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by bdamm 3y ago
As I understand it, the problem is not so much that they have been damaged, but rather that they have been damaged inside the combat zone and so repair craft are not likely to enter the area, thus the damage will remain.
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by bdamm 3y ago
If you look at the map of charging locations that are enabled for Ford as of today, you can tell that there is really very little limit being placed. The map is effectively most of the supercharging locations. The algorithm seems to be simp
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by bdamm 3y ago
Even more pedantically, you'd be measuring the round trip time from the earth to a mirror located near the sun and back, but not at the sun. Does there even exist a mirror anywhere in this universe that could survive and float on the &
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by bdamm 3y ago
It turns out that there is very little wiggle room for lateral motion on the moon. The landers have just as much inertia as they do on earth, but the low gravity means the legs don't help with stability as much as you'd expect. An
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by bdamm 3y ago
8 minutes is not something we measured. It is something we computed. Why? Because there is no way to measure the time it takes for light to get from the sun to the earth. You cannot synchronize a message. There is no "hello". Ther
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by bdamm 3y ago
Thank goodness. AI is already allowing enough manipulation of our elections as it is.
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by bdamm 3y ago
Fair, but they don't compute and probably can't know the laser paths between Starlink nodes.
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by bdamm 3y ago
It was probably him.
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by bdamm 3y ago
Your point is a good one, although I have to point out that Duolingo does at least let you skip through the gamified stuff very quickly. When I'm doing lessons I reflexively double tap the "Ok" button to skip over the little
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by bdamm 3y ago
Reclamation is a non-starter if sea-level rise is the concern. Basically we're talking about making boat cities. To me this seems nuts since there's nothing stable about it. The largest passenger boats we have today are cruise lin
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by bdamm 3y ago
They do work fine, but let's be real, they work with reduced range and increased charge times. I have an "older" Tesla with nearly 100k mi and operate in the north quite a bit. There is a tradeoff, which I personally think is
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by bdamm 3y ago
Yeah, powered by a pump near your chest, with heat pushed out from the center using liquid, and then distributed everywhere it is needed using smaller and smaller tubes that get close to the surface of the skin before returning. And why not
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by bdamm 3y ago
Wait, what? They're converting their motor controller into a 400V-800V DC transformer?
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by bdamm 3y ago
Lithium is not a limited resource in the same way that Iron or Coal or Silicon are not limited. There is so much of it that we really cannot run out. Cobalt, Neodynium and the other rare earth metals, though, those are highly valuable; and
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by bdamm 3y ago
NACS is actually just CCS over the Tesla physical form. Hopefully Tesla is mandating and certifying a specific subset of CCS for their Supercharger rollout of NACS.
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by bdamm 3y ago
Well, good news, Bollinger has made your product!
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by bdamm 3y ago
Once upon a time I had a hobby growing mushrooms of various types. One day I tried an experiment; I placed little bags populated with oyster mushrooms at various distances from my Wi-Fi hub, a bag about each 15cm or so. After the expected g
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by bdamm 3y ago
Anyone ought to be able to see the new truth; that AI is multiplying the power and importance of the programming and software engineering discipline, by allowing us to churn out far more software in far less time. Entire genres of code task
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by bdamm 3y ago
Which, for certain mushrooms, would lead to concluding that you can enjoy a plate of the tasty speciments. After which your DNA will be ripped to pieces over the course of a week, followed shortly by death from general organ failure.
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by bdamm 3y ago
Being unable to sleep is a common withdrawal symptom for cannabis use disorder. Congratulations, you are habituated, and long-term problems are likely accumulating as you are losing out on REM sleep and probably developing emotional and phy
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by bdamm 3y ago
Airbus designs are substantially fly by wire, although supposedly with an isolated control system. Boeing designs are isolated electro-hydraulic. There's a big difference between isolating a single control link vs an entire control sys
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by bdamm 3y ago
I could not feel comfortable as a passenger on a commercial airliner without a human on board that could take over and fly the plane manually. There are all kinds of failure scenarios where a computer, AI or not, would get confused. Even ju
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by bdamm 3y ago
Probably easier to just call it being manipulative and maybe sociopathic.
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by bdamm 3y ago
Ignoring reality 101. Cars were here yesterday, people loved them for their freedom. Cars are here today, people love them and build communities around them. Cars will be here tomorrow, and people will still love them.
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by bdamm 3y ago
Have you driven in San Francisco or basically any large US city? If cars had to stop like that to give extra space for a jaywalker that had exited the path of travel, someone would rear end the AV, or at the very least the driving experienc
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by bdamm 3y ago
It doesn't really matter. The genetic matching models are so primitive that there's really not much of value in the data anyway. Facebook and Google have a far more accurate picture of what can be used to manipulate you. 23andme i
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by bdamm 3y ago
No, they are advertising an ammonia-based internal combustion engine.
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by bdamm 3y ago
There is no "reset" button on gaining market share. In 7-10 years, if Toyota hasn't got some class of EVs locked up, their only option will be to buy one of the other players. The charging standard is converging to the curren
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by bdamm 3y ago
Do we have evidence that ballot reform actually can improve political outcomes?
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by bdamm 3y ago
This apathy is an interesting phenomenon, let's not ignore it. The Internet has brought us a wealth of knowledge but it has also shown us how truly chaotic the world really is. And negativity is a profitable way to drive engagement, so

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