natosaichek

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by natosaichek 2mo ago
They're only shining on people who pay for it. I am opposed to light pollution, but reflect is not a threat to anyone who likes dark skies.
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by natosaichek 3mo ago
I remember reading a post by soneone who really liked imusic, i think, and the filter options it used to have. They had a playlist that was "all songs with four or five stars that i haven't listened to in 4 years or more" or
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by natosaichek 11mo ago
I think it's more a concern that the hardware isn't useful in the real world, rather than that the hardware doesn't meet the description they provide of it.
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by natosaichek 1y ago
There are flexible electrodes, rather than rigid arrays. The idea was that this would reduce scarring. I'm not aware of the exact results of the trials, but it works better than rigid arrays for longevity of recording.
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by natosaichek 1y ago
This thing will not kill babies. That's like saying seatbelts kill people because they don't save everyone in a car accident. It is precisely this attitude that prevents good things from flourishing - the idea that if something i
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by natosaichek 2y ago
Can you point to some of the stuff (presumably doge) that you particularly approve of? Id like to better understand this perspective
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by natosaichek 2y ago
Trump isnt smarter than that. Also his goal in taking office was to smuggle taxpayer money into crooks pockets.
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by natosaichek 2y ago
Wikipedia says: The shrew is between 8.9 and 10 centimetres (3.5 and 3.9 in) long[4] and weighs 4–5 grams (0.14–0.18 oz).[5] It has 32 teeth.[4] Must be a mistake on both?!? No way its got less that 5 ccs of blood in a 9-10 cm long body.
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by natosaichek 2y ago
It should work in ksp. Its still an impulsive maneuver.
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by natosaichek 2y ago
I feel like this article is reaching towards similar conclusions: https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/08/30/when-the-mismanageri... Trained managers have learned how to continue to extract value from some disco
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by natosaichek 2y ago
Rated voting methods are great, but more complicated than simple choices. Given how challenging it is to get people to just pick the thing they want in very simple situations, I would not be optimistic about their implementation.
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by natosaichek 2y ago
The dielectric is internal, and the motor will presumably have a built-in driver to adapt from wall voltage to 2kv. Neither of those issues are at all an issue.
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by natosaichek 2y ago
This is basically arguing "It's good to deceive your early employees about the value of their compensation" This is morally repugnant to me, and I hope you're not an executive at a company. If you are, I would not wor
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by natosaichek 3y ago
I've worked on satellites, and yeah - everything is super bespoke, very low quantity, very expensive. There is probably a qualification unit, or a flight spare that may be available for many subsystems, but maybe not. Integration is a
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by natosaichek 3y ago
Todepond is a treasure. Everything they touch is brilliant. This is one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4OIcwt8vcE
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by natosaichek 3y ago
The basic idea of the essay, I think, is that "an agent" is a thing in idea-space that a non-agent intelligence (oracle) has access to and can describe to a user. "describe" in this context means "write code to repr
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by natosaichek 3y ago
The whole point is that intelligence is a concept that points at a bundle of related characteristics. There is one indication that Deep blue is more intelligent than a toddler - it can beat the toddler at a game of chess. There are other in
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by natosaichek 3y ago
It's kinda ridiculous that because it costs x billion in doctors overcharging, we'll spend 100x on administration to control costs. Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face and all that.
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by natosaichek 3y ago
This is like saying "sure, that site is susceptible to a sql injection, but that doesn't mean the whole thing is insecure." If you have an intelligent adversary and the stakes of them succeeding are high, it is the defenders
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by natosaichek 4y ago
We can avoid violence by _not responding violently_ to feeling offended. Being offended is not the same as being physically harmed. Those people who respond with violence to the non-violent acts of others should be censured. Their ideolo
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by natosaichek 4y ago
I think I must be missing something. Seems like a snake game, but no food shows up to eat... wander around the screen until I die. See my ghost there, but running over it does nothing.
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by natosaichek 4y ago
Totally agree. Also, let people open more medical care facilities. Right now "Certificate of Need" legislation is killing lots of viable options for care _outside_ hospitals.
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by natosaichek 4y ago
Yeah - whenever somebody makes a good thing and people use it in cool ways, that's submarine marketing for that thing.
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by natosaichek 4y ago
The problem isn't Louis, it's Apple's repair-hostile policies. Louis is just pointing out that he is physically capable of fixing a thing for $50 in an hour while the apple store would discard the whole motherboard and repla
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by natosaichek 4y ago
Where does the energy for muscle flexing come from in a dead fish? Without a heart circulating blood (and ATP), My expectation would be that the muscles would quickly run out of power. If you do that test where you apply electricity to a de
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by natosaichek 5y ago
The satellites are probably greater than 400 km altitude, or so, while the plane is probably 10 km. The plane is in the same rough order of magnitude as really tall mountains, which the satellite is presumably designed to compensate for, s
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by natosaichek 5y ago
The famously ad-free google homepage has finally been violated by an add for pixel phones.
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Ads on the Sacred Google Homepage(imgur.com)
2 points by natosaichek 5y ago|3 comments
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by natosaichek 5y ago
Well it requires a closed container that maybe has to take a few psi of water pressure. It doesn't require anything that can tolerate thousands of psi like hydrogen does.
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by natosaichek 5y ago
Most of the rockets listed are 2-stage rockets. The first stage never makes it to orbit - it just falls back down to earth after dropping off the second stage. The second stage often does make it to orbit, where it deploys the payload and

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