MadnessASAP

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by MadnessASAP 10mo ago
Technically radiation cooling is 100% efficient. And remarkably effective, you can cool an inert object to the temperature of the CMBR (4K) without doing anything at all. However it is rather slow and works best if there's no nearby pl
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by MadnessASAP 10mo ago
If they're already well versed in dodging fiscal rules, why do they need a space computer?
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by MadnessASAP 11mo ago
Wellllll.... Eugenics wasn't exactly unpopular in Denmark for a good chunk of the 20th century. So that kinda tracks.
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by MadnessASAP 11mo ago
Does it also tell the kernel to drop the socket? Or is a TCP FIN packet still sent? Be better if the scraper is left waiting for a packet that'll never arrive (till it times out obviously)
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by MadnessASAP 11mo ago
In the grand scheme of things supporting a rocket turnaround, sending somebody out with a wrench (to detach the harpoons from the leg) and a grinder (to smooth out the deck surface) probably isn't that big of a deal. However, for an al
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by MadnessASAP 11mo ago
A tank doesn't do much without a significant amount of combat support and logistics backing it up. It wouldn't be clear of the fallout before it ran out of fuel.
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by MadnessASAP 11mo ago
Listen, your world may not allow you to sell an e-bike with a 1000hp motor on it. But my world allows me to put a 1000hp motor on an e-bike and not tell anyone. Now hold my beer...
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
That would be a AI agent which isn't the problem (for the author). The problem is the scrapers gathering data to train the models. Scrapers need to be very cheap to run and are thus very stupid and certainly dont have "prompts&quo
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
Well according to this person* by the end of WW2 a proximity fuze cost $18 or $314 today. I figure I could probably put together a resilient fuze using off-the-shelf parts that's at least as good as a WW2 era one for <$100 (potted s
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
No need to wonder, proximity fuzes are still used today. And yes, they are much smaller, cheaper, more reliable, and precise.
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
I would suspect that the patents and other IP dont protect against a software implementation of x86-*. Similar to the way copyright doesnt protect against somebody else making a clean room implementation of an API. No idea what happens arou
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
Indeed that is the definition of a "aviation incident" where there was a risk of injury or damage. If there is actual injury or damage it becomes an "accident". The investigations into incidents aren't usually par
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
Second guessing a pilot saying they have a problem is a really bad idea. ATC second guessing an emergency is a really bad idea. Making a pilot explain why they're actually low on fuel, despite whatever some computer is saying, instea
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
Risk? Ain't no risk to it, it's an established fact! What's a good electronics hobby without an assortment of dead MCUs, melted wires, and exploded probe tips?
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
As somebody who regularly tinkers, debugs, and programs microcontrollers at my desk. I just realized how handy having UART/SPI/I2C headers right there would be. Obviously I already have them like right there but to have them rig
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
Its certainly not as bad as some licences but there are still some gotchas to the CDDL. The 2 big ones here (AFAICT) is it's not compatible with MIT, and any reimplementation of CDDL code would not have the patent protections of the or
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
Its not unreasonable to look at the source code to understand the disk format to then create an independent driver. So long as you are not directly copying code (or in this case, paraphrasing C to Rust.) More importantly though, Linux or th
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
And you might not get sued by Oracle! RedoxOS seems to use the MIT license while OpenZFS is under the CDDL. Given Oracles litigious nature they'd have to make sure none of their code looked like OpenZFS code, even better make sure any
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
That was an interesting read, if somewhat sad. It's a shame that his writings (ramblings) caught so much traction with some people.
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
But a blockchain is already immutable. It becomes decentralised and redundant if you have multiple nodes sharing blocks. No need for an underpinning, it is the underpinning.
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
I would be hesitant to call the US democratic process "free and fair." And the powers held by the president certainly make them more dictatorial then the heads of state of other democracies, particularly as wielded by the current
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
Yeah, that is a significantly more damning then what was given by his wife on Reddit. While SPICE is a normal means to interact with VMs, the defense couldn't offer any legitimate reason for him to be using one. They didn't even m
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
You're as good on your first day as you are on your last.
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
A countries agricultural base being dependent on undocumented migrant workers is bad and should be corrected. However simply deporting all the migrants overnight with no further action doesn't fix the underlying problem, doesn't h
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
Historically, VPN (Virtual Private Network) was a LAN like network overlaid on the internet devices could communicate with each other as if they were connected to the same network. One of the possible configurations you could have in such a
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
> Stablecoins enable instant, borderless, programmable transactions, but current blockchain infrastructure isn’t designed for them How? > existing systems are either fully general or trading-focused. Tempo is a blockchain designed and
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
Because, for the time being, people are buying it.
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
They have neither the proletariat nor the bourgeois to rebel against in order to form communisim. They do seem to have the tinpot dictator though, so that's a start.
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
It may seem like that on the surface, but you should recognise that these sorts of situations seem to follow Kent around. So either Kent is on a righteous crusade against unreasonable processes within the Kernel, Debian, and every other lar
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by MadnessASAP 1y ago
I caught that as well. Further reading it looks like they had a ~2x improvement over a flat aluminium sheet (Which itself performed worse then the bare TEG). And of that improvement about half came from radiative cooling. So my very hot tak

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