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by bell-cot 5mo ago
From that article - > The “sniper” theory > The lack of a concrete explanation for the failure led SpaceX engineers to pursue hundreds of theories. One was the possibility that an outside “sniper” had shot the rocket. This theory appe
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
363 point, 364 comments here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317774
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Speculation: The 4 hours includes the time "gained" by crossing time zones westward.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Mnemonic: geLL-Mann amnesia effect
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
"Ruthlessly optimizing for metric X sounded great, but somehow that failed to give us outcome Y." -Anon
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
For precious metals, the units of measure are a bit different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_weight
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
It'd be nice to see real numbers for the impact of data centers on Ireland - the actual electrical rates they pay, net annual taxes paid, ongoing payroll, monthly cooling water usage, etc. But sadly, I can't recall any news outlet
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
On the one hand, for alcoholism, I'm sure there are a lot of straight-up liars, delusionals, and people committed to denial as coping mechanism. On the other hand, both the medical system and medical professionals have to deal with a
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
At best, this is true only of the little people on the internet. Vs. Google, Meta, Amazon, etc. - and their surrounding ecosystem of data brokers & such - know perfectly well if you are a human. Ditto the modern surveillance state.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
> A small plot of forested rural land without utility service... True. OTOH, (1) it's both unusual and public record that you own it, (2) it's seriously unsecured, and (3) the locals both know the turf far better than you and
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
When it's an essential service for "everyone", and the economics make healthy competition unworkable, the traditional solutions have been municipal ownership and publicly regulated utilities. Those include Fire Departments,
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
They were doing that long before they offered "AI" search results.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
True. But on a large and very steep hillside - "2/3rd of an acre, but most of it is a 45 degree hill" - it can be extremely difficult to replace the plants holding onto the soil, without experiencing horrible erosion during
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
If you need serious physical security for every little bit of infrastructure, then your society will be able to afford far, far fewer nice things.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
> Why not get rid of... Soil erosion.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
> The US doesn’t understand how to make the housing market functional. I'd say the US understands how to make the housing market functional, but there are more-powerful interests pushing the market in other directions - financializa
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
I'll see your CH3NCO, and raise (CH3)2Hg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury#Safety - considerably more deadlier, and the mercury an element - so no clever chemical reactions can break it down into inn
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
> The skill is in being able to ... Admitting that one of my grandfathers was a blacksmith and the other a farmer, that my own father could have built a house from the ground down (I helped him dig and pour a foundation once) and then up
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
> If you know what you are doing it isn't even difficult to install. How much time does it take to acquire & refresh the skills and code knowledge, and how many water heaters can you amortize that over during your life?
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
> You can save a lot of money in maintenance and repairs by doing your own work whenever possible. True. But even if you have the physical ability, skills, tools, and equipment handy - you can spend a lot of time on maintenance &
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
> [journalist Mehdi] Hasan asked how people could be sure that Ahmed had not accepted any offers to work for the security services, to which the actor joked that it would make a “sick biopic if I was actually a fed”. - There is no way to
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
> ... do they really offer abandoned babies to just anyone...? NO - the 2nd sentence of the article says that the adoptive-father-to-be had "a good job in social care". In the same jurisdiction as the baby was found. So he&#x2
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
And the Atlantic is "just" salty water.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
With only one person needed. And denting can usually be done with an old-fashioned can/bottle-opener, to minimize the chance of cracking the glass jar.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
First reaction - Men whose "young adult" days were well back into the last century also want to open jars. If you're willing to use a tool or two, it's still easily done. Maybe the difference is that I got used to usin
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Harsh Old Geezer Take: - You either ignored your history education, or (more likely) you are yet another victim of the systematic gutting of history education over the past half-ish century. (Which our society's "rich get richer&
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
For those unfamiliar with the Curta - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
A decent welder should be able to turn out a trailer hitch <=> outboard motor bracket in under 15 minutes. It's not like you'll need much more than a modest fishing outboard to get through flooded spots.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
> Examination of pigeon bones from Late Bronze Age Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus indicates they were already semi-domesticated as early as c. 1400 BCE, pushing back direct evidence for pigeon domestication almost 1,000 years and challenging
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
> [...] with the right “persona” prompt, advanced AI can pass as human in live chats. > Without persona prompting, performance dropped sharply. Suggestion: Compare the prompted AI's to human con artists, lobbyists, and sycophant

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