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by lamontcg 1y ago
That's like saying driving from NYC to Sacramento is just a "Stepping Stone" to driving to SF. You've done most of the drive. To get 1kg of U-235 requires 1.11kg at 90% purity, 1.67kg at 60% purity, and 140.6kg at natur
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by lamontcg 1y ago
> At 25 mph, which I would hope would be the speed limit on roads next to schools I regularly drive on a two lane 55mph highway that school buses stop on and let kids out. It runs through a reservation and has no sidewalks at all. > m
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by lamontcg 1y ago
"Dr. Anthony Fauci says chance of coronavirus vaccine being highly effective is ‘not great’" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/coronavirus-vaccine-dr-fauci... > White House coronavirus advisor Dr.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Doubt he ever really existed, he was just better at keeping his psychopathy under wraps.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> Rule by executive order is obviously only a problem when Democrats do it. That is false equivalence. Obama's EOs would wind up going through the court system and getting overturned and ruled unconstitutional. The courts would te
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by lamontcg 2y ago
1. They don't believe the systems will collapse. Musk (to just use him as an example) has a meme-level understanding of the government and macroeconomics, so they may not be judging the risks very correctly. 2. They don't care
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by lamontcg 2y ago
That applies mostly to databases using the filesystem. For configuration files, the write-fsync-move strategy works fine. Generally you don't need fsync, since most people don't use the file system settings that allow data writes
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Sequences aren't live virus and don't require live virus.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
The article that was written in the NYT by the same author that wrote the "yellow cake uranium in Niger" article that was the basis for the Iraq War. I don't give that a lot of credit.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
You're not clarify anything I said or telling me anything I don't already know. The SARS-CoV-1 virus moved over 1000km from Yunnan to Guangzhou. The SARS-CoV-2 virus moved over 1000km from Yunnan to Wuhan. This is the same fucking
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> As we've discussed, the greatest abundance of related viruses occurred around Yunnan and Southeast Asia. Dr. Shi herself didn't expect spillover in Wuhan: And SARS-CoV-1 occurred in Guangzhou. The closest known relative viru
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> Now add in the fact that the outbreak occurred right next to a BSL lab. The outbreak was likely to happen in a large population center near where the bats were. The actual probability that it went north and happened in Wuhan was proba
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by lamontcg 2y ago
“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
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by lamontcg 2y ago
The initial outbreak cases were clustered around the wet market, not around WIV, and the cases weren't linked to WIV. There was a documented lab leak with SARS-CoV-1 and it killed the affected researcher's mother. That'd th
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Environment variables are a gigantic, decades-old hack that nobody should be using... but instead everyone has rejected file-based configuration management and everyone is abusing environment variables to inject config into "immutable
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by lamontcg 2y ago
NASA was also considering reusable two stage to orbit for the shuttle back in the 1960s. By 1998 NASA was proposing Liquid Flyback Boosters: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19980237254/downloads/19..
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Yeah, it is funny to read all the assertions that everyone knows what a "forge" refers to in the middle of all the threads wondering wtf a "forge" is...
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by lamontcg 2y ago
The Air Force was studying RTLS as part of the ARES (Affordable REsponsive Spacelift) program in 2005 (Which was the result of 1992/1994-era discussions on "spacecast 2020"): https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs&
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Okay, that is one down. You've got to get through literally all the rest of the engineers and professionals. At some point, you'll hit the engineers at NASA that were working on this problem before SpaceX existed.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> All engineers and other professionals told him that landing rockets is bullshit You literally responded to a guy citing Lars Blackmore, who is the engineer that designed their landing algorithm--which was developed at NASA's JPL l
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Well, sure it is problematic, I'm not at all surprised by anything in here, although I didn't know it had any connection to Feynman. Give me a better term to use. The problem is that it accurately and concisely describes a pattern
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> North Korea will increase the range of its missiles to reliably hit the entire US. Getting a ballistic missile to hit the continental US is the first of many problems they'll need to solve before I start losing any sleep. They als
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> Do you think any engineers on the team are aware of this situation? Yes, there probably are. If you haven't been working there for long enough to know who they are, then you shouldn't be YOLO'ing it. The fact that it ha
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by lamontcg 2y ago
It is terrible to just do this on your own, particularly as the n00b. If there are 5 different standards in the codebase, don't just invent your own better way of doing things. That is literally the xkcd/Standards problem. Go fi
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by lamontcg 2y ago
I guess it's time for slavery again, then.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
I mean, the South in the US waged a really big protest because they wanted slaves, and we murdered each other enough that they sort of changed their mind. Not every political grievance is on the right side of history.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Also, just don't try to be Google and don't microservice the crap out of everything... The problem is that too many people in our industry are trying to get experience to land a job at Google so they try to turn every job into Goo
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> Looking at a data flow diagram with more than 100 nodes is overwhelming—where do you even begin to search for flaws? Yeah, so maybe try not to build anything that complex to start with.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Luigi?
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> Or the internet, media really over-estimated this persons competence. definitely this one. there was a lot of projection of competency onto him, wanting him to be some kind of superhero assassin that would disappear. when in reality,

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