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Just a heads up, for me the "posts in this series" links (towards the top of the page) all return 404 errors. It seems they have an extra "python-for-feature-film/" in the URL…
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It's alluded to in the Quanta Mag article, but it's worth repeating the information from the NANOgrav discovery paper[0], as stated in the paper's abstract: However, we find no statist…
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> It could do pretty much anything. Though, you may have noticed that I omitted addressing your first bulletpoint of "simple formatting", as I am not able to keep a straight face while ca…
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In the US, I've seen that referred to as "go to hell pants": https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/go-to-hell-pants/ …
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This is part of an issue of "Nature Astronomy" that is focused on climate change: https://astronomycommunity.nature.com/posts/the-climate-issu... …
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There was a HN title generator done a few years ago:
https://veekaybee.github.io/2015/08/24/markov-in-python/ And one for generating (unrelated) comments to a titl…
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> There's a similar NodeJS program called blcl (broken-link-checker-local) which has the handy attribute that it works on local directories linkchecker can do this as well, if you provide it a…
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LIGO and VIRGO are sensitive to gravitational waves within a specific frequency range. The bulk of GW energy is emitted at a frequency that is twice the orbital frequency of the objects emitting the g…
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Tucson, AZ is another place that has rules to guard against light pollution. This is to keep skies dark for the nearby observatories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson,_Arizona…
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> I think 'Show HN' is signalling to people that you don't think anyone would be interested in the content. It is like apologizing. Make content people are interested in. Show HN isn…
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This comment has info about a community license: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24166978
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> USPS has a free API that gives you the location of every collection box. Do you have a link for this? It would be useful for filling out post box information on openstreetmap, I'd think. I f…
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Good news, it's a great program. It might be better to use the URL about the release: https://www.darktable.org/2020/08/darktable-321-released/ (rather than the &q…
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> the TGV is also profitable Correct me if I’m wrong, but my impression is that this is only true if one excludes the capital costs associated with the railroad (tracks, right of way, and I think …
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