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·9 gün önce·discuss
Good news, amateur astronomy is still done on web forums - they're the place for newcomers to acquire knowledge, and for technical discussions among the more advanced. (Modern social media tend to be rather used for outreach to the lay public.)

Places like Cloudy Nights, Stargazers Lounge, Solarchat, and your country's biggest local-lang forum.
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·15 gün önce·discuss
Could a physicist comment on this? I've been reading on the CNO cycle [1], where it says neutrinos produced in the beta-decay steps can have any share of the resulting energy. Does it mean the Sun is shrouded in a rarefied cloud of such low-energy neutrinos which failed to achieve escape velocity?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNO_cycle
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·18 gün önce·discuss
Remember that scene from "Men in Black" where K watches surveillance video feed of his ex? In the movie it was meant to be wistful and cute, I guess. Now that such systems are getting closer to reality, you realize the potential for abuse in enormous.
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·geçen ay·discuss
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·geçen ay·discuss
Nitpick: in Greek mythology it's Artemis and Aphrodite. Diana and Venus are Roman equivalents.
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·2 ay önce·discuss
Not that big of a problem, right? Just put a lot of power sockets throughout the workspace. Robot gets to its work station, can be tethered and recharge when it's operating there. Similarly in a household.
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·2 ay önce·discuss
And/or provide a baseline free tier, corresponding to how much a typical human user would at most push/clone etc. They have pre-LLM statistics on that.
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·3 ay önce·discuss
In other words, just as they did in "Rob Roy": "My factor will contact Your Grace's factor..."
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·3 ay önce·discuss
My classmate kept his Amiga 1200 a bit longer! ...eventually he got a PC with Pentium 60 MHz.
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·3 ay önce·discuss
I haven't played the game, but I like to have Baldur's Gate 3 soundtrack in the background sometimes (can be found on YT).
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·3 ay önce·discuss
Delta-v relative to the Orion is probably not that big, so I guess the waste will also circle the Moon and follow the crew into Earth's atmosphere.
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·4 ay önce·discuss
It's Bighetti actually ([1]).

[1] https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Head
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·4 ay önce·discuss
Yes, sorry! I like them both a lot.
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·4 ay önce·discuss
I don't think it's a best example. MMAcevedo is about running a real human mind on a different substrate (for science, for labor, or to torture it for fun a million times, I guess, by a bored teenager who got the image from torrents).

Scaling up these neuron cultures is rather something like "head cheese" from Greg Egan's "Rifters" novels (artificial "brains" trained to do network filtering, anti-malware combat etc.).
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·5 ay önce·discuss
Maybe a more formal "with extreme prejudice" would have worked.
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·6 ay önce·discuss
I have the same Dell (since 2016) and love it. But eventually I transitioned last year to a 27" 4K monitor. Still almost as sharp (KDE at 175% works fine for me).
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·6 ay önce·discuss
I concur; just last month I started with `wgpu` (the Rust bindings for WebGPU) after exclusively using OpenGL (since 2000, I think? via Delphi 2). Feels a bit verbose at first (with all the pipelines/bindings setup), but once you have your first working example, it's smooth sailing from there. I kind of liked (discontinued) `glium`, but this is better.
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·7 ay önce·discuss
I had such blocks as well. For a recent take on this, I can recommend Kapla, typically come in a large (a couple 100s) box of skinny rectangular cuboids. I had fun doing, ahem, preliminary testing, before gifting them to my niece.
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·8 ay önce·discuss
Once we develop more efficient propulsion (fission, fusion, light sails, etc.), would you like for someone to catch the Voyagers and bring them back into a museum? I myself am not sure. (Perhaps a "live museum" instead, keep them on their trajectories, but surround with a big space habitat with visitor center and whatnot.)
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·8 ay önce·discuss
I think it's a wrong way to look at it. In addition to DNA information content, one should count also the complexity of the proteins and higher-level structures in the gametes.