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Nice piece about early software to solve some astrophysics problems

"It will pull apart, sink down deeper and deeper and eventually... parts of southern Ethiopia, Somalia will drift off, create a new island, and we'll have a smaller Africa and a very big isl…

And yes, Wikipedia lists the Valleys of Nevada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_valleys_of_Nevada …

I reckon things haven't changed much in the last several years. There's glacial, and then there's continental drift.

The answer regarding Zimbabwe is Liquid Telecom: http://www.techzim.co.zw/2016/10/zimbabwe-leads-africa-ipv6-... http://ipv6-test.com/stats/country/…

It appears that Google is seeing 16% ipv6 traffic at the moment, it was 10% a year ago, and 5% the year before that; so not quite on the Ogive climb. Mind you on a country by country basis Belgium has…

Perhaps only test pages: http://ipv6.google.com/

Although it might be quicker than sea freight, if the frequency is less it will end up waiting too long to start its journey in the first place. Speed and frequency are both important, unless you have…

What we need now is the AI consumer.

Can these parsed from a string to a double though?

Tokomak energy also made a YouTube video to walk you through the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWW9kE2lUqo This is a previous paper that has garnered a lot of downloads: On t…

Another key thing I didn't mention was that at higher magnetic fields they no longer need to worry about plasma instabilities. I believe quite a lot of work had gone into how to managing instabil…

From the video it seemed to be down to the new students coming up with new ideas, and using new technology. DISRUPT!!!

I watched that video a few weeks ago. The main issue is that ITER is built and designed using legacy superconductors. Recent developments, and they're ongoing are allowing the designs to be reeng…

As he says in the talk this truck is for 100 Pb, you'd need 10 of them for the aforementioned Exabyte (Eb); which I imagine would nicely equate to a train. If this data is valuable though wouldn&…

Hmmm.... So when will The Universe be too small to data considering data use is exponential. I imagine there are lower upper limits, but this would be the upper upper limit.

So sneaker net was once someone walking around with burnt CD-ROM, then it was a box of drives, and now its a truck. Quite a dramatic illustration of the increase in data usage. If one extrapolates ne…

Or use X-ray communications: http://www.space.com/34824-nasa-x-ray-tech-deep-space-commun... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13063277 …

Phase IV is quite good too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_IV

BBC Radio 4 In Our Time: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/downloads Although the OP might have had a different idea about mind expansion...…

"Such X-ray communication, or XCOM, might, in theory, permit gigabit-per-second data rates throughout the solar system" Nice to see a reference to XCOM. Seriously though increasing data tran…

Then perhaps he is the sort of person who reads HackerNews...