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by dotnet00 1y ago
Hell, you have Jared Isaacman, who also donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration to show some support, hoping to become NASA admin (for which he'd have been an uncharacteristically decent choice, being someone with a genuine int
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by dotnet00 1y ago
I did say it's politically infeasible. Producing 600kg of Pu-238 is entirely technically feasible with current level of technology, as it has already been done when the US and USSR built their stockpiles. Current level of technology me
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by dotnet00 1y ago
With distances that big, is it even necessary to slow down much? The depth of focus is probably a couple dozen AU? Even if it takes the probe a century to get there, if you can squeeze a decade or two of observation out of it without slowin
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by dotnet00 2y ago
My understanding is that, yes, the way matter in a galaxy merger behaves acts as strong evidence for the existence of dark matter and the theory that it's made of something that interacts weakly with normal matter.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Calling an important aspect of most cultures as "propaganda" is rich. You don't have to be religious (I'm not religious and wasn't religious at that time either) to recognize that it's useful to understand thos
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by dotnet00 2y ago
"There is no neutrality in the face of evil" This is said by both sides, it is equally stupid every time. If ethics are pretty universal, how is it that one party wants no abortions at all and thinks any abortion that isn't a
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It's amazing how motivated reasoning and a poltics poisoned mind can be used to make obvious points out to be unreasonable. Institutional neutrality is simple, the organization does what is ncessary to operate, but doesn't prescri
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Opinion sections on websites and on TV/video should be segregated from the rest of the organization in some way. On paper having it as a section was fine because it used to be marked relatively clearly and there were serious logistical
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Because talking about how Trump is evil is more entertaining than talking about Harris
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I like this trend of taking neutral positions that seems to be picking up again, although the timing for this doesn't look good. Just as how universities are starting to adopt neutrality, so should news outlets.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
They're working on getting the issue of transport sorted out first because the entire architecture is shaped by the constraints and requirements of your transport system. The amount of mass you can land, the energy needed for ISRU and
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Being able to just print some simple electronics components would massively simplify iteration and distribution of DIY things, especially as auto-filament changer systems become more accessible. As one example, being able to print a transis
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by dotnet00 2y ago
IIRC NASA requires a 1/270 chance of failure in space.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The laptop I got last year also "replaced" one that was 11 years old, from the awful interval where they had internal batteries and limited ports but custom chargers and almost useless batteries. Replaced in quotes because for the
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Oh man, it really has been 5 years since 2019...
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by dotnet00 2y ago
That's adding more weight to carry around, and anyway, if needed, modern laptops can also use battery banks, which once again puts them ahead. Bonus that since laptops tend to use USB-C nowadays, you get the versatility of being able t
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by dotnet00 2y ago
So, where are all of your world changing innovations driven by these superhuman capabilities?
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by dotnet00 2y ago
They're applying that simplification to the exponent bits of an 8 bit float. The range is so small that the approximation to multiplication is going to be pretty close.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It's not their job to make AMD viable, it's AMD's job to make AMD viable. NVIDIA didn't get their position for free, they spent a decade refining CUDA and its tooling before GPU-based crypto and AI kicked off.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Worth thinking about efficiency/battery life. Might be fine performance wise, but if you tend to need it to last a while unplugged, a more recent laptop will be much better at the same performance level. I had kind of sworn off laptops
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Well that's one way to tell the world you've never built anything new.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It's funny to say that, when propping up Boeing is a bipartisan thing. They're both willing to move Heaven and Earth to give taxpayer money to Boeing, regardless of performance.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The fact that none of the other space startups prior to SpaceX, which had access to more resources, succeeded? Same goes with Tesla. You have to really stretch believability to argue that the one factor in common between two companies which
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by dotnet00 2y ago
This is probably one of the better run parts of Artemis, considering that it's a fixed price milestone-based contract awarded after NASA realized they were getting nowhere on their own suit after spending 13 years working on them, with
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by dotnet00 2y ago
>multiple unexpected catastrophic explosive failures There has been one, a second stage that failed to relight the engine due to a sensor issue that was quickly fixed. Since then they have had more successful launches than most companies
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by dotnet00 2y ago
One of the benefits of the commercial crew program was supposed to be that NASA would just be one customer of many, thus justifying why the company takes on the risk of making a fixed price bid. Starliner does not even attempt to compete on
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Lots of artists do commissions via DMs.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
To me, this is an improvement. I don't care about the thing about preventing people from screenshot-ing tweets, since the barrier was so low it was happening often anyway. But, I've seen many cases of accounts being impersonated a
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by dotnet00 2y ago
There is already a mute feature, when X mutes Y, X will no longer see Y's posts. Y will still be able to interact, but X won't see any of it.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Seems to be unclear, apparently X doesn't do auto-unsubscribes, so you'd still be charged for the subscription. Previously it'd tell you that you can't access subscriber content anymore, but it isn't clear if that&#

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