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by avar 3y ago
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but you can't really judge the benefits of the US space program in terms of its fluffy whitewashed publicly stated objectives. Arguably, it was primarily a way to garner public support for
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by avar 3y ago
Watching China set 8% of its budget on fire to militarize the moon sounds like a US war planner's wet dream. What are they going to do? Stage nuclear-tipped rockets there that you could wait until the next business day to respond to?
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by avar 3y ago
If you read past the inaccurate headline to their report you'll see that they really mean "western-built commercial air transport jets that carry over 40 passengers (including cargo aircraft)". They also exclude business jets
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by avar 3y ago
Someone steals your identity, and is also committed enough to burn off their fingerprints in a way that looks accidental. What now?
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by avar 3y ago
> When her lack of any(!) degree > was uncovered, she had to > resign. Maybe you should fire someone with a history of flagrantly lying, but shouldn't that make MIT consider dropping its degree requirement fo
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by avar 3y ago
> no one died in a commercial > aviation disaster in 2023. Yes they did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti_Airlines_Flight_691
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by avar 3y ago
They can always wear a drysuit under their hockey gear.
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by avar 3y ago
People deploy from aircraft and proceed to fly close to terrain with wingsuits. [1] is one example. 1. https://youtu.be/kooYQ0IOnoM?si=xCpGxbSmivlNY3e-
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by avar 3y ago
When did you rent with SADCars? I did once in 2014, and cheaply got some small old manual beater, which was just perfect. But I think they've "pivoted" to just another rental company since then. Looking at their website and G
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by avar 3y ago
Wouldn't PCI as a "memory bus" just be an SSD connected to the PCI bus setup as a swap space, which you can already do?
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by avar 3y ago
Many countries that have invested heavily into offshore have done so either because land is a premium or the geography makes in difficult to buil on land. The Netherlands is investing heavily in offshore wind,
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by avar 3y ago
> you don't SIT on the train > at all in rush hour! The horror!
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by avar 3y ago
Apple devices are constantly phoning home every time they see a random AirTag out in the world. You'd think that if their users are accepting that level of communications with the mothership that they could ship some AI model to hear r
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by avar 3y ago
Here in the Netherlands everyone mostly uses short-term live radar tracking of rain clouds and precipitation over actual predictive weather forecasting. In an urbanized area most "is it going to rain?" questions are short-term, e.
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by avar 3y ago
Yes, although having never been at Microsoft (and thus just speculating) I wouldn't underestimate the managerial effect of siloing either. There are many tricky problems in major companies that are actually relatively easy with say a m
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by avar 3y ago
Only a small minority of those people are going to be working on the core OS under discussion here.
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by avar 3y ago
It's less the airlines being cautious (like they finally started being over Ukraine, but not until MH17) You are misrecalling the chronology. Some airlines such as British Airways were avoiding that airspace before M
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by avar 3y ago
Ever played frisbee on grass? You can easily get a frisbee traveling 20-50 meters along the ground just by accident.
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by avar 3y ago
Nobody has access to that data, even if you're excluded it to extreme cases like "an at-fault crash happening as the user was manipulating the map software directly". We can't bridge the gap between that and accident rep
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by avar 3y ago
Microsoft notoriously has major issues implementing new features or fixing bugs due to their commitment to backwards compatibility. E.g. I've been told personally by Microsoft developers in the know that certain oddities or performance
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by avar 3y ago
The deepest borehole ever drilled is just over 12km, it's 6371km to the Earth's core. If the Earth was the size of a basketball that would get you around 1/8th of a millimeter into the surface. The reason geothermal's ea
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by avar 3y ago
Was this a house or a hotel? Obviously my comment's a bit torque-in-cheek, but I've never heard of fossil fuel heating in Iceland in residential dwellings outside af Grímsey, an island 40km off the coast. There's fireplaces,
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by avar 3y ago
> Rust/servo was the moment when I thought they might turn it around. Because greenfield parallel rewrites of giant production codebases have such a fantastic track record, that we might as well add "in a novel programming lang
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by avar 3y ago
> The eruption killed them There wasn't any eruption at the time. There was ongoing seismic shifting and land uplift, that's why the fissures were forming. It happened to erupt shortly afterwards, but the way these things go
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by avar 3y ago
The stated argument for evacuating the town was that due to ongoing seismic shifts. New fissures were opening regularly, and that these presented an unacceptable danger to public safety. I'm pointing out that it's at best a very
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by avar 3y ago
In general the backup plan in Iceland is "Well, I guess we're having to wear all this clothing we put on so we don't die of exposure when we venture outside inside the house now.". I think the hospitals have backup diese
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by avar 3y ago
Yes, it's being lost in translation. The notion that you might heat a house with electricity or by setting trees or dinosaurs on fire is so foreign to Icelanders that they don't think this is worth clarifying in the English transl
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by avar 3y ago
Well, the Earth's paying for it, and it'll turn into solid rock slightly earlier than it otherwise would have due to modern Icelandic district heating practices. As the Earth is mostly an approximately Earth-sized ball of molten r
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by avar 3y ago
Neither this eruption nor any other recent eruption in Iceland is characteristic of shield volcanoes. A shield volcano requires a certain viscosity of lava and flow rate. There are a few shield volcanoes in Iceland, the term "shield vo
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by avar 3y ago
The eruption didn't kill that person, gung-ho working practices and the lack of strictly adhering to something like OSHA killed that person. He was working around a newly opened fissure without being clipped into something like a safet

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