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by garmaine 5y ago
Read Deepness in the Sky for an alternative take.
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by garmaine 5y ago
This is not my experience on iPhones. This light drains the battery pretty quickly.
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by garmaine 5y ago
It is absolutely not a simple question given that the claim is made under duress.
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by garmaine 5y ago
It is exactly what is being claimed above at the beginning of the sub thread which you replied to.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Yes.
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by garmaine 5y ago
> Full time commitment seems critical to the process. A Ph.D is a time of intellectual exploration, and you can't really do that fighting work and family deadlines. This is BS. In every other field great strides have been made by in
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by garmaine 5y ago
Employers complaining about that they don’t get call backs? Cry me a river.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Someone should do a case study on the propaganda surrounding this issue, because of I don't know of cases where the discussion regarding a political issue is so thoroughly controlled by one side of the discussion as is the case here. C
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by garmaine 5y ago
You don't need to run straight on the metal assembly to exploit processor bugs. In this particular case of the Pentium F00F bug, I admit it seems difficult to tease a JIT compiler to generate such an instruction as it is not in fact a
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by garmaine 5y ago
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm? It's maybe a little bit more difficult, but certainly possible today. Nothing fundamentally has changed since then.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Only about 10% of the population is descended from Chinese nationalists that arrived in 1949. The other 90% of the population doesn't want jack to do with China (nor, indeed, do many of the grandchildren of the nationalists, who have
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by garmaine 5y ago
Are you Taiwanese and/or live in Taiwan? To be sure I don't mean to imply that you can't have an opinion on it otherwise, but rather the public discussion online and in media regarding Taiwan is so insanely divorced from the
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by garmaine 5y ago
Sure but a key difference is that both the East and west Germany wanted reunification. China invading Taiwan would be foreign occupation.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Taiwan does NOT want to “reunite” with the mainland.
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by garmaine 5y ago
The Starship actually being built by SpaceX under the HLS contract for NASA has no heat shield or atmospheric engines. It is meant to be expendable, or for reuse only in space without servicing.
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by garmaine 5y ago
This is the “find out” stage after you fuck around. You threaten violence on Twitter, you get banned. I see nothing wrong here.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Which we won’t it it was bred in a lab. Hence, we won’t know.
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by garmaine 5y ago
> That's why I'm really skeptical of the architecture of landing atmospheric stages to the surface. They are just unnecessarily heavy. You have maybe quadrupled your total launch amount from the surface (haven't done an an
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by garmaine 5y ago
The plan is to use atmospheric processing to produce methane and LOX on-site using renewable power. So it’d be net-zero carbon emissions.
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by garmaine 5y ago
It can’t be inland, because there’d be a huge stretch of flyover restrictions. It’d be at sea on top of mobile floating platforms. Like the two oil rigs SpaceX bought last year…
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Mini: The Minimal Language(minilanguage.com)
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by garmaine 5y ago
Similar to Toki Pona but a bit more expressive is Mini: https://minilanguage.com/
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by garmaine 5y ago
Can Blue Origin actually reach orbit?
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by garmaine 5y ago
> I haven't read the methods yet, but the idea that the authors were able to do this analysis is fascinating. Their work is nonsense. They assume address=single investor, which is not the case. That large address that has hundreds o
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by garmaine 5y ago
Radium more likely. Tritium is produced in small quantities in nuclear reactors and is the fuel for fusion bombs. I doubt that was used to make a crucifix.
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by garmaine 5y ago
A big concurrent sharded DB system is not a harder problem, it is a different problem. Knowing how to solve problems at one scale doesn't transfer very well to other scales.
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by garmaine 5y ago
"several orders of magnitude" would imply at least 100x or 1000x, depending on how small you can interpret "several" to mean.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Likewise I absolutely love Mathematica, and have a personal license I make good use of. I would never, ever use it in a business or consulting context though as the license fees are just way too high.
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by garmaine 5y ago
At my last startup I was advised not to give honest feedback, since no matter your intentions it is possible it could be construed to be discriminatory :(
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by garmaine 5y ago
That's an explanation that only makes sense from the perspective of pure math. Many of us engineers are wholly incapable of caring about the resolution of theoretical problems. Learning how to take a real world problem and map it into

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