
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by tappaseater 2y ago
The TT creator, John Aravosis, said recently on his show that it took TT 3 days to figure out he is gay and he said he never interacted with it in any way that would convey that. On the other hand, it kept giving me animal snuff that utterl
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by tappaseater 2y ago
When Zuck said on Jan 7th, 2025, that he wants to work with President Trump to oppose states threatening free speech, he wasn't talking about China. It was 100% the EU and its regulations. The quid pro quo starts to emerge.
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by tappaseater 2y ago
When I was just starting my career around the late 1980s, I wrote a program on the Psion for a chain store in the UK that had 21 stores. Basically a person would walk the aisles and enter the stock codes and quantities. When they were done
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by tappaseater 2y ago
It is poorly written, with some atrocious dialog. I watched it all because the story intrigued me, but all I kept thinking was, "The last season of GoT was shit for THIS?"
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by tappaseater 3y ago
The excellent YouTuber "Plainly Difficult" covered this story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCwWX_9grrE
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by tappaseater 3y ago
I always tell my gun-hoarding, go-box toting, bug-out planning prepper friends the same thing. You don't have enough guns and ammo to stop the masses coming for your canned pork'n'beans.
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by tappaseater 3y ago
So much for the Brisling Sardines industry. We hardly knew ye.
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by tappaseater 3y ago
I have been confused by Quantum Computing and have been reading and watching as much as possible on the topic. I can never seem to grasp the potential. I keep thinking about classical problems. Like what if I multiply a real number by a num
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by tappaseater 3y ago
What a wonderful calling to have had in life.
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by tappaseater 3y ago
I have always felt that the problem with the plastic recycling is that there is a lack of an economy. If you sell a yogurt for $1.99 I don’t care about what happens to the container, I t’s hardly surprising that most of it ends up overseas,
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by tappaseater 3y ago
I don't understand the reply either. The link shows clearly how it works and that it's about managing water levels, not pond elimination. Many times these ponds are secondary, and extra care (in some case by regulations) is needed
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by tappaseater 3y ago
It reminds of the story of the de Havilland Comet, which had a bad habit of breaking up in mid-air. Engineers submerged the fuselage of the plane in and out of deep water to simulate pressure changes and it finally failed. leading to the di
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by tappaseater 4y ago
Even solar panels over a bank of Superchargers is essentially a marketing exercise. An array over a 20 acre parking lot? Now you're talking.
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by tappaseater 4y ago
Thank you for that. I forgot the distinction. Like T-rex eating the lawyer hiding in the toilet in Jurassic Park.
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by tappaseater 4y ago
A little more cheepnis, please.
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by tappaseater 4y ago
3 large hurricanes bring such cold that it flash freezes on contact. Survivors hide in a library and have to burn all the books to fend of the flash freezing. Effed up symbolism right there. Love those movies.
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by tappaseater 4y ago
Well Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen was published in 1935. Bell's Theorem was published in 1964. Bell's wasn't tested experimentally until 1972, by which time it was largely forgotten except for creative fellow who worked out a way

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