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by dotnet00 2y ago
Am I missing something? What does Minecraft have to do with half-baked products? It seems like they went with an approach of having a free alpa/beta release until they had a release ready game, then have spent a decade adding more cont
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by dotnet00 2y ago
A lot of leaders of smaller countries don't bother with most of the VIP treatment we see from the big ones. If the country is relatively at internal and external peace there isn't all that much danger to their safety.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I think it just doesn't really click for people most of the time. Eg for my mom no amount of showing science pics and explaining the scale of the distances conveyed things, it only really clicked when Jupiter became visible in the nigh
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by dotnet00 2y ago
That excuse can be used for all violations of regulations, and thus quickly becomes somewhat unreasonable. Particularly since the question being asked is the theoretical of if the prices would not increase by the same percent if the fine wa
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by dotnet00 2y ago
For the gravitational wave background, maybe with LISA we might be able to get a glimpse, but the neutrino background seems like it'd take some truly unprecedented breakthroughs in our ability to detect neutrinos to have any chance of
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Those are much more convincing about their seriousness, thanks!
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The observable universe has a size, the cosmic microwave background is what we 'see' at the 'edge' in terms of photons (~400k years after the big bang). We could see further if we could map out the gravitational wave o
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Yes I am aware of it, but Russia has been talking about doing big stuff for decades now with mainly a rapidly decaying space industry to show for it, and none of the other partners are exactly notable space industry participants either. So
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by dotnet00 2y ago
While it's inevitable that if China continues on its current trajectory, it'll eventually become the second nation to put people on the Moon on the back of its own tech, it still doesn't feel like their efforts are as heavily
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by dotnet00 2y ago
My impression as a not particularly nationalistic Indian is that most Indians also see India as a third world country that's kinda backwards and is trying to catch up, the problem is that they also get overly defensive when someone els
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Agreed, this has been one of the habits I've had to break during my computer engineering PhD at a scientific research lab. Initially I was just submitting the first solution I came up with without much additional thought. My senior dev
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by dotnet00 2y ago
That sounds like a bad idea, considering that children and tourists are very likely to not have a credit card (or at least not necessarily a compatible one).
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by dotnet00 2y ago
In this case there does not appear to be any public evidence that they did much testing in below freezing temperatures. This isn't to say that they couldn't do the testing, just that they didn't do it because the mission para
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Probably environmental data, mainly temperature, and of course, they get to see how it progressively fails. They're starting to see some temperature sensor and battery issues for instance.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Of course you can do all sorts of things to make the electronics able to survive, but ultimately that supposedly just wasn't part of the initial design requirements they settled on.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
With voting to elect a representative, the point is to choose whoever you feel best represents your interests. A conflict of interest does not matter because the self interest is kind of the point. With voting on passing legislation, the po
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I setup an LED strip with an ESP8266 and ESPHome for my 3d printer enclosure. I recently took it apart and integrated it into my 3d printer itself, but planning to set it up again to light my figure collection instead. I also built a set of
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I'm not objecting to it, my initial post was trying to emphasize the closeness of technologies capable of reaching the nearest stars, lasers are an option, but imo nuclear propulsion is "closer" in terms of time taken to achi
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Beamed propulsion is a farther out technology, requiring development of more powerful lasers capable of pushing a crewed vehicle in reasonable amounts of time and has the issue that it is difficult to slow down at the destination. Nuclear r
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The technologies within our reach which would be very helpful with building massive space stations are such that they would very much allow for getting to the nearest star within a human lifetime. The only reason we don't actually reac
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I think there's a nice in-between where the problems are both generally useful and also actually do test some concept relatively directly. Kind of like what FizzBuzz can be like for testing for basic pseudocode programming. Where someo
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I don't really bother to keep them memorized 'uncompressed', I remember a jumble of them that stuck for one reason or another (eg 7x7=49 just sort of makes me feel 'satisfied' somehow) and just have built up an inst
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Memorization has its place, such as with medicine or language learning. But the issue most people are referring to when deriding memorization is about memorization that is done for the sake of busy work alone. In school I was tested on memo
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by dotnet00 3y ago
Reminder that Congress is forcing NASA to kill this perfectly good and well functioning X-ray telescope by continuing to provide less funding than is needed for everything other than the SLS jobs program.
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by dotnet00 3y ago
Considering that they're still iterating on and launching satellites, it doesn't really matter that they'll only last 5 years. It isn't like they're launching the constellation and then sitting on it waiting for the
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by dotnet00 3y ago
Yep, it's pretty ironic, the only difference between the two (in terms of showing their age) is that Trump is more energetic (animated?), but energy doesn't translate to coherence.
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by dotnet00 3y ago
Customer pays for say, 1Gbps bidirectional. ISP has a total capacity of 1Tbps. They find that the average usage rate from users is 100Mbps bidirectional, so they sign on 10x as many users as they could truly offer a full 1Gbps to, taking a
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by dotnet00 3y ago
In right wing circles Biden is often perceived as a puppet for 'elites', too old and senile to make his own decisions. Every other tweet about him seems to get people joking about how he had to go to bed early or how they had to d
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by dotnet00 3y ago
IIRC with Modi a big factor was that the previous prime minister was seen as effectively a spineless puppet, kind of like how Biden is seen by many. Modi came in promising to try literally anything rather than just sitting by and doing noth
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by dotnet00 3y ago
You obviously haven't been in any right-wing circles. They're constantly saying that the other side "hates you and wants to destroy the country", exactly the same thing left-wing circles are constantly saying about them.

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