ballooney

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by ballooney 3y ago
Given 100% of my exposure to this person is from reading this blog post just now, I'm not sure I'd invite him to my bookshop either. Luckily this is immaterial, because I don't have a bookshop.
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by ballooney 3y ago
I am with you, for what it’s worth. I would be tending the bar and frowning at anyone who asked for “gin and tonics” until they corrected themselves.
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by ballooney 3y ago
I will take your word for it seeing as you are/were on first name terms with them both, suggesting this is all first-hand knowledge.
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by ballooney 3y ago
no!
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by ballooney 3y ago
This is an air breathing rde, you have likely seen rdes with seperate oxidiser injection, more like a rocket engine.
96.
by ballooney 3y ago
To be clear and dispel your misconception: These cars estimate rather than ‘know’.
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by ballooney 3y ago
I'm not sure what prior lead you to conclude it's 'highly' likely that he never flew any of those - he flew all three!
98.
by ballooney 3y ago
I mean you could make up the same handwavey platitudes from anything really. Fruit Pickers. A Hospital Ward. Ant Colonies.
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by ballooney 3y ago
I only see one of those among 32 constructive ones - a rather better ratio than this site!
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by ballooney 3y ago
It's a USA thing.
101.
by ballooney 3y ago
Extracting information from data [that you assume contains redundancy] is _precisely_ what compression is.
102.
by ballooney 4y ago
Yes it is. (London-LA semi-frequent flyer).
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by ballooney 4y ago
You absolutely would expect that, any old national myth can be co-opted for whatever current political cause seems fit.
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by ballooney 4y ago
No it isn't the solution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkelflaute You need something else for those hours/days/week(s).
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by ballooney 5y ago
It’s not really technology though now is it. They’re pushing the boundaries of capitalism and morality but not technology. It’s been ages since Silicon Valley was about silicon. Almost all the current energy of the valley is in surveillance
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by ballooney 6y ago
I have spent probably about a year in total in india over various trips, cities and rurally a bit of cycling though usually just for getting around locally. It’s much easier outside big cities, wrt traffic. It seems a bit easier in the sout
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by ballooney 6y ago
This should be the top comment. It’s an especially prevalent view in the USA that bad politics is a law of physics and the only solutions are madly technological. It’s not true as many other parts of the world prove. You can just have a not
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by ballooney 6y ago
I like hand drawn diagrams and use them a lot, especially since work gave me an ipad, but whenever I see them in ‘high-production-value’, well researched and edited blog posts like this, I am reminded that it still seems to be a hard proble
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by ballooney 6y ago
I've been on this website long enough to remember when everyone was saying 'of course manually-driven cars will be the exception by 2020', and believing Elon Musk's timescales has taken over as the new naive credulity of
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by ballooney 6y ago
‘Bought’ one of. I’m still bitter about TI buying BB tbh. More of his app notes for the curious: http://readingjimwilliams.blogspot.com/
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by ballooney 6y ago
But that course is the very basics that you need before you can start doing applications. Just like you have to learn a bit of vocab and grammar before you can start conversing in a foreign language. Once you’ve done that course you could s
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by ballooney 6y ago
The astronauts are cargo. Dragon capsules have already been flown to the ISS without any of this stuff. It’s too unfair to call it decoration but it’s not far off that.
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by ballooney 6y ago
I strongly urge UK-base HNers to subscribe. It is one of the few national publications still doing proper long-term investigative journalism into local government (in a way that local papers haven’t had the resources to do for years) and us
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by ballooney 6y ago
No you’re confused. He’s asking for a history in which there is no company motivated by anything other than profit. Since there exist many companies motivated by things other than profit, no such history can be provided. Hence the GP is wro
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by ballooney 6y ago
You’re very wrong.
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by ballooney 6y ago
It’s not a function generator. It’s a software person having a first stab at what they think a function generator is, and then discovering that it’s more complicated and harder than they realised. It’s a first step in a learning project, no
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by ballooney 7y ago
Settle on Mars
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by ballooney 7y ago
It's certainly, unambiguously, true (the Silk Roads were roughly 200AD onwards, and the Roman Empire was trading for centuries before that for smaller values of 'global').
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by ballooney 7y ago
There were hobbyists making thrust-vectored rockets at this scale twenty-ish years ago. e.g. http://michael.sdf-eu.org/Gyroc/
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by ballooney 7y ago
Yeah i often look at my iphone SE and think it really needs some character.

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