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901.
by krisoft 2y ago
This shares energy with: "All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us?&qu
902.
by krisoft 2y ago
Thank you for the answers!
903.
by krisoft 2y ago
So do airplane pilots and you don’t see them shouting yoke orders to a sub-pilot. This is a practice which I think made sense with older tech where one had to put some thinking into the execution of the steering. (How much to twist the cont
904.
by krisoft 2y ago
> It isn't actually like there's something that holds the rudder in position -- it is manual, like driving a car, and the rudder will move if not held in place. But i assume you don’t have to keep your finger on the touch scree
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by krisoft 2y ago
Thank you for the reference!
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Plus the fairly unsolved waste storage problem. Is it more or less solved than the waste storage problem of fossil fuel generation?
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by krisoft 2y ago
It sounds like you are knowledgeable about this stuff so if I don’t mind you asking: Why is it a good idea to use a full human to turn a wheel? The way I understand what you are saying is that the conning officer shouts “5 degrees right rud
908.
by krisoft 2y ago
> Back in the 1500s shipping insurance was priced under the assumption that if you just learned enough about the voyage you could tell for certain whether it would be successful or not. Do you have a source on that? That sounds very unl
909.
by krisoft 2y ago
I'm very curious about that. It sounds like the kind of thing which is done just because it can be done. But in doing so adds a wast amount of complications and makes everything very error-prone (as you say). What is the purpose of pas
910.
by krisoft 2y ago
There is a bit of a misunderstanding here. The minuteman missiles are solid fueled. There are no liquids and no hypergolics involved in the stages which loft it towards the enemy. Structurally it is more similar to a candle than a fuel tank
911.
by krisoft 2y ago
> It wasn't political hubris, but a technical requirement due to memory allocation. I don’t understand why it would be “political hubris”. Proper targeting is hard work. You need to map your enemy territory to make optimal choices.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Maybe this has changed or is ineffective now that smartphone/quadcopter IMUs have caught up. They did not caught up. There are two kind of IMUs: one where you have to account for the rotation of the Earth during signal processing
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by krisoft 2y ago
But they do have testing schedules. They certainly tests the electronics regularly. And every so often they randomly pick a missile and launch them from Vandenberg. https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/A
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by krisoft 2y ago
You should see how often I was wrong about stuff though! :D I only wrote about this because later it become clear that I was right. I would never tell you about how much time I spent thinking about how a submarine could use laser back-scatt
915.
by krisoft 2y ago
> Is the environment that the tools are run from sandboxed? It is up to the person who implements the tool to sandbox it as appropriate. > I’m unclear on when/how/why you’d want an LLM executing code on your machine or in a
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by krisoft 2y ago
> My guess since programmer blog post writing (plus autism?) assumes “Everyone already knows everything about my project because I do!”… Really unnecessary and distasteful to speculate like this. Just ask your question if you don't
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Williams is very, very, very happy to have survived the ascent That is quite a bit of projection. I see that Williams is happy. I give you that. But what gives you the idea that she is happy "to have survived the ascent" as o
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by krisoft 2y ago
I was 15 years old in 2004 when I have guessed the existence of that program :) I was reading a scientific magazine article about the planed return of the Genesis spacecraft’s samples. They were writing about how the probe will float back t
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by krisoft 2y ago
> If anything, having only 90cm when could be better is the odd thing. Seems you found the answer to your own question: it would be odd for it to be not better. The other reason why it might be a lie is because the exact specs of spy gea
920.
by krisoft 2y ago
> or even have an idea. They have an idea. "Tests of a similar control jet on the ground suggested a Teflon seal in an internal valve could swell at higher temperatures, restricting the flow of propellant to the thruster." That
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by krisoft 2y ago
I believe the article contains the answer to your question. It says "engineers will attempt to model the behavior of the valve with the bulging Teflon seal over the next week and its effects on thruster performance."
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by krisoft 2y ago
I feel differently about that. (And it is possible that it is just because I don't understand what Snoo does) To view a baby camera over the internet someone has to run a server. To run that server costs money. (If you think that the a
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by krisoft 2y ago
> Not really. What is not really about piyuv’s comment? > There are places to hide in these companies for non-productive workers. And that is where the leadership issue lies. Either because they can’t identify them, or can’t motivate
924.
by krisoft 2y ago
At the Luton airport they have these big "mass casualty event" supply boxes on the walls. Presumably full of supplies to provide efficient first aid after such an event on the spot. As I was writing this comment I learned that the
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by krisoft 2y ago
> the inner lining of your insulator will be designed to do the absorbing. That is exactly the case with our setup.
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by krisoft 2y ago
The way I understand it. (and here I'm just telling you what I have heard from other people) is that the brick we use has two layers. So going from the outside to the inside the structure is: layer1, layer2, graphite crucible, metal to
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by krisoft 2y ago
It is because people use heuristics to navigate their lives. Instead of doing complicated engineering reasoning all the time to ensure their safety they learn simple “rules of thumb”. These rules are incorrect in as much as they have both f
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by krisoft 2y ago
> If you think there are others, please exhibit one. One can construct such alternative theories quite easily: Everything is exactly as the "expanding universe theory" predicts except in a phone booth sized volume in a specific
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by krisoft 2y ago
> What could be the main cause for things being so hard to cross over from simulation to reality? When you are simulating you are leaving out of details. Some knowingly, some without you even being aware of them. Let’s imagine you are wo
930.
by krisoft 2y ago
I heard of many things. There is an infinite repertoire of possible techniques how they could have verified that nobody entered their room. Ranging from the low tech (dust, crisps, hair stuck to the door frame, filling the room with angry b

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