Tossrock

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by Tossrock 8y ago
I agree that the Soyuz has been very reliable historically, but two major incidents involving it within a few weeks has the appearance of a trend.
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by Tossrock 8y ago
First the mysterious hole and now this. Quality control at Energia is looking really questionable. Commercial Crew can't get here soon enough.
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by Tossrock 8y ago
The UI tetrahedrons were all on the floor for me, making it difficult to control. Is this normal?
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Creating a functional fridge-magnet based login form in VR(lightsale.io)
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by Tossrock 8y ago
clearly Saunt Eck's inverted speely.
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by Tossrock 8y ago
The key insight isn't the substituion of new numbers, it's the use of probability distributions with error bars throughout the calculation, as opposed to picking a single number. The canonical paradox is that even if you pick very
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by Tossrock 8y ago
ITER is specifically designed with slots for modular tritium breeding experiments to be run: https://www.iter.org/mach/TritiumBreeding
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by Tossrock 8y ago
A few quick observations: - The right edge of the triangle is always red (ie, no primes present), because it represents (row number) * (3* (row number)+[1..6]) - Prime numbered rows are always black (except the far right column). I can sor
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by Tossrock 8y ago
In many ways, it fills roles missing in modern life. Many of the concepts it embodies -- an arduous shared experience, a festival, a mythic journey, a deeply connected and engaged community (across multiple orders of magnitude) -- are share
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by Tossrock 9y ago
Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter briefly touched on this idea in The Light of Other Days. (Spoiler) The book is primarily concerned with the development of a miniaturized wormhole technology which allows remote viewing anywhere on Earth,
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by Tossrock 9y ago
This is quite visible in their demonstration slider-image; the building in the back-right changes from a brick building with glass windows to a stucco-ish building with a bunch of exterior duct-work.
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by Tossrock 9y ago
Unity scenes are stored as yaml in the project, and are only baked to binary for built executables.
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by Tossrock 9y ago
Because there was no involvement of the judiciary system. See the case of Anwar al-Awlaki, and more to the point, his son. Oh, and also his daughter now, I guess.
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by Tossrock 9y ago
For those who missed it, at GDC 2018 there was a demo of real-time, nearly photo-realistic virtual human synthesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9owTAISsvwk And behind the scenes: https://www.youtube.com/
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by Tossrock 9y ago
The Vive Pro is coming out quite soon with ~70% increased resolution over the original Vive/Oculus. Then there's the two Pimax iterations coming later which have even more. Haven't heard anything specifically about the Holole
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by Tossrock 9y ago
Blinding laser weapons are banned from use by most UN members due to the 1995 Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons. Although I guess it's only for "permanently" blinding weapons, so temporary blinding (ala a flashbang) might be
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by Tossrock 9y ago
It can be realistically achieved, because it already has been achieved. Self-driving cars done right are already safer than humans - see Waymo's record. The woman didn't die today to somehow save people tomorrow. She died to fuel
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by Tossrock 9y ago
"Before its acquisition he had been the cofounder and technical director of a small company called Dumpmines, which was in the business of digging up and processing old landfills, recovering the valuable materials that had been thrown
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by Tossrock 9y ago
Oh man, I had literally this exact idea too (although targeting general GPU workloads, not AI specifically). I actually wrote a pretty detailed product roadmap/desiderata/business plan/basic market research/etc note abou
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by Tossrock 9y ago
I assume he must talk about Ambrosia SW, right? If so I might have to get it, I've always wanted to know more about them, especially the development of the Escape Velocity series.
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by Tossrock 9y ago
They also happen to sponsor the development of Concourse CI, which is a great CI/CD tool.
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by Tossrock 9y ago
You can get 320x240 60hz for $2000 as a consumer[1]. On the one hand I wonder what kind of resolution the military grade version is, but I also wonder if the bandwidth/dollar is actually better. I imagine Raytheon basically just makes
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by Tossrock 9y ago
Yeah, I thought that this line: > "They know everything we click and like on their site, and know who our closest friends and relationships are." was actually a big understatement - due to the ubiquity of the share button, whic
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by Tossrock 9y ago
Humans radiate in IR. A midrange FLIR can pick out a human against a cold background from miles away.
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by Tossrock 9y ago
Deep cycle lead-acid batteries have fine cycle lives, and indeed were (and are) used for driving golf carts. However, they trade off for lower specific power, which makes them unsuitable for a full-sized, highway-speed-reaching car.
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by Tossrock 9y ago
Your comment, and this piece reminded me a lot of one I read about the perception of death in Bhutan[1]: “Rich people in the West, they have not touched dead bodies, fresh wounds, rotten things. This is a problem. This is the human conditio
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by Tossrock 9y ago
I for one already believed in their vision back in 2012 [1] 1: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/22652180#...
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by Tossrock 9y ago
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. I also experienced the long confirmation time issue, but it seems to have settled down after the segwit fork, which allowed more transactions per block.
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by Tossrock 9y ago
There's an interesting NYT article about all of those questions: "Can Bitcoin Conquer Argentina?" (2015) - https://nyti.ms/1JRVRmL
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by Tossrock 9y ago
Since I see a lot of people posting that there is no legitimate use case for Bitcoin, let me point out that the global remittance market is over $500 billion per year. Being able to cheaply and easily move money between countries is a huge

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