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by aardvarkr 6y ago
The first may have been unintentional on ascent but the second wasn’t. On the descent however both active engines failed due to fuel pressure, sadly, though it was awesome to watch.
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Next one should have heat shields for them to try for a real re-entry attempt but the terminal velocity was surprisingly slow with that geometry so I’m not sure it’s really going to change much.
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It’s pretty damn hard to copy something that you never get to see. China can clone tech because they force companies that build products in China to essentially give away their IP. Can’t do that if the rocket is built exclusively in Hawthor
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
So you’re saying that if the engines had been off the starship wouldn’t have exploded? Try again bud. That’s still an object full of compressed methane and liquid oxygen falling at terminal velocity.
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
Can you explain this more? I’m intrigued to learn about it
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
> That being said, there's no reason search can't be separated from the ad business. I’m not aware of a business model that would keep a search company in business if they didn’t offer ads to go with it. On top of that, offerin
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
Yeah the more I look the more I find proof that self-driving cars has been seen as an existential threat by Uber/Lyft for years and years with Travis Kalanick (ex-CEO) saying it repeatedly. Here's an interview from him on exactly
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
That seems disingenuous and intended to save face. I liken this to the Soviets claiming they never lost the space race after the US moon landing because "landing humans was never the goal" and they denied ever building a lunar lan
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
That’s pretty scary tbh. All you need is a single employee to fall for a phishing attack or other social hacking attempt and that’s game over. Everyone from the CEO down is compromised. Zero click wormability with remote code execution on a
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
There seems to be a bug on mobile safari for iPhone. I can’t type more than one word so can’t progress past the grep command on 2
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
We’ll know ten years from now
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It’s officially recognized as a solution.
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Every simulator is going to have error. In this case this biennial challenge represents the computational state of the art with scores of 30-40 over the last decade. The AlphaFold2 model sends that score up to 87 with errors about than the
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Complete tear down of SpaceX’s Starlink phased array antenna(m.youtube.com)
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
Just for argument’s sake, does rotational weight really give a performance impact? I expect it marginally improves initial acceleration but I also expect top speed is unchanged. Heavier wheels would allow you to coast for longer without nee
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
I’d actually argue that they don’t work, and that comes from someone who is pro-labor but has worked in union shops. Unions are intended to give a voice to the voiceless but in my experience they end up promoting a toxic culture that is cou
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
This is using the Checkm8 exploit which takes advantage of an unfixable BootROM vulnerability that exists on all devices between iPhone 4s to the iPhone X. This includes all ipads and other iOS devices using Apple silicon from the same gene
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
I know you’re skeptical and I would be too if I hadn’t heard of this before but it’s actually true. Planet money has two really good podcasts about exactly this topic. Here’s a link: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/23&
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
Great video, thanks for sharing!
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
Hey, not to be too harsh but you do realize that was only for 1 hour in the middle of the day when usage is near its lowest? It’s impossible for solar to provide 100% of the power used in a day because the sun doesn’t shine for 24 hours. It
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
Is no one pointing out that this isn’t the part that makes replacing fossil fuels hard? This is focusing on a completely irrelevant metric. It’s a great motivator for why we need to shift but it has no impact on how hard it will be to repla
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
I had the honor of being a student of his. I was a high school student while attending college there thanks to a Texas program for gifted kids. As a professor he’s quite the character with his beard and his rat tail and his funny mannerisms
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
1. Today I learned something new. Still, can’t let great be the enemy of good. It may be imperfect but it’s the source I used. Do you have a better source I can replace it with? 2. That’s a good question and I don’t have an answer for that.
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
Considering that there’s no difference between the 1050ti in the OP and the 5500M that PragmaticPulp posted I’m inclined to say this test sucks. Userbenchmark.com shows there should be a substantial (38%) improvement between those two. Take
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
Not a beekeeper but it’s pretty easy to connect the dots from bee extinction to ecological collapse. No pollinators leads to decreased germination which leads to less food for the lower levels of the food chain and on and on
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Native CUDA implementation on an Ubuntu system would be the biggest reason in my mind. There's CUDA for android but (at a glance) it didn't look stellar. It also helps that there is an active community here where everyone has the
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by aardvarkr 6y ago
I had the same issue the first time around. My solution was to spend some time building a massive wall (using cliffs to help provide a natural barrier) around the perimeter with a belt full of ammo that refilled all of the turrets. The defe