kortex

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by kortex 4y ago
I think it depends a lot on your process as well. I should have added that we use Jira+Confluence and every merge commit starts with ENG-1234 | Does the needful with foobar So most of the context is in the tickets, which then poi
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by kortex 4y ago
RDEs are more efficient than regular rocket engines. Also, a big part of engineering rocket combustion chambers is balancing power with combustion instability, which can cause flame-out at best, and rapid unscheduled disassembly at worse. R
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by kortex 4y ago
Ignoring development costs, that is approximately the cost to launch one SOFIA telescope to LEO (19T x 1000 kg/T x $2500/kg = $48M) with change. So I think space based telescopes definitely win out.
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by kortex 4y ago
Huh. I get almost the same thing. It always kinda baffled me, since I tolerate the source food fine, but the powder proteins give me a stomach ache beyond a certain amount. I've tried to pin it down or at least mitigate it. It seems th
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by kortex 4y ago
Because it is visual noise. It's really hard to track, especially on the CLI. It's also a lot easier to reason about the codebase through time if it's basically a linear track. We started off with merge commits and moved to s
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by kortex 4y ago
They are still the 3rd largest economy in the world. Katanas would still be weird. Unless it's a mall ninja.
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by kortex 4y ago
That's like saying the Glasgow Haskell Compiler is implemented in part with C, therefore Haskell is imperative. The React "way" is very much leaning into pure immutable data that flows through components which react to change
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by kortex 4y ago
Fair enough! And yeah, since OOP is everywhere, there's zero downside to getting better at it. > I've never found those to be as exciting as some people seem to. It's less about excitement (for me at least) and less about
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by kortex 4y ago
On the contrary, I think that's a self-fulfilling perception. If assets are already organized as objects, then it'll continue to work well with oop. But if you take the approach from the get-go to use data and FP approaches, thing
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by kortex 4y ago
I wanted to know if this affects "graveyard orbits". Seems like this applies only to satellites in LEO, while MEO/GEO are exempt. > The Report and Order adopted today requires satellites ending their mission in or passing
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by kortex 4y ago
Definitely an interesting headcannon^W headcanon. Of course, celebration has always been associated with loud noises - bells, drums, cheering, clapping, whistling - so logically anything with explosions is an extension of that continuum.
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by kortex 4y ago
Obligatory e^π - π = 20
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by kortex 4y ago
1. The gun is always loaded 2. Don't point at anything you aren't willing to destroy 3. Booger hook off the bang button until you are ready to bring the heat 4. Know your target and what's behind it Even with misinterpreting
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by kortex 4y ago
We already have standard docking adapters. It should be straightforward (engineering-wise) to develop standard space tugs to act as prosthetic attitude and altitude controls. Only a matter of cost. But surely it's cheaper to extend an
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by kortex 4y ago
Wow there's even an Awesome compendium of all things buttplug. https://github.com/buttplugio/awesome-buttplug
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by kortex 4y ago
Morse code for the classical chess notation is actually pretty inefficient (12ish bits of data). Often times the actual viable moves are vastly reduced. With your own custom entropy code and custom symbol table, you could massively reduce t
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by kortex 4y ago
> When have you ever used the Taylor series of sine and cosine for anything (outside school) ? I've used them a few times, mostly in the embedded space, and mostly in conjunction with lookup tables and/or Newton's method,
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by kortex 4y ago
It's definitely a lot harder to read and make sense of an equation that is sprawled out. In some domains, I would contend that using greek letters in code would increase readability, especially for those familiar with the underlying fo
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by kortex 4y ago
The percalculus ion is just calculus in its highest oxidation state.
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by kortex 4y ago
What's wrong with mcmaster's packaging? Every time I've ordered, it's been plastic ziplocks or carboard boxes in a main box stuffed with brown paper. That's about as minimal as you can get. If you have a problem wit
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by kortex 4y ago
Fascinating! I would have not expected that maintaining annual thermal balance would be as big of an issue as it is.
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by kortex 4y ago
I will say at least their security game has been stepping up. They've really curtailed what information is available through their apis by default. Still not...great. But at least trending in the right direction. On the other hand, the
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by kortex 4y ago
> One person will have crashes and problems all the time, and the other person, smooth sailing. Nobody knows why. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Q/quantum-bogodynamics.html In all seriousness, it probably
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by kortex 4y ago
Doesn't work for me on android, tries to just select the text.
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by kortex 4y ago
> And yeah I agree it's disappointing they tacked such an obviously platform-biased API on to something that is supposed to be platform independent. I guess it was the pragmatic thing but still... What's the alternative? If you
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by kortex 4y ago
Not to mention, most of the big problems facing us now can be reduced to an energy problem, given low enough energy costs. From desalination, to carbon sequestration, to cement, to production of hydrogen and carbon-neutral liquid fuels, to
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by kortex 4y ago
Wow, all this talk about Craigslist's (and Craig's) minimalist approaches really makes pcmag's experience all the more jarring. - Pcmag wants to push notifications (deny) - give us your email! (full page sudden popover, tiny
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by kortex 4y ago
I've heard about space drives which leverage a tether and an electrical wire which allows you to trade electricity for momentum by reacting against Earth's magnetic field. I wonder if a space tug could use this effect and maneuver
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by kortex 4y ago
I suspect it'll be way, way faster. There's a fair amount of overhead in filesystem calls. (simplification) With any time you are mapping some file to some data structure (dbm, sqlite, mmap), the file descriptor generally stays op
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by kortex 4y ago
Every networked system (eth, btc, usd, the internet itself, trade, an economy) has aspects of centralization and decentralization. USD is decentralized in that if enough people stopped attesting to its value or accepting it for trade, the w

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