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by jl6 3y ago
But people need to “haul freight” all the time - shopping bags, kids, etc.
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by jl6 3y ago
Asteroids have at least one advantage over planets - their shallow gravity well makes it much easier to come and go. Perhaps a little too easy. The sci-fi vision of a travel/trade network in space seems more feasible between asteroids
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by jl6 3y ago
A sudden stop is something the driver behind should be prepared to handle, so if there’s a crash, it’s caused by a lack of caution on the part of the driver behind, not overcaution of the braking driver.
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by jl6 3y ago
Depends how deep they go on the root cause analysis. If the manufacturing flaw was in turn caused by management flaws, then yes, that’s an underlying issue that has the potential to taint everything above it.
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by jl6 3y ago
This recipe website has a serious problem. Picture, ingredients and method were clearly accessible up front. There’s no introductory life story, almost like that doesn’t matter at all. Why can I see content instead of being invited to the m
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by jl6 3y ago
The full quote is even stranger. > We have a Eurocentric view of civilisation, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilisation Why do we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilisation? The
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by jl6 3y ago
How do we measure the distance to those galaxies to be sure that it’s really a ring, rather than something that looks like a ring from our perspective? I know that supernovas provide one technique for distance measurement, but it feels unli
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by jl6 3y ago
This thing has layers. It's scandalous that a £billion computer system had basic accounting errors. It's scandalous that Fujitsu pressured the government to accept the system, and scandalous that the government gave in to this pre
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by jl6 3y ago
> Having a single Postgres for your startup is probably fine It’s also probably fine for about 95% of companies, and that figure is rising.
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by jl6 3y ago
3.5MW per turbine is quite modest. GE have a 14MW model - possibly onshore vs offshore is the difference? Also, $11bn for the whole 3.5GW project isn’t bad compared to $34bn for 2.2GW of new nuclear: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by jl6 3y ago
I have a Sapphire RX 5700 and it's basically fine, although I don't ask much of it.
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by jl6 3y ago
I'm not going to argue with the general thrust of your comment, which I think is insightful as to how incentives can compromise objectives. But... > To give an example of how these dynamics destroy quality in software. I once found
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by jl6 3y ago
No, Web 2.0 was coined mostly off the back of XMLHttpRequest which enabled reloadless interactivity. Then Web 3.0 was coined by a bunch of crypto grifters who tried to inherit credibility by extending the x.0 numbering scheme. It's all
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by jl6 3y ago
It's an equal-opportunities offender, being deployed in both the "no evidence that X is beneficial" and "no evidence that X is harmful" forms.
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by jl6 3y ago
Let’s hope we don’t find and extract so much subterranean hydrogen that we burn it into water and cause sea level rise.
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by jl6 3y ago
A lot of employers advocate “bring your whole self to work”, which sadly carries an implicit “no, not that part of yourself”.
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by jl6 3y ago
From the OpenAI FAQ: “What sources of data are used for training OpenAI models? OpenAI uses data from different places including public sources, licensed third-party data, and information created by human reviewers.” Is the NY Times data in
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by jl6 3y ago
They do have enough weight in the PC market to create some kind of “Made for Windows” program which would stand a good chance of swaying the keyboard manufacturers, who would no doubt love an excuse to get everyone to buy a new keyboard.
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by jl6 3y ago
Depending on what the threat is, underwater could offer an additional layer of protection?
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by jl6 3y ago
In the 1984 movie Gremlins, the protagonist is warned not to feed the titular creatures (a type of transformer) after midnight, otherwise they promptly lose alignment and begin to hallucinate.
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by jl6 3y ago
What is special about Costco?
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by jl6 3y ago
I’ve often pondered this and I have concluded that there are a number of factors: 1. Licensing. While it might appear that the Indiana Jones IP is fully in the hands of Disney, it’s plausible that there are nuances behind the scenes. For ex
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by jl6 3y ago
Not completely true. There are two different types of political articles: 1) Those where two opposing edit-warring factions have battled each other into a compromise/stalemate, resulting in a passably neutral article, and 2) Those wher
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by jl6 3y ago
So is that algorithm the radio equivalent of adaptive optics? Measure the noise and subtract it from the signal? If it’s as effective as claimed, does that open up new areas for siting radio telescopes that might have previously been though
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by jl6 3y ago
Industry, please please please take your time and get the feature set right and stick to calling it simply WiFi 7 - or just leave the marginal stuff for WiFi 8. I don’t want to see a 7E.
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by jl6 3y ago
All the old Disney back catalog is still new to my kids so they just watch that and ignore the new junk.
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by jl6 3y ago
It’s true, the great thing about clean, reusable, modular code like this is that you can compose both of these packages to make a is-even-or-odd package.
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by jl6 3y ago
Definitely the kind of authentic religious activity that deserves tax-exempt status.
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by jl6 3y ago
One hopes this kind of heat density in a single system is still more efficient than operating multiple less-power-hungry systems.
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by jl6 3y ago
Volcanoes do change the climate - especially large eruptions. But they are part of the natural carbon cycle which operates over million-year timescales. Their CO2 doesn’t build up monotonically - it is also absorbed. So it would be fallacio

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