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The First SMS Message(spacedaily.com)
3 points by ultratalk 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ultratalk 4mo ago
Duplicate of my previous comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887938 ) If I remember correctly, the habitable-ish cloud layers have super-fast winds that circle the planet once every 4 days or so. [0] [0] h
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The Cathedral, the Bazaar and the Kitchen(blog.vrypan.net)
2 points by ultratalk 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ultratalk 4mo ago
Yeah, but communication is a two-way street. It might not matter to me that my words are unstructured, but it will to the person I'm writing to if they can't make head nor tail of what I'm saying, or worse, misunderstand it a
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
With regards to search engines, Google paid billions of dollars [0] to become the default on major browsers. I guess GP's implying that something similar might happen with LLMs. [0] https://www.reuters.com/technology&#x
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
Strangely enough, when I enter the "convergence point" book, my cursor gets an American flag, even though it wasn't American before. Has anyone else seen this?
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
> Our telescopes actually need the (or at least an) atmosphere to function. What about Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, JWST, etc? As of my understanding, the only reason we haven't built radio and and other long-wave telescopes in space i
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
Opinion: We need to move our astronomical observation equipment off of Earth and onto other bodies, especially radio astronomy, which, unlike telescopes that operate in other wavelengths, is still affected by Earth's emissions in LEO&#
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
Is this the same guy who wrote Peoplewatching (Manwatching, I believe, is what it was called earlier)?
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
Is this the same guy who wrote Peoplewatching?
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
@dang?
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
Almost certainly.
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
Islam and Christianity are Abrahamic religions. But some societies are both very Christian and very anti-Islam, or vice-versa.
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
Yeah, the south was one of the most economically prosperous regions in the Indian subcontinent at the time. They were the centres of the spice trade, and a lot of colonial interest began there first. Because of the trade networks, a lot of
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: an
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
If I remember correctly, the habitable-ish cloud layers have super-fast winds that circle the planet once every 4 days or so. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_super-rotation
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
There was this project idea that some researchers at Langley developed in the mid-2010s called HAVOC (High Altitude Venus Operational Concept) [0] for a 5-stage mission to send humans to Venus's habitable-ish cloud layers. It never rea
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
https://xkcd.com/397/ (the zombie feynman one)
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
Just a guess, but maybe it's reporting bias? Negative or evil actions might have more impetus to be understood by others than positive actions. I'd rather try and figure out why my friend suddenly started murdering the neighbours
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
Interesting. Could you give some examples as to how? I want to see how well this could work out in my friend circle, who seem to be getting bored after years of mafia-ing.
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
I just checked it out, what's the difference between it and non-board-games like werewolf and mafia?
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
Out of curiosity, has anyone noticed a non-negligible presence of bots in threads on HN? I haven't, but I'm not sure if that's because I'm bad at spotting them or because HN is good at getting rid of them or because HN i
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
That feels more like a reflection of how terrible most GM cars are than about the inflated valuation of Cursor, which is what I infer you were trying to imply.
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
What country were you in?
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
I don't understand how this relates to the article or the discussion.
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
I don't think that's representative of most non-CS professionals. Most people in the fields I know (mostly professors, medical doctors, and businesspeople) can use google chrome, word, powerpoint, and a little of excel decently. T
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by ultratalk 5mo ago
It is? :)
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New research suggests Bennu's boulders might be more porous than expected(science.nasa.gov)
2 points by ultratalk 6mo ago|0 comments
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by ultratalk 6mo ago
In my country, state schools strictly forbid students from bringing devices to school. This rule was actually introduced because of the haves/have-nots issue here, because many kids are too poor to afford devices. The schools themselve
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by ultratalk 6mo ago
Attach hooks to the bottom of the blimp and send a guy in a heavy sled with hooks on it, with helium balloons attached to it, to the bottom of the blimp. Attach the sled to the hooks on the blimp, then get the guy to pop all the sled's

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