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by vikingerik 3d ago
All it would need is a wi-fi antenna internally, and then it could connect to an open wi-fi network anywhere. And it's going to be pretty much impossible to avoid ever driving your car within range of some open network.
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by vikingerik 29d ago
And just for comparison on that number, the entire Apollo spacecraft (command+service+lunar modules) was about 50 tons to lunar orbit. And that took a gigantic Saturn V to launch.
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by vikingerik 1mo ago
Right. Although in-universe, it was the NX-01 that was the genesis of the name for starships. NCC-1701 was a century later.
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by vikingerik 1mo ago
There's a fun time loop here: The Star Trek Enterprise and the real-life space shuttle Enterprise were each named after the other. In real life, the shuttle was named after the Star Trek ship. In-universe, the first starship Enterpri
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by vikingerik 2mo ago
The definition isn't fuzzy, we define a brown dwarf as an object that has undergone deuterium fusion. The fuzziness is in the physical properties needed to achieve that. 13 Jupiter masses is generally the threshold where deuterium fus
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by vikingerik 2mo ago
The other reply gave good info, but didn't quite answer this. Once an object's core acquires enough temperature/pressure/density to start protium fusion, it will continue, not burn out. The fusion itself increases the
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by vikingerik 2mo ago
Summary: It's low resolution at only 256 x 80, stretched vertically to the screen size. It's only 16 colors so only 4 bits/pixel. That comes to 10kb per frame. A variant of Huffman coding gets it to 3.52kb per frame. It'
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by vikingerik 2mo ago
Second Reality was art indeed, but the GUS didn't make all that much difference for it. The soundtrack didn't have higher rate samples for the GUS's memory to hold or more channels for it to mix. Later demos and games did u
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by vikingerik 2mo ago
Did you know there's a long version? (Of the song, not the flowchart, though another reply has that too) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svz-W5w2bPM There's a 7-minute version, with two more verses that aren&#x27
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by vikingerik 2mo ago
Best is subjective there, of course. Tetris is proven solvable with that bag method. https://tetris.wiki/Playing_forever 20 cycles through the bag can be packed into exactly 56 lines and that pattern can be repeated forev
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by vikingerik 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_rotation doesn't say anything about bimodal. There's a formula with a relation between size and rotation speed, including the fact that smaller stars live longer and hav
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by vikingerik 3mo ago
Consumers don't want to understand it because they don't want to consume less.
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by vikingerik 3mo ago
The article says "10x luminosity", and here's what seems to be the explanation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Luminosity_Large_Hadron_C... That's the wiki article for the new one. Says "I
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by vikingerik 3mo ago
Publix is also on that first list, of happy and overstaffed and privately owned. I do most of my shopping there and it's much more pleasurable than Kroger or Walmart.
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by vikingerik 3mo ago
The rarity is that very few copies ever existed of a standalone boxed SMB. Not every console came with SMB. One very early package didn't have it, and one later package included SMB3 instead. So SMB was sold as a standalone for these
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by vikingerik 3mo ago
Well, if there are 100,000 competitors and you want to win, then the 99.99th percentile isn't enough, and yes you would try to reach 99.999.
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by vikingerik 4mo ago
Right, iterating through pixels is better. The tricky part about iterating the angle is that you need to choose the step size correctly or else you could skip pixels. Like if you iterate in 1-degree increments, you'll plot 360 pixels
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by vikingerik 4mo ago
Yes, this is broadly correct. The free market will (roughly) arbitrage out any differences between owning and renting. The hidden factor is that whatever money you have in house equity represents opportunity cost that it isn't in inv
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by vikingerik 4mo ago
Any angle within 23º of east-west will have henging at some time of year. You'd have to have the entire street grid be aligned diagonal rather than cardinal.
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by vikingerik 4mo ago
Love that "land for turn", although I think it might shift the balance a little too much, in that you can make a deck with too much land and high cost spells and know you can cast them reliably. There needs to be a risk factor in
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by vikingerik 4mo ago
I think this reason is dependency. Anything I'm doing where the action of one hand depends on the other has to go left-to-right. I can only finger frets with the left and then pick with the right. Can't go the other way, can&
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by vikingerik 4mo ago
On MacOS (at least my older version on a 2015 MBP), Cmd-~ switches between app windows. Totally undiscoverable but knowing that restores a lot of usability.
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by vikingerik 4mo ago
I've always thought he just kind of slurred over the "a", like you'd do in casual speech, it came out like "f'r'a man". In the recording there's a tiny slight bit of a vowel after the "r&qu
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by vikingerik 4mo ago
Several real pinball tables do this, keep a hidden ball staged to make it seem to instantly reappear. The Rick & Morty machine in particular does this - you can shoot into a portal, and the ball (actually a different hidden one) reappe
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by vikingerik 4mo ago
And the version from Full Tilt is a significantly enhanced version of the game. It has multiball, where the Windows bundled version doesn't.
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by vikingerik 4mo ago
Most likely that pricing rule was/is at a more local level. The national level in the US doesn't have anything like that, but there are some states or cities or counties that can and do.
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by vikingerik 4mo ago
Hey, some of us are old enough to have done it on a TI-82 instead! I already knew Basic from a DOS PC, but did write a Breakout clone while bored in classes on my TI-82.
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by vikingerik 4mo ago
The Onion headline should be: Ted Turner dies at 87:05
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by vikingerik 5mo ago
Just Wikipedia. It cites two studies that found values of 8-13 mg and 3-32 mg per decaf cup, compared to regular which is 95-200. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decaffeination
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by vikingerik 5mo ago
FYI since many people don't know: Decaf isn't zero, it can still be several percentage points. In the US decaf is supposed to be under 3% of regular coffee but it's not commonly tested or enforced, so many types of decaf can

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