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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Most of the F15 upgrades have been against other aircraft. The F15 is primarily an air superiority fighter, it isn’t designed for attacks or defence against ground forces. The F15E is modified to attack ground targets, but ideally they wou
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
> The article is typical handwavy crap which is popular among people living in what amounts to subtropics who can't even imagine how crazy they sound to most everyone else. Most everyone else? Only about two percent of the Earths p
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
> the battery capacity isn't large enough This. You have enough generation to keep a mansion toasty, but you don’t have enough storage to last a long winter night.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
> just by porting SQL to your language You make it sound like writing an SQL parser and query engine is a trivial task. Have you ever looked at the implementation of a query engine to see what’s actually involved? You can’t just ‘build
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
The Saturn V payload to LEO is large, but the payload to the Moon was much smaller (the Eagle lander was less than ten tons on touchdown, with a couple of tons of cargo). Starship might be able to put 100 tons on the Moon, because of orbit
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
> but does the expected business growth justify this valuation? What was the expected value of investing in a colony in the Americas? It’s very hard to quantify. Most of them failed, but some people got very very rich.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
> Which financial models best describe reality in your opinion? That’s a subject that fills many volumes on accounting, finance and economics. I don’t think you should be looking for one best theory, because there are valid differences
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> What finished many of them off was a lack of resistance to smallpox, which was brought over by the first explorers/colonists. They lacked herds of domesticated animals, which not only held them back agriculturally, but were also t
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
There have been 412 manned space flights, ever, by anyone, anywhere. A large commercial airport handles many times that number of flights every single day. Worldwide there are a hundred times more flights per day than the number of manned
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
It’s practically impossible to take pictures of a famous monument without having other people in the frame (usually they’re posing for photos themselves). AI can remove them, with varying degrees of success.
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> Broadly speaking, GPL is a license that has specific provisions about creating derivative software from the licensed work, and just saying "fair use" doesn't exempt you from those provisions. Broadly speaking, yes it doe
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
The official name is the AWS management console. Or just the console. The ‘dashboard’, the ‘interface’? Reminds me of coworkers who used to refer to desktop PC cases as the hard drive, or people who refer to the web as ‘Google’.
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
Reminds me of a story about Giotto di Bondone, an artist who when called upon to prove his talent drew, freehand, a perfect circle. Something which seems simple, but which is actually very difficult.
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
Maybe. There’s another meaning for sellout - an event that is all sold out. That makes me wonder if the meaning of a sellout artist was an analogy to an event which became commercially popular, and was (literally) no longer accessible to l
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> If there was anything like a high power transistor back then he would have used that. Mercury arc rectifiers were used long before his death.
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
Routers have to follow the same standards as other electrical appliances. Those standards aren’t related to the functionality or security of the router.
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
Still need massive amounts of compute for training. Nobody is going to be training 400B models on a phone any time soon.
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> They're very easily produced, by two people getting it on. Something like 360-380 thousand births every day. We’re insignificant even just compared to the delta.
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
I’ve used travel SIMs that only give you about 5GB. You avoid using the web at all, unless you are on WiFi. You can use maps, train and bus apps, banking apps, messaging, AirBnB etc, but not the web. If you go to some place and they want
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> Telcos’ costs come from renting bandwidth from tier 1 and tier 2 ISPs. This bandwidth is constant. In the long run, all costs are variable. Phone companies lack the bandwidth to provide all their customers unlimited data all the time.
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> it’s blatant negligence of frugality where it’s providing overall economical benefits. Recently tried to alter a phone plan on EE’s website, something that should have involved a few clicks. It was slow (literal seconds to open a page
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
The distribution of the sum of a finite number of dice only approximates a bell curve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin%E2%80%93Hall_distributio...
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
Nearly 90 million units by the time it was discontinued, but I'm not sure how many were sold at the point they removed Linux support.
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
I was prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt, but if it was deliberate it’s worse; it descends beyond mere polemics and is just casting baseless and unfounded aspersions.
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> libertine I think you mean libertarian. Unless there’s some spicy details of Adam Smith’s life that the history books left out.
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> Man... How did yall white Westerners turn out to be the weakest people in the world? Slowly, and then suddenly. The cracks were obvious when digital records made record keeping more practical, and the first electronic payment systems a
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> fighter jets can't operate on batteries Gas turbines can run on a variety of fuels, natural, synthetic or a mixture of both. It’s actually one of the reasons that a turbine was chosen for the M1.
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> someone downloads an xls file and uploads it to Tableau Sometimes this is because of red tape and not because of software. I’ve run into many situations where you can log into the system and download a spreadsheet from the web interfa
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> Regarding art, what do you feel about museums? Why would you go see an original instead of simply looking at a jpg. Generally you get a much better ‘view’ of the artwork in a museum. It’s higher ‘resolution’ you can view it from multi
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by mr_toad 7mo ago
> One of the claims of the Luddites is that quality would go down, because their craft took half a lifetime to master (it was passed down from parent to chile.) Sounds like a tautology. If you deliberately hoard knowledge of course it’s

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