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by avmich 3y ago
Biden maintains a conservative policy of not changing fossil markets too fast, while encouraging alternatives to grow to become a replacement. The administration could move more aggressively, and indeed it gets criticism at times for not do
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by avmich 3y ago
In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj3LZGleMBQ there are some talks about stars like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WR_104 .
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by avmich 3y ago
Overturning millennia of business practices?..
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by avmich 3y ago
This website, of all means, talks surprisingly little about startups enabled with significantly reducing the price to get to orbit. "Masses" sent to orbit roughly split into 3 groups: heavy simple materials - mostly metal structur
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by avmich 3y ago
I was too optimistic in estimates for this flight :) and now I feel rather conservative. Third flight really pushed the progress forward - and also uncovered several areas for improvement. Super Heavy return flight roll control and engine r
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by avmich 3y ago
Yes, and even $300 per kg on orbit seems rather conservative. > SpaceX can likely build and launch a fully expendable version of Starship for about $100 million. Most of that money is in the booster, with its 33 engines. So once Super He
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by avmich 3y ago
I'll still take this as progress. With thermonuclear reactors it's perennial 20 years, similar for flying cars, in-house robots, manned flight to the Mars, so 5 years as a stand-in for "foreseeable future" sounds like a
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by avmich 3y ago
Yes, but HLS is just one example. In, say, ten years it may look very possible that Starships with people will fly on LEO. Is it beyond foreseeable future?.. I just don't understand why such a pessimistic estimate.
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by avmich 3y ago
"Foreseeable" is roughly "five years"? Starship HLS (Human Landing System) is currently planned to land on the Moon, with people, in 2026. It may very well slip a year, two or three - but landing on the Moon this decade
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by avmich 3y ago
In https://payloadspace.com/starship-report/ the cost of Falcon-9 launch is estimated as $15M. One Raptor is less than $1M, but full Starship has 39 Raptors. Starship will be much more attractive when it will become fu
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by avmich 3y ago
No quite; even if 1st and 2nd stages deliver cargo to orbit cheaper than competition, you still has to make sure there is enough demand to pay back the cost of Starship creation. That demand may require not just being cheaper, but to being
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by avmich 3y ago
Try niche skills like MFC, APL, Flash or even Haskell.
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by avmich 3y ago
Not for all I guess.
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by avmich 3y ago
I think a good UI demonstrates a simple internal model, which the user has in mind, and uses necessary controls to affect that model. To make that model for the application - the one which would be not too simple and not too complex, close
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by avmich 3y ago
You won't prove it to those who don't want the proof. Just clean up the place and build what's needed, let those who "know better" to keep claiming they're the masters of the universe.
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by avmich 3y ago
It's kind of a pity the parallel construction used by some services can't be revealed just as easily.
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by avmich 3y ago
Would be good examples - but where there are many pro-Palestine incidents lately which disrupted official proceedings? Vietnam is another story, different from January 6th, and it's about events 50 years ago - things could change since
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by avmich 3y ago
Putting Russia and America on the same level here means not knowing either Russia or America.
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by avmich 3y ago
> Their software/controls people were obviously top notch. Ben Brockert was at controls - literally - and led Masten Space to the first place in Northrop Grumman Lunar Landing Challenge - https://www.xprize.org/prize
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by avmich 3y ago
> Do I need to refer you to many other examples where there was unauthorized entry into federal and state buildings that disrupted official proceedings Yes, please, give some examples, that could be good for the perspective.
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by avmich 3y ago
> Britain as the world's top superpower of the era was destroyed by having to come to the aid of Belgium in August 1914. Unintended consequences are a bitch. Interesting viewpoint. So if Britain wouldn't have to come to the aid
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by avmich 3y ago
I'm sure some aerospace professionals are wondering how it's possible to predict stock behavior on an exchange, but have no problem with educated predictions of launcher performance.
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by avmich 3y ago
Steam engines: "No problems, we're doing that already for centuries, just with less speed and mostly horizontally."
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by avmich 3y ago
The tradition of passing nuts comes at least from the history of developing engines for Soviet Moon launcher, N-1. The engines used on all four launches, NK-15, were notoriously unreliable, and the suspicion was that their turbopumps, havin
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by avmich 3y ago
Engineering, physical principles, I guess. Those who place bets or making predictions may know a thing or two on mechanics, rocket science and history of building launchers.
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by avmich 3y ago
A way to reach exactness from current probabilistic models is to ask them to build a deterministic system. Then you won't directly employ the LLM services, but instead use the output of the system the LLM built. This system may be flaw
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by avmich 3y ago
If you hire a person to change a spark plug, yes, you need a specific skill. If you hire a person for a job - for something which you can't really narrowly define, and don't want to, for something which may need adaptation to unex
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by avmich 3y ago
Awesome resource; however both J and K are evolving, so we either have multitude of various versions of the languages or a comparison which is outdated - referring to the latest versions of the languages.
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by avmich 3y ago
I've seen an example of somewhat similar movement at https://vas3k.blog/ - old posts of Vas3k paint an interesting picture. Decision mostly depends on internal position, relative importance of various things. West does
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by avmich 3y ago
41 pages, but a summary from the first three: - antagonism between ardent "Westernizers" and "national patriots" is a conflict between two minorities embracing in sum about 30 percent of the adult population - one of the

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