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by gibolt 2y ago
Plenty of people would gladly not have to learn another language (especially C). You could also benefit from testing blocks of code with safety enabled to have more confidence when safety is removed.
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by gibolt 2y ago
Spaced repetition is a good way to remember anything, including methods. Just review the method (maybe with a small practice problem) on an SRS-based schedule, to hone your skill. When you encounter an issue in the wild, having committed to
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by gibolt 2y ago
There'd be less drag on rockets too. That could be a plus for when we need to escape the death spiral we create
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by gibolt 2y ago
The one I follow is slightly different: We do these things not because they are easy, but because we want to And later we can find 100 good excuses explaining why it was worth it
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by gibolt 3y ago
Cha is tea in Chinese. I assume this is Indian naming is mentioned as a carryover from Chinese.
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by gibolt 3y ago
Same. I've been using a tiny pair of wireless headphones for ~5 years. If anything were to break, it is fairly easy to order replacements on Ebay which causes nothing new to be manufactured. A set of small wireless headphones uses far
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by gibolt 3y ago
China is physically the same size as the U.S. They absolutely want energy independence, and will probably achieve it for the majority of use within 10 years. ICE car sales requirements are going up drastically this year, meaning most new sa
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by gibolt 3y ago
Renewable production is still rapidly increasing, and prices falling. At some point, you saturate the most profitable markets relative to production, and get a race to the bottom. Worse off nations should benefit from the glut of cheaper pa
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by gibolt 3y ago
Even better, since larger payloads can fit, the design can be far less complex due to weight and folding limitations. Rather than spend 10 years designing and building one telescope, they could spend 2-3 years and keep refining the hardware
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by gibolt 3y ago
The focus on making lots of prototypes reduces cost. They streamline the largest and most expensive manufacturing bottlenecks. Each Starship has 30+ engines required per flight and tons of precision welding. All of it can now be made in a m
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by gibolt 3y ago
They are aiming for 6 launches this year. That is a lot of chances to make it work. Even if there is a catastrophic failure that destroys the launch tower, they are building another and will still likely get 2-3 attempts.
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by gibolt 3y ago
Starship is expected to be 3x as powerful as the Saturn 5, once 'complete'. The size+weight+frequency of payloads this enables will drastically alter the industry and how we interact with space. Edit: Image for scale of other rock
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by gibolt 3y ago
Watched up until #30, but it gets old watching the exact same thing that many times. Exactly what you want for a reliable space vehicle.
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by gibolt 3y ago
Agreed. For super specialized advanced materials or processes, some Western-aligned country will usually be able to provide it, even if no one in the U.S. can.
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by gibolt 3y ago
As a bonus, Starship should be fully reusable, meaning long-term costs drop drastically to continue the program. Each flight could cost single-digit millions, mainly in fuel and employees.
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by gibolt 3y ago
Once Starship is able to reliably get to orbit and refuel, the payloads we'll be able to get the moon will increase significantly, and hopefully with high frequency. Developing custom probes where most of the development+weight is to n
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by gibolt 3y ago
Here is Scott Manley's great discussion of it: https://youtu.be/7bFiJvbKyPs?si=EPXhBYba3XnQN1YB
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by gibolt 3y ago
If several of these could be looped together, could you get a structure stronger (or at least more resilient to tension) than carbon nanotubes?
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by gibolt 3y ago
I said approach, not vanity. Having 200,000+ safety drivers across the U.S. and classifying it as level 2 is Tesla's approach. Waymo's approach is a Level 4 system from the start, but in a very limited operating environments, and
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by gibolt 3y ago
The company decides the level. Tesla's approach is to get more real-world training data to reach a general solution, while Waymo goes slow with pre-mapping as a requirement. Tesla's approach will likely be the winner long-term and
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by gibolt 3y ago
Exceedingly few Tesla interventions are safety related. The majority of mine are to fix awkwardness negotiating with aggressive human drivers and legally mandated full stop (which no human driver does). Cruise has still been in and caused a
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by gibolt 3y ago
Tesla is legally Level 2, but has done 500 million miles of driving, with the 'driver' acting as supervisor. The race is on, and if Tesla can fix a large number of small issue, they'll be able to do a massive global rollout f
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by gibolt 3y ago
Waymo and Tesla are the only real competition left in the U.S. The deciding factor is how fast Waymo can roll out to more locales before Tesla gets closer to level 5 over the next 3-5 years. After that, vehicle production and operations cos
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by gibolt 3y ago
Sensors can already handle rain. Heating elements are not hard to add (if not present now).
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by gibolt 3y ago
Phantom braking has been almost entirely eliminated in the past year. Plenty of others have noted the same experience. Used to happen to me once every ~100 miles. This year, it only happened once the whole year, and the drop was maybe ~10mp
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by gibolt 3y ago
Cruise has Teleoperators. Their snafu revealed an intervention every 4-5 miles, which is worse than Tesla's FSD. (Cruise vehicles were also subjectively bad at driving) Leveling means nothing, and are determined by the company. Actual
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by gibolt 3y ago
The inbound light is bounced horizontally in the phone in order to physically be able to reach that level of optical zoom.
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by gibolt 3y ago
GM produced the first modern EV, then recalled and scrapped them all. Nissan was far ahead of Tesla (on sales) with the Leaf. Both could have easily won the race if they had tried, with the massive financial instruments they had availabilit
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by gibolt 3y ago
keyCode is deprecated. 'key' would be optimal and more readable :D https://stackoverflow.com/a/44213036/974045
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by gibolt 3y ago
The closest house to these stations is ~10 minute walk. There are massive parking garages, but basically no accommodations for bikes (paths upon arrival or parking). All ugly concrete slabs with no covering from the sun or elements (outsi

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