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by WJW 2y ago
At some point gravitational forces start counteracting centrifugal forces again, so density means a lot. Apparently the fastest-spinning neutron star known so far spins at about 716 rotations per second. (see https://en.wikipedia
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by WJW 2y ago
Well as the article states the bigger ones would tear themselves apart if they spun too fast so that is one reason. In the end they are just big rocks and thus not very good at tensile loads...
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by WJW 3y ago
Sure but this letter is not by "every member", not even close. It's just a letter by a very loud minority. In such a case I don't think the outcome is actually all that clear. As people have been saying from the beginnin
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by WJW 3y ago
It's weird because in this case you could also read it as "Jeff Geerling says that corporate open source is dead", which just happens to be posted on his personal blog that has a domain name which is his personal name. It&#x2
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by WJW 3y ago
The insulting bit comes when people with an insufficient understanding of the problem come in and offer "solutions" that anyone could have dreamed up in 5 minutes, thereby implying that the new person either thinks the group with
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by WJW 3y ago
Build a city without an airport then? Don't see the problem here tbh.
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by WJW 3y ago
What is even the the point of that? An always-on (presumably only on during daytime?) 1 MW motor with enough solar panels to power them and something that actually requires a full megawatt would be pricy enough that the cost of an inverter
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by WJW 3y ago
Depends on how you define "lamenting". Unless there are diaries of the artists in question, it is very difficult to know the private thoughts of people in the distant past. That said, there are certainly well-documented stories of
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by WJW 3y ago
You should check again. Numbers like 1099551473989 have been factored successfully by now. The arxiv link in the sibling post is a good start.
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by WJW 3y ago
It's not like you can just buy some uranium to experiment with in your home lab, so even if a normie had this idea they would probably not be able to test it in any way.
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by WJW 3y ago
I don't think that is astounding at all. Most companies have been contributing nothing for decades and all the work gets done anyway!!! Every once in a while some FOSS maintainer quits and writes an angry blog post, but in aggregate
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by WJW 3y ago
No this definitely drains energy from the power line.
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by WJW 3y ago
Thank you random stranger for introducing me to this wonderful story! Pretty incredible they managed to do this in the 1850s already.
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by WJW 3y ago
If you are constantly afraid of being abandoned if you show the slightest sign of weakness, you may not be as strong as you imagine tbh. Such fears are easily exploited, too. You should really discuss this with your wife and/or friends
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by WJW 3y ago
Perhaps I am being too cynical, but how do you protect this scheme against hostile actors? Bits don't have color after all (see https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 if you don't get this reference) and it would
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by WJW 3y ago
Don't be obtuse, there are many more forms of terrorism than suicide bombing. Israel should be more careful with the Palestinian population as a whole, but Hamas specifically have always been shitbags, are still shitbags and deserve ev
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by WJW 3y ago
> they got the designation because they used suicide bombings in the nineties Did you completely miss their actions on October 7th? They didn't stop that kind of thing after the nineties.
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by WJW 3y ago
Nobody calls them terrorists because they run soup kitchens. People call them terrorists because they take children hostage and kill civilians. Destroying the Israel and killing its inhabitants is literally in their founding charter, and th
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by WJW 3y ago
Time flies, it was actually 4 years ago: https://redis.com/blog/new-governance-for-redis/
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by WJW 3y ago
Because you know it better? Same reason as for most technical decisions tbh. Besides that, there are still some points where the MySQL and/or the tooling around it simply performs better than Postgres. Anything to do with replication a
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by WJW 3y ago
I was thinking more towards the strandbeest series ( https://www.strandbeest.com/ ), although those have entirely too many legs to be spiders and are also not made out of aluminium.
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by WJW 3y ago
Surely they'd at least notice a decrease in installations of the new "too big to download" version?
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by WJW 3y ago
Where would the LLM get the training data? It's not as if supersonic jet designers commonly post easy-to-ingest design data online. Besides, most countries couldn't build a modern jet engine even if they had the exact engineering
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by WJW 3y ago
> since you don't always have a brand name and QC Some guy DIY-ing batteries in his shop is pretty much the epitome of "no brand name and QC" though. Seriously, look at some of the pictures in the article. Those botched to
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by WJW 3y ago
That depends also on opportunity cost though. Buffett by his own admission just really enjoys the "game" (to him) of reading earnings reports and finding good companies to invest in. He sees no problem spending 40 hours per week o
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by WJW 3y ago
That only makes the Mr Market advice more important, no? Opportunities may come to your doorstep, but the fact that they are there does not mean you have to take them if you determine they won't bring you further to your goals. FWIW, f
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by WJW 3y ago
The "just put your money in an index" advice is good for the vast majority of investors precisely because they can't afford to lose all of it. Research has shown time and time again that returns for the average retail inves
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by WJW 3y ago
The hats in the discrete optimization course are indeed good and it's a fun course. Highly recommended! It's extremely rare that I find myself needing to pull out the big boy tools in $DAYJOB but it's good to know they exist
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by WJW 3y ago
It works outside of investing too: Almost all of us will constantly be confronted with offers to buy things, take out loans, join clubs or companies, etc etc etc. Some of these offers will be worth it and some won't be. But it's s
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by WJW 3y ago
Put USB stick into computer, click on "Files" in the program chooser, select the USB drive (helpfully listed as "USB drive" even), drag your files there? Same as on Windows and MacOS really. I don't dispute that Lin

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