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by d_silin 3y ago
Jury-rigging one of the A380s would be cheaper and faster, in my opinion. Also there is an unfinished An-225 somewhere in Ukraine, so that is another option.
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by d_silin 3y ago
Would be interesting to see what comes of it. As you progress along the following chain: genomics-->proteomics->interactomics->metabolomics, our understanding becomes blurrier and challenges harder.
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by d_silin 3y ago
I'd take you mean a M3 MacBook Pro laptop, because M3 Mac Pro is not available yet... which year are you from, exactly? So, assuming I am scientist from 1961 that just have given clearance by CIA to examine an unusual object that looks
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by d_silin 3y ago
I flew transatlantic in 2024 on a brand new A350 and it still had an ashtray in the bathroom door. I think it is going to be a while until they remove those.
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by d_silin 3y ago
Almost any combination of reagents can work as primary cell - even a literal potato! But designing a secondary (rechargeable) cell is a different story... Every promising chemistry has been investigated for many decades and yet the successe
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by d_silin 3y ago
Even if it does 100% work as advertised, the amount of details to follow in the protocol is insane. Half of the things there are probably placebo, the other half can be condensed into the less complicated solution.
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by d_silin 3y ago
With the exception of computers, most of the engineering and materials of 1969 and 2024 are remarkably similar.
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by d_silin 3y ago
You can approximate low-precision digital operations with analog at better energy efficiency. https://mythic.ai/ is trying.
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by d_silin 3y ago
I wonder what it will look after 10-20M years of lithification...
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by d_silin 3y ago
Seems every generation have a new thing to fear. Eventually it subsides into background, the heralds of doom then move on to next big thing, and the real dangers are quietly and thanklessly mitigated by more competent people. We had this pa
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by d_silin 3y ago
Good question! I use Skyfield library for my project, it does require downloading NASA ephemeris, but it is only <200MB, unless you want a very long time period and you need to do it once every few years. (DE430 got published in 2014 and
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WebNOVA – Space App Hackathon(dorahacks.io)
2 points by d_silin 3y ago|0 comments
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by d_silin 3y ago
Ask them what are they going to do if their workforce decides to unionize. Tell them that their response is going to be publicized beforehand.
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by d_silin 3y ago
You won't be able to ship 300+ people across Atlantic any time soon on a EV glider. So, a realistic take is using biofuels instead of kerosene for aicraft engines.
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by d_silin 3y ago
Absolutely. Never understood why people are so infatuated with "cloud" options. Yes, it is convinient, but you are absolutely paying at least order of magnitude more for the same amount of compute/storage.
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by d_silin 3y ago
Shows how much bang for buck you can get when hosting your own hardware.
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by d_silin 3y ago
Pity the article didn't mention SVT, Soviet mass-produced battle rifle and close equivalent of Garand. Arguably more modern design, similar to M14 in features (adjustable gas regulator and detachable magazine).
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by d_silin 3y ago
reminds me of fusion energy promises, or at least "the bottomless money pit". The science is solid, but the engineering challenges delayed even proof-of-concept experiment literally until next century.
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by d_silin 3y ago
I was on the island of Malta, and under certain lighting condition the blue color in sea disappears and it becomes almost purple, very dark too. Not an exact impression, but a tentative hue that made me recall "wine-dark" phrase.
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by d_silin 4y ago
Yes. But still totally a chatGPT creation.
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Ai.js – ChatGPT designed JavaScript front-end framework(github.com)
2 points by d_silin 4y ago|2 comments
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by d_silin 4y ago
TL;DR: Traditional HPC architecture is already good enough for large-scale ML tasks, but using the more cost-effective, commodity cloud datacenter architecture with some tweaks in virtualization to improve performance we got the solution th
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by d_silin 4y ago
Above statements are proving my point. Despite its many flaws human civilization is stronger than ever and is on the verge of expanding beyond the home planet.
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by d_silin 4y ago
Yet humans endure.
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by d_silin 4y ago
Blended-wing body makes a lot of sense for cargo/tanker aircraft. No issues with emergency evacuation procedure for passengers.
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by d_silin 4y ago
That "doom and gloom" attitude is unwarranted, though. There is enough room and resources on Earth for every single person to be housed, fed and entertained for the foreeseable future. And when that would not be enough, Solar Syst
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by d_silin 4y ago
You can run ML algorithms on imagery in space, and do a bit more than just downlink sensor data. There is already one satellite that works as such an experimental platform: https://www.groundstation.space/esa-funds-12-new-ex
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by d_silin 4y ago
Needs to be conductive and strong enough. Aluminium works just fine for that.
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by d_silin 4y ago
Yes? We are trying to do exactly that, but haven't raised enough money yet.
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How C Programming Language Has Grown(opensource.com)
7 points by d_silin 4y ago|0 comments

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