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by dotnet00 2y ago
Well, most prominently, thousands of Starlink satellites.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Yep, the outer ring is non-relightable and rely on the launch ring to light them. That said, part of the benefit of having so many engines is that you can tolerate a couple of failures. Similarly to how F9 is able to make orbit with an engi
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by dotnet00 2y ago
That was breathtaking! Now just hoping we get even more spectacular views of Starship's reentry plasma than last time. Everything about this vehicle screams "sci-fi future". DAAAAMN looks like Starship made it! This truly fit
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by dotnet00 2y ago
When a gwave passes through, since the space contracts or expands, you get changes in density, since bone and soft tissue are different densities, there should still be a pressure differential that can be heard.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
>But we could do it. To what end? Why do anything at all? Who are you to dictate to others what their options are?
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It's a very distant dream that will always remain distant if we don't work on it. We have a lot of things to test before we get to testing the gravitational requirements of human reproduction. As it stands, we don't even know
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by dotnet00 2y ago
You'd be moving other polluting industries off-Earth, thus offsetting the footprint of things that cannot be done without said footprint.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
You could go without an LES if you can convince NASA that you have sufficient contingencies to not need it (and, of course, you can do almost anything you want on a private flight). SpaceX has been entertaining the idea of not using an esca
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by dotnet00 2y ago
If NASA had that many failures while working on a program explicitly not intended to experience failures and it wasn't being run by Boing, Lockmart or any other defense contractor that has Congress in its pockets, yeah, they'd be
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by dotnet00 2y ago
IIRC one of the big ones is that of how the crew is supposed to board the vehicle. Cargo Dreamchaser is launched in a fairing so that its aerodynamics don't matter on the way up. This is fine because the cargo can be loaded prior to pa
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I wonder how that's supposed to work with their unique captive fairing design. Feels like they'd have to design crew flight specific boosters which don't have the fairings.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It isn't compatible with Falcon, it can be made to be compatible with Falcon in the future. It wouldn't really be worth doing though, since part of the point of having two providers is dissimilar redundancy, so that any issues wit
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by dotnet00 2y ago
IIRC it took SpaceX ~7 years. It's kind of useful perspective that when the contracts for this were being awarded, Boeing argued that SpaceX shouldn't get the contract at all because Boeing, having "human spaceflight heritage
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It's 'compatible' in that they can do the work to integrate it with another rocket if needed, which isn't really saying much because most payloads are like that. It isn't compatible with Falcon 9 in its current stat
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Tradeoffs on the kind of refurbishment needed compared to a splashdown, since Starliner is supposed to be reusable. Plus stuff like faster extraction of time-sensitive payloads and overall cheaper capsule processing operations since you don
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It is worth noting that Dragon does have physical controls, they're just backups hidden under the panel below the screens for emergencies. This is on top of the redundancy offered by the screens, where if one screen fails, the same con
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It's been delayed so many times after getting very close to launch that it makes sense that everyone just lost interest. On top of that Boeing's launch coverage is nowhere near as fancy as SpaceX (or new space in general, RocketLa
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by dotnet00 2y ago
To be fair, thinking that would be completely fair for an English speaker being exposed to spoken Japanese, with how much more common homophones are in it compared to English.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Maybe I'm miscommunicating, I know that the question about whether or not humans are intelligent is rhetorical. What I'm trying to say is that "humans make mistakes and are obviously intelligent, so a probabilistic syllable g
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I did, I said they aren't human-like intelligences, so countering with "humans make mistakes, are humans not intelligent?" is drawing a false equivalence between humans and LLMs. Since we do not possess a definition of intell
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by dotnet00 2y ago
If you're driving you don't need to know how to fix a car, but relying on GPT to write for you to the extent of accepting its generated citations without checking them, is the equivalent of running around looking for blinker fluid
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I think a popular example of leakage would be that of a tank recognition AI that perfectly handles training/testing data but fails in real use, because all the tanks of one country happen to have a tree in the background, while those o
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Pre-LLM madness, most decent scientists were capable of judging the reliability of a source, at least to an extent. Eg if the source is a paper in a decent journal, it probably has at least some substance to it and the basic facts are proba
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Like clockwork, out come the "but humans" deflections. An LLM is not a human-like intelligence. This is patently obvious, such comparisons are nonsensical and just further the problem of people anthropomorphizing a tool and treati
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I'm mainly going off of the story of how IIRC a couple of years ago, PH was forced to wipe most of their site due to left-wing activists pressuring payment processors into threatening to block PH's basic means of doing business if
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I like this, they never had rules explicitly against NSFW, but tech companies love their unstated rules and boundaries and it's nice to have somewhat of a reversal on that, as small as it is. YouTube, Twitch etc all have such vague sta
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by dotnet00 2y ago
IIRC Discord gets around this by having a setting that needs to be enabled from another device/browser to be able to access NSFW servers on iOS. I think Pixiv (maybe Reddit too?) has something similar. So I'm going to guess the wo
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Dedicated sites have the issue of being targeted from all sides, right wing hates them for porn, left wing hates them for not being able to filter out exploitation, revenge porn etc and then they also have to fight payment processors who, f
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by dotnet00 2y ago
These aren't laptop parts though. Maybe they'll do integrated memory for laptops, since many solder that on anyway nowadays. But, for the desktop parts I don't see that being worthwhile unless it's used as something like
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The TDP increases slower than the efficiency, so for the same workload, a newer CPU consumes similar or less power. Especially nowadays, most of these chips only get anywhere near the stated TDP when being near fully maxed out.

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