Florin_Andrei

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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
Which is exactly why you need to add feedback loops to the system (minimum wage, progressive taxation, etc), to prevent it from devolving into Bioshock.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
Yes. When the government is too weak, or is government in name only, or is infected with "free market" true believers, it becomes the plaything of the great moneybags. Policy shifts towards "freedom" - i.e. the freedom t
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
Regulatory capture is the long-term attractor for any "free market" system. The rule of law needs to put its thumb on the scale if you want to get rid of the predatory elements.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
SpaceX's Starship is the "age of sail" in space. For the "age of steam" we need nuclear power.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> I still don't understand why people want fusion. > That said, I want fusion for crazy rocket concepts. There you go, you answered it yourself. Fusion rockets would open up the Solar System the way the steam engine opened up
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
Controlled fusion seems one of the few awesome future things that's unambiguously good.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
All I want is truck-size fusion reactors. That would open up the Solar System the way the steam engine opened up the oceans. Ideally you'd have a custom design for rocket engines, where the reactor is semi-open: you feed in fuel throug
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
The sandwich structure described in the article makes sense: separate the superconducting and the load-bearing functions into different layers.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
The "only X years away" jokes are predictable, but we'll know soon enough if they can do 20 Tesla - and if they can, then the time tables should be reset.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> Is this a good thing, or bad? It's the only thing that works, so it's good by definition. Modern chips with tiny transistors can easily get fried (or make gross mistakes) because of cosmic radiation. Large transistors are m
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
It's only obsolete if it doesn't have the features you need. Which, in this case, include radiation resistance, which is much harder, if not impossible, to achieve with modern chips with very tiny transistors. Large transistors ca
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> a white-hot parasitic transistor connecting Vcore to ground at low impedance In plain English: an internal short-circuit.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
You are all wrong. The Emacs shortcuts are far superior. /s
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
Any Joplin users here? How does this compare to Joplin? (besides being less supported on different platforms)
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
Ah, dang it. I need something that's cross platform. This app is nice, but seems too Linux-centric. I use Joplin currently, it's kinda ugly, but works on all platforms including Android, and syncing it via Dropbox is trivial.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
"Hey, you're an idempotent kind of person: all I need to know about you I learned on day 1, and nothing's changed since then." /s
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
I'm pretty sure going it alone ("We are the Lone Star! Freedom!" etc) is not the answer when it comes to building an energy grid: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/even-power-disasters...
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
I got the gist of that whole thing after two seconds of looking at the image.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> Many Americans view our federal government poorly, on both sides of the aisle Maybe the current instance of the government. But as for the idea of government in general, the opinions are sharply different across the aisle.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
Yeah, that's the weird part.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
Weird. On Mac I get 282 ms from pypy3, but 233 ms from numba. from numba import jit @jit def fib(n: int) -> int:
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
there's a backslash in the print statement that crashes it
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
The AWS API is just fragmented. Too many teams that probably didn't communicate very closely. That being said, you can sort of follow the logic - or the multiple logics. But that's really the only negative. I'm trying to find
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> Then you have to do 1000x the sequencing Seems to me, that stuff is getting cheaper all the time.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
I thought this was obvious, but apparently it isn't - not 100% of things posted on this forum (or any forum, or the vast majority of human interactions) are driven purely by some abstract "intellectual curiosity" concept.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> What is happening at GitHub? They were acquired by Microsoft a while ago, and now the chicken are coming home to roost. It's pretty much on par with my Azure experience.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> We did have it, we just didn't know which one it was. What we had was the ending of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. A table full of cups. Some of those have the Water of Life. Some just water. Some will outright kill you. Pi
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> those error rates Do a thousand readings, fix the parts that don't match across the board?
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
Well, they popped a bunch of Falcon 9s until they got those right.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> SN10 is standing by. Somewhat uncomfortably close by That was my immediate comment at the end. Pretty confident they are.

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