astrosi
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Comment · 1 year ago
Agreed, one of my great pleasures during COVID when I had terrible insomnia and couldn't sleep was to cycle down to Billingsgate in the morning and eat one of the fantastic bacon and scallop rolls from the cafe in the market. Definitely going to miss the place.
Comment · 2 years ago
The candidate in question is Count Binface - who is part of a long British political tradition of joke candidates.
Safe to say I think the implementation details of this policy probably aren't needed.
Comment · 3 years ago
The closer to midnight on a day you submit a paper to the arxiv the closer to the top of the "new" list you are the next day.
I assume they submitted at 23:59 and were aiming for 00:00
Comment · 4 years ago
How would you go about handing a lost device with this? A passkey reset email which would have a link that you could use to register a new device?
Comment · 4 years ago
Unlikely, dead dark stars being dark matter candidates is a theory known as MACHOs (massive compact halo objects)
If they exist we would expect to detect them as they pass between another star and earth creating a gravitational lens. You can estimate the number of these MACHOs by looking at a bunch of stars for a long period of time and counting the number of microlensing events you see.
A team did this in 2000 and found that while there were some events, there weren't enough to explain all of the dark matter around the Milky Way. https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001272
Comment · 4 years ago
In many cases the status page of a service is an unreliable indicator (e.g. AWS's) so I find HN / Twitter to be a much better signal that an incident that affects many people is happening.
Comment · 4 years ago
In that in the browser you are able to see that you have gotten a 301/302 response but can't see where the redirect would have sent you.
Comment · 5 years ago
Cosmos | Software Engineer | Remote (UK Timezone) | https://cosmos.homerun.co/
At Cosmos (https://cosmos.video), we are recreating the experience of working in an office for remote teams. Cosmos is a virtual HQ platform where remote companies can run an online office which combines a multiplayer game and video chat. We believe offices are great, but you don’t need to commute to a real world office to work together.
Everyone at Cosmos has a huge influence on how the product is built and where it is headed. We also get to interact closely with our users to figure out the best product and technical solution for the problem at hand.
Stack: Python3, Typescript, Postgres, AWS
We are hiring for: Full Stack, Backend and Frontend Engineers.
Link to our Jobs page: https://cosmos.homerun.co/
UK visa sponsorship available for the right candidate
Backed $2.5m by LocalGlobe, Entrepreneur First, Tiny VC and many great
If that sounds interesting please feel free to email me: simon [at] cosmos.video
Comment · 5 years ago
Cosmos | Software Engineer | Remote (UK Timezone) | https://cosmos.homerun.co/
At Cosmos (https://cosmos.video), we are recreating the experience of working in an office for remote teams. Cosmos is a virtual HQ platform where remote companies can run an online office which combines a multiplayer game and video chat. We believe offices are great, but you don’t need to commute to a real world office to work together.
Everyone at Cosmos has a huge influence on how the product is built and where it is headed. We also get to interact closely with our users to figure out the best product and technical solution for the problem at hand.
Stack: Python3, Typescript, Postgres, AWS
We are hiring for: Full Stack, Backend and Frontend Engineers.
Link to our Jobs page: https://cosmos.homerun.co/
UK visa sponsorship available for the right candidate
Backed $2.5m by LocalGlobe, Entrepreneur First, Tiny VC and many great
If that sounds interesting please feel free to email me: simon [at] cosmos.video
Comment · 6 years ago
Black Cow vodka in the UK have been doing this for a while as well. It's got a fuller texture than some other vodkas but is generally really tasty.
Comment · 9 years ago
> In the early days I knew Uber drivers who use to be cab drivers who claimed they made a ton more money than with their cab company. I doubt that's as true anymore
As (one piece of anecdotal) evidence, I was talking with a guy that drives for both Uber and a local cab company. The cab company pays more, but he still prefers driving for Uber as he is put in far fewer sketchy situations by them.
Comment · 9 years ago
No, because the noise modeling test in the second LIGO detector (LIGO Hanford) was being wobbled at a very different frequency to that of the gravitational wave they were able to filter out the test motion and were still able to detect the merger.