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neatchee

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  • stars & sharks

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  • Fair enough on the first point!

    The interesting scenario re: Polaris A's age would be if a larger, younger original star merged with a smaller, much older star. You'd have a small amount of late-stage byproducts in an otherwise relatively early-stage star. That would definitely make any age models 'confused' heh

    I could imagine a scenario where the math works out such that the star appears a lot younger than it is despite being the product of a merger of two older stars, based on the masses and ages of the contributing objects and the amount of different material contributed by each

  • stars & sharks

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  • This is only sort of true, unfortunately. Polaris is a two-star system: Polaris Aa and Polaris B.

    Polaris B is much older than sharks, by several billion years.

    Polaris Aa appears to be younger than sharks, at a measley 50 million years old, compared to sharks' 420 million years

    HOWEVER it is unclear whether Polaris Aa is actually that young. Scientists believe that, based on some contradictory findings, that measurement may be inaccurate if Polaris Aa is formed from two different stars that merged. In that scenario, the model we use to calculate star age would no longer work and could give wildly inaccurate estimates of the star's true age

    TMYK

  • ‘Useful Idiot for Russia’: DNC Decides to Go Off on Jill Stein

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  • The fool should learn to fly.

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  • How many ways can we rewrite the allegory of the cave?

  • can I opt out of credit agencies?

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  • It is important to note that while a FICO score is roughly equivalent to "trustworthiness", the three credit agency scores (Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian) are NOT meant to reflect your trustworthiness directly. Rather, they are specifically designed to inform lenders of your profitability for them.

    It's an important distinction because having a an outstanding payment history alone won't improve these scores, if you aren't utilizing available credit and maintaining some running balance with lenders.

    Basically, if you're just going to borrow money and never pay any interest on the loans, you aren't actually a source of profit and therefore aren't a desirable customer for lenders and creditors

  • ‘Useful Idiot for Russia’: DNC Decides to Go Off on Jill Stein

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  • ‘Useful Idiot for Russia’: DNC Decides to Go Off on Jill Stein

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  • Don't forget there was also a bunch of government-backed troll farms shut down recently

  • UN votes 124-14 to strip Israel of right to self-defense in Gaza, West Bank

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  • Because there is value in a large group speaking with a unified voice to say "this is wrong, and you need to know that the rest of us think it's wrong. Your behavior will affect the relationship you have with us all going forward". Direct intervention isn't the only form of consequence.

    Is it the best solution to the problem? No. Is it still worth doing? Yes.

  • Til

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  • I don't give a shit about David Hasselhoff, but Knight Rider without Mr Feeney as KITT wouldn't be the same

  • Lutris dev has joined the Playtron project

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  • Just a heads up, people should be wary of playtron to a degree: the CEO is a guy named Kirt McMaster. Anyone from the Android enthusiast community may know him as the guy who convinced the creator of CyanogenMod to incorporate (becoming Cyngn) and then drove the company into the ground chasing skinning and theming revenue, and wouldn't even allow the community to keep the cyanogen brand (they had to rebrand it to LineageOS)

    Kirt sucks. He's a terrible leader and a terrible businessperson. I'm sure there are plenty of great people involved in playtron but with him at the helm of the company I am not expecting it to end well

  • If you look to play the upcoming "Spectre Divide" game, don't hold your breath this is from an interview with Mountaintop Games CEO via The Verge.

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  • It's literally a multiplayer competitive shooter. That's the game.

  • Sorry if repost, my dad sent me

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  • To my knowledge it wasn't his decision. It was Kathleen Kennedy. Poe was a favorite among kids and helped sell a boatload of X-Wing toys. He was seen as the "Han Solo of the sequels" and Disney execs all but forced Rian to give him screen time. They couldn't really reduce Rey's role so Finn got screwed

  • Sorry if repost, my dad sent me

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  • I'm with you 100% on everything you wrote here and I've had this argument with my brother countless times. He blames Rian Johnson for everything bad about the sequels and it's bs.

    Personally I think the biggest thing TLJ suffered from was the split focus between Poe and Finn. It made both stories rushed or weak in various places.

    And for that I blame Disney. Did you know that Poe wasn't even supposed to be a big character? He was supposed to be in the first scene of Ep7 and that's it. But execs saw his performance and insisted they needed his character to play a bigger role. As such, we get attention split between Poe and Finn and both suffer for it.

    I feel awful for John Boyega who was such a massive Star Wars fan, got the role of his dreams, and then effectively got sidelined for a pretty-boy.

  • (looking for) specific type of web chat

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  • My solution for this type of situation is MicroBin running on my home network from a non-standard port, with a port knocker to open and close the port when needed.

    My router handle DDNS so I can always contact my home network easily. I port-knock to trigger an iptables command on the router to forward traffic to the MicroBin host.

    I also have my phone set up to connect via openvpn to my home network so that I can remotely do things like start and stop services, set port forwarding rules, etc.

  • Can I install an app to improve the sound quality on my phone?

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  • I have a moto and hate Dolby Atmos for headphones

    Instead, turn that shit completely off and get an app called "Wavelet". Use the AutoEQ function with your headphones model.

    The purpose of the AutoEQ is to return audio to "studio reference" EQ based on the measured frequency response curve of the model of headphones you have

    If it still sounds bad to your ears then there are two possibilities:

    1. The hardware is defective. You could try getting it replaced
    2. Your old phone has settings that were so bass-heavy that your sense of what's "right" has changed

    I recommend trying out AutoEQ on another device that you know works. Make sure that all other audio processing is disabled when using AutoEQ. This will give you a good baseline to compare against

    On Windows you can get AutoEQ using EqualizerAPO + HeSuVi (a front-end for setting up EqualizerAPO to enable custom virtual surround sound and AutoEQ)

  • Evan Prodromou, co-author of ActivityPub (the protocol of the fediverse) was hospitalized 4 weeks ago after getting hit by a truck and is slowly recovering

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  • So I'm Federated, So What?

    Definitely this one lol

  • Evan Prodromou, co-author of ActivityPub (the protocol of the fediverse) was hospitalized 4 weeks ago after getting hit by a truck and is slowly recovering

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  • Precisely

  • Evan Prodromou, co-author of ActivityPub (the protocol of the fediverse) was hospitalized 4 weeks ago after getting hit by a truck and is slowly recovering

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  • Truck-kun trying to make a new fediverse themed anime

    Reincarnated to Save Social Media

  • I'm not saying AI was the culprit, but...

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  • I've seen a lot of stupid comments about this outage but this by far the dumbest.

    Software development is not a zero-sum game. The people who work on building detection logic aren't the same people who build the release management cycle or test deployments.

    There is a lot to shit on CrowdStrike for in this debacle. "If they hadn't been working on AI they could have avoided this" isn't part of it.

    Source: Am infosec. Company uses CrowdStrike. Was impacted today. Follow this stuff very closely.