nick238

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by nick238 2y ago
You're missing the flip side: falsely believing something is forged. Now that the technology is so accessible and widespread, someone could deny truth by saying whatever audio/visual evidence was deepfaked, and people will believe
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by nick238 2y ago
The rad vault on Clipper is an aluminum-zinc alloy, not lead. There are different kinds of radiation to worry about (alpha, beta, gamma, neutron, protons, heavy ions), and I think certain shielding approaches good for one aren't always
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by nick238 2y ago
https://sunroof.withgoogle.com/ kinda works, but strangely if I try it on my house in Chicago, it omits the state rebate. Illinois/local utilities cover 20-40% the installation cost, depending on how well they produce.
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by nick238 2y ago
Article is better titled: "Peas grow and bear fruit in unmodified Martian soil analog." Or: "Student finds that adding crap to soil reduces plant growth". I always thought the whole "can things grow on Mars" ha
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by nick238 2y ago
Corridor Digital has a video where they showed some of the limitations of photomapping vs. splats: https://youtu.be/GaGcLhhhbDs?si=rJVxF8yNwwbfLBw9&t=306 and there's an earlier one where they broke it down a bit mo
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by nick238 2y ago
Corridor Digital created a short film and accompanying making-of video showing the use of gaussian splats vs. photogrammetry to reconstruct an environment: https://youtu.be/GaGcLhhhbDs?si=rJVxF8yNwwbfLBw9&t=306
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by nick238 2y ago
To my understanding, the situation is that the 'service module' to the capsule is what's having helium leaks, but the capsule has redundant thrusters and can deorbit on it's own. Because the service module can't ree
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by nick238 2y ago
I thought it was going to be a computer in a floppy disk that spoofed data into the read heads. I wonder if you could emulate a floppy disk, and if that would let you cheat orders of magnitude more data into a "disk".
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by nick238 2y ago
If you're developing a game, there's a fairly big issue in that many things may be requesting values from, and thus incrementing, the PRNG, and many of them could be indirectly controlled by the user (where they are, where they&#x
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by nick238 2y ago
Not sure why "eat his hat" is in quotes as it's very much literal, other than maybe that he just ate part of a (probably clean) hat? https://youtu.be/Rafa_WBFIyE?si=34h4rZWiLUSCMKQq&t=188
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by nick238 2y ago
RP2040 should cost $0.70 in some quantity ( https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/raspberry-pi/SC09... ) and in low-quantity it's $1 from places like CanaKit. That's actually shockingly chea
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by nick238 2y ago
They already get so much information from maps running on your phone, why do they need to shove ads onto driving directions? Add a few pins when browsing or searching to related things. If they're similarly relevant (i.e. I search for
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by nick238 2y ago
Source is The Conversation that seems to have a strangely-open republication approach licensing stuff via Creative Commons BY-ND. https://theconversation.com/five-common-english-words-we-don... includes a button that just
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by nick238 2y ago
Remind me of the One World Trade Center rebuild, and "if you want a 747-proof building, you're building a bunker". Translate the internet to the real world, and basically every building (IP address) is getting shot at, hit by
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by nick238 2y ago
I don't get it, are you thinking Titan's just a bomb ready to go off? I'm pretty sure that at least one meteor has hit Titan in the past with the energy of a nuclear weapon, and it's still there. Calculations trying to s
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by nick238 2y ago
Switching over all the ASIC capacity that was going to AntMiners from Crypto to AI?
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by nick238 2y ago
Automotive displays you'll be viewing from <1 m, so the dot pitch needs to be higher than a TV, but at the same time it's not usually as demanding graphically, so chunkier pixels OK? MicroLEDs are a long ways away from being us
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by nick238 2y ago
The Nancy Grace Roman telescope is a replacement in most respects, though it doesn't have the deep UV capabilities (HST could go down to 115 nm, Roman goes down to 480 nm). Not sure why UV isn't as important to newer telescopes, b
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by nick238 2y ago
Kind of meh just linking to goals 9 years ago. How'd they pan out? 100%? 50%?
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by nick238 2y ago
Maybe that knowledge is unlocked when hitting 33°.
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by nick238 2y ago
Multiple forks, huge blobs of data that someone stuck into a repo for some reason (had issues where someone would git add -A without a good .gitignore and wind up with several ~50-100 MB generated files in a repo)...
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by nick238 2y ago
Technically awesome, but policy-wise, sic Tech Jesus from Gamers Nexus ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY ) and/or Louis Rossmann on HP!
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by nick238 2y ago
The average reliability rates cited (via US News rankings) explicitly exclude such major events. From the methodology page: Minutes of Power Outages: The number of minutes of power outages the average customer experiences in a year, exclud
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by nick238 2y ago
If I want a voltage divider, it's a lot easier to just use some 1% resistors and forward-calculate the expected output (rather than doing a calibration) if you're happy with 1-2% error from the resistors and your ADC or the like.
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by nick238 2y ago
Picking up coins in all the parking lots in all the world could net you millions, but it's not worth it in the grand scheme of things.
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by nick238 2y ago
Conveniently slots into the occasionally confusing P-dominated mess of pip, PyPI, pipx, pipenv, pyenv, PyPy...
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by nick238 2y ago
AAC is proprietary and Opus didn't exist before 2012. Vorbis came out in 2000. The format for audio files doesn't matter much nowadays, especially with sufficient bandwidth and most people streaming them from whatever service that
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by nick238 2y ago
Are digital spread-spectrum microphones used? Traditional "just modulate the mic to 485.250 MHz" systems seem too jammable/hijack-able nowadays, while a digital frequency-hopping scheme is more resistant to interference, inte
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by nick238 2y ago
What's the use for multiple local loopback IPs? I'm not a networking guy, just backend dev, so 99.99% of my 127.0... use is running applications locally. For your TLS thing, is it whatever application you were using expected to us
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by nick238 2y ago
A full-duration static fire would maybe catch some issues with propulsion and fueling, but then you're still static without the same free-flight vibrations, let alone the wild maneuvering of flipping around a building with a backyard s

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