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avmich
1y ago
The bank servicing the transaction will have to upgrade their internal software for money representation.
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avmich
1y ago
A total PL would be nice...
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avmich
1y ago
Isn't this question better to delegate to compression layer?
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1y ago
> A modern authentication flow in 2025 should be built around strong, user-friendly, standards-based mechanisms: > Passkeys (FIDO2/WebAuthn): Phishing-resistant, device-based login using biometrics. Maybe I'm missing somethi
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avmich
1y ago
Hard to make a business model?
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avmich
1y ago
The Starship in non-reusable stage didn't get to orbit purely to avoid problems with deorbiting, should they happen. Energiya rocket, a Saturn-V class launcher which flew twice in 1980-s, deliberately was not getting to orbital speed,
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1y ago
The use of underscore for negative numbers is J's choice, explained e.g. here - https://www.jsoftware.com/docs/help807/jforc/preliminaries.h... . Explicitly representing infinity, and working with it in
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1y ago
I'm kinda interested in the demographic trends comparison here...
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1y ago
The point is he's not, as he can't prove.
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avmich
2y ago
If however you're only having an idea of a product, even half-implemented, you still need to sell the idea to get money for the full implementation - enough for it to be sellable as a product. Catch 22 indeed...
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2y ago
I'm sorry, but this advice can sometimes sound like "sell one of your kidneys so you can eat". What if your means are not sufficient to avoid hunger? Investing negative difference? What if on top of that you're trying to
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2y ago
Well, ozone hole was supposed to increase and engulf the whole planet, but... I'm sure this is a long enough time to avoid predictions.
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2y ago
Really? :(
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2y ago
> That doesn’t mean that the President’s administration is responsible for every technical decision made by every agency. I disagree. There's a known point of view "the buck stops here", meaning the President is the ultima
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avmich
2y ago
I'm sorry, is there a contradiction to guidelines? What wrong do you see in that post? I'm genuinely curious.
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2y ago
Space can be political or it can be political. Response to Spootnik-level event is political. Gaming with expectable difficulties in space exploration, pointing fingers to the previous administration, is political. But those are different k
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2y ago
Sounds like a change of the topic :( .
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2y ago
Sir, with all due respect - don't you think there could be different meanings for the term "administration"?
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avmich
2y ago
LLM hype was firmly with us with the coming of ChatGPT, November 2022. Records in signing up aren't for nothing.
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2y ago
No, no, no, we're asking a certain economic benefit at the expense of reasonable steps towards it - not even too hard steps, the COVID shock has shown the possibilities. Of course I can guarantee the humans will be better off - as in,
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2y ago
Read http://mrob.com/pub/math/largenum.html . After that you'll probably look easier to those numbers.
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2y ago
> But not the most important. Why do you think so? Moscow was a good magnet for educated and active people, and Leningrad too, but Kiev was next, and there were other big cities in Ukraine with institutes and factories which were modern
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2y ago
Why ignored? Just like in USSR Ukraine was generating a lot of produce - and share in the USSR economy - the California also generates a lot of money it spends on rockets. So - I don't see ignoring.
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Ukraine had the most technologically advanced rocket industry in late USSR and a pretty good aviation industry. Alumni of Ukrainian aerospace schools are showing up in Europe and Americas. We all witnessing the work of current technological
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2y ago
By many people, who tend to on average avoid fast motions to extremes. Much less volatile than billionaires.
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> So I'll reframe the question in a more libertarian way: if women are better at getting entry level corporate jobs and education-focused career paths (doctors, lawyers), is that something we should fix? Yes. Why not?
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2y ago
Reality cannot not to help. Reality is objective. Ignoring reality means making worse decisions. People will try to make best - for them - decisions, and the results will be worse because reality is changing, as a consequence of the choice
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> e.g. the N1 had a lot of smaller engines rather than a few huge ones - so they could be mass-produced. American Saturn-1 had 8 H-1 engines on the first stage - Wernher von Braun wasn't against putting a bunch of existing engines w
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These are all consequences of the choices of the American people over last years. Choices do have consequences; we need to understand them and explain them to others, one way or another. Reality is helping us with that.
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2y ago
It's not only government rates. It's government benefits and also some less tangible benefits of working for a federal government, especially on a project like this. So it should be more expensive, but still well, well worth it.
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