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by mLuby 5y ago
Gravity strikes a good balance between realism and getting the point across to orbital-mechanics-unsavvy audiences.
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by mLuby 5y ago
To some degree that's true, though collisions will likely create cones of debris that extend significantly above and below the initial orbits, and those shards could smash satellites in those higher or lower orbits, thus continuing the
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by mLuby 5y ago
I've spent time researching (space) toilets. In a post-scarcity world, I might spend time to improve their design, or those of the robots that'd maintain them.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Thanks, that was an interesting talk. Apparently what I was describing is "time of impact" as that talk describes here: https://youtu.be/7_nKOET6zwI?t=495
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by mLuby 5y ago
Could be—it's been a while since I read about the technique. I thought a game engine doing this figured out the collisions when the trajectories changed so then it's just a matter of rendering those known effects (rather than th
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by mLuby 5y ago
Regarding "missing" a collision due to the delta-time being too large, I thought the game industry standard is to "backtrack" (in math, not in ticks) to determine the correct collision point and go from there. Granted, t
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by mLuby 5y ago
The same could be said for nearly every pioneer of the sky (and sea) and for most explorers in general. Many died, and we celebrate the successes for de-risking that frontier for the rest of us. > his efforts could have been used somewhe
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by mLuby 5y ago
> I wish I could fly one for real. Maybe in another life, when I'm someone with more time, money and risk tolerance. That dream is much more attainable than you might realize. "Discovery flights" are pretty cheap, and of c
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by mLuby 5y ago
> Apple decided to implement a similar process, but said it would do the image-matching on a user's iPhone or iPad, before it was uploaded to iCloud. Is this list of hashes already public? If not, seems like adding it to every iPhon
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by mLuby 5y ago
The Amish knowingly choose lives of less capability, opportunity, and range than modern ones.
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by mLuby 5y ago
> People peak quite early. Also seeing your values, beliefs and lifestyles being ridiculed by the new generations isn't that much fun. Implicit in this is that people can't change. More time alive to experience different cultur
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by mLuby 5y ago
Also a brilliant subversion of expectations, given how bleak the rest of the series is.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Put another way, you're in favor with forcing everyone to die hundreds of years early. "Nasty, brutish, and short" indeed. I'm calling bullshit on "time constraints as meaningfulness" too. That's just the
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by mLuby 5y ago
> Technology comes in, makes peoples lives shit So pessimistic. Basically all tech (except perhaps certain weapons advances) improves our lives. Yeah doomscrolling sucks but is it worse than watching the grass grow while you get drunk
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by mLuby 5y ago
> You're gonna have the same fomo with death in the future as you do now. I'm sure my ancestors worried constantly about their next meal because starvation was a very real possibility, but luckily I don't think about starv
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by mLuby 5y ago
Entropy may win in the very end, but that's after trillions of years (unless we're in a Big Crunch or Big Rip universe), and asserts that no intelligence will ever find a way to circumvent it (see Clarke's First Law). On
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by mLuby 5y ago
Humans are generally adaptable and resilient. Permadeath means you don't get to try adapting to that future.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Nobody should have laughed—your misconception was one 99% of the population shares! Nature is enough of a gatekeeper to space, she doesn't need mortal deputies.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Rods from God are only simple at a high level, but as always the devil is in the details. 1. You have to position the rod satellite in the right orbit, or have enough so one is generally over the target. 2. Then when the order comes in to k
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by mLuby 5y ago
> screaming by a very senior exec is common place and cannot be called abusive It is possible that what's been acceptable for a long time is no longer okay. At the very least, I'd say tantrum are unprofessional; After all, if
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by mLuby 5y ago
> subordinates must show their dominance That's how to get fired. If the boss says "do it" and you say "no" and you each hold your ground, eventually it gets to "do it or you're fired." (In a few
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by mLuby 5y ago
> Can you point to a single instance where it was used for ulterior purposes? That's the sick genius of parallel construction: without leaks, we'd never be able to know. (And yes, there are plenty of instances of abuse, brought
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by mLuby 5y ago
It's the opposite: without the developer understanding the thing, there can be no bug fixes nor new features, and therefore no salary.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Outrage is fine as a motivator if it leads to investigation, and that investigation may lead to action. What's not okay is skipping the investigation step, to jump straight from outrage to action.
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by mLuby 5y ago
I played a group of dwarves who, instead of burrowing into the mountain, deforested their land to make a town of wooden buildings on the surface (complete with archer towers, drawbridge, and moat). Naturally, the neighboring elves weren&#x2
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by mLuby 5y ago
The robotic bricklayers are in the future and on the moon. Intelligence, dextrous, cheap labor is plentiful on Earth, but that won't necessarily be true elsewhere. As for contemptuous automation, consider that it frees up humans to do
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by mLuby 5y ago
Some forms of FTL travel also opens the door to time travel, so even if there is no multiverse and our universe has a point in its future where all energy is at its lowest possible state, we could still bounce around between the Big Bang an
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by mLuby 5y ago
> But a 32 hour workweek is just a modification of an outdated idea. Same with the $15 minimum wage. But it's a start.
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by mLuby 5y ago
One company I interviewed at in late 2019 referred me to an interviewing-as-a-service. I forget the name, but the gist was that this service hired and interview-trained software engineers (at least part-time, maybe full-time) who then condu
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by mLuby 5y ago
Funny and illuminating examples of this are the excellent "hexing the technical interview" series (read in any order): https://aphyr.com/tags/interviews

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