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by dmurray 1y ago
You get your foot stuck in and then the tide comes in and you drown . Most quicksand I'm aware of is in tidal flats [0] [1] and it really is dangerous to take a short cut over them. Come to think of it, most normal sand I encounter is
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by dmurray 1y ago
I can imagine some shapes like this in theory, I just think we can rule them out in practice. For the hole example, we know there aren't any holes 500 km deep. For the pyramids, we know the line of sight is very close to flat (it'
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by dmurray 1y ago
> As there's a chance that the longest line isn't from a peak or plateau? Is there such a chance? I'm struggling to think what this could look like. If the furthest point you can see is in a bowl or a valley, why can'
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by dmurray 1y ago
No, it's signed two contracts already according to the link. I'm sure the contracts are more complicated than "this amount of money for this job" but the price, at least, is not hypothetical.
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by dmurray 1y ago
And to answer the cost question, Astroscale is charging $8-100 million [0] per LEO junk removal mission (small numbers for small failed comms sats, big numbers for a spent upper stage). The objects in the article are all at the bigger end.
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by dmurray 1y ago
> Are they in the same orbit as the satellites? If so, China is effectively mining their own constellations This is LEO, so it's everyone's orbits. And in any case the big worry about space junk is not so much that it takes out
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by dmurray 1y ago
They blow them into piles on their own property or collect them in bags and send them to compost. Not everyone , sure, but this isn't an issue of rakes Vs leaf-blowers and it isn't the problem with two-stroke leaf blowers. If any
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by dmurray 1y ago
Well, let's say he's clearly not taking Arko's side but he's reserving judgment on whether Ruby Central did a reasonable thing or whether it's "a plague on both your houses".
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by dmurray 1y ago
He's explaining why he's not taking André Arko's side, which one can infer he's been asked to do. No one is expecting him to speak out in favour of Ruby Central's side, and he several times mentions how poorly they&
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by dmurray 1y ago
You could read it both ways. I would say tactical opportunities flow from a better position. If you're a good enough player that exploiting your tactical opportunities is automatic - and this doesn't apply even to most grandmast
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by dmurray 1y ago
What was so special about Oregon, anyway, that it was worth a deadly trek across the country to go there? Wasn't it just that it wasn't yet settled, so you could settle there and claim some land? That implies that Indiana or anywh
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by dmurray 1y ago
That was the original intent of mypy, to allow a subset of Python to be interpreted by a JIT or transpiled to a compiled, statically typed language. The type hints proved to be useful on their own so the project moved past what was useful f
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by dmurray 1y ago
The 50 move rule is still there: either player has the right to claim a draw after 50 moves without a pawn move or a capture. So the game can end then if either player wishes it to (and it almost always will end, because at least one player
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by dmurray 1y ago
I believe 8848.5 under modern rules (with the 75-move rule, as in FIDE rules since 2014). There's a reasonably rigorous demonstration here: https://wismuth.com/chess/longest-game.html
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by dmurray 1y ago
Some people might be surprised that MS would pick the product with the best technological fit rather than the one they already have a deep business and financial relationship with. Surely Microsoft's expertise these days is in cross-se
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by dmurray 1y ago
Fire them from where? Their undergraduate studies at IIT Hyderabad? Daniel doesn't have the authority to do that.
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by dmurray 1y ago
I've been to Pontevedra and actually I thought it was something of a public transport hub! I was there because I was changing buses. Looking at Google Maps, there's a bus (XG628007) every 20 minutes from Marin to Pontevedra that t
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by dmurray 1y ago
I think they mean the job assignments were real, and what they're "simulating" is a randomised controlled experiment where they tell the Air Force who to assign to which position. The wording is confusing, but the methodology
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by dmurray 1y ago
No, steels have 4-6x higher tensile strength (and better performance in other related properties) than raw iron. [0] They're not just preferred over iron for their corrosion resistance. And note that even what we call "cast iron&q
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by dmurray 1y ago
Yes, but think defense in depth. Your team member who leaves for a competitor could tell them your peak usage hours, but he shouldn't be able to tell them all your customers' passwords.
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by dmurray 1y ago
The numbers just don't seem big enough. Repair costs of $62,000 over two years in LA and Ventura counties - an area with 10 million people. The savings from 100% enforcement at the scrapyard level would pay for what, one full time empl
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by dmurray 1y ago
How about a seventh: in solidarity with people who are facing censorship or oppression. Like, if only dissidents and malcontents use a VPN (or TOR or HTTPS or E2E encrypted messaging apps) then if you want to reduce dissent, you can just ro
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by dmurray 1y ago
No! Enshittification has a precise meaning, about how people will make things worse over time after making them good . Mostly people make things better over time. My bed, my shower, my car are all better than I could reasonably have bought
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by dmurray 1y ago
I also like "the Holy land" as a less political name for that region. It's out of fashion and perhaps identified with Christianity, and some people think I'm being tongue-in-cheek or gently trolling by using it. But IMO
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by dmurray 1y ago
I don't think this last conclusion is true. It's really about harmful bacteria, not "toxins". Even vegetarians have a complex digestive system that can harbour pathogens. Perhaps their faeces are safer to use as manure t
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by dmurray 1y ago
Once an invasion is happening, a majority of the population will be in favour of it. It was true when Nixon first spoke of a silent majority. It was true when the US elected leader after leader on a platform of prolonging or escalating wars
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by dmurray 1y ago
In that case, why wouldn't they "just" fork Linux? Or 10-years-ago-Linux? The technical justification for Meta writing their own OS is that they'd get to make design decisions that suited them at a very deep level, not t
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by dmurray 1y ago
It's my science fiction story, so I'm going to say the tree we engineered for this was the sugar maple: you can put a tap in it and collect highly pure diesel fuel with a pre-Columbian level of technology.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Solar panels have a manufacturing cost, though, while you could imagine a renewable plantation of diesel trees that needs no raw ingredients other than a handful of seeds. It could even be self-seeding, though there are some good reasons we
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by dmurray 1y ago
Why? They'd "find" the one specific person, and then report the job was filled by that person, as an internal hire if that was the case.

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