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by Symmetry 1y ago
We haven't really seen any problems with the engines themselves, so much as the plumbing that has try to keep them fed through radical changes in the rocket's orientation.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
On my laptop I have a yin-yang sticker with the yin labeled DRY and the yang labeled YAGNI.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Because of how many miles taxis drive their depreciation as a physical asset that wears out costs more than the interest on the money invested in them. To the extent that driving aggressively generates more wear or introduces more accident
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by Symmetry 1y ago
One thing to notice is how small Mercury is, only 1 pixel like the moons that show up. Here's a good photo size comparison. Mercury is smaller that two of the solar system's moon! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by Symmetry 1y ago
In Sudoku I usually find it's easier to just keep track of guesses on the stack, by `solve` recursively when you make a guess. That leads to nice memory re-use characteristics and without the overhead of link pairs that might end up b
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by Symmetry 1y ago
If a successful research program would take longer than it would take to be absorbed that can be a problem.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
I think the real reason is that Trump feels that the illegal immigration issue generates votes for him so actually solving it is the last thing he wants to do.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Well, serializing our experiences into memories is a big one. There's been a big project in psychology probing the boundary between conscious and subliminal experiences and while subliminal stimuli can affect our behavior in the momen
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by Symmetry 1y ago
If you're a student in a microarchitecture class who has to implement a core in a semester then the simplicity of RISC-V makes it a much better choice. And if you're a grad student trying to try out some idea in your thesis then
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by Symmetry 1y ago
You can accomplish the same task in substantially fewer instructions, leading to higher performance for a given level of design effort. Also a more developed software ecosystem.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
The roles that LLMs can inhabit are implicit in the unsupervised training data aka the internet. You have to work hard in post training to supress the ones you don't want and when you don't RLHF hard enough you get things like Sy
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by Symmetry 1y ago
The US dollar was the global reserve currency in the 1960s but the US was running a trade surplus then.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Or even worse than putting a potentially compromised microphone in their bedroom, carry around a microphone in their pocket all day which is also definitely reporting its location to call companies.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
"We're going to take your genetic information and use it to develop new drugs" was certainly part of the pitch I was given to get me to join 23andme.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
The code in Are-we-fast-yet has been heavily optimized. It might still be true that naive LuaJIT can run almost as fast as Naive C.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
It would allow a synthetic virus to get a foothold in your cells more easily, but our cells don't make Pseudouridine naturally which throws a big wrench in the ability of a virus to copy itself. And without replication you don't
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by Symmetry 1y ago
The idea isn't to remove the radar entirely but make do with something not much better than what the Nimitz class has. Without launch tubes with SM-3s no need to track things out past the atmosphere.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Oops, that should have been "choke".
169.
by Symmetry 1y ago
The energy produced by the combustion is the same but different fractions of it are converted into work. Just like efficiency differences in other types of heat engine.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
To be a bit more clear, the detonation is racing around a circular track in one plane, but the net thrust is in the direction perpendicular to that plane. Fuel and oxidiser are continuously pumped in all along the track, dropping to ~0 aft
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by Symmetry 1y ago
You've got the speed at which a detonation progresses within the explosive material and the speed at which the shock wave travels through the air. Neither is going to change based on the bomb's arrangement. But if you detonate a
172.
by Symmetry 1y ago
Those descriptions are actually both correct, but one is describing the elephant's trunk and another the elephant's ear.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Back when I read Dickens or Gatsby I hadn't read enough history to really understand what was going on because I'd was missing a lot of context that changed the meaning of events in the book. Gatsby could serve as launching point
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Bell labs was funded from the profits of a legal monopoly, and the money spent on it was used to justify the continuance of that monopoly. You do see some private basic research these days as with Google in robotics or Microsoft in quantum
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by Symmetry 1y ago
I wonder how it compares to Bluespec?
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Right. A company I used to work for was selling force sensors over a decade ago and I'm sure they're older than that. https://blog.robotiq.com/bid/65024/TakkTile-Sensors-for-Indu...
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by Symmetry 1y ago
I'd assume measuring the force exerted at the contact point rather than the motor current.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Mostly because its a lot harder to acquire an infection via plasma, though there are some diseases like Hepatitis E that can be transmitted that way.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
My wife is from China and when I ask her what people there think of the India/China border disputes she says that people aren't aware of them.
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Normalizing Ratings(hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com)
51 points by Symmetry 1y ago|52 comments

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