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by ballooney 2y ago
Just to be clear incase the other replies haven’t made it so, you are definitely, definitely completely wrong about this and continuing to think this way will cause you to misunderstand the world you live in and make mistaken decisions. I h
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by ballooney 2y ago
Exactly the sort of darling that that my college tutor would have said needed to be killed. “Yes, I know you’re very proud of it…”
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by ballooney 2y ago
You don’t have to imagine it, it happened in a series of Mars mission failures at the end of the 90s that were designed under the ‘faster better cheaper’ paradigm and lead to congressional reviews, the nasa administrator losing his job, and
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by ballooney 2y ago
Nothing nonchalant about it. There was a stringent qualification process. The time between boosters first being reused in Falcons and this mission is the same as the time between JFK's 'we choose to go to the moon' speech and
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by ballooney 2y ago
Apply jobs to what?
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by ballooney 2y ago
I remember an undergraduate homework question that was just asking you to calculate the fourier transform of a gaussian of mean 0 and variance a. You get out a gaussian of mean 0 and variance 1/a. I missed the significance of this, unt
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by ballooney 2y ago
I shall choose to remember him in his prime.
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by ballooney 2y ago
The guys who did well at my uni (a very good one) in my experience really were consistent in putting the work in. It's not that they had to really struggle with the material and homework problems, but they consistently did a good shift
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by ballooney 2y ago
That’s why you don’t have to explicitly add it as a qualifier at every instance in which it’s implied in your work of non fiction for a general audience.
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by ballooney 2y ago
Just ask on their IRC channel. The bar is set very low.
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by ballooney 2y ago
I think you’ve accidentally remapped ‘.’ to ‘?’ On your keyboard.
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by ballooney 2y ago
I think the GP might have meant that Mach 3 at ground level is even more technically astonishing - a lot of the historial benchmarks for airspeed (mach 2 fighters and interceptors, the SR71's mach 3) were only valid at very high altitu
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by ballooney 2y ago
A comment when an upvote would do - this is the kind of small act of generosity that I wish to acknowledge and praise in prose - thank you for taking the couple of minutes to do this. I've been feeling a little bleak about the internet
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by ballooney 2y ago
[Reed-Solomon is the more conventional formulation if you do end up going looking]
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by ballooney 2y ago
Giving up Amazon Prime (which i used for shipping more than watching The Boys) has been surprisingly painless. Ebay seems pretty good for free P&P and finding obscure things. On this occassion, it genuinely wasn't that inconvenient
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by ballooney 2y ago
Well, they absolutely _are_ addressed to impressionable, not always especially worldly, young [mostly] men. They are the workers he needs to send into his particular mine.
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by ballooney 3y ago
Agreed! For anyone else who, like me, didnt really pay attention to SD cards for a few years, it’s quite amazing how cheap they are for their capacity now. 256GB from reputable people like sandisk for low tens of dollars. Used one as a good
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by ballooney 3y ago
I know you're meant to just upvote here rather than say 'me too' but I am also a sucker.
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by ballooney 3y ago
Very neat - thank you for sharing.
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by ballooney 3y ago
Just out of interest would you mind sharing an example (eg a bit of screengrab) of the rendered result of the macro, and/or the macro itself? It sounds useful but I can’t quite visualise.
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by ballooney 3y ago
No one on this site should be contributing to a system that lets you buy a cooked chicken for $5! It’s destroying livelihoods and the environment.
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by ballooney 3y ago
He’s also on Knorr’s payroll for saying it.
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by ballooney 3y ago
He gets lots of interesting guests (and some BSers) on his podcast, so people listen.
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by ballooney 3y ago
I should have said explicitly, rather the subsuming it in all else being equal, that it’s _very_ different between ‘multicopter’ mode and flying under a wing. The later is, of course, much mor efficient, and the propulsion is correspondingl
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by ballooney 3y ago
For a given amount of lift, all things being equal, a single larger diameter propellor will be quieter than several smaller ones at higher speeds, as most of the noise is from turbulence and a function of the difference in velocity between
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by ballooney 3y ago
Question for anyone still browsing this far back in the timeline - any recommendations for other good engineering war-story blogs? Ideally aerospace, robotics etc.
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by ballooney 3y ago
I mean lots of the lore is just residual 16 year old’s getting into reading stuff. You read l’Estranger (translated), decide you’re an intellectual, and so have a go at Ulysses cos it’s the hardest one and so suitable for you, an intellectu
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by ballooney 3y ago
It feels like we’re in a bit of a nadir, agriculturally, in terms of soil exhaustion and erosion, crop monocultures, and so on, largely because of technology letting you do the same thing to bigger areas more quickly and with fewer people,
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by ballooney 3y ago
Infact, NASA wouldn’t use that sort of SOC for anything critical like the rover itself. Ingenuity was always a marginal experiment with a correspondingly high appetite for risk and ability to accept budgetary compromises.
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by ballooney 3y ago
Both sides are pretty good for being well shaded from the sun, in the Channel Tunnel, in my experience.

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