dgoodell

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by dgoodell 2y ago
I think you need to define free will before deciding whether or not it exists. People that argue about it are mostly just using different definitions for it. Actually, the whole thing seems to be just a semantic argument, there's no sc
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by dgoodell 2y ago
Maybe there was just some over-hiring of white-collar positions and this is just the result of a correction?
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by dgoodell 3y ago
Why is it so hard for people to understand that you can’t have productive discussions about things that you haven’t solidly defined?
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by dgoodell 3y ago
It kinda seems like the NTSB doesn't really need Boeing's cooperation. Apparently they can just waltz into a factory where an accident occurred and talk to whoever they want and look at whatever records they want. I wonder why the
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by dgoodell 3y ago
I think nuclear electric propulsion is probably a viable option as well.
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by dgoodell 3y ago
I think you read Boeing engineer's post a bit too quickly, because that's definitely not quite what it said. That said, I worked in commercial aircraft engine component repair for years and everything I read in this is 100% plausi
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by dgoodell 3y ago
I work for NASA. Our budget is like $25B. We’re definitely inefficient and wasteful, but we still do a lot of new things. Just not nearly as much as we could. Microsoft’s operating budget was like $123B last year. There are bugs in office
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by dgoodell 3y ago
They say there are fewer new cars available at $21k today than in 2017. Did they take into account inflation? $21k in Jan 2017 is nearly $26k Jan 2023. There seems to be plenty of new cars that cost that amount.
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by dgoodell 3y ago
Do you really think Spacex required no permission at all for this? It certainly required approval from the FCC & FAA to launch this so I think you could say that US government gave him the right to do this. Then you could ask: "Why
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by dgoodell 3y ago
You are mistaken. There might be a bit of hybridization with some wild boars that were brought over and escaped, but these are feral pigs.
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by dgoodell 3y ago
No it’s not. Native Americans were just the first wave of an invasive species.
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by dgoodell 3y ago
I just looked up a youtube video of the pronunciation in Hindi and g is pronounced basically the same way as I say it in northeast Ohio, which is generally pretty close to standard American english. Then I looked up the ipa standard pronunc
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by dgoodell 3y ago
I don’t thinks this page is ugly at all. What more important to me is that it loads quickly.
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by dgoodell 3y ago
Its real use case is going to be for nuclear power, either fission reactors or radioisotope power systems. Not solar electric. It turns out solar concentrators and reflectors are pretty difficult and fragile. If you have enough sunlight, so
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by dgoodell 3y ago
Yes, it was “Nightfall”.
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by dgoodell 4y ago
I don’t think that’s a commercial product yet, still on the tech development phase. It may not pan out. I asked for some samples a while ago so we could test them out in our magnet lab here at NASA GRC but I haven’t heard anything back yet.
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by dgoodell 4y ago
Having industrial design and a nice webpage complete before there is any hardware at all seems like a major red flag to me. Who is actually going to manufacture this?
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by dgoodell 4y ago
I work at NASA GRC and I couldn’t even imagine that happening here. That’s crazy.
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by dgoodell 4y ago
I work at NASA. We had a big review meeting for a space brayton (turbine engine) concept. One manager-level engineer absolutely thought that the spinning rotor would apply a constant torque to the spacecraft that would have to be constantly
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by dgoodell 4y ago
I work as an engineer at NASA in Cleveland, Ohio. We went from 100% in person work to completely remote work for a year and half due to the pandemic, and now the work environment is mainly in-person but remote work is much more common. I of
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by dgoodell 4y ago
I think it started in Euclid Ohio and went to the Supreme Court.
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by dgoodell 4y ago
I think the 80286 could support a max of 16mb of ram. I doubt many computers built from them had anywhere near that much ram.
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by dgoodell 4y ago
Peak horsepower is not that relevant to the sorts of applications that horses were performing that they proposed to use engines for. In that case they wanted sustained power, and a horse can only produce about 1 horsepower sustained.
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by dgoodell 4y ago
NASA is lagging because of personnel? If by “personnel” includes incredibly, weak leadership, then I agree. NASA leadership seems to think NASA’s job is primarily to set requirements and distribute funds to contractors and to avoid managing
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by dgoodell 4y ago
It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that people with skills that would permit them to work in mines, work in mines.
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by dgoodell 4y ago
What I don’t understand is WHY these more automated systems cost so much. And it’s not like there isn’t competition, we have both Lyft and Uber overlapping in many places and people can chose between them. I’d really like to see a chart or
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by dgoodell 4y ago
What is the correct amount of freedom to build? Do we have too much or too little? How do you know if we have the right amount of freedom?
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by dgoodell 4y ago
You’re proposing that we should be using nuclear propulsion to get mass from earth’s surface to earth orbit? The only proposed method of doing this that I’m aware of is nuclear pulse propulsion like project Orion. I think there are a few pr
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by dgoodell 4y ago
Written info is useless without the right sort of culture where the necessary experimentation and problem solving can occur to work out those undocumented details. That is all that matters. However, that is also true today and the effects a
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by dgoodell 4y ago
The argument that if you can suspend your disbelief for dragons and magic you can suspect your disbelief for a diverse cast is a dumb argument because you could use it for basically anything. Most fantasy shows that are in English use Briti

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