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New comment by Rhinobird in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

Rhinobird — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:29:40 +0000

And pgp certificate signing

New comment by Rhinobird in "I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery"

Rhinobird — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:59:32 +0000

I just assumed they were tapping them on their phone and had some kind of app, or website something

New comment by Rhinobird in "NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9"

Rhinobird — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:40:29 +0000

>In addition to that, there are strong political incentives for ‘distributing’ contracts widely,

Government/Defense contractors can track their suppliers and tell Congress exactly how many jobs are in which districts per project.

New comment by Rhinobird in "NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9"

Rhinobird — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:35:15 +0000

The space shuttle was refurbishable. It needed an army of 5000 engineers a few months to get it flight worthy after each launch.

And ultimately that wasn't enough for safety.

New comment by Rhinobird in "Physicists Suggest Universe Is Full of Material Moving Faster Than Light"

Rhinobird — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 11:40:26 +0000

No. Once moving an object keeps moving unless there is force that pushes it.

There is nothing in space to apply force on particles. One would also presume these tachyons don't interact much with regular matter, like neutrinos

New comment by Rhinobird in "Insect memories may not survive metamorphosis"

Rhinobird — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 14:10:44 +0000

That reminds me of Pak Protectors from Larry Niven's Known Space stories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Protector

New comment by Rhinobird in "Humanly traversable wormholes (2020)"

Rhinobird — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 19:06:58 +0000

Yeah. Think teleporter instead of warp drive

New comment by Rhinobird in "The Color of Infinite Temperature"

Rhinobird — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 06:35:21 +0000

that's probably true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

New comment by Rhinobird in "Show HN: Clone your voice and speak a foreign language"

Rhinobird — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 02:06:08 +0000

My question is, how long until we have automatically dubbed anime?

New comment by Rhinobird in "How Beavis, Butt-Head and Daria disrupted cable"

Rhinobird — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 19:23:52 +0000

It might be because the radio DJ in the town and the songs he plays after waxing philosophic.

New comment by Rhinobird in "If I solve integer factorization, will I get killed for breaking cryptography?"

Rhinobird — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 02:10:22 +0000

You don't happen to work for Setec Astronomy, do you?

New comment by Rhinobird in "The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)"

Rhinobird — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 22:49:27 +0000

The bit towards the end with Millie and Wolfwood makes me cry.

New comment by Rhinobird in "European Commission English Style Guide [pdf]"

Rhinobird — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 22:21:10 +0000

double a letter to add ephasis or indicate a long vowel.

Reefuse / refuse, Permit / Permmit, Record / Reecord

New comment by Rhinobird in "The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel"

Rhinobird — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:00:36 +0000

Lord of the Rings is boring until they get out of Rivendell. Once they actually start their journey it's a fun read.

New comment by Rhinobird in "Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets"

Rhinobird — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 04:37:29 +0000

a small amount. Not the obscene amounts we eat here in America

New comment by Rhinobird in "Hyperdimensional Computing"

Rhinobird — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:06:42 +0000

by 'vector' they just mean a list of numbers (ex. [32,5,8,11]).

By dimension they mean the number of items in the list. In the above example it's a 4 dimensional vector.

Make the numbers binary digits and voila.

By hyperdimensional they mean the list has 500 or more items.

New comment by Rhinobird in "Geometry Reveals How the World Is Assembled from Cubes"

Rhinobird — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:06:36 +0000

Spherical cows in a vaccuum

New comment by Rhinobird in "Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70M years ago"

Rhinobird — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:02:33 +0000

28*13(+1)=365 (or +2 on leap years)

New comment by Rhinobird in "Windows93"

Rhinobird — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 19:02:44 +0000

Holy shit, Litestep! That takes me back.

New comment by Rhinobird in "Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?"

Rhinobird — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:10:15 +0000

The main Proton-Boron reaction produces charged particles instead of neutrons. You can capture the charged particles directly as a source of voltage with no intermediate step. Just stick a piece of metal in the way and hook up wires.

Conventionally, neutrons are used to generate heat which is then used to drive steam turbines.