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by avmich 2y ago
Can be from solar cells, the cheapest option today.
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by avmich 2y ago
I don't see anywhere mentioning that it doesn't. I think it's obvious to make the experiment realistic one should aim for a close enough analogue of the Martian soil, and that would include perchlorates.
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by avmich 2y ago
> but the leading edge advances so quickly that learning curves have limited runtime. > It won’t have the latest kit. So does the SOTA advances too quickly or not?
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by avmich 2y ago
Not sure if mercury delay lines qualify as liquid computers here, do they work without electricity involved?
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by avmich 2y ago
> A company can not operate outside the laws of the country it is operating in. In case of Russia, Apple is not or should not be operating in the country, so the condition isn't met.
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by avmich 2y ago
So, probably - after the Starship will start robustly flying - in a couple of years? - the competition will look like a number of government-directed programs. In such programs the government pays for a national launcher - it's a case
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by avmich 2y ago
That's unfortunately the practical problem and the reality of the situation. In other words, I agree.
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by avmich 2y ago
You don't seem to understand how the judicial system in USA works. The ultimate decision capacity is with the people. The way it's realized may differ, and the time may be long to pursue the decision, but not even SC has the last
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by avmich 2y ago
False. Judge ordering something can be brought to court to review if the order was lawful. Judge making judicial decision - that is, not ordering something to support that decision, but actually deciding - is immune, but that is decision of
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by avmich 2y ago
Great article. Readers looked to Sartre and Camus to articulate what that new world might look like. ‘We were,’ remembered the fellow philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, ‘to provide the postwar era with its ideology.’ It defini
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by avmich 2y ago
Imagine that a significant number of people went, say, to Mars. Now they are there, and suddenly they want better conditions. Could it trigger crash program in terraforming to improve the conditions, so that mere decades away Mars would be
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by avmich 2y ago
With working Starship, it's much easier to put industry on the Moon. The first product could be oxygen from the rocks, which could outcompete Earth-based oxygen for refueling on LEO. We actually seem to have more and more need in the s
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by avmich 2y ago
SpaceX designed reusable rocket first stage to slash costs. Everybody said reusability only makes sense when there's lot of flights - because large development costs have to be distributed across many flights. So, roughly, to ensure Fa
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by avmich 2y ago
> If everything is a people problem, why do we need engineers at all? Let's look at it as a bunch of people solving a problem which is too big for any one of them. Those people are different, they contribute different parts of the s
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by avmich 2y ago
It's also may not work for somebody who has a habit of coming back to the arguments in his thoughts and finding questions - if he can't answer them well enough.
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by avmich 2y ago
I wonder if such an evacuation happens what would subsequent relations between NASA and Boeing be. NASA could be rather sensitive to the optics of the events like that...
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by avmich 2y ago
I think the author is giving home tests an unfairly high grade. It deserves at least another article, but just assume there are 10,000 companies with on average 100 positions in each and a 1,000,000 applicants, and each applies to each. We
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by avmich 2y ago
Server went down (?), so the full text here: 49. Bring Something Beautiful +/(1+⍳∞) -s ←→ ×/÷1-(⍭⍳∞) -s The following e-mail exchange took place on 2010-06-24 during a discussion on numeric representation. Morten Kromberg: And… I
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by avmich 2y ago
http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10500390 ...Roger Hui: In the year 2033 Earth was discovered by Survey Fleet MCXII of the Galactic Empire. The Emperor ordered Earth to send a representative to the court, with strict instruc
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by avmich 2y ago
> It probably didn't take an ace detective to figure out what was going on, given that both software and hardware leave behind pretty damning evidence How did they do that in the case of hardware? Similarly to CAPTCHA, when checked
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by avmich 2y ago
> it will be exactly the same situation as with Chechnya with exactly the same results Chechnya was pacified with regular significant money transfers to the strongman at the head. Indians, hmm...
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by avmich 2y ago
> outsourcing the creation of a bedtime story for your child is just bad parenting. While I don’t have kids myself, I absolutely agree. It’s not just your job to be creative, inventive, and silly with your child. It’s a chance to do a li
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by avmich 2y ago
That's not worrying - the tariffs can be increased. What's more worrying, IMHO, is that EU should have stimulus and means to improve their own competitiveness.
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by avmich 2y ago
You'd think Venus would be much worse in this regard than Mars. Then you get these suggestions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WO-z-QuWI - and start thinking...
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by avmich 2y ago
Surely the best place in terms of hospitality is Earth. But Mars, with all its problems, is likely still second. Likely. We can deal with all martian problems. 1. Perchlorates in the soil? You can deal with them, say, chemically if you need
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by avmich 2y ago
Can't both of this problems be solved by repairing? The body is a complex thing, but it still can be replaced - piece by piece or as a whole. Same for wiring - a lot of it is rather short and local and doesn't need complex operati
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by avmich 2y ago
> they're struggling to do even basic stuff without help and are far from helping others Question: how does that "helping others" look like? In companies there's a planning phase with meetings, the work phase with ass
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by avmich 2y ago
Agree. But even with dependencies running "make" seems to be way simpler than having to install particular version of tools for a project, making venv and then picking versions of dependencies. The point is the same - we had it si
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by avmich 2y ago
Legends say there were times when you'd have a program.c file and just run cc program.c, and then could just execute the compiled result. Funny that programmer's job is highly automatable, yet we invent ourselves tons of intermedi
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by avmich 2y ago
> but that may just be your writing style No, that's more like an unfortunate choice of wording :( . Sorry.

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