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by labcomputer 2mo ago
I don't understand what kind of media someone has to consume to not understand that SpaceX does completely globally dominate launch services. Like, it's not even close. I have no opinion on whether other companies might catch up
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by labcomputer 2mo ago
Forward-looking statements (even unrealistic ones) are not fraud. If that's your standard for fraud, then literally every public company is a fraud.
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by labcomputer 2mo ago
> just like Musk’s other scam, TSLA Just so we're clear: You think that the only company selling EVs in the USA for a net profit is a scam? What do you call Rivian, Lucid, Fisker, Bolinger, Lordstown, Slate, and Aptera? Slate has
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
It is (already). Private sector employees pay off their loans from the money paid by their private sector employers.
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
Well, yes, and I agree, but that means colleges would need to do some considerable belt tightening. There’s plenty of fat to trim, mostly as a result of the last quarter century of student loan policy.
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
Yea, but then the print head clogs up after the second time you refill it and you buy another expensive print head + ink from HP. Frankly, I think 99% of the reason they started integrating the print head with the cartridge was to avoid all
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
I would. It’s really simple. The human threshold-of-hearing curve intersects the threshold-of-pain curve at about 20 kHz. Above that frequency (or thereabouts) the sound has to be so loud that it will literally instantly damage your hearing
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
HSR is just a willingness to say "fuck you" to people who want to hold up progress by refusing to sell land for any price, or who sue to stop a more environmentally-friendly transportation on the grounds of... <checks notes>
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
> (antennas can be larger at lower frequencies without requiring steering than at higher frequencies). No. 1. Iridium uses frequencies fairly close to GPS (~1.6GHz). 2. Iridium uses cylindrically-polarized transmissions (like GPS), which
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
1. It uses non-idiomatic terminology in several places. 2. It repeats the same finding over and over (141 flops per byte, for example), without going deeper. 3. I stopped reading about a quarter of the way through because it felt like it wa
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
> I can only imagine the sighs of relief from the devs when things like the MIL-STD-1750a and later rad-hard SPARC and PPC variants came along. What, so that they can debug in Chrome and put the fusing and inertial navigation processes
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
> Inflation will get under control I wouldn't be so sure of that. But look at the bright side: By the time this administration's over, we'll all be billionaires!
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
Elgato's Eve app exposes all sorts of fun stuff in HomeKit that you can't do with the native Home app. I get the impression they want you to use other apps to access HomeKit (the Home app didn't even exist for the first one o
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
And you can't even upgrade the Studio past 96GB now.
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
A good rule of thumb across most makes is to take the EPA range number and multiply by 0.85, and that’s what you’ll get at a constant 70-75 mph in moderate weather (say, 55-85 degrees) with the climate control on. Of course, you probably wa
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
> Is it also predictive for whether a mid-to-late career candidate will pass a phone screen? I’m sure having access to your own SAT scores (or even remembering what they were) is highly predictive of not being someone who it would be ill
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
It really depends on what kind of class it is, but at most schools: * If 1/3 of calculus physics for engineers fail, they take it next semester. * If 1/3 of gen-ed physics for poets fail, the professor better have a good explanati
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
The USAF is not subject to (most) FAA regulations. As far as I know this also extends to training: the USAF does not follow either of the FAA’s Part 61 or 141 flight training syllabi. So bringing up parts 61 and 141 doesn’t really refute th
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
I’m very curious where you get the idea that flying does not involve algebra or trigonometry or calculus. How would you calculate a crosswind component from the runway heading and reported wind speed and direction without trig? How would y
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
Well, sure, but first semester performance is also a good predictor of second semester performance. And second semester of third, and so on. But more to the point: If you do poorly in your first semester and drop out, then it doesn’t real
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
Do you think that LLM leaderboards don’t? Do you think a Llama 3 is going to beat an Opus 4.7 on any leaderboard? The real issue is that standardized tests disenfranchise lower SES students less than any other metric. Everyone who takes
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
> Also airliners usually just become cargo planes for quite a long time before retirement. Yes, but that's a function of how fuel economy and capital impact the overall economics. Cargo = (usually) one flight per night. Passenger =
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
How much physics has changed between Kitty Hawk and today?
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by labcomputer 3mo ago
As the other replier mentioned, that won't work. What would work is to mill a knife edge into both the end plate and the can and use off-the-shelf copper Conflat ("CF") gaskets, which are available in a large number of standa
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by labcomputer 4mo ago
California itself produces a substantial amount of oil. A mile off Interstate-5 in the southern Central Valley, and you can’t tell you’re not in Texas oil country. Santa Barbara regularly has oil leaks from the offshore production in the C
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by labcomputer 4mo ago
I think the Compactron is what you’re looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compactron
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by labcomputer 4mo ago
Ding ding ding! This also neatly explains why Boomers were able to have a good life with just a high school diploma. Wikipedia has a good chart, but the short version is that having a high school diploma in 1965 meant you were better educa
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by labcomputer 4mo ago
Oh, but they already have that figured out. You can't become a licensed electrician without doing x hours of apprenticeship under licensed electrician. And each licensed electrician doesn't need more than one or two helpers at a
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by labcomputer 4mo ago
Or your router reboots, or... The nice thing about ULAs is that you can have completely static addresses for internal services.
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by labcomputer 4mo ago
> Finally, ULAs don’t and were never intended to replace link-local addresses, they serve a different purpose entirely. Right, but ULAs are the correct answer here because the purpose they serve is exactly the one the article is trying t

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