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I think the idea is a huge waste, but the Utah State Legislature already considered exactly this in 2022 (building a massive pipeline to the Pacific Ocean). https://www.sltrib.com/…

The title is incorrect. According to Wikipedia he he died May 25th, 2025. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler

My kids were able to make complex 3D games at 9yo with very little help using Roblox Studio. It’s free. https://roblox.com/create Disclaimer: I work for Roblox Corp.

[1] timeanddate.com is a great site that provides a visualization with times and directions for a given city. I don't think its possible to link directly to a specific lat/lon, so …

It certainly burned but is still intact. Who knows if it will survive. Video of the banyan tree after the fire: https://twitter.com/PandaToybox/status/1689394756844138496?s...

I don’t know the exact year the CDRS group was acquired by PTC, but it be around the same time I attended the same High School Computing Institute in 1996.

East High School is the closest public high school to the University of Utah. Because of this proximity the school was fortunate to get a direct T1 (1.5 Mbps) connection in 1992 (9…

Right out of high school I started as an intern at PTC in Research Park shortly after they acquired CDRS from E&S. CDRS was originally started by some of the researchers from the U…

Jim Blinn and Ed Catmull will both be speaking next week (March 24th) at the 50 year celebration of the University of Utah Computer Science Department. https://www.price.utah.edu/i…

This Imgur collection of animated gifs capturing the 2017 Oroville Spillway crisis is an amazing work of journalism: https://imgur.io/gallery/mpUge https://imgur.io/gallery/6IyCi h…

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I doubt the veracity of your claims because according to multiple sources [1][2] the only nuclear reactor in the state of Utah is located on the bottom floor of the Merrill Enginee…

Often, you can considerably reduce the file size of an SVG text file without a noticeable reduction in perceptual quality just by reducing the precision of the coordinates. The awe…

For more Utah arch vibration content, check out Prof. Jeff Moore's twitter feed @UtahGeohaz (Jeff is in the same department as the link). Here's some very cool visualizations showi…

> * Remove all unnecessary headers. Template expansion is slow, and preprocessing is even slower. Some of the standard includes (like ` ` and ` `) are notorious for slowing individ…

Not really. Roblox the company doesn’t actually publish games (or experiences as we prefer to call them). Valve and Epic both develop big titles in-house. Whereas Roblox’s experien…

That’s partially due to that fact that Roblox is a platform and is not a gaming company. It’s a different business model and culture that isn’t subject to the vagaries of the games…

> And they don't run ads, which is great You must be running an ad blocker because Worldometers most definitely runs ads.

Her Twitter account was one of the most interesting ones I followed. Unfortunately, even though I had never interacted with her, she blocked me out of the blue some months ago. I w…

On the morning of January 13th, 2018 I was looking at my phone. When at 8:08am, every cell phone in the entire state simultaneously emitted an emergency alert tone and displayed th…

Please don't discount the people in Hawaii that experienced this event. We lived on O'ahu when it happened and the topic still comes up occasionally. At the time, it was quite trau…

Also, the original domain was pineapplefund.org, whereas this is pineapplefund.me

> Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. I too had thought that this was the case, but it appears the press does get at least some advance notice. Last Wednesday…

@dang recently (17 days ago) posted a list of the most favorited HN comments in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24360449

> Unless I am unaware of something, CRISPR is not yet ready for medical usage. CRISPR has been used successfully to treat Sickle Cell Anemia in at least one patient. [1] You're spo…