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by dtparr 10y ago
> The scenario these address aren't two nation states going to war, one with eagles and the other with drones. Was this as weird to type as it was to envision?
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by dtparr 10y ago
So, the USPS has a pretty strict set of rules for ensuring that mail is only delivered to the address it was mailed to, and it's all based on what's on the package. One interesting bit: if you mail something to an address that is
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by dtparr 10y ago
I assume he's referring to carrying it on, where you can maintain physical proximity to it, rather than checking it.
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by dtparr 10y ago
What does this mean, exactly? I get social media is how the results of journalism get distributed, but what funds the journalism itself if traditional news/media companies go out of business? Is twitter or facebook going to fund inves
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by dtparr 10y ago
I realize the point of the article and many of the comments are about using homebrew ML/computer vision, but if you want something quick and easy, commercially available robot lawn mowers already exist. However, they tend to use bound
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by dtparr 10y ago
"This locale hasn't seen any activity in almost 2 years, and we failed to revive the community effort." https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1307995 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_b
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by dtparr 10y ago
I suppose, but having more precise terms in the first half doesn't seem to really do much for us given that the terms dealing with the probability of life forming can't even really be estimated. This article is basically saying &
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by dtparr 10y ago
Am I reading this wrong, or is it basically just making a restatement of the Drake equation with updated numbers in place? [Edit: and ignoring some terms to allow for time irrelevance]. I was hoping for something addressing the Fermi parad
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by dtparr 10y ago
I'm not sure what argument you think I was making other than 'yes, whistleblower programs exist' in response to the parent's question of > Has there been any sort of "ethical" system designed to show a perso
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by dtparr 10y ago
From prior discussions, both the DOD[0] and intelligence communities[1] have whistleblower programs. This inevitably leads to questions of whether the DOD/IC IGs can be trusted to investigate the DOD/IC without the forcing functi
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by dtparr 10y ago
CanaKit and Vilros are the ones I see recommended most often. I went with this[0] Vilros one so I could choose my own sd card, and was pretty pleased with it since it had everything else I needed (already had a spare keyboard/mouse et
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by dtparr 10y ago
Are you accounting for the speed of sound? The distance to the launch site of 50mi would be about 4 minutes of delay (getting longer as it flies South) Hearing the landing over 400km away (or even boost back burns which started about 4.5 mi
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SpaceX concludes anomaly investigation, sets return to flight target date(spacex.com)
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by dtparr 10y ago
Discover stopped offering them a few years back. At one time I had three cards that had this option and they all slowly stopped, basically saying their fraud detection was good enough the extra trouble wasn't worth it for them.
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by dtparr 10y ago
Sleeper photovoltaic cells?
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by dtparr 10y ago
Not just the North Star, of course, but yeah, they know where certain stars should be and compare what they see. The Trident Missile (sub launched missile) uses it in conjunction with inertial nav to correct its course mid-flight.
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by dtparr 10y ago
Shouldn't that really be using only satellite navigation? Anything with a backup (e.g. inertial, celestial, terrestrial) should still be viable, though perhaps degraded in accuracy. But hardly impenetrable.
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by dtparr 10y ago
But new buyers weren't getting less than previous buyers, they just weren't getting everything at the time of purchase. That's actually pretty common. This is a clear "temporary" downgrade of capabilities in exchang
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by dtparr 10y ago
I think that's his point. If they're not there, they're not able to be collaterally damaged. If there is intelligent life (or, any life as we define it generally), there's a pretty high likelihood our arrival could dama
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by dtparr 10y ago
Interesting phrasing under the license section: >Texture is open source, and you are legally free to use it commercially. If you are using Texture to make profit, we expect that you help fund its development and maintenance. My first rea
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by dtparr 10y ago
Can someone give me a little background here? What exactly is 'Squad'? Is this just some of the devs leaving? A particular subgroup? They're true KSP devs and not mod devs?
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by dtparr 10y ago
It's probably fortunate that the GCAS had already rolled him back, otherwise the reflex to "pull up" would have been disastrous.
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by dtparr 10y ago
A 4 hour weather delay will blow away anything I might consider an adequate connection time under normal conditions, so the question seems quite important.
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by dtparr 10y ago
5' tall proportional giraffe "ponies" would actually probably be a bigger hit than the full sized ones at zoos.
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by dtparr 10y ago
Looks like reports of it happening during the propellant load were accurate. Explosion originated in the area of the upper stage LOX tank. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/771395212304277504/photo/1
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by dtparr 10y ago
That's an interesting note I'd never heard before. Never spent more than a few days in either, but I guess I would say it's more Detroit than Philly.
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by dtparr 10y ago
I realize CMU is in Pittsburgh, but that's still pretty far East as far as the US goes. Buffalo and Rochester are also closer to Cleveland than the coast, so I'm not sure that's a great metric. Anyway, always interesting how
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by dtparr 10y ago
Yeah, I both went to UIUC and did job fairs/interviews there later, and while there certainly is the "let's get out of here" mindset from some students, many students' first question was "what do you have in Ch
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by dtparr 10y ago
There are many places where it's not a private school. In the places I'm familiar with, it's an elective. I had both theory and road practice as one of my (standard, school-hours) classes sophomore year. The instructors were
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by dtparr 10y ago
> The Tesla can’t even reach 160km/h This is just factually inaccurate. Searching youtube for "model s autobahn"[0] results in dozens of counter examples, including accelerations from 0-240km/h and cruising in excess

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