mr_toad

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811.
by mr_toad 1y ago
They have a huge chunk of the smartwatch and tablet market.
812.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> So, if you need more than one server for your database Servers fail, any serious business obviously needs more than one server. And many need more than one data centre, just for redundancy. The more modern Oracle clusters act in a si
813.
by mr_toad 1y ago
If you want high availability and scalability (and damn the expense), then Oracle is probably still number one. Especially for write heavy workloads. But not everyone can afford to burn money.
814.
by mr_toad 1y ago
That’ll confuse the hiring managers and recruiters. “Your CV says that you use JavaScript/WebScript. Which one would you say you used most often?”
815.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Step 1: Spend hundreds of billions on AI Step 2: ? Step 3: Profit. It’s not enough to have the biggest model, or the best model per dollar spent, you still need to figure out how to make money with it. It’s not clear than vastly increased
816.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> There's literally nothing there “Literally everything is in space.”
817.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Ten megajoules sounds like a lot, but a single kilo of TNT produces about 4 megajoules of energy. And the size of particles of dust and how often you’re likely to hit one in the interstellar medium is quite speculative.
818.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Surface temperatures are below -180C. If there is life then their chemistry would be very different from Earth or any water based life.
819.
by mr_toad 1y ago
That’s the theory. However they estimate that Khankhuuluu would have weighed about 750kg, a lot less than a Tyrannosaur.
820.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Arguably games like StarCraft include operational elements - managing and defending the peon line is as important as the front line.
821.
by mr_toad 1y ago
In most countries state prosecutors are directly controlled by the executive. The US is a bit of an anomaly in having semi-independent elected prosecutors. The government wouldn’t normally get directly involved - the optics are terrible -
822.
by mr_toad 1y ago
So it’s like a court where only law abiding citizens agree to its jurisdiction and all the criminals get away with murder because they never signed a treaty.
823.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> I'm sure he also got very solid support at the elections from all the usual lobbies. “Did they vote for me?” is his first consideration.
824.
by mr_toad 1y ago
A data scientist wants results with minimum programming effort, and efficiency be damned. Pull all the data and join it all together in a honking great data frame, use brute force to analyse it. This isn’t necessarily what you want in a da
825.
by mr_toad 1y ago
All I get is adds for Grammarly. Every single time.
826.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Infrastructure makes a big difference, as does WFH. People commute from Canterbury to London, which is > 50 miles. But they have over 100 trains a day, many of them high speed.
827.
by mr_toad 1y ago
It probably doesn’t help that landlords (and sometimes even flatmates) basically want you to get a security clearance, proof that you could afford to buy the house outright, and a commitment to rent for at least a year.
828.
by mr_toad 1y ago
A third stage with the current Starship design would have to be under 100 tonnes and the payload would be small. It would have to do all the work of injecting into a transfer orbit, landing on Mars, and returning. It’s hard to imagine suc
829.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Starship has never carried a real payload, so insurance is irrelevant. Nobody will be putting billion dollar satellites on it until (if) it has been flight proven.
830.
by mr_toad 1y ago
They need something that can land on Mars and return with a crew. Or something that can put a very large payload on Mars. A three stage rocket is something you’d use for one-way missions with smaller payloads, or for putting something in G
831.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Everything about the design of Starship, from the fuel choice, to the size, aerobraking capability, to vertical landing system says this is a rocket designed to land and return from Mars. It’s a terrible design for anything else, because it
832.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> a wide range of ways. I hear this all the time but I have yet to encounter it. Is it just social media and lolcats? Maybe the software I’m using is too uncool to not support it.
833.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Maybe they’re not using hardware acceleration? H265 in software is really slow.
834.
by mr_toad 1y ago
The important thing about Starhopper was that it had a Raptor engine. And the Falcon 1 had a Merlin engine. They were testing with the engines they intended to put into orbit. Blue Origin are also going with orbital class engines. I doub
835.
by mr_toad 1y ago
The commercial market is almost entirely for satellites, and by definition that means putting them in orbit.
836.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Yeah you need to navigate to “Library -> Downloaded Music” and play from there. Otherwise it will try and phone home.
837.
by mr_toad 1y ago
I that paying for software or paying for a service? When I pay Netflix it’s not because of their app.
838.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> I need to use Slack, Discord, Matrix Sounds like a perfect way to ghost people. “You send the update on Matrix? Oh, yeah I was stuck arguing with people in Slack all day, I must have missed it.”
839.
by mr_toad 1y ago
The Phlogiston theory made one crucial prediction - that the speed of light would vary depending on the observer’s movement through the ether. That prediction turned out to be famously wrong.
840.
by mr_toad 1y ago
In England all the Roman artefacts from 1500 years ago are ruins, while many from only ~500 years later, like the Tower of London are well preserved. Just a few centuries or so of raiding and depredations seperate the two periods of Englis

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