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tawmon Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

I wonder if those special cases are handled by a bunch of if/else statements wrapped around the model :)

tawmon The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar

That's not true. The exit started in 2002, under a red/green government.

tawmon Before Ships Used GPS, There Was the Fresnel Lens

As OP hasn't replied yet, I'll take the liberty. The biggest issue is interference (jamming) by malicious actors. This is especially common in the eastern Mediterranean [1]. Earlier this year there have also been reports of interference on Finland's border with Russia [2].

Of course one could imagine other scenarios where GPS might become inaccurate or unavailable on a larger scale, such as an attack on the satellites themselves.

[1] https://safety4sea.com/us-marad-gps-interference-incidents-r...

[2] https://www.traficom.fi/en/news/unusual-amount-reports-about...

(my guess is that _moof is a navigator with experience in the eastern med sea)

tawmon 9-Euro-Ticket

Definitely take a shower right before departure. Your ass will thank you.

tawmon Michelin Puts Puffy Sails on Cargo Ships

Usually the ship's owners are not the ones paying for the fuel, that's on the charterer's account.

tawmon YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

I'm going with that this whole thread is extremely astroturfed and that the shills are out in full force. For the sake of my own sanity. FUCK the RIAA.

tawmon ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly

W7-X is strictly for experimenting on plasmas, it's not supposed to break even on energy output, ever

tawmon Cleaning the Ship's Cargo Hold (2019) [video]

The shipping industry offers a transportation service to its customers. In the bulk area, not leaving your customers to clean hundreds of containers is part of the service.

tawmon 'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science?

'Culture War' Comes to HN?

tawmon Toxic fumes from idling cruise ships are still a problem in New York

Absolutely, they keyword here is ECA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_Control_Area

That being said, the calculation that a cruise ship generating its own power emits as much SO2 as 34400 idling trucks seems to hold up.

tawmon Shopping Sucks Now

>It’s gotten to the point where I trust eBay more.

Absolutely! I recently bought a simple item, a roll of wiring loom tape. It was on Amazon and had a few reviews that stated that the received tape was old and didn't stick very well anymore.

Same item on eBay for cheaper has the seller specifically mentioning that they only sell fresh tape from the running production, not old stock. Even better, the seller specialized in these (and other) tapes.

It seems that eBay has just cultivated a much higher quality base of vendors. Many of them seem specialized.

tawmon Urbit

>It's ok to disagree and fervently oppose but it's unfortunate when we descend into soundbite mud-slinging in service of that opposition.

And where does anyone do that? As far as I'm concerned your post is just concern trolling.

tawmon ‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations

https://rbt.asia/g/search/text/%22ok%20boomer%22/page/5/

Many occurrences before October 15th. "Ok boomer" has been a phrase in internet culture for a while now.

tawmon Bipolar-Zener Combo Takes On CMOS

I think the question is about gate charge.

tawmon Ivan Sutherland: 6 Legged Walker: CMU 1982 and 1983 [video]

Looks like an artifact?

tawmon Keybase and Stellar Partner on XLM Airdrop Worth $118M

How to join the drop:

1) install Keybase: https://keybase.io/download

2) add your device

3) in the app, go to devices (second to last item in the nav) and add two paper keys

4) click on your avatar (top of nav) and select "View profile"

5) click "Prove your [GitHub, Hackernews]" and follow the steps (HN might take a while to update, took about 2 mins for me)

6) now you should be able to join the drop

tawmon SkySails

Since half of your comment is plainly wrong, all I'll bother with is asking you to inform yourself. Here's a good start: http://www.imo.org/en/mediacentre/hottopics/pages/sulphur-20...

tawmon Dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets

Thank you for this valuable comment. It is highly likely that police would go for the lower hanging fruit of buyers instead of sellers in a system so opaque and decentralized. The old thinking of "what could happen, they only want the big guys anyway" should have no place in OpSec. And when information on these networks is so hard to come by to begin with, a buyer being busted is very desirable. The way I see this "evolution" of the dark markets, is that it mostly protects vendors while inconveniencing and endangering buyers.

tawmon Giant shipload of soybeans drifts off China, victim of trade war with US

It is common practice to let vessels drift freely if no anchorage is available (congestion, depth of water) or if there's no intention to anchor the vessel. If the orders for the vessel weren't clear, it's very much possible that it was drifting a few miles off the Chinese coast.

tawmon North American vs. Japanese zoning

Are there any other examples of countries using a Japanese zoning system?

tawmon AstroNavigation – A free course

Why is looking things up in a table sad?

For the purpose of astro nav: NP303 is calculated for an epoch of 5 years (and it's only 3 books). Until its end of life, it has to be "updated" in the sense that corrections need to be applied as they are released.

I don't think the point of the books has ever been disaster proofing. For the most part, books were good enough for the job before computers and still are. They're cheap, come from trusted sources (and it's easy to verify that they're legitimate), and they're easy to correct should they have errata.

Windows PCs and excel spreadsheets are used in navigation all the time. Nobody's forcing navigators to use books. If they do, though, they probably have a good reason for it.

tawmon The unsolved secret of David Jones' perpetual motion machine [video]

Have they tried holding a geiger counter up to it?

tawmon New York's vanishing shops and storefronts: 'It's not Amazon, it's rent'

I don't think anyone is advocating careless destructive regulation

tawmon ‘Honeypot’ pages to try to convert people searching for cracked software

A google search for "enough to go searching for a crack for it then why not just buy it?" (in quotes) fetches a few results, mostly of businesses with their own "warez honeypot" for the software they sell.

tawmon New ways to foot the hefty bill for making old ships less polluting

Absolutely, Chief is in charge of bunker planning. Fuel consumption must be tracked anyway because the charterer needs the consumption figures. After all, he's the one paying. The Excel spreadsheet definitely is a thing.

tawmon New ways to foot the hefty bill for making old ships less polluting

Just to add on to your very good point, the reason these ships aren't (always) equipped with flow meters is also that they're quite expensive. My last vessel had one,the one before relied on tank soundings and what we know about consumption.

tawmon New ways to foot the hefty bill for making old ships less polluting

We need that info for the day's run. Many figures on ships are calculated daily. Distance, fuel use, lube oil consumption, fresh water, etc. This is mostly from tradition, because it's quite easy to compute the vessel's position at noon using celestial means.

tawmon New ways to foot the hefty bill for making old ships less polluting

You make it sound like it's impossible to regulate these things at sea. That is simply not true and very much possible. For example, right now the highest allowable sulfur content for bunker fuels used outside of ECAs is 3.5%. Obviously this requirement will be tightened further in the future.

tawmon Below Deck: Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers

The 91 hour limit comes from the MLC:

"Rest hours: rest hours should be implemented in national legislation. The maximum hours of work in that legislation should not exceed 14 hours in any 24-hour period and 72 hours in any seven-day period, or: at least ten hours of rest in any 24-hour period and 77 hours (rest) in any seven-day period. Furthermore, the daily hours of rest may not be divided into more than two periods and, at least six hours of rest should be given consecutively in one of those two periods."

7*24-77 = 91