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tmathmeyer··on Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting
Pluto's diameter is 2376.6±1.6 km, while Eris' diameter is 2326±12 km. Perhaps you're thinking of mass instead of size?
tmathmeyer··on Kirkland Roundabouts
Not quite. The old corporate HQ was located at 10809 120th ave NE, which is up at exit 21 and currently being redeveloped into a townhome complex: https://www.google.com/maps/place/10809+120th+Ave+NE,+Kirkla...
tmathmeyer··on Kirkland Roundabouts
I think the "peanut" shape of the transit roundabout is not final. They're going to straighten the sides to make it more of a race-track shape. Having straight sides allows the busses to align themselves better with the curbs for passenger access. That rendering is a bit nonsense, its outright missing the 85th/114th intersection
tmathmeyer··on A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)
>> To turn the chopsticks around when serving food so that the tips of the chopsticks that have touched one’s mouth do not touch the food.

> Ewww. I’d rather be rude than share germs.

I think this means you should use something other than your chopsticks to share food, and not just assume that "the back of my chopsticks are germ-free, I'll use that"

tmathmeyer··on Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World
yes, E11 was the lab I was referring to :)
tmathmeyer··on Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World
Its a cool technology. I had a friend working on using expansion microscopy for neuron connectomics research. Apparently the route the lab was taking was introducing mutations to mouse brains that would cause protein expression that would physically color individual neurons at random, then using an optical microscope to view and trace neurons through an expanded sample.
tmathmeyer··on The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]
Not only is the delta chessbot bad (My low 1600s lichess-elo self can win handily every single time against any difficulty, white or black), but there's also a sequence of moves I found which deterministically causes the game to crash. I should probably record it next time I'm on a flight.
tmathmeyer··on Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)
100ticks/minute is 1.666... ticks per second, not 0.6.
tmathmeyer··on Googler... ex-Googler
Internet Technology and Social Media, I would guess.
tmathmeyer··on A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow
Wow. I drive up 124th all the time, and never noticed. checking now on street view does prove you right though, there are three just west of willows.
tmathmeyer··on Are any words the same in all languages?
I would imagine that "okej" is more akin to English's "okay".
tmathmeyer··on The Mathematical Center of the Universe (2021)
I think you've misremembered geography here - a straight line from "mainland" Russia to Kaliningrad cuts through Lithuania and Latvia, and to involve Poland here, you'd have to be drawing a line from Belarus. Additionally, when Kaliningrad was handed over to the Soviets, it was contiguous as part of the USSR. There was no "design" to make the Russians upset about it.

Map: https://imgur.com/a/xtBJAig

tmathmeyer··on The Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership
Sundar had some extensive history prior to google, including mckinsey
tmathmeyer··on Clear snow the laziest way
snow is mostly air, though.
tmathmeyer··on Google added HEVC support in Chrome
:)
tmathmeyer··on Google is shutting down Stadia
There's also the big one right here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/47%C2%B036'07.6%22N+122%C2... when you get to downtown from the ID (where the 3d view shows a verizon ad, it's now a "no place like chrome" ad.
tmathmeyer··on Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules
you just want no health care at all then?
tmathmeyer··on Americans aren't willing to pay to stop climate change
You've mentioned "swedish" twice now in the context of Switzerland. You've got them confused.
tmathmeyer··on Americans aren't willing to pay to stop climate change
Because the attempt causes the laws to fail in referendum perhaps.
tmathmeyer··on Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming
its "gamer" like "video game player". not an acronym.
tmathmeyer··on The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits on municipal broadband
So move to Bellevue. It's not like that extra 10 mins on the highway is "moving away from home"
tmathmeyer··on U.S. adds Chinese supercomputing entities to economic blacklist
They picked the two richest cities and the two richest provinces in the whole country to do the study on, and you're extrapolating those numbers across the rest?
tmathmeyer··on Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated
My understanding is that the Suez Canal Authority will have to pay, but also that the SCA requires the use of "pilot" captains that maneuver the boats through the canal, which means that the issue was squarely the fault of the SCA.
tmathmeyer··on Gandi.net was under DDoS
Can someone change the title to "We are under DDos" for grammatical correctness? It's correct on gandi.net's site.
tmathmeyer··on About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean
I've read it internally. It's rather bland and doesn't actually indite google. I'm inclined to believe that it was a paper-submission-process issue.
tmathmeyer··on TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources
why? coke is easily the most recognized brand on the planet.
tmathmeyer··on U.S. attorney general: Hollywood, tech companies “pawns of Chinese influence”
Yes, the person you're replying to probably knows _why_ the companies make the conflicting statements they do, and is choosing to give criticism to whomever made that decision.
tmathmeyer··on Shirt Without Stripes
Is that actually true for you? I just tried it (logged out, and with adblock) and everything on the page seems relevant.
tmathmeyer··on GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack
Ha this is actually interesting. I'm doing a research project at school on DDOS mitigation with AITF. This seems like exactly something github could use right about now.
tmathmeyer··on How we turn $199 Chromebooks into Ubuntu-based code learning machines for kids
Google's entire purpose for developing chrome was to push the internet forward with better technology. By running chromium, you not only get this (since chromium gets certain features before chrome), but it is also free software.
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