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by daeken 12y ago
It's refueled in-situ and launched back up with a minimal payload weight. Getting off the surface of Mars back into an orbit with a low weight (basically crew + life support + minimal payload) is pretty straightforward, considering th
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by daeken 12y ago
As far as I'm aware, there's no plan for rocket refueling on Mars. That makes sense, considering that the stages we normally think of as the 'rocket' will be gone long before our pods get to Mars. We will refuel the pod
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by daeken 12y ago
> They need to be able to stabilize the rocket's landing in all sorts of conditions if they want to have any hope of landing it on another planet. Well, not really. Dragons (and Red Dragons, for interplanetary travel) are way, way
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by daeken 12y ago
Falcon Heavy boosters will be able to boost back and land at the pad. Falcon Heavy cores will be too far down range, and will have to land on a barge pretty significantly out to sea.
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by daeken 12y ago
It's not realistic, because you will never consider every possible attack scenario. You may have considered timing attacks, but if you don't consider the way that the processor uses power when running through your algorithm, you
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by daeken 12y ago
That's actually the point, though. People that do this for a living will agree with me on this. They don't have the knowledge individually to make secure crypto. Secure crypto comes from lots of smart people and a lot of battle
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by daeken 12y ago
> People start with the assumption that what you are saying is wrong (this is a good thing). But then many don't have the competence to judge what you are saying (no problem. we all are ignorant in many subjects). And then, they rea
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by daeken 12y ago
Latest Chrome on OS X, I'm getting Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'drawBuffersWEBGL' of null at bundle.js:8816 . Let me know if you want me to try anything, or want further information.
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by daeken 12y ago
> Microsoft isn't as good at collecting and reselling all of your personal information, so have to charge the actual cost of the hardware. Google does not sell your personal information in any way. They use it for their own adverti
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by daeken 12y ago
The discoveries we make today aren't because we're smarter, but rather that we have significantly more knowledge to work from.
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by daeken 12y ago
I wonder what kind of scale you would need to make this work? I'd be curious to see numbers on it, and whether or not it's feasible; definitely a great option if so!
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by daeken 12y ago
It's significantly less direct because Roundup has no effect on the Monarch butterflies. The issue is the way it's being used by farmers. If it were not being used to eliminate milkweed, there would be no effect whatsoever on th
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by daeken 12y ago
> The rise of "Roundup Ready" crops is helping to eradicate the monarch butterfly. This is true, but it's significantly less direct than the news stories have indicated. The issue is that Roundup is being used to eliminat
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by daeken 12y ago
While I agree that alcoholism is sad, this is a non sequitur. Unless you have knowledge about the founder of this service that isn't posted on the site, neither of us know that he is or is not an alcoholic. Plenty of people get drunk
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by daeken 12y ago
It's funny to see this pop up now. I'm writing a demo (one shader for two triangles) that does 2d distance field rendering, and I'm using quadratic bezier curves for a large part of it. Rather than an optimized form, I&#x27
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by daeken 12y ago
I've flagged this comment for two reasons: Your tone is unnecessarily hostile, and you haven't provided any additional information. This is pure flamewar material (and may actually mark the first time I've seen a flamewar ab
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by daeken 12y ago
XPM is only for resolution-specific rasters. His technique allows for bezier paths, arbitrary fills, etc and is resolution-independent. It's pretty clever, IMO.
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by daeken 12y ago
Um... what? How does this in any way relate to 50 Shades, except for the word 'shade' being contained in 'shaders'? There doesn't even appear to be a reference to it in any of the text. Put down the pitchforks.
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by daeken 12y ago
Wow, this is really clever. I've been thinking a lot about panoramic rendering -- that is, rendering panorama shots directly in a raytracer/raymarcher -- and I may take this technique more or less directly. When rendering with a
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by daeken 12y ago
Tom Wheeler was a cable lobbyist when cable TV was unheard of -- 1976-1984. He fought for the underdogs there, whether or not you like where cable has gone. It's much the same with his record in cell lobbying, though he was there for
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by daeken 12y ago
> I'll note too that I'm a bit skeptical of the $3000 / month charge for micro apartments; even in Williamsburg, new, conventional one-bedroom apartments were $3200 – $3,5000 / month last summer. Yeah, that seems unli
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by daeken 12y ago
I lived in an apartment in Manhattan that was somewhere around 180-200sqft (it was originally larger, but the owner of the apartment decided to make a very large closet between the kitchen and 'living room', for whatever reason).
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by daeken 12y ago
> where's the investigation into Al Gore becoming a billionaire from this issue? Reports put him at between $200-300M. Pretty far cry from billionaire. > Al Gore has been debunked on numerous occasions; weren't the ice caps
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by daeken 12y ago
The reason it saw that was that 1) your post was inflammatory, and 2) it was completely content-free. The very same reason I downvoted this. Yelling "shill!" does nothing but decrease the site's SNR. It's not helpful i
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by daeken 12y ago
Block-level encryption is a terrible, terrible approach for many reasons (which 'tptacek has referenced a million times). However, Truecrypt is the best such implementation, and it's a required approach in certain cases. You sho
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by daeken 12y ago
While I do tend to agree with you, this is a content-free comment; it has no purpose but to mock the parent commenter. When commenting, please keep things civil and constructive.
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by daeken 12y ago
We can't see in infrared, but there's clearly information there. Same with infra/ultrasound and other sounds that are buried in our hearing. It may not be pertinent information in the case of music, but it's definitely
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by daeken 12y ago
I regularly print tighter tolerances with an FDM printer (modified Makerbot Replicator 2). D-sub connectors just aren't that tight; if you were printing the pins themselves, it'd be different, but the plastic side of things is no
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by daeken 12y ago
I'd strongly recommend looking into 3d printing these. You could pretty easily 3d print a plastic version of the connector itself (and shell, if male), then add aluminum tape to the inside if you need EMF protection. Then you just po
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by daeken 12y ago
I don't know the story, but the logic behind it is simple: If you want to guarantee no one depends on GetHashCode staying static between runs of an application, change it all the time.

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