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by kirrent 3y ago
I don't want to critique personal taste, because it's ultimately preference and who am I to judge yours? On the other hand, one of O'Brian's strengths is his wonderful characters along with his beautiful prose. Even to t
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by kirrent 3y ago
Despite being on shaky ground due to local minima, barren plateaus, classical simulability, and more, variational quantum computing is definitely a real field. ChatGPT can't even hallucinate properly.
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by kirrent 3y ago
If you're going to try and get an aircraft to cruising altitude without using its own energy, surely the easiest concept is with a tug aircraft towing to altitude. Hell, there's even fairly speculative concepts like Magpie envisag
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by kirrent 3y ago
Pretty much yes. Trim to your desired speed in level flight and you can go hands free. Large fins mean strong yaw stability, long wings mean strong roll damping, dihedral on those long wings is relatively large as well so you're stable
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by kirrent 3y ago
Getting overloaded is common in stressful situations in aviation where it's often called getting behind the airplane. It's the reason we're taught to aviate, then navigate, and then communicate. It's a graceful degradati
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by kirrent 3y ago
I think we're talking past each other a bit. In this moment I'm not trying to persuade you of anything about glyphosate though I obviously disagree with you, just saying that there are plenty of us out here who do argue in good fa
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by kirrent 3y ago
If you think that people saying that glyphosate is safe are arguing in bad faith I can see why you'd think there's a lot of disingenuousness around here. I can't speak for other people but I've defended glyphosate in ple
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by kirrent 3y ago
Oh, that's good to know. Shield battery is a great project. Thanks for your work.
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by kirrent 3y ago
The same can happen in a live game. Apparently LAN games don't check for consistency in game state so you can just diverge over time. One of the observers in ASL desynced in the RO8 just the other day so it travelled over into remaster
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by kirrent 3y ago
Or a lot of hot air balloons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSfMNEEnPoc
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by kirrent 3y ago
I don't have any strong opinion either way but here is, to me, the best form of the argument. I think the clear analogy is copyright in photographs. There is no a priori reason to believe that copyright should apply to either photograp
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by kirrent 3y ago
If we're going to stay away from motor paragliders and other ultralights then you've still got the flight sustainer single seat gliders such as the Diana 2 which take off with an engine with peak 35hp power.
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by kirrent 3y ago
I understand your frustration but complaining about paywalls is not only off-topic and repetitive it's also explicitly called out as something we should try and avoid when commenting on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by kirrent 3y ago
I've got mixed feelings about the news media bargaining code but I don't think the lack of designations is one of its problems. Only stepping in once negotiations fail seems to be how the law is intended to operate. 52E(3) of the
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by kirrent 3y ago
All of those statements were Maudlin's opinions. I personally don't see why it's objectionable for two branches of the wavefunction to exist simultaneously past entanglement with an outside system, but most of all I just don&
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by kirrent 3y ago
Funnily enough, the first half of that interview was successful in killing my last bit of curiosity about arguing over interpretations of QM. He talked about young physics students eager to learn about the fundamental nature of the universe
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by kirrent 3y ago
I was living in Alice during the pandemic and loved seeing all those planes whenever I was at the airport. It seemed so surreal to have A380s at this small town. It was a great place to be during covid; no lockdowns and less traffic in tour
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by kirrent 3y ago
I've been using GPT-4 ChatGPT in this style so here's my specific use case. I'm currently studying MIT's 8370 quantum information science course because my background in understanding the fundamentals of error correction
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by kirrent 4y ago
Yes.
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by kirrent 4y ago
You seem very confident that a human can't catch a dog on a hot day. I hate to be that person, but do you have a source for that? I've gone running with plenty of different dogs in temperatures of above 30 degrees over the years.
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by kirrent 4y ago
A very good question for which I haven't been able to find any official answers. Here are some thoughts: - Wear of the cable at the shore ends. Just as abseiling reduces wear on rope compared to lowering, ferry mounted drive means limi
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by kirrent 4y ago
I hope you don't mind if I ask a few nosy questions. 1. How much time do you get given to perform a search? How comprehensive is searching (and how much time is given) if PCT or EP searches have already been performed? 2. Given existin
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by kirrent 4y ago
The Norwegian Nobel Committee which selects the recipients of the peace prize doesn't have anything to do with the physics and chemistry prizes which are awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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by kirrent 4y ago
Not really. Materials and manufacturing costs for perovskite probably already beat silicon if anyone scaled up. It's efficiency and durability we're waiting on. If you look at pricing a large solar farm you'll be surprised th
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by kirrent 4y ago
Not to be too much of a pedant, but the Brabham BT46B's excuse that the majority of airflow was used for cooling did stand, which was why Lauda's one race win wasn't taken away. It was protests from other teams, Ecclestone&#x
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by kirrent 4y ago
A bit niche, but I'd add in Condor and its excellent thermal, ridge, wave, general weather simulations which make virtual soaring satisfying. It's good enough to have races in and you can even connect your normal XCSoar device.
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by kirrent 4y ago
Without knowing more about this device it's a bit hard to make a true comparison to existing marine RO devices but there are a few reasons I've been following with (skeptical) interest: - Low volume - RO devices don't scale d
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by kirrent 4y ago
My wired ethernet triumph was in my current rental. There's an old under-floor evaporative air-conditioning ducted system which is no longer used. I bought a $40 remote control car with large rubber wheels and a low CoG, strapped a GoP
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by kirrent 4y ago
For the longer careers I think you have to look into BW players. Off the top of my head Bisu might be the standout, starting in 2005 and still competing at a decently high level in ASL aged 32. Flash's career is slightly shorter, start
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by kirrent 5y ago
Come on, really? You think there's a significant subset of rationalists who are quasi-Dualists? Not just people who are bog-standard materialists who are just being sloppy with language when talking about emergent conscious systems bec

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