gridspy

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by gridspy 4y ago
If an individual engineer is put in a position where they can endanger lives by accident, there is something wrong with the management and systems in place around that person. This is a team game. The people figuring out how the comms works
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by gridspy 4y ago
I find some merit in your argument. I feel like the GP said "We use lots of turbines, isn't that interesting" and I said "It's nice to see the common factor here is a translation of pressure -> electricity"
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by gridspy 4y ago
I agree with you relating to our existing energy problems. However I expect that humanity will be attempting to use as much energy as it can possibly create for at least the next 1,000 years. I hope we have a bright future growing into spac
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by gridspy 4y ago
Oh, I remember it being a much higher factor but I must be mistaken.
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by gridspy 4y ago
The moon is high in silicon. You can make solar panels from mostly moon dust. Then build solar panels in orbit which are 4x the power generation of sea level panels and they experience less shading.
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by gridspy 4y ago
I support moving all the smoking buildings outside the environment also. Then many of them can use the fusion reactor directly, with the aid of mirrors and lenses.
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by gridspy 4y ago
I always liked how NASA realised in 1970 that the moon is a sandpit of fusion-converter material. It's such an awesome reason to build houses above the sky.
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by gridspy 4y ago
Well, it's just another of our favorite converters - kinetic <-> electric energy. electric <-> kinetic - spinning magnets kinetic <-> pressure - turbine / pump pressure <- heat - boiler heat <- chemical pot
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by gridspy 4y ago
Yes, but most of the time that fusion reactor is behind a giant hunk of iron covered in various other matter. Even when in the sky, the sky itself is an effective insulator that only allows 1/4 of the energy through. That's why we
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by gridspy 4y ago
It is amusing. But it's just because that is the most efficient way we know to turn heat into electricity at scale.
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by gridspy 4y ago
> Tesla launched a car into space. It was a dummy payload. Sure the car was more expensive than a block of concrete, but not by much. Elon claims SpaceX was started because he couldn't inspire people with a martian greenhouse photo.
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by gridspy 4y ago
> Last but certainly not least, get yourself up to date with safety regulations. Grid level electricity will not only kill you, it will hurt the entire time too. Building-level electricity is the type where a dropped spanner instantly be
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by gridspy 4y ago
Admirable! But there is still a profit incentive. Users who have been running a hobby or community on your SaaS today might be creating a startup or advising a corporate tomorrow. So while the community might never need your paid product, t
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by gridspy 4y ago
I really liked unrealscript. Part of my love was how both object State and networking were first class features of the language. You could override a function based on "is the current object in the idle or shooting" state TRIVIALL
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by gridspy 4y ago
It seems likely that enough people use VisualShader to justify its existance. It is also common to define shaders visually, for instance in Blender.
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by gridspy 4y ago
There is currently ageism within the software industry (esp. startups). Older people (apparently) find it hard to get jobs. Part of the justification for that refusal is that young people will allow death-marches. His argument assumes you a
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by gridspy 4y ago
That, or drastically smaller vehicles such as e-bikes. Especially if you can take them on a larger vehicle (i.e a train) for part of long commutes.
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by gridspy 4y ago
It could also be that there are a series of different communication technologies. By the time we move onto the 3rd, noone is listening for the first. For instance AM radio, FM radio, TV, Spread spectrum analogue, digital, ... hypersuperfast
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by gridspy 4y ago
The key thing to understand is that any specific satellite spends far more time over the ocean than over a dense city. So for each busy satellite you have 10 to 100 others on the same orbit which are still cruising over the ocean. To maximi
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by gridspy 4y ago
I thought they start at about 250 km after launch and then boost up to around 400 km. They don't have very powerful thrusters or gyros so they couldn't boost faster then they fell out of orbit. It seems that they are far safer onc
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by gridspy 4y ago
It seems that the ISP motivation comes from lack of other options. Should a viable competitor emerge, that might be considered a "win" w.r.t rural customers having good broadband choices.
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by gridspy 4y ago
Best way not to be seen is to be lying prone in good cover. Ideally none of your uniform is visible to your targets, even if it was bright orange. Think - positioning rather than magic fabric. That's my interpretation anyway.
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by gridspy 4y ago
That doesn't sound true. Every car I've had was used, I DO like that the ecological "cost" of the car is paid by the previous owner. However if you buy a new car and drive it for its entire life (15 years) that seems sim
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by gridspy 4y ago
The robot taxi could always stop next to a robotic arm, similar to the one from a car factory. But your point is well made.
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by gridspy 4y ago
Exactly. What would superman do? https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2305
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by gridspy 4y ago
The robo taxi can't steal FROM you very easily, but it can certainly steal YOU.
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by gridspy 4y ago
There is a great story of this - the creation of a "DadBot" https://www.wired.com/story/a-sons-race-to-give-his-dying-fa...
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by gridspy 4y ago
It is possible that movie (DVD, Blueray) sales are similar to book sales. The stock is only paid for when it is actually sold. That allows shops to hold huge stock on day 1 with less financial risk and also to price-match all other shops re
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by gridspy 4y ago
That, or when the ship was built with engines capable of delivering 4G they designed the rings to handle it. You could tether the rings to the outside of the ship (towards the nose) like a suspension bridge to support them during high thrus
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by gridspy 4y ago
Really? You should join our gamedev discord then - https://discord.gg/tRCuSNH - Several game-devs, definitely automation themed. Congrats on your release!

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