uomo

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by uomo 3y ago
That’s interesting. In the article it says: > According to De Telegraaf, no signal would have come through in the cockpit before departure that the door was not closed properly.
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by uomo 4y ago
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397510
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by uomo 4y ago
One of Amazon’s buildings in Seattle (Doppler) uses a data center next door to reduce their overall heating costs during the winter. Source: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/the-super-ef...
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by uomo 5y ago
Earlier discussion regarding "I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30039597
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by uomo 5y ago
Based on the “How it Works” section of their website, it looks like both the screenshot and the text are saved.
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by uomo 5y ago
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27374840
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Florida bill will fine social media sites for banning politicians- except Disney(theverge.com)
10 points by uomo 5y ago|5 comments
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by uomo 5y ago
According to the Verge, 18 employees (out of 57 total) have tweeted that they are going to leave. Source: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22412714/basecamp-employe...
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by uomo 5y ago
For those that haven't seen the video, he consulted on the Netflix film 'Stowaway' (that comes out later this month). He whipped up a design for the proposed spacecraft in a few minutes to help the directors visualize it bet
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by uomo 5y ago
I assume they meant 512kbps... or they just have strangely great upload speeds.
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Say Cheese on Mars: Perseverance's Selfie with Ingenuity(mars.nasa.gov)
1 points by uomo 5y ago|0 comments
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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity touches down on the Red Planet(space.com)
8 points by uomo 5y ago|1 comments
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by uomo 5y ago
The first green run was on January 16th, so only about 2 months between the issue popping up and the fix being implemented and verified.
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by uomo 6y ago
If anyone else was wondering what percent of drivers in the US have a suspended license it's 2.59% [1]. Which honestly surprised me because it seems lower than I was expecting. Fun fact: North Dakota has the most drivers with a suspend
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by uomo 6y ago
Yes, but herd immunity makes it possible to protect the total population from a disease including the ones that cannot get vaccinated, such as children or those with contraindications.
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by uomo 6y ago
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ Would be the best place to get images/videos from Perseverance.
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by uomo 6y ago
This sort of reminds me, at least the Adidas example, of the Nike and Apple activity tracker that would be embedded into shoes in order to track distances and number of steps.
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by uomo 6y ago
The 3,034 days refers to how many sols (Martian days) it has lasted. The discrepancy is due to the fact that a Martian day is roughly 24 hours 40 minutes long. That extra 40 minutes over roughly 3000 days leads to the 82 day difference.