wumpus

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by wumpus 3y ago
Everything is more meaningful, do you mean? In developed countries, agriculture is highly automated, and if you want a hobby garden in your leisure time, you can choose how much automation you want.
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by wumpus 3y ago
> Because most 'AI ethicists' are overeducated well off urbanite upper-middle class landed gentry-adjacents Every time I come back to HN after a break, I am quickly reminded of why I left.
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by wumpus 4y ago
What a great idea! Can you point at a concrete explanation of how it is affordable with astronomy's budget?
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by wumpus 4y ago
TLEs come with a variety of precision. The gold standard right now is for the satellite owner to have GPS on the satellite and publish it.
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by wumpus 4y ago
To comment on this a little more, it would be way out of our budget to abandon our telescopes on earth and do it all from space.
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by wumpus 4y ago
The fun part of that was that astronomers were whining about light pollution all along, and being ignored. And here we are.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> are missing the longer view. I love all the condescending comments like this one.
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by wumpus 4y ago
How dare that guy have a clear opinion that he's willing to back up with reasons! Way better than Dijkstra being pithy about everything.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Well, yes, in that you would be arrested.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Remember the Wirecard collapse, where there was a fake bank account in the Phillipines that allegedly had $2.1 billion USD in it? This is the crypto equivalent.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> Production of Gas is incidental to oil drilling For some wells, yes. For others, no.
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by wumpus 4y ago
The German government has already taken action several times during this crisis.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Don't blame astronomers! We think it's cold when it's actually cold, not only after the solstice.
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by wumpus 4y ago
20 years of "progress" and hey, C++20 is gaining the likely attribute.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> In finance Isn't low-latency trading only a subset of finance?
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by wumpus 4y ago
I'm a guilty party for reusing a connector because it already existed -- we wanted to make a HyperTransport slot standard (HTX), so we used 2 PCIe standard connectors. We placed them at an unusual depth from the edge so it was unlikely
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by wumpus 4y ago
Most Fortran compilers are also C compilers, and the Fortran standard library is usually implemented in C. So interop with C is easy.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Wow, that was used for a long time. The Greek one was 700 years.
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by wumpus 4y ago
A Chinese post-doc came to join my group 1 year into the pandemic. He took an antibody test, which should have shown antibodies due to his 2 doses of Sinovax. Nada. The first thing he after he arrived in the US was to get vaccinated. Perhap
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by wumpus 4y ago
Woah. I have my luggage in my apartment. I never realized what that meant until now.
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by wumpus 4y ago
In comparison, a commonly-used portage in Greece was only 8km long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diolkos Much less work, but of course much less benefit.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Good timing: just got an invite to attend VAST's breakfast discussion at the SC (supercomputing) conference. HN: two net downvotes for asking a question.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I think you missed the recent delivery of new roll-up solar panels to the ISS. Also I don't think the CanadaArm can roam to the Russian segment, but there's a new European arm that does.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> What they're doing with the second boost, they're not telling anyone. This is a direct-to-GEO launch, and some of the payloads are public.
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by wumpus 4y ago
That was the basis of "Social Darwinism", which turned out to be a terrible fit to reality.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Is reusing tool names in the same sub-field of Computer Science becoming a thing? VAST was a Fortran preprocessor.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Wow. That you attack someone who merely said they're a vegetarian in these terms, and your comment isn't flagged and dead, is extremely embarrassing for HN. I mean, I have low expectations (on HN) for anything involving vegetarian
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by wumpus 4y ago
I have a mac mini as a desktop in my home office and actual office, multiple screens, and almost all my windows are either browsers or shell windows to my Linux dev server. I've never developed a MacOS or iOS app.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Sure, I was expecting that when I started reading the comment, but then it pretty much fell apart. Even if the comment was clear, it still isn't a very good comparison: GR has relatively easy to verify things like the motion of Mercury
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by wumpus 4y ago
It's a shame that a crackpot comment is at the top of this discussion. Vulcan was looked for and didn't exist. Einstein won that one. I'm unaware of any MOND theory which changes the orbit of Mercury.

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