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David Webber - Safehold series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safehold The first book is Off Armageddon Reef - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_Armageddon_Reef In the 24th century…

And in remembering another paper... it wasn't about a black hole but rather quark matter... Two Seismic Events with the Properties for the Passage of Strange Quark Matter Through t…

No. I was adjusting a classic quote about something that is decried as awful and no one wants to do... except all the other alternatives are worse. It's not so much that people wan…

Can one detect passage of small black hole through the Earth? - https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3438v1 A physics stack exchange answer about it: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/5518…

Not quite so undetectable... in theory. PBS Spacetime - How Many Black Holes Are In The Solar System? https://youtu.be/wh75ubECL8I And then How to spot tiny black holes that might …

How to spot tiny black holes that might pass through the solar system - https://www.sciencenews.org/article/primordial-black-holes-s... And the referenced papers: Probing primordia…

> ... Many forms of issue tracking have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that Jira is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that …

That's its own fun rabbit hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(astronomy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time

... And then there was Sweden. Instead of flipping the switch in the 1500s... or 1700s... they instead did a slow roll out until they finally flipped the switch and did a big leap.…

> Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. Unfortunate…

There was a talk by M. J. Dominus ... "Design Patterns" Aren't https://perl.plover.com/yak/design/samples/slide001.html While the narration of the talk itself is likely lost to tim…

I'm moderately disappointed that Fort Point in San Francisco isn't listed. Things like Fort Dearborn in Chicago are listed, but all that remains is markers of the perimeter... whil…

The suggestions that I've seen for astronomy on the far side of the Moon have largely been about radio astronomy rather than optical. The lack of the ionosphere which otherwise blo…

The far side of the moon would be useful for a radio observatory where one can block the noisy Earth while taking advantage of the ability to construct large collection area dishes…

https://blog.codinghorror.com/farewell-stack-exchange/ Jeff had stepped away in 2012. While there was some lingering activity in 2013 and 2014, it was way down from when he was par…

Often the people curating the questions are also the ones who are answering them. Their goal (loosely described) was so that if you pulled up the front page of the site, you'd find…

My most recent read of Dune was after Foundation in order (side bit: bailed at Foundation's Edge because it got too "preachy"). One of the things that I had stumbled across was tha…

Playing with the trajectory browser at NASA is kind of neat. https://trajbrowser.arc.nasa.gov/traj_browser.php?NEAs=on&NE... The "view" at the bottom has an animation of the variou…

From the archives ... How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work? https://space.stackexchange.com/q/14383 Feb 3, 2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243303…

It's not NASDAQ as a whole... it's NASDAQ 100. https://etfdb.com/index/nasdaq-100-index/ are the ETFs that track that index.

Also in the 90s... I remember they were HP Bobcats. We had two of them in a student lab and user directories weren't on a separate partition... so things filled up. And they kept g…

https://web.archive.org/web/20021014120633/http://www.ping-t... They had 20 game machines (for the day)... > Each gaming computer has a 1-Gigahertz Athlon, 21-inch Monitor, GeForce…

A nostalgia point for Tribes... There was a lan gaming place back when people had dial up... and that place had a T1 to the store that had double low double digit ping times when t…

That becomes a question of discoverability and the "what about bumping ancient threads". Consider trn and rn of old. I recall the first news reader that I used wasn't threaded and …

I was a contractor at Sun in '97, Palo Alto campus. Initially they put me in a shared office, and that was ok. Later, I got moved to a hallway. My machine had a hard reboot that fi…