Just me, or are all of these one sentence approving comments (at top level) posted by bots?
This weird obsequiousness and the fact that it never updates are beginning to make me wonder if this is some kind of prank.
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#222OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…
My friend Joe Allen did this with the air in a room!
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#223OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…
Definitely one of the harder drives feasible! Tom 7 did something reminiscent of this if you hadn't seen already: https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio .
Love Tom7! The peculiarities of my brain's weirdness obligates me to sing his praises every time he is mentioned.
Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
#224OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…
Before I consumed calories over days to figure out syntax. Now, a language model exhausts those calories away in seconds. Eventually we will advance too far into the future that the tail end of humanity will forget how to make pants.
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#225Lol this legit makes it easier to grep through HN. thanks!
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#226"Rails developers reinventing state machines for the 50th time" Laughed so hard on this one.
Its not even just Rails ppl. In embedded ive seen so many consultants say things like, "no problem. I just started working on the ultimate, perfect way to set up a state machine." Confidence theater
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#227I'm not even so sure it's such a useless joke. I mean, it is, and I wouldn't want titles to be like "Academic publishers admit paywalls were a scam all along" (unless ALL major publishers actually admit it, which so far they didn't). But I clicked on "Math nerd explains how to spend 3 days proving 1+1=2" and when it turned out to be a Lean tutorial I thought "Oh, that's exactly what I wanted!". I don't know why, but "From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality with Lean 4" I didn't even notice. It's such a boring and verbose title with lame attempt at wordplay that, that my brain somehow filters it out.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a scientist, but I assume the signal would degrade or mutate over time due to space radiation and other radio waves.
Electromagnetic waves have perfect/lossless superposition, so radiation can’t really degrade a signal that way. The big limiting factors are free space path loss and noise.
That's only true in classical electrodynamics, as it happens. If you're in a very strong B-field like you might find near a compact object you'll get nonlinear QED effects.
You can get a low order correction with Euler-Heisenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Heisenberg_Lagra...
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#229> CLICK TO KEEP AVOIDING WORK...
on point
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who maintained popular open source repos for >5 years, not once did I have a recruiter care about it (I made sure to ask!)
I hired many many people and never once I cared about GitHub stars. Not even sure what signal it suppose to be.
It's a quick signal that the developer is capable of writing and maintaining code that can be used by many others.