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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
There's a lot of talk about the great filter this, and the great filter that. Even if life is abundant, what gives you the impression that civilization level intelligence would be? Out of all the species that ever roamed the earth, on
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The mystery of the Quebec beer-drinkers' cardiomyopathy (1967)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
So just to clarify, the new-meter would be smaller if judging solely by the extent in space? But not compared to any other physical object since they are all kept together by forces that are constant regardless of space?
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Great explanation! Thanks.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Sorry for also asking a space 101 question, but since the fabric of space is expanding, does that mean that things are getting bigger as well? Naively, it would seem that way. In your balloon example, the dots would get bigger.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
You would need to supply a lot of power just to maintain a vacuum and levitating your flywheel. Not sure this solution would be very effective. Maybe with superconductors, but then cooling is your problem instead.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Because you want it synced across devices i suppose?
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
That's such a stupid example though. I'd assume the sky was looking in such a way that it could be interpreted as either. A nice sunset gradient perhaps? Averaging the color spectrum values or hypothetically mixing colors is ridic
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
The idea behind this is brilliant, and I support the sentiment. Unfortunately, for this to work effectively, you really need to be accurate and precise. As others pointed out, a lot of the items lacks sources and/or have questionable v
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Wow. Thanks for sharing that! Fun!
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Don't you want to control pump/fans based on load and temperature though?
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
The problem with e-ink is that redrawing pixels without cycling leads to ghosting after a few draws. Most displays automatically cycles the entire screen now and then to mitigate this. I guess it's up to software or firmware to detect
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
It depends on the granularity you need. If you need to manage clusters and scaling and individual machines then you might need to spend some time going through docs/books/tutorials for the cloud and tech in question. If you just w
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Can't edit my comment for some reason, but I just wanted to correct myself in that just-in-time encoding is a thing that exists and is being used. Only lately has it been in significant use for non-live content though. The standard pra
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Not sure what you mean with reencoding for each client? AFAIK no major streaming does this realtime. They reencode the content once from source into a number of bitrates and formats, put the result on a CDN and then use DASH/HLS/S
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
I wonder which comment is more useless. This one or yours?
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
I despise DRM as much as the next guy, but its existence makes perfect sense. The moment someone explains to a C level at a studio how easily the content could "leak" from a site without it, it's out of the question to not ha
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
I'll just add on to this. Also have had an XPS13 as a daily driver for about a year and have nothing major to complain about. A slight coil buzz while charging, nostril cam and shitty microphone are some minor gripes, but all in all it
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
The choice of hosting the game on a website seems like an orthagonal decision to whether or not to build it using web tech nowaday, as I mentioned.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Could someone explain the USP of utilizing the browser platform for game dev? As far as I know, the usual suspects in the game engine world can compile to web as well as the other major platforms. Wouldn't relying on web runtimes and a
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
The argument wasn't that they were equal, but that the ARM chip appeared _more_ performant than the x64 one. It's a legit point that refresh rate could make it appear so even if the actual performance is roughly the same.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
I initially read it as "McFunctions". I wasn't as surprised as I should have been that a fast food chain was running a cloud service
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
> I prefer this over having data stolen. How do you know it wasn't?
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Sure. But isn't it more likely that it would be an attribution error? I.e. the craft was actually made on earth. My point is that space borne manufacturing seems incredible. And incredibly hard to hide.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
I don't know what's more unbelievable, Russia building vehicles in space or extraterrestrials.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
That's true. Saying "anything" was a bit sloppy. I meant to say "any regulated/controlled substances".
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
You mean the same way that vegans never act against animal cruelty? If you want to work against drug trafficking empires (by decriminalizing or otherwise) I'd say it makes perfect sense to also not give them your money.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Can't both be true at the same time? Just because there are ill-advised legislations in effect doesn't mean that your responsibility as a consumer goes out the window.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
I don't know if people that are OK with chainsaw executions worry too much about FCC regulations.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
A black market will always exist as it does for anything. The problem we're trying to solve is the power of a huge market solely tapped by criminal enterprises. You don't see narcostates formed by black market tobacco or alcohol.

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