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by xioxox 20d ago
I don't use Wero, yet, but I'm not really convinced when I read about it. Firstly, it lets anyone lookup the name associated with a phone number or email address, which is a privacy nightmare. Secondly, only a single bank account
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by xioxox 27d ago
Some background information: https://offthebeatenpanel.blogspot.com/2013/08/unusual-heroe...
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by xioxox 1mo ago
We also released the 2nd half sky catalogue of the eROSITA X-ray survey at the same time, for 1.5 years of operations, in collaboration with SDSS. Here is a sky map and 3D plot with redshift: https://www.mpe.mpg.de/8215311&#
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EROSITA delivers the most comprehensive census of the high-energy Universe(mpe.mpg.de)
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by xioxox 2mo ago
Starlink was also a UK astronomy software project from the 80s and 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_Project
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by xioxox 3mo ago
And when you meet them, if you're unlucky they don't want to hear your medical history and want you out of the door in two minutes.
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by xioxox 4mo ago
Isn't this the same thing with 32 GB already on a PCIe socket? https://www.ebay.com/itm/166850431555
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by xioxox 4mo ago
Personally, I think social media and academic publishing timescales, rewards and social conventions don't match very well. Social networking feels transient and impersonal. I would like to take some time to form my opinion about a pape
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by xioxox 5mo ago
See also HiPS maps, which map the sky onto ever finer HEALPix grids to allow zooming: https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/hips/
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by xioxox 6mo ago
A surprising number of scientists seem to use it, likely because of the now terrible atmosphere for scientists on Twitter/X and the emptiness of bluesky.
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by xioxox 8mo ago
What's the good of a perfect railway line if it never gets built? What happened to the capacity argument? There is likely a good optimum between the cheapest and most expensive possible for capacity and speed. We could all fly around i
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by xioxox 8mo ago
Isn't the problem that the requirements for line were "gold plated"? If they'd put in another standard rail line instead, it would have increased capacity, taken up much less space, would have been much cheaper, would ha
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by xioxox 8mo ago
I get proper IPV4 and IPV6 addresses with Easybell on VDSL. I've been with them a long time and they've been pretty good.
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by xioxox 9mo ago
Pedantically, it's Einstein Probe (EP), not Einstein. Confusingly, in Chinese it has another name, Tianguan, commemorating the observation of the supernova which created the Crab Nebula.
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by xioxox 9mo ago
China + ESA + Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) + Centro Nacional de Estudios Espaciales (CNES) contributions
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by xioxox 9mo ago
Stunt Island was pretty good. However, there are more unusual games out there with reasonable budgets, like Death Stranding, The Talos Principle, The Outer Wilds, Portal and X4:Foundations. Even games involving shooting like Control or Alan
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by xioxox 9mo ago
Of course it might be genuine, but there's also a history of r/LegalAdviceUK getting a number of creative writing exercises. See this post: https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1loyctr&#x2
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by xioxox 10mo ago
Although adverts on the fridge are absolutely terrible, is this genuine? Here's a reddit post some time before that suggesting the scenario: https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/1ow6cpu/ap
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by xioxox 10mo ago
Babies?
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by xioxox 10mo ago
With google I can't find things I know exist. For example, it doesn't find several of my github repositories with unique names that have been there for years. With old google you could drill down a couple of pages of results, but
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by xioxox 1y ago
Although Intel processors are efficient, modern AMD processors have much higher idle power usage, due to their chiplet design. They typically use at least 20W more power.
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by xioxox 1y ago
It's certainly very useful. I do half my work using X11 over ssh and it works reasonably well over a LAN (at least using emacs, plotting, etc).
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by xioxox 1y ago
You are plainly wrong. I know several astronomers who look at colour images to check that the software is working properly.
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by xioxox 1y ago
Unfortunately the LibreOffice Impress is pretty bad. PowerPoint is what keeps me using Office. LibreOffice formatting looks bad on the screen (it resizes bitmaps to make the fuzzy) and the user interface for constructing slides is both clun
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by xioxox 1y ago
That's not right. I'm an astronomer, and I often look at colour images and colleagues do, too. For example, the galaxies in a cluster of galaxies follow a relation of colours - brightness (the "red sequence"), which can
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by xioxox 1y ago
What's the advantage of this over HEALPix projection? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEALPix
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by xioxox 2y ago
I believe many Atari ST models had their graphical OS (TOS/GEM) on ROM. The Archimedes with RISC OS felt revolutionary at the time, however. Several of the graphical desktop programs were written in BBC Basic and you could look at the
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by xioxox 2y ago
It's entirely Zoom for my branch of academia.
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by xioxox 2y ago
Free bank transfers are not mandatory in the EU. The bank just has to charge the same for a national transfer as an EU transfer: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/financial-pr...
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by xioxox 2y ago
I have Django code which creates a tar file on the fly from a list of requested files and works well. It doesn't use intermediate storage. The tar format can be pretty simple. I got most of the way into implementing a uncompressed zip

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