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by db48x 2mo ago
Yes. Newspaper writers are frequently stupid.
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by db48x 2mo ago
I don’t think Canada has an opinion. It’s a country, not a person. And the many and varied opinions of the Canadian people don’t seem to matter very much either, since the Canadian provincial governments impose tarrifs on imports from the o
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Moon→Leo Transfer Sims for a Lunar Mass Driver, Terrain Analysis, Power Sizing(youtube.com)
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by db48x 2mo ago
You cannot patent a skateboard trick. Only novel arrangements of matter can be patented (plus software for bad reasons).
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by db48x 2mo ago
If you’d like to go tell Bill Clinton that the bill he championed and signed into law in 1991 is racist then be my guest. That was the last time our immigration laws were amended. The immigration model we use in the US is that immigrants mu
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by db48x 2mo ago
They are both groups with a high likelihood of skipping town instead of showing up for sentencing. And most of them were never refugees. They were economic migrants who were already in the country illegally when Haiti had an earthquake.
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by db48x 2mo ago
It’s not a tangent. It’s the simple truth. American criminals often wear ankle bracelets as a condition of their release from prison, and that’s not racist. But suddenly because we require it of illegal immigrants, it is racist? Nonsense. I
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by db48x 2mo ago
Millions of American criminals are required to wear an ankle monitor as a condition of bail or parole. These people had 15 or more years to handle their court cases or become legal citizens. There is nothing racist about it.
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by db48x 2mo ago
Not that slow; maybe you just need practice. Alternatively just bind it to whatever key you prefer by editing your `~/.inputrc`. Add a line like this to it: "\C-e": edit-and-execute-command and you will only have to
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by db48x 2mo ago
Only because you’re typing it incorrectly. Use both hands. One presses the modifier, the other types the letter. That's why you have modifiers on both sides! C-x means to use your right hand to hold down control, while using your left
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by db48x 2mo ago
I remember playing atc on a Unix machine which had dial–in access back in the BBS days.
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by db48x 2mo ago
Good job moving the goalposts :) I didn't say that the math would work out, only that you cannot use cooling or capacity as arguments against the idea. That said, I will note that you calculated the launch costs using the Falcon Heavy,
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by db48x 2mo ago
Yes, returning the money is a consequence of terminating the lease. That’s precisely what I said!
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by db48x 2mo ago
Yes, I am quite certain that the contract was quite explicit about the terms of cancellation. That’s certainly relevant, but we still had the opportunity to refuse to return the money even though it would certainly have ended up in a lawsui
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by db48x 2mo ago
No, it's merely a separate decision. Given that they have decided to cancel the lease, for good reasons or bad, the question then is what they do with the lease payments. I am pretty sure that you would not be happy if your landlord wa
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by db48x 2mo ago
That’s a separate issue, and irrelevant to the issue of cancelling the lease early.
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by db48x 2mo ago
It is super easy to overestimate the cooling problem, and to underestimate existing satellites. A Starlink v3 satellite that SpaceX already launches in large numbers has solar panels that produce 20kW of electricity, 20kW of compute and rad
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by db48x 2mo ago
It’s practically zero, in fact.
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by db48x 2mo ago
This is a really good read. It clearly presents all of the overlapping problems, from the poor safety culture of the air traffic controllers to the pernicious meddling of Congress.
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by db48x 2mo ago
They can define new syntax and special forms.
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by db48x 2mo ago
You’ve misunderstood. Nobody here has said that we shouldn’t try to improve the success rate, only that improving the success rate will make people try harder problems which worsens the success rate. If this is true, it just means that any
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by db48x 3mo ago
These are examples of ambitious drugs that wouldn’t have been attempted even a few decades earlier. But technology improved and the money was there so they tried anyway, and found success. But for any 3 successes there are still 27 failures
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by db48x 3mo ago
That’s changing, maybe eventually even on real systems: https://blog.toast.cafe/posix2024-xcu#the-nuclear-option
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by db48x 3mo ago
Neat, I didn’t know that! Even cooler that they’ve started to change all the core utilities to error out instead of creating a file with a newline character in it.
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by db48x 3mo ago
> Or maybe you pipe into xargs and pray your filenames don’t have spaces… Always use -0. Most gnu utilities support it. It makes them put a null byte after every filename instead of a newline. Completely eliminates the problem of dealing
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by db48x 3mo ago
I was trying to go to sleep when I got mine. It was certainly above the $16 threshold I had set!
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by db48x 3mo ago
Correct, they had so very few capital improvements back then. They leveraged the ones they had quite well, but they were just dirt poor. You yourself have luxuries that even the most fabulously wealthy Senator or Emperor would envy.
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by db48x 3mo ago
If you were smart about it then you wouldn’t go up in the mountains in the first place. To get the lowest possible latency you want a straight shot, so obviously you should just bore your way through at the level of the plains on either sid
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by db48x 3mo ago
> Using changes in death rates to gauge the actual number of "lives saved" from preventable illness is going to be fraught with confounding factors. I agree but I was going for an upper bound not an exact figure. This is just a
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by db48x 3mo ago
You shouldn’t have secrets in your environment.

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