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by krisoft 2y ago
Yeah. How did this even pass editing? Is it the article who is misrepresenting what is happening, or the researchers?
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I hope the current engineers leave a better note for the engineers of the next century. I don't like what you are saying. A more poetic note is not "better". You think it is, and that certainly can be your value but you
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by krisoft 2y ago
Why do you think so?
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I said "nozzle", as in the side walls of the engine. Ok? I seem to have said the same. > The force doesn't transfer via those walls Where do you think the force starts on a rocket? What pushes the rocket forward?
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I think a transistor, etching, and photolithography should all be explainable to these geniuses. No doubt! But i’m also not sure if the compute would be the most interesting part to them. The screen itself might fascinate them. Or the
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by krisoft 2y ago
I likewise “can’t believe” we have CPUs. The two things are equally wild to me. Sometimes i imagine how I would explain our current tech to someone clever and curious from the past. Like what would Jules Verne, Edison or John von Neumann do
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by krisoft 2y ago
> another mil tied up in some gravel pits > MHSA regulates him like he's running a pit mine Sounds like he does? As per your own comment.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> The force doesn't push against the nozzle of the engine. I’m not sure what you are saying here. The force pushes against the nozzle, (and of course the walls of the combustion chamber.) That is the purpose of the rocket engine, to
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by krisoft 2y ago
The legs would need to be much longer (because you can’t push the engine nozzles all the way into the ground and still hope for good things.) Longer structure means more mass, but also larger torque which need to be handled with the support
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by krisoft 2y ago
I thought they do! But it seems i’m mistaken. At least a casual browse of the relevant law does not seem to mandate it.
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by krisoft 2y ago
On the practical personal safety level this is easy to answer. If you(or the person you are going to serve it to) have food alergy for any of the categories and you can’t find a “Contains” list then you don’t consume(serve) the item. Want t
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Using it was appropriate. Using it exclusively was not. That I can agree with. Usually what I have seen, at least where i live, is that no public body used it exclusively. They still had a website, they still talked with journalist, ta
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by krisoft 2y ago
Yeah. Maybe someone who got rubbed with snow got randomly better completely unrelated to the treatment and then superstition run wild with that coincidence. Or maybe people understood initially that you should do the rubbing next to a fire.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Why not exactly RSS? Is it missing something? The users. You can put your news on RSS and approximately nobody will read them. Or you can put them on twitter and it will reach people. This is true even now when the management of the bi
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by krisoft 2y ago
> That is wholly inappropriate, and wasn't appropriate even when before it become some brain-worm infected oligarch's rhetoric megaphone. When you want to reach people you go to where the people are. You fish where the fish is.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Not hard to notice the net on the sonar or passive listening devices surely. Are you saying that because you know that the net makes noise?
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by krisoft 2y ago
If you are thinking about the USS Greeneville colliding with the Ehime Maru 10 miles (16 km) off the coast of Oahu, then that ship was a training ship not a tourist boat.
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by krisoft 2y ago
“Test” environment is the domain of prototype cars driving at the proving ground. It is an internal affair, only for employees and contractors. The software is compiled on some engineer’s laptop and uploaded on the ECU by an engineer manual
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by krisoft 2y ago
> VW got in trouble for running _different_ software in test vs prod. Not quite. They programmed their "prod" software to recognise the circumstances of a laboratory test and behave differently. Namely during laboratory emissio
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I think you're underestimating just how hungry people feel Possible. Or people have no clue what hunger really is. But still the advice didn’t say “eat every time you are hungry”. It said “A good way to start is to eat only when f
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by krisoft 2y ago
> LOL, that's what everyone riding the "western diet" blood sugar roller coaster is already doing. I don’t think so. In my observation a lot of people eat because it is time to eat, or because others are eating, or because
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by krisoft 2y ago
This is such a wonderful story, and I'm so happy that the author found something which worked well for their mom. > Despite her amnesia, my mom came to remember that this display exits and what it’s for. She looks forward to seeing
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by krisoft 2y ago
> for all the good they might do. > It's like arguing with a real life philosophical zombie. It is equally unpleasant to hear you argue with opinions not stated in the comments. Almost as if you are picking a fight nobody as of y
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by krisoft 2y ago
Today it wouldn't. Because it would have invaded them sooner as they tried to acquire those nuclear weapons.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Name a single effective Western diplomat capable of preventing wars? I mean all of them? Today the USA is not bombing London, Berlin is not bombing Paris, Switzerland is not bombing Sweden, Finland is not bombing Norway, Turkey is not
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by krisoft 2y ago
> It surprises me that people are concerned about Putin pushing the button, but don't consider Trump pushing the button Great many people are concerned about that. There are similar concerns that some boastful and bellicose messagin
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by krisoft 2y ago
> and NATO (especially the US) has a credible red line of any attempt at a 'small-scale' use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine that will bring them into the war. Do you feel that USA red line is still credible post election? I
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by krisoft 2y ago
I don’t understand the scheme you are describing. If you have a hotel/bar and you falsely inflate the customer income then you are done. The previously illegitimate cash is now legitimate. Why would you want to complicate it more with
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by krisoft 2y ago
> With this scale and amount of variety, "one in a million" freak incidents ought to be registered all the time. I’m not sure “one in a million” and “freak incident” is the right mental model with this case. What is noteworthy
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by krisoft 2y ago
And Muldon from The Jurassic Park softly whispering "I told you! How many times? We needed locking mechanisms on the vehicle doors!"

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