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Darren Stone, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Once men turned their thinking over to
machines in the hope that this would
set them free. But that only permitted
other men with machines to enslave
them." - Frank P. Herbert, Jr., 1965
"The programmer, like the poet, works
only slightly removed from pure
thought-stuff. He builds his castles
in the air, from air, creating by
exertion of the imagination."
- Fred P. Brooks, Jr., 1975recent activity (1,004 total)
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EVs reduce tailpipe exhaust near roads but it's worth noting that brake abrasion dust isn't going away anytime soon and it's considered very bad to breathe, possibly in the same league …
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If MIT Technology Review prevents you from reading this for free, try Reader View. Worked for me in Firefox.
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Another category of toilets that require neither water input nor plumbing output are incinerator toilets such as the Incinolet and Cinderella[1]. Thought HN might dig the innovations happening in the …
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"The Arecibo Planetary Radar used two klystrons that provided a total power output of 1 MW (continuous) at 2380 MHz."[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klystron …
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re/ black holes, probably, maybe > Space is empty and time is slow Not always slow, and the paths of objects in space are largely determined. Thus we do have interesting and potentially useful…
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Cool. This Canadian amateur, Scott Tilley VE7TIL, is the same operator behind previous discoveries like a NASA satellite thought to be dead three years ago. https://www.rac.ca/amateurs…