Symmetry

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by Symmetry 4y ago
We're not getting to a planet 100 light years away with chemical rockets so presumably the future inhabitants will be able to use high efficiency rockets to leave it.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
For instance, Nuvia had a license to design ARM server cores but Qualcomm had a license to design cores for consumer devices. We don't know the exact terms but if you pay the (smaller?) price to design a server core during development
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by Symmetry 4y ago
With most things there's the right way to do something, the wrong way to do it, and the bureaucratic way. Honestly I'm happily surprised that they're going with the Flu system for Covid because the rules for the yearly Flu v
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by Symmetry 4y ago
No need to bring AI into it. What if someone chooses to open a Wendy's in a town that already has a McDonalds. The competition will defintely reduce the McDonalds's business. And many would argue (famously Rockefeller) that com
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Yes. You'll essentially never see a 10% clockspeed boost result in 10% faster completion of a benchmark more sophisticated than dhrystone, because you're still limited by the speed of your memory.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
I don't think there's any way to do that without drastically increasing costs and, more importantly, slowing down SpaceX's ability to iterate on their designs.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
As regulated utilities the operators of nuclear power plants sold electricity to the grid on a cost plus basis. The larger their costs, the more their profit. So a lot of it was these operators rather than oil companies pushing for ALARA
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by Symmetry 4y ago
I don't know about that. The US south was happy to employ things like the cotton gin.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
I guess they're technically a startup, but people working part time together for equity with no outside capital isn't what what we normally mean by the word.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
I worked for Ember for a while which was a startup that produced a ZigBee chip. It'll be hard to target cutting edge nodes but it can work. I left when they were eventually bought by Silicon Labs.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
In addition to RISC-V being more flexible than ideal here, PowerPC is more complicated as an instruction set which is a drawback if you're a student learning to implement your first processor or in a deeply embedded role. But given th
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by Symmetry 4y ago
The flexibility that makes RISC-V so compelling in embedded roles (what if I want 64 bit address but don't need hardware floating point?) makes it a harder target for the sort of workloads that you'd usually run on a server or des
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by Symmetry 4y ago
For me, far more significant than anything else here is having to convert array indices into human readable text describing objects. And the objects are named by mechanical engineers who don't use 0 based indexing. So my code is full
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Yeah, the critical test is whether they can get the umami from the mushrooms and the smoke flavor into the coconut oil they're adding. It might be that the flavor doesn't travel with it in which case the product won't be any
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by Symmetry 4y ago
For me, I'd be happy with it if it can fulfill the same role in recipes even if it doesn't taste quite the same. Beyond Burger doesn't taste exactly the same as hamburger but if I didn't know it was plant based I'
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by Symmetry 4y ago
In general the smaller a drone the shorter its range will be. So size will very much depend on that,
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by Symmetry 4y ago
For me, it seemed that with Prey Chrichton had to sacrifice a lot of realism to cram the nanotech shaped pegs into the dinosaur shaped hole he was going for.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Hmm, I was assuming the OP was extending the c elegans result to earthworms since I've never heard of c elegans aerating soil. And now that I go google it I'm seeing lots of stuff on c elegans requiring aerated soil but non
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by Symmetry 4y ago
There's a charity, ALLFED, that I donate too that investigates techniques for keeping as many people alive as possible if we can't have agriculture for a few years due to supervolcano or comet strike or nuclear winter. One of the
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by Symmetry 4y ago
On the other hand, in the Americas it's an invasive species and many crops were doing fine before it's introduction so I'm not sure I'd call it critical for plants health. In the end we can compare yield in fields with
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Oh yes, the casing to let it go through the atmosphere at hypersonic velocity is definetly a significant engineering challenge. But it's a solvable one, unlike trying to get through troposphere at orbital velocities.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Kinetic.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Yeah. With a few kilometers of track you're looking more at a thousand times less acceleration though still more than a human could take. Though emerging from a track kept at a vacuum and slamming into the atmosphere is going to be q
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by Symmetry 4y ago
The initial velocity just replaces a rocket's booster stage, not a whole rocket.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
And Nim certainly meets all the requirements the page gives on "Why Zimbu".
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Nocturnal bottleneck(en.wikipedia.org)
203 points by Symmetry 4y ago|76 comments
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by Symmetry 4y ago
I reinstall with every new version of Ubuntu for that, and to force myself to exercise my backups and install from scratch scripts.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
For many things yes. But humans have been under much more intense selective pressure for longer lifespans so easy interventions along those lines that work in mice have a history of not panning out in humans.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
It used to be that when you shrank a transitor you would be able increase clock speeds by default thanks to something called Dennard scaling. That stopped happening in the mid 2000s. Price per transistor, transistor density, and energy ef
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Up until 45nm the name of a process node was twice the length of a transistor's gate. At that point it stopped being technologically feasible to reduce the gate length but companies were able to find other ways, such as fin FETs, to p

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