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by bdamm 1y ago
Cool ideas. Unclear how practical any of it is (how many gigawatts is that laser producing?) but cool nonetheless. Perhaps this kind of research will be driven be the value of the space industry, which is rapidly proving itself to consumers
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by bdamm 2y ago
How can you be so sure? Trump's rhetoric would basically guarantee it.
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by bdamm 2y ago
It is worse than this. Trump is just the spokesman for a younger group who is steering him. He doesn't actually know anything, he's just being fed punchlines and he's good at regurgitating them.
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by bdamm 2y ago
Presumably they were happy about the gasoline revenues and hotel stops.
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by bdamm 2y ago
So... the Nissan Leaf?
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by bdamm 2y ago
HN has been an outstanding corner of the Internet, seemingly invulnerable to all the trash that has consumed the rest. I'd love to know how HN has avoided the bots and the spam, while retaining a simple and elegant login process.
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by bdamm 2y ago
You seem to think that the indexing and searching happens only if there is a reason. Why do you think that? There are all kinds of cases where government agents were found to have abused access to data for reasons that had nothing to do wit
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by bdamm 2y ago
There will be at least one audiophile.
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by bdamm 2y ago
True, but also modeling and iteration does lead you to unexpected solutions that can in turn solve complex problems that you couldn't have imagined could be solved. Landing rockets being an easy one, but that kind of iterative approach
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by bdamm 2y ago
The rise of Big Latency is trashing our long distance relationships. It is absolutely infuriating.
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by bdamm 2y ago
Java should have just stuck with AWT. Java on Desktop has been a mess ever since Swing.
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by bdamm 2y ago
A large number of these sometimes smell like an oil lobby working their contacts to convince people to put off their EV purchase for five years until the amazing and better battery (tm) comes out. I can't tell if this is one of those.
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by bdamm 2y ago
True, but the i3 is kind of awful. So they've been doing it longer, but not necessarily better.
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by bdamm 2y ago
Only for those willing to stomach the entire boost hairball, which in embedded environments might be too much to ask.
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by bdamm 2y ago
I'm not sure anyone really knows this although there is no shortage of wild speculation. If you have keys that need to be robust for 20 years you should probably be looking into trying out some of the newly NIST approved standard algor
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by bdamm 2y ago
We don't really know what aliens would think, so you're anthropomorphizing. If the aliens were Klingons they might find it endearing. There's zero evidence that peace without weapons is possible.
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by bdamm 2y ago
Exactly. This trope gets repeated all the time about "listen to your inner voice" or "gut feelings" and we hardly ever talk about the alternatives. My gut tells me all kinds of things, sometimes contradictory things depe
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by bdamm 2y ago
Yeah, she was so active and productive and engaging as a youtube content creator. She is one of my favorites! So it's just stunning to see how profound whatever is happening for her is. She went from bright and engaging to basically a
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by bdamm 2y ago
What better options? The neat thing about MQTT, and that almost all other pub/sub implementations that I've seen get wrong, is that the core data structure in MQTT is the subscribing client, not the queues & topics. That means
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by bdamm 2y ago
Speculative results with statistical likelihood are still highly valuable to the right buyers.
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by bdamm 2y ago
You may prefer to do the other thing but I think as a species it's ok to have some off planet outposts. Feel free to not go there, and also don't go to antarctica or anywhere else particularly challenging.
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by bdamm 2y ago
Radiation is a serious problem. It tears apart DNA & RNA. Blocking radiation takes lots of material, hence, underground.
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by bdamm 2y ago
That is completely mesmerizing!
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by bdamm 2y ago
Presumably there is a generator function that maps key IDs into actual keys that can be re-computed at will.
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by bdamm 2y ago
Generally, it's the right thing to do, but sometimes it leads to motorists feeling that you're in their space and getting angry about it. They simply don't recognize your place on the road. There is no easy answer other than
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by bdamm 2y ago
In my Model 3, when I use my turn signal this does not happen. Also, it can be disabled. And I could hardly say that the gentle tug is "taking over the steering", it's more like a nudge. In my experience it does sometimes mak
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by bdamm 2y ago
For IoT stuff in general; I can do it, and I don't want to because I'd rather spend my time doing other things (although yeah, I totally did learn everything I could about my solar array, because it is a source of power, after all
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by bdamm 2y ago
Similar to how if we came up with some clean fusion and then multiplied all our energy use 10, 1000, 10,000-fold, then at what point would we be actually heating up the atmosphere directly (instead of indirectly via green house gasses)? I&#
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by bdamm 2y ago
It's obviously fictional, but let's call it contemporary drama based on a true story. I thought the point was well made. The author already noted this was a handwaving segment.
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by bdamm 2y ago
The state is enormous. Dedicating megabytes and megabytes to key state is painful. And so is tracking state across components and through distribution channels. If you’re not afraid of that then just use symmetric crypto and be done with it

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