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by gravescale 2y ago
If you don't like that, definitely don't read the first Frontlines series by Marko Kloos! I find it enjoyable, but the main character is like a one-man quantum immortality thought experiment.
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by gravescale 2y ago
What I'd really like is every project documentation has a short "development loop" section. How do the maintainers actually set it up in some kind of development mode, make a change, see the results and be able to iterate on
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by gravescale 2y ago
Sure, that's exactly what I mean... They're putting it they're to "defend" against what they themselves are putting there. Their own justification almost entirely is based on "what if" someone is doing exa
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by gravescale 2y ago
The article itself indicates that "this suggests that China's lunar program is focused on pursuing scientific knowledge and stoking national pride". If there were known Chinese military "patrol and 'debris' rem
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by gravescale 2y ago
> Lagrange points are more limited in volume. Consequently, they are highly desirable pieces of celestial real estate, so to speak. They're plenty big enough, especially as you orbit around the points, not at them. Invoking scarcity
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by gravescale 2y ago
I dunno, 2 metres sounds pretty impressive to me. That's just over 1 MJ (Michael Jordan). Remotely, in vacuum, in stony electrostically evil regolith which might also be big solid bits and no takebacksies on the drilling site. Apollo 1
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by gravescale 2y ago
> isn't part of a coordinated international project Maybe not "coordinated" but they do have some collaboration with Italian, French, Swedish and Pakistani teams on this one. Chang'e 7 has Egyptian/Bahraini, Ital
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by gravescale 2y ago
It is the first ever far-side sample-return mission ever (and I think only the second far-side landing at all, the first being Chang'e 4 in 2019), so there's certainly some non-trivial element of "doing something no one has
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by gravescale 2y ago
I'm always blown away by these missions. So much has to go so right, in extreme conditions and almost entirely autonomously, with every fault path considered and accounted for as best as possible. And no-one to give the drill a bit of
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by gravescale 2y ago
It's full of raging wierdos and you don't seem to be able to actually sign up without requesting via email (probably just as well), but it actually does seem to be pretty quick off the mark with headlines. Unicode is still broken,
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by gravescale 2y ago
It's the top headline slot (well, one of three in a rotating carousel thingy) at http://news.cctv.com right now. (But, full disclosure, I actually read it at Slashdot first).
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by gravescale 2y ago
Interesting, so it's mostly in the tool setting! I shall have to see if it is practical to find some way of calibrating my (fairly rubbish!) crimp tool and see if they even keep a setting.
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by gravescale 2y ago
I didn't see the BBC one on the front page at all, and it's currently well below the fold of the Science & Health section, despite being two days more recent than "plant with biggest genome found" (most of the rest i
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by gravescale 2y ago
I'd reserve transferring the title for being first to hit industrially-useful fusion power, but I'd also accept a permanent non-LEO space colony. Which is to say, I'm not holding my breath for a handover just yet.
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by gravescale 2y ago
What is involved in correctly inspecting a crimp? I find it hard sometimes to tell the difference between a crimp that's halfway to severing the wire and one that can come adrift at a moment's notice. But then those are mostly the
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by gravescale 2y ago
It's called radix economy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy A non-integral number like e is obviously of limited utility in physical systems because having e adders in your ALU doesn't make muc
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by gravescale 2y ago
Surely you'd do the Star Trek computer if you were real nerds rather than a single 2013 film. I can't even visualise (audiolise?) Johansson's voice, it's not particularly special to me. Yet I'd recognise Majel Barre
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by gravescale 2y ago
At least it'd be accurate for a Venus mission!
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by gravescale 2y ago
> ...from the dark lunar hemisphere. Argh! Every time! Pink Floyd has a lot to answer for.
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by gravescale 2y ago
> mostly unconsciously There's even a name for it when you just appear to teleport down the road: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_hypnosis
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by gravescale 2y ago
What amazing is that in China there are many companies with popular EVs just driving around merrily, many of which are barely heard of outside the country. BYD obviously, but also Aion, Leap, Nio, XPeng, it goes on, plus the "old"
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by gravescale 2y ago
Same for electronic part numbers. Search engines will just go "eh, pretty close" and mix in results for, say, TPS562201 with those for TPS56221.
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by gravescale 2y ago
If you're into hardware, Analog Digital has Analog Dialogue which is pretty fun and somewhat like a blog in some ways. It goes way back to the 60s if you like blasts from the past. It's also fun how one word lost the "-ue&q
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by gravescale 2y ago
Well, I assume they can do better than a £10 USB endoscope from AliExpress! But even if you have some ultratiny thing hot out of a classified lab, fibre optics also keep the active electronics further away and harder to detect.
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Spring Forth, My Creation(wondermark.com)
76 points by gravescale 2y ago|4 comments
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by gravescale 2y ago
In 2001, image sensors and the electronics to drive them were far larger then they are today, an endoscope-style fibre optic isn't necessarily ridiculous if you only had a tiny hole to sneak through a thick obstruction. Even today, a n
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by gravescale 2y ago
> Please note that we are unable to provide telephone support at this time Mealy-mouthed corporate lying horeshit. They are able, just unwilling. If free-market libertarianism is as great as the tech bros want us to think, why do these c
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by gravescale 2y ago
Conversely, one of the first recognisably modern police force was Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police, which was explicitly not paramilitary and had (still does) a mandate to police by consent according to what are now called the Peeli
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by gravescale 2y ago
You also don't get messages from when you were offline which means if your group spans multiple timezones and you can only be online for a short time, you can completely miss someone. Yes, sure, bouncers, etc, but they were always a
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by gravescale 2y ago
One wonders how any of us survived childhood! By modern standards we were dead kids walking and should have been taken into care immediately!

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