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by ilyagr 5y ago
So, perhaps instead of making the flight, the airlines should be allowed to pay a tax equal to 80% of whatever it costs to actually operate the flight?
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by ilyagr 5y ago
This is very helpful. Looking at the table, my guess is that the scariest moments will be over by "launch +10 days". The sunshield is unfurled by "launch +8 days".
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by ilyagr 5y ago
Every time a gondola car arrives to the station, it is detached from the main cable and put on a slower cable (or a belt?). I wish I knew the exact mechanism that makes this work reliably.
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by ilyagr 5y ago
In case somebody doesn't know the reference: https://mises.org/library/i-pencil
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by ilyagr 5y ago
You might argue that animals don't have intentions (especially if you never observed one closely). However, it seems difficult indeed to believe that a cat has less intentionality than an abstract Turing machine -- or your desktop comp
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by ilyagr 5y ago
In addition to Galatea, "Varicella" and "Alias Magpie" come to mind. In those, NPCs are not the primary focus, but there are some amusing ones and the world seemed alive to me.
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by ilyagr 5y ago
Agent Smith would agree. https://youtu.be/L5foZIKuEWQ Longer version: https://youtu.be/JrBdYmStZJ4
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by ilyagr 5y ago
If you scroll down, there is an article. I haven't watched the video, but the article is informative on its own. Perhaps the title of this post shouldn't say "6 min video".
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by ilyagr 5y ago
I think this is the real point of confusion. It is true, but far from obvious, that radians are the One True Way of measuring angles (for understanding the universe, not necessarily for communicating to human beings). Once you believe in ra
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by ilyagr 6y ago
As it produces 100W of electricity, the RTG also produces way more energy as heat. According to Wikipedia, the efficiency of an RTG is usually around 3% to 7%, so you get kilowatts of heat. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by ilyagr 6y ago
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the end result of the Ian knot is supposed to be identical to the standard shoelace knot, see https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknottech.htm . There is also https://ww
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by ilyagr 6y ago
Use 'bc -l', at least on Linux (GNU bc). Then it's suddenly useful. I recommend aliasing bc to 'bc -ql'. You can alternatively remember to do 'scale=10' before doing anything else in bc. This isn't a
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by ilyagr 6y ago
I don't know about the great grandparent comment's author, but for me this info is both interesting and potentially useful. Thanks, grandparent comment!
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by ilyagr 6y ago
This is very confusing. The PyPI page says it's supposed to be BSD licensed: https://pypi.org/project/mitosheet/#files You can get the source code for something from that page, but it seems you are trying t
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by ilyagr 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYHv8eJrW2Y This has English subtitles. At a glance, they seem quite good, which is, in a way, hilarious. English speakers, when you see "Without gravitsappa the pepelats can only fly li
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by ilyagr 6y ago
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured both Curiosity and Perseverance under their parachutes. Aug 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MRO_sees_Curiosity_landin... Yesterday: https://mars.nasa.gov/re
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by ilyagr 6y ago
The most official site is https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f... . For some reason, the TurboTax version of FreeFile is now limited to below $33000 AGI. It wasn't last year. The FreeFile fr
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by ilyagr 6y ago
I think Gnuplot is strongest when you want a pretty plot of a complicated function (3D, parametric, etc). Grammar of graphics approach is optimized for understanding data sets. For strengths of plotnine, ggplot, and Altair over Gnuplot (or
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by ilyagr 6y ago
The article mentions the official ggplot book, which previously existed only in dead tree form. Now, however, a new edition is available online: http://ggplot2-book.org/
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by ilyagr 6y ago
I just had to decompress a 7z file on linux. It is really confusing -- there is no 7unzip command. A random third-party tool decompressed the archive incorrectly. The official p7zip package consists of three or more different command-line t
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by ilyagr 6y ago
"Topology from the differential viewpoint" is a marvel of a book, and the most accessible one of Milnor's. If you are not quite ready for it, or need some inspiration first, I recommend "Intuitive Topology" by Praso
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by ilyagr 6y ago
Regarding 'and', it's just that the implied order of precedence is crucial to the meaning. Compare: (I ate all the chocolate candies) and (I ate all the waffles) I ate everything that was (chocolate candy and waffles). In the
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by ilyagr 6y ago
I was also confused by this. I guess that it might be equivalent to randomly flipping the top bit of the unsigned RGB components. The "absolute value" would always set the top bit to 1.
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DPS Crew Discovers Mysterious Monolith from Air in Remote Utah Wilderness(ksltv.com)
4 points by ilyagr 6y ago|1 comments
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by ilyagr 6y ago
There are game libraries that try to be similar to flash, such as http://www.openfl.org/learn/ .
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by ilyagr 6y ago
Good place to follow the launch, will probably run until docking: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/ju7fxv/
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DuAxel: A NASA Prototype Rover to Explore the Toughest Terrain [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ilyagr 6y ago|0 comments
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by ilyagr 6y ago
From the article: "Pennsylvania, Georgia and South Carolina are on course to replace all paperless voting machines by 2020, while Arkansas, Virginia and Delaware have already completed this process." We're lucky; they made it
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by ilyagr 6y ago
I don't think people are that naive. The reason for that arrangement is simply that it is only necessary for the NSA to collaborate with one Danish intelligence agency (foreign intelligence, which is probably forbidden from spying on
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by ilyagr 6y ago
This case might address the question of how enforceable EULAs are. I wonder if someone more knowledgeable might chime in, but AFAIK this hasn't really been settled by courts. To quote the article: -------------- Amazon argues it doesn&

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