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by JanSolo 5y ago
This article was from 8 years ago… anyone have any updates on progress or testing of this system?
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by JanSolo 5y ago
I share your fond memories of the Gravis Ultrasound. It was expensive and fiddly to setup, but when it worked, it just sounded so awesome. Nothing else really came close until the AWE32 came out a few years later. I still have some old PCs
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by JanSolo 5y ago
So weird to see this on the front page of HackerNews this week. I was browsing The Mod Archive just a few days ago and enjoyed this exact mod and noted how familiar it sounded. I added it to my 'favourite tunes' Youtube playlist t
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by JanSolo 5y ago
What's notable is that the Russians were not able to exploit the huge lead that they had built in rocket engine technology. The RD-170 series of engines (RD-180, RD-190, etc) were so ahead of their time. Imagine if they had focused on
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by JanSolo 5y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac... The current statistical fatality rate for astronauts and cosmonauts is 3.2 percent. Lets give Blue Origin the benefit of newer tech and learn
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by JanSolo 5y ago
Yes; very good point. Although Blue Origin has done an excellent job so far, it's important to remember that space travel is very dangerous and eventually there will be an accident and people will likely die. It's not an 'if&
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by JanSolo 5y ago
I expect that it meant a lot to Shatner. That man has spent a significant portion of his life imitating a spacefaring version of humanity. For him to finally see reality intersecting with the fiction of his lifes-work must be very satisfyin
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by JanSolo 5y ago
ICBMs are a large, blunt weapon. Their value is primarily in their deterrence. The concequences of actually using them are so unthinkable, that we don't really consider it unless it's a very-last-resort kind of situation. Most of
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by JanSolo 5y ago
(Product)Red is not a typo. It's a weird marketing trick that Apple uses to make red coloured things seem more special.
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by JanSolo 5y ago
My understanding is that neurons are like a higher-order connected mesh. A bit like many fully-connected layers in a Machine Learning model. You can't just read fine motor signals from any neuron, but given enough neurons, since they&#
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Ask HN: Could we train a computer to detect lies?
1 points by JanSolo 6y ago|0 comments
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by JanSolo 6y ago
This has already been done successfully in Canada. A small team from Vancouver built a pay-what-you-want web-based tax-filing system from scratch. It's called SimpleTax and it's already a major competitor to the Canadian version
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by JanSolo 6y ago
Have you ever lived in Vancouver? It’s a strange place. Everything is expensive and you see ultra rich people everywhere, but there is little in the way of local industry to explain all this wealth. Everyone who lives there will recognise t
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by JanSolo 6y ago
Adaptation will happen for sure. Here are some examples of things that we should expect to see in the coming years: * No more building in flood-plains or low-lying coastal regions. * Flood insurance in those areas will lose their subsidies
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by JanSolo 6y ago
Interesting research, but utterly impractical. Are they proposing to harvest all the pine needles from all the forests in the Himalayas, convert them to charcoal and then use that to filter the Ganges? How much do they have to spend on this
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by JanSolo 6y ago
From my cursory glance at the doc, the part in question is inside the bleed-air cutoff system. This is a flapper valve (a bit like in your toilet) that takes air from the engine and uses it for other systems in the plane (air conditioning,
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by JanSolo 6y ago
Yeah I'm sure most commercial airliners are the same. Apart from maybe the Super-Heavies; I hear that there are dozens (hundreds?) of 747s and A380s sitting around doing nothing currently because they're too expensive to fly.
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by JanSolo 6y ago
Interesting that the vast majority of 737s were flying so frequently that this was not found earlier. For their entire 20-ish year service life, those planes are never left idle long enough for this part to rust! Amazing. Goes to show how p
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by JanSolo 6y ago
Anyone know the reason why there's no iMessage for windows? Is it supposed to act as some kind of gateway drug into the Mac ecosystem? Apple seems to have quite a few of these 'unspoken unfeatures'. Perhaps someone can tell m
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by JanSolo 6y ago
I had heard of Robert Peel, but not of his principles. Thanks for the link; it was an interesting read. And I agree that US policing would really benefit from following some of his ideas. Specifically Principle 6.
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by JanSolo 6y ago
Weird... My father did too. He was one of the engineers who drove around fixing Wordplex word processors at customer sites. There were always a couple of spare machines sitting in his car or in the garage; he showed me how to play games on
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by JanSolo 6y ago
Agreed... Mass production needs to be designed-in and developed with the whole system. Related question: Just how many Starships do you think will be necessary to fulfill all our launch demands? Given that it's designed to be reusable
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by JanSolo 6y ago
Remember that the SLS is what will be used to launch the Artemis missions. Starship & Superheavy are not in the picture at all for this work, even though they would be able to do the job and at a much lower price. Additionally, I doubt
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by JanSolo 6y ago
The deadline for this moon landing is 2024; most space followers agree that it's a crazy deadline. It's 3 years away! It's even crazier when you consider that the lander hardware has not even been designed, let alone built, t
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by JanSolo 7y ago
It's interesting that in naturally aspirated mode, the engine creates around 280hp. That's right around what SUVs and Crossovers are currently producing. This engine has a real potential to be a game-changer; if the freevalve tech
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by JanSolo 7y ago
I've also noticed that Dishwashers are less effective than they used to be. I thought it was because I was cheaping-out and getting the most affordable one I could find. So this time, I bought a top-of-the-range Bosch. My wife hates i
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by JanSolo 7y ago
So the question is: Did they rule for Elon because of some legal technicality? Or was it because of the exorbitant defamation claim? Or was it because Elon was correct in his claim?
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by JanSolo 7y ago
Why is there no rush to phase out the use of these chemicals? My understanding is that they are a relatively recent invention and that we used different, less toxic, pesticides before. It should be a simple task to outlaw the neonicotinoids
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by JanSolo 7y ago
Don Pettit is my favourite astronaut. He's easily the nerdiest guy who ever made it up to the International Space Station. The reason he's so cool is that he can present scientific topics in an easy-to-understand way that really c
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by JanSolo 7y ago
Amen. That thing was so close to being ready; just let down by the composite tanks. The state-of-the-art in composites has advanced so much since the 80s, I'm sure if they tried again now they'd have no problem.

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