OneEyedRobot

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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Don't hold me to it, but I seem to remember seeing a study showing that prehistoric California had roughly 10x the current burn acreage.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I keep waiting for the insurance war that will break out due to 'managed retreat' by the Coastal Commission. As someone else said, it's easy to have either extremely high insurance rates or unavailable insurance if you live i
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Lost Coast?
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Probably 'stuck underwater' is the key phrase here. I'm attracted to the idea of battery submarines mostly because you'd be latching onto a huge (and growing) commercial development world. Much less need for highly spec
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>I think apart from the layman's resistance to the idea of nonhumans being creative, What I think is funny is the resistance to the idea that a lot of what people do isn't all that special. It all makes me think of the evolutio
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>who's clamoring for that? One use I can see is assist software for someone churning out commercial music. Maybe a standalone music generator (composition plus synth) would be useful for content generators avoiding copyright. As bo
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
By 'token' do you mean a note, a chord, general structure (verse, bridge, etc.), a well known phrase? Music is so full of cliche I don't doubt that someone will write software (probably already has) to assist a composer, gene
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Am I crazy or is that AIP stuff not all that much better than batteries? This https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/future-submarine-coming-up... gives me 4.5 MJ/L density for fuel This, just chosen randomly https:/
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
It seems to me that something that's a couple of lightyears out can't have any sort of stable orbit. I suppose that an Oort cloud essentially merges with an adjacent star's so there's no hard definition.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>how does one/how do we end up feeling like this? Maybe it's just that he notices, as any introspective person might, that you just start doing the same damn thing over and over after 20/30/40 years in harness. He pro
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
So what in the heck does the CPU interconnect look like?
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
question: How far out can a planet be if it has a roughly circular orbit? At some point outwards neighboring heavy things will make it unstable.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>So you're going to implement algorithms then? Jeesh, that's easy. You encrypt the algorithms too.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>Because the US thankfully left behind the era of blatant cronyism Bwahahahahahaha. There really is no way to respond to that statement.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>you’re the type of person that will do things to completion, even if you don’t enjoy it or find it interesting. More specifically, you're the type of person who'll do things to completion if you are forced to. Not so differen
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>If you are an autodidact, then the entire point of college would be the degree because otherwise you can teach yourself the same information and save a bunch of money, right? Hah. Good point. I can't say that I took a single cours