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by jdewerd 2y ago
Oh good. I could have sworn I heard that the timed exclusivity requirement came from the Dubai side, but in any case I am glad to hear that they are more widely available now.
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by jdewerd 2y ago
Spin after docking, of course. Pushing the liquids is not the hard part. Settling the liquids in 0g is the hard part.
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by jdewerd 2y ago
It was, but it was the politics that swung the opinion pendulum from pathological "admire wins, ignore losses" to pathological "ignore wins, disparage losses."
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by jdewerd 2y ago
Your meta-commentary is just as vapid as mine.
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by jdewerd 2y ago
It wasn't intended as a jab, spinning it up to settle the propellant for transfer sounds like a good idea to me. Of course, failing to exit the spin is still mission-ending but they'll figure it out. Now we just need the Attenboro
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by jdewerd 2y ago
I dunno, working hard to prevent the spread of an environmentally friendly innovation to maintain bragging rights rather than trying to spread it as far and wide as possible sounds like a very Dubai kick in the environmental knackers to me.
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by jdewerd 2y ago
Ohhhh, is that why it was spinning going into the reentry attempt?
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by jdewerd 2y ago
Because the goal is to discredit the 2/3 number by any means necessary.
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by jdewerd 2y ago
I know, right? Of course, the American Electorate was quick to rectify its accidental moment of sanity by promptly voting him out after he installed Volcker and hiked rates to the moon (and then rewriting history to say that Carter was a ba
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by jdewerd 2y ago
No, let's be honest about the cause of it: it's because they want their housing value to keep going up. The parade of excuses is much less convincing than the plain, obvious, dramatic financial incentive.
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by jdewerd 2y ago
The "home is your piggy bank" mentality is the cause and motivating force behind NIMBYism. It's not only in the article, it's prominently in the article.
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by jdewerd 2y ago
The complaint was about Google's "talk to the hand" onboarding/feedback process, not the preferences of advertisers.
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by jdewerd 2y ago
They've been using them, too. Auto OCR so selecting text in images Just Works, image enhancements, Siri. I'm sure LLM Siri is in the works. Scanning your photos for CSAM. Let's hope that last one is more reliable than Siri :&
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Yeah, we should probably expect that there are roughly 1/p(found) more of these lurking out there. Not a pleasant thought.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
It's a math/engineering joke. A control system is considered unstable if there is a pole (a mathematical singularity, not Polish person) on the right side of the plane (the complex plane of the Laplace transform of its closed loop
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by jdewerd 3y ago
My expectations are normally on the floor, but when accusations of laziness start to fly I think it's 100% fair to note the wide discrepancy between the accusations on one hand and the effort on the other.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
VNAs are fundamentally narrow-band instruments. This: > The RFsoC 4x2 board has 4x RF ADCs (5 GSPS) and 2x RF DACs (9.85 GSPS) is like chasing after a fly with a sledgehammer. It wildly over-specs something that is almost completely usel
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Do you expect people to periodically repeat failed experiments just so they can provide you with up to date information? You are always free to ignore it. In any case, this particular observation is timeless: language bridges always have tr
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Evidently we don't need ChatGPT to make us lazy. ChatGPT, could you correct the grammar in these posts? Sure, here are the corrected versions of the posts: ramon156 2 minutes ago [–] A bad painter blames his tools.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Everyone involved with floating the dollar and running a deficit understood that it would pump the asset sector and dump the export sector. There were fights about it. Keynes got himself ejected from elite circles by lobbying a bit too hard
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Standardized testing does not aim to be a perfect evaluation, it aims to be a good enough evaluation that can be made highly resistant to corruption/bribery relative to its qualitative alternatives.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Every place I have worked at has remained seated for the "standup" because it's tiring to stand for that long. (For those who aren't looped into the irony: the entire reason why it is called a "standup" is beca
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by jdewerd 3y ago
My experience, not my opinion. I personally tripped over the checks many times, back before they got institutional authentication smoothed out. I regularly hear bio researchers claim firtshand experience that there are no checks, but then i
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by jdewerd 3y ago
I don't think it's time for an obituary that counts the spinoffs and devkit revenue. FB and Apple got the timeline wrong, but the AR story isn't over. Looking down at phones still fundamentally sucks and eventually AR will be
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by jdewerd 3y ago
> minimal control, i.e. checking DNA / RNA / protein sequences They were already doing this 15 years ago. > It's frankly ridiculous there are no checks in place right now. It's frankly ridiculous that you think thi
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Yeah, but a few years is no longer unthinkable and it will definitely not take a few decades.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
The other day I did an AI related search and had zero organic results above the fold. It has begun.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Absolutely ridiculous. No, Apple did not juice the M1 by giving it better cooling than x86. Quite the opposite, they took a big chunk of their design+process wins to the bank and exchanged them for even cooler and quieter operation because
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Agreed, the West has ben better at power for the last few hundred years. I'm responding to the laughable idea that this perspective is exclusive to the west. It clearly isn't, and besides, imperial China seems to be on the ris
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by jdewerd 3y ago
5% on $100B can patch one hell of a balance sheet hole.

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