alexvoda

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by alexvoda 3y ago
I did not argue that communist regimes didn't fail. I even think that was inevitable. And I even think that it was inevitable that the communist ideal would be immediately abandoned by every single regime once they gain power. That doe
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by alexvoda 3y ago
I will read up on what you posted. But to answer GP, I basically agree with what you posted. From a philosophical pov, the well known regimes (Stalinist USSR, Maoist China, Varsovia pact regimes, DPRK) were dictatorships and they were faile
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by alexvoda 3y ago
I do not know about Yugoslavia but it is certain that the Ceausescu regime would have ended up in misery either way. Having as a ruler an idiot who is capable of playing opponents against each other and who was enthralled by the prospect of
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by alexvoda 3y ago
It's a shame GP decided to miss the point so badly. They do indeed describe authoritarianism not communism. I think there are very good reasons that every time some regime self branded as communism it very quickly devolved into dictato
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by alexvoda 3y ago
While communism does have it's flaws, i would argue it has in fact never been tried.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
For the desktop just place an isometric upside-down-T-arrow-cluster next to the puzzle so you always see which way the arrow keys point towards. And maybe highlight them when pressed.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
This take is reductionist and irresponsible.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
This is just one of the reasons that new languages that dispense with outdated assumptions and insted make assumptions more suitable to our times are a good thing. C and C++ are really old and some things can not be fixed with libraries.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
I agree with your 3rd and 4th paragraph. However, I argue that that your first sentence frames things poorly. Nails growing, hairs falling, the body doing body things is fascinating. Are dreams exceptional compared to other behaviours of th
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by alexvoda 3y ago
I do not agree at all that the word "deepity" is in any way anti-intellectual. It is an intellectual stance to try and filter what truly is profound from what merely appears to be or what merely elicits the same emotions. Unfortun
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by alexvoda 3y ago
I disagree that "3+4=7" is a basic fact of math. Basic facts of math are for example ZFC axioms of Set theory. I only learned some set theory in high school. My point being, that teaching math is unexpectedly surprisingly top-down
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by alexvoda 3y ago
And with locked bootloaders everywhere this is a steep uphill battle.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
They probably meant clip-on sunglasses that clip to your usual glases.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
That paragraph was hyperbolic sarcasm which I hoped would have been made clear by suggesting the tank would explode. Note that even in the test you linked the plate was angled. This is not done just to redirect heat but in order too redirec
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by alexvoda 3y ago
For what it's worth I considered your original comment to be sealioning yet I still considered worth it to make clear that this was predicted and avoidable, and not avoiding it was intentional.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
You did not read the rest of the comment.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Most rockets have used flame diverters. Because it is common sense that you do not want to spew debris and hot gasses in all directions (including towards your nearby fuel tanks). It is a well studied problem(1). Even tiny rockets like Elec
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by alexvoda 3y ago
The reactions are deserved because it was UNNECESSARY damage. There is no reason it could not have been avoided.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
It has been done, but not with a rocket this big.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
And the Super Heavy will never go to Mars. Starship might. But how it launches from Mars is entirely speculation. For something like Starship to launch you need plenty of pad infrastructure anyway: fueling, chilling, etc.. If you can build
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Or maybe you do not need to make a tradeoff between environment and progress at all. You just need to care and spend some more to do things properly. This damage could have been easily avoided.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
You don't need to dig to make the diverter. You can also build upwards. And I don't think you even have to make it of concrete. But from the tiny (Electron) to the super heavy (Saturn, N1, SLS) they all used some form of diverter.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
No, there are options between the two extremes. Nasa over engineered pad 39A and now they have a pad that can probably launch anything. But SpaceX with stage 0 did absolutely nothing even though most rockets in history used a diverter of so
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by alexvoda 3y ago
But why would you ever put the plate at 0° when you can put it at 45°. Yes you need some height, but is that so onerous? I am not saying they have to build something equivalent to the SLS/SST/Satun/Soyuz/Proton concrete
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Yup, this is a very non-Mac-like Mac-only app.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
That will push water directly opposite of the thrust. I expect the water to be pushed backwards, the plate to melt and the exaust to be pushed into the water tank and maybe we will see a steam explosion. There is a reason flame diverters ar
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Location: Romania, Bucharest or Brasov Remote: Yes (Preferred) Willing to relocate: No Willing to travel for work: Yes(depending on the country) Technologies: - Languages: Solidity, SQL, C#, Powershell, F#, Rust, Types
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by alexvoda 3y ago
> Or would they spread effectively by word of mouth in the absence of the noise generated by the advertising industry? It is even more complex than that. As it already happens, word of mouth can also be hijacked by advertising resulting
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by alexvoda 3y ago
I wonder if this in some way analogous to the 4 quadrants resulting from Carlo Cipolla's law of stupidity or if it is orthogonal. I think flexibility is orthogonal and turns this into a cube.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Do you allow users to login with any identity provider they want by just providing a URL or do you lock them in to You, Google, and a few other options? You are not the one locked in, your users are. The original vision for OpenID was for u

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