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Maybe. I don't know. I'd point out that tritium is a gas, so it may be hard to contain for long periods of time especially in space.
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I do a lot of navigation and have never seen nautical miles abbreviated as "nmi."
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A good reason is the lack of availability of the needed isotope (Pu238). The Europa Clipper has a huge array of solar panels instead of an RTG due to the last of the available supply going into the New Horizons spacecraft. Pu238 was a cast-
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Elon wants her gone: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1851985438933668337
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Maybe we should also cling to hope because JD said some nice things about her too but let's be real: the billionaires want her gone. Elon has already tweeted that she will be fired. There's no way she will be able to stay on.
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She was cooked either way. Kamala's financiers were also demanding she fire Lina.
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> The HTTP standards don't say a damn thing about HTML HTTP stands for Hypertext transfer protocol. The whole thing was predicated on sending HTML documents and couldn't originally send anything else. > (MIME Type? What&#
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The "defense" would argue that the arbitrator was mutually selected when the contract was signed, because the "plantiff" agreed to the contract terms. The fact that the contract was non-negotiable should have made it a &
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The current supreme court loves arbitration so I highly doubt that would work.
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A waymo hit a cyclist in San Francisco a few months ago, by failing to anticipate that there may be traffic behind a turning truck and accelerating into it. https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/7/24065063/waym
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It's not pedantry when it's the root of the problem. Cycling isn't dangerous, being on the street with cars is dangerous. Being on the street on a bike is dangerous, walking down a street is dangerous. Heck being in a compact
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Rules apply to all transportation jobs: truck drivers, airplane pilots, railroad engineers, etc. The affect of fatigue on attention and decision making is very well studied.
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It's really amazing how it's illegal to drive a truck without mandatory rest periods but it's not just allowed but expected that doctors will administer medical care under shiftwork conditions guaranteed to create extreme
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Business has been hostile to labor for quite some time. What's changed in the last few years is a new focus on bringing white collar labor to heel.
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My theory all along was that they spent maybe 20 billion on Reality Labs and the rest was for Zuckerberg's secret volcano lair but it's getting to a point where that can't really justify it either. Maybe they're working
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People were learning. Just like with mice and menus, people are capable of learning new skills and querying search engines was one. I remember when it was considered a really "n00b" thing to type a full question into a search engi
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I remember seeing somewhere an analysis that layoffs do not improve medium or long-term stock performance for companies performing layoffs. But if layoffs are coordinated sector-wide they can have a big impact on employee compensation in th
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"A difficult decision"
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Alternately we have entered a phase where layoffs have metastasized as a thing to do so much that executives are being asked about it. "We've noticed you haven't done any layoffs yet, can you explain that?"
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The best weather book for sailors I've ever read is Modern Marine Weather by David Burch
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And to think Satya Nadella looked at this guy and his plan and said "this is the kind of stable genius we need running OpenAI."
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I do some offshore but mostly on the great lakes. I don't use GFS just by looking at the wind layer though. Wind layer forecasts do not include terrain or local effects as you noted. But the necessary info is in the forecast and is acc
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Weird, as a sailor I find GFS to be highly accurate taking into account an understanding of what it does, what it does not do, and how to interpret it. GFS does not account for sea/shore breeze for instance, so if you're in an a
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> One of the benefits of the emerging machine learning forecast models is dramatically lower need for computation (and therefore energy). Maybe but honestly, it doesn't make a ton of sense to me that something that is so power hungr
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Yeah that was my take too considering most of his argument is "spin it out of NOAA" and consolidate. The whole thing seems like a standard MBA reorg plan. Also I don't think his data supports his argument. He shows, for insta
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That's my thought too. Cybertruck had an enormous number of preorders and apparently lots of them are backing out rather than taking delivery, but those that do take delivery still mean that Tesla can deliver cybertrucks as fast as t
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On any other site I'd assume this was parody but on this site I can't tell.
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If you read the script you see the bot talking him into it. "Unknowingly" of course, in that the bot doesn't really know anything and was just agreeing with him. But it's obvious that a real human would have realized tha
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The only asset from the telcom bubble that was still valuable was fiber in the ground. All the endpoints were obsolete and had to be replaced within a few years. The fiber could be reused and installing it was expensive, so that was the mai
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Yeah if you want to know what the net debt on earth at any one time, the answer is easy: $0. Until we start borrowing space dollars from aliens, every debt is someone else's credit, every liability is someone else's asset. The glo

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