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by db48x 2y ago
Agreed. Another good solution would be for some other mouse company to copy the shape of the MX Master but make a purely wired version, or build it with standard batteries. Or they could come up with a shape that is similar but fits my own
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by db48x 2y ago
I rather like the MX Master to, but I wish that they made a wired mouse in the same shape. After a few years the battery capacity has dropped and I feel like I am charging it every other night.
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by db48x 2y ago
> just like there's no such thing as a safe level of radiation. This is absolutely untrue. Living organisms _must_ deal with damaged DNA all the time or they wouldn’t be able to live for very long. There are many ways our environmen
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by db48x 2y ago
You’re right. The book I most recently read on the subject talked about them disassembling the rail down the hillside that the glider used and then later putting it up on flat ground. I don’t know how I missed that part, especially since th
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by db48x 2y ago
Very cool. It’s difficult to praise rr too much, and it just keeps getting better. If you’re not using it, you’re missing out on a superpower.
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by db48x 2y ago
You found a 1× engineer; the worst engineer that can keep the job.
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by db48x 2y ago
Why assume that death has to be involved? That’s just a strawman argument. Accreditation is an incredibly low bar; all it tells you is that the institution has the right number and type of courses. All a degree tells you is that the student
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by db48x 2y ago
Yes. The primary purpose of occupational licensing is to reduce the number of people who can participate in the occupation. Test doctors and judges and hair stylists alike based on whether they can do the job, not whether they have a piece
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by db48x 2y ago
That’s a fair opinion, but 28 out of 50 states voted otherwise. If you want to change that then talk to your state’s congresscritters. Just remember that there are plenty of terrible lawyers out there who did pass the bar, and plenty of ter
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by db48x 2y ago
A lot of court functions don’t involve lawyers at all. Small Claims courts, traffic courts, etc, etc. States that allow judges without a law degree are using them in these courts.
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by db48x 2y ago
Remember that a degree is only a credential, and people without the credential can still be good at their job. What you need to be a judge is knowledge, not a credential.
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by db48x 2y ago
I dunno. I think the main thing is that LLMs just don't have any ability to reason, at all. An AI that can reason might one day use an LLM to put its thoughts into words, but asking the LLM to write code for a program that it’s never s
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by db48x 2y ago
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20416695241312316
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by db48x 2y ago
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20416695241312316
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by db48x 2y ago
The ones who didn’t try knew that they couldn’t do it. We do have enough data to conclude that money alone is not enough.
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by db48x 2y ago
> If you're really serious about developing a new capability and place a few fully independent investment bets and some pay off handsomely while others are a bust, I wouldn't call it a waste because if you just couldn't kn
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by db48x 2y ago
It took another accident before anyone took the danger seriously enough to ground the Shuttle.
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by db48x 2y ago
No. Go watch a Falcon 9 booster recovery < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-_90o1KLkM > on Youtube; you’ll see that when it starts its landing burn it is ~5 miles up and flying engines first towards the ground at ~1300
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by db48x 2y ago
Close. The 1901 glider used a rail and took off down hill. Their Flyer used skids and could take off from level ground even on sand.
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by db48x 2y ago
Well, only if you ignore Apollo 1. Overall Apollo was incredibly successful, but not 100%.
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by db48x 2y ago
Yea, there are hundreds or even thousands of billionaires. Only one of them has developed a successful orbital launch company. That’s not exactly a high base rate.
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by db48x 2y ago
Technically NASA contracted with SpaceX (and several other companies as well, such as Boeing) to develop crew–rated versions of their rockets. That was explicitly a development contract where NASA paid a couple of billion up front to entice
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by db48x 2y ago
We certainly do know that while the Apollo program was still in progress NASA was developing the nuclear rockets that would make Mars missions feasible. Think weeks of travel time instead of months, and much larger payload fractions. If you
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by db48x 2y ago
An orbital craft is moving at hypersonic speeds, which is a especially tricky when going backwards. Things moving through fluids tend to want to flip over so that the part with the highest drag is at the rear, so that drag is minimized. Mea
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Vibe Coding in Common Lisp(funcall.blogspot.com)
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by db48x 2y ago
And they only used a wooden rail the first year at Kitty Hawk, when they only had a glider. They had decided to tackle the problem of control first and propulsion later. The glider took off by sliding downhill on a rail, while the Flyer the
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by db48x 2y ago
Sure, there’s a good argument that we should limit self–driving cars to predictable environments. For example, we could dig a bunch of tunnels under our cities and have self–driving cars in them. It’s a controlled environment. If the tunnel
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by db48x 2y ago
Yea, I did say that. There’s no reason for the average person to expect their car’s autopilot to do that. Autopilots follow routes.
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by db48x 2y ago
I was a little bit imprecise. Because the article was talking about a stationary obstacle, literally a wall, I was still talking about stationary objects when I said that airplanes don't avoid obstacles. The autopilot of an airplane wi
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by db48x 2y ago
Why do you say that? The autopilot of an airplane doesn’t dodge obstacles either.

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