jackric

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by jackric 6y ago
Viability of ~= 1g thrust? Perhaps keeping the same engine some downwards thrust can be redirect sidewards with some obstructing shape moved into the exhaust plume
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by jackric 6y ago
> manned starship is many landings after the first unmanned landing What number makes you comfortable? 100 flawless landings, 1000?
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by jackric 6y ago
>Instead the code sat untouched for decades as the limit slowly became more and more unreasonable. My projects likely won't span decades but when I know I'm putting in some opinionated value I leave behind a comment like: &#x2F
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by jackric 6y ago
Is suicide burn a viable landing method for manned rockets? Would need a comfortable G force, perhaps 3g for 10 secs? And then how many successful unmanned demonstrations until passengers feel comfortable trusting it? 1000?
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by jackric 6y ago
I think they're not landing on the launch platform. With catcher's mitt on a different platform, launch configuration won't have rocket legs, just a platform tower holding up the rocket.
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by jackric 6y ago
Shut up and take my money
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by jackric 6y ago
Ooo err
38.
by jackric 6y ago
Keep upping the wackiness until the other person is the one trying to talk you down, then nourish the arrow of scepticism and reason.
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by jackric 6y ago
Back in my day, the Earth was static toroid at the centre of the solar system
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by jackric 6y ago
Do the crash reports include recent solar activity?
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by jackric 6y ago
Much appreciated!
42.
by jackric 6y ago
But it's their culture! Who are we to say we know better? /s
43.
by jackric 6y ago
which bit is the toilet seat?
44.
by jackric 6y ago
I would suggest Option is the more semantic type to use for your situation - None indicating no valid solution on this path
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by jackric 6y ago
Cool so I want to hack a company and face no jail: create my own company, employ myself and do the hack. My company gets fined $X million, which it doesn't have so it folds. I skip off into the sunset
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by jackric 6y ago
Looks like you haven't had much immersion in functional languages - the ones you list are all quite an imperative flavor. If you're interested in sampling some other styles of language I suggest the book "Seven languages in s
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by jackric 6y ago
Curious what other languages you're fluent with? I found once I'd grokked a language with `match` (Rust), I missed it when writing Python afterwards.
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by jackric 6y ago
Very exciting for experienced developers missing this from other languages, but I predict the growing spec of Python is leading it away from the "my first language" crowd in future.
49.
by jackric 6y ago
Whoever invented this "scroll a single sentence for suspense" thing can fuck off
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by jackric 6y ago
Crypto is nascent and I would expect finger burning as part of the path to long term stability. I'm not personally wedded to any of the current implementations in their current versions, but long term the concept of crypto currency sup
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by jackric 6y ago
Accountable to a government body with opaque motives and capture over its citizens. Crypto has inspectable source code and miners and coin holders can jump ship if shenanigans are perceived
52.
by jackric 6y ago
Just waiting for DeepMind AlphaFuse to crack limitless energy too cheap to meter
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by jackric 6y ago
Another cool trick - use ephemeral memory SQLite database during unit tests: conn = sqlite3.connect(":memory:") But also run against your prod-like database (Postgres/MySQL etc.) later in the CI pipe to catch idiosyncratic da
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by jackric 6y ago
Yes. It felt like trying to read somebody playing "code golf" with the English language.
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by jackric 6y ago
Excellent, I've been adding lots of dataclasses to a project that has some pandas parts. Love the additional productivity from pyright type checking and found the type ambiguity of Dataframes annoying.
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by jackric 6y ago
"economy collapsing" - what I'm seeing is demand leaving businesses that were habitual or not truly necessary. For example: work from home -> spend less on transport, spend less on mobile food, company spends less on offic
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by jackric 6y ago
Balloon boy
58.
by jackric 6y ago
It was there pre 2016 it just didn't have this catchy term "fake news" yet. Ever heard of Gell-Mann Amnesia?
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by jackric 6y ago
Raises the noise in the signal-to-noise ratio of a browsing experience. I may pass over reading a useful truthful article because I'm trained to dismiss its title as misleading.
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by jackric 6y ago
It's got functions so not a markup, it's Yet Another Fucking Config Language

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