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by nn3 6y ago
I find the point that SpaceX has no plans beyond the next step hard to believe. I could imagine they perhaps have no firmly officially approved plans like a full waterfall project, but surely there must be already a lot of trade studies on
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by nn3 6y ago
That's also the argument made in the recently reposted JBS Haldane "on being the right size": http://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRigh... A small country is already smaller
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by nn3 6y ago
As far as I understand consumer inkjets are designed as loss leaders. They make the majority of product revenue with the ink. Pretty much everything that people hate about them comes from this business model. I personally print very rarely,
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by nn3 6y ago
As far as I understand the problem with dark matter is also that there isn't a single dark matter theory, but lots of different ones with a lot of very variable tunables. So the problem is that dark matter by itself isn't that pre
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by nn3 6y ago
They could leave one guy in the station to drive the engine to the fire and drive the rest of the crew in the small van to the fire, where they then man the engine. There is probably more to it, but at least the way you describe it doesn&#x
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by nn3 6y ago
I'm actually somewhat upset about this in my city. The fire department is driving these gigantic fire engines with ladders and everything to every medical emergency, when just a small van would be totally fine.
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by nn3 6y ago
pandoc is one of the few packages (among with tetex) i black listed on my distribution for automatic updates because it seems to pull in hundreds of other packages which are not used by anything else. I don't know how they did it, but
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by nn3 6y ago
Keep in mind that molecular evolution happens at a massive parallel scale. If there's some simple recipe for basic evolving life it is very unlikely that is not being hit in a few million years by a large number of molecules and then
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by nn3 6y ago
They could run their method with different language families and see which one fits best. AFAIK that is how the existing attempts to match Linear A to a language worked too. But perhaps the machine could do it better.
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by nn3 6y ago
But no Linear-A? That would be the real test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A
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by nn3 6y ago
>Well of course it's not surprising, with memory safety as one of its goals. Where is this idea coming from that memory safety has to be complicated? Nearly all languages (basically everything except C/C++/Assembler) peopl
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by nn3 6y ago
I call it the economic fallacy. It's very common, especially on discussion forums like this. Every problem is only related to how much competition there is, but not to how hard the underlying problem is. It's somewhat related to t
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by nn3 6y ago
It is somewhat striking how high level the 360 assembler is. It's not that difficult to read the code snippet below. So there are assembler instructions (not macros I believe) that are equivalent to "strcmp", "strcpy&quo
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by nn3 6y ago
Looks like they broke every old setup again? It might or not might make things more secure, but it will definitely cause a lot of pain. I wish they would leave that choice to me.
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by nn3 6y ago
I doubt that includes insects, bacteria and krill Krill biomass alone is significantly bigger than humanity's. Insect's and bacteria too. This article discusses a study that claims humanity is ~1/10000 of total biomass, inclu
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by nn3 6y ago
Seems like a weird argument. So oil spills in unprotected areas are less serious because nature there is already impacted in other ways? Won't make any difference to the animals and plants in the end.
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by nn3 6y ago
The power/performance spectrum seems to be very wide: 200uW for 400Kbps throughput with 0.6 accuracy 200W for 400Gps with higher accuracy with 0.99 accuracy I guess will be interesting where in this range the result (if any) will fall.
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by nn3 6y ago
There is an insect species with live birth, where the males never get born, but mate with their sisters while still in the mother's body. The sisters then get born already pregnant. I guess they beat the anglerfish in weirdness.
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by nn3 6y ago
And Google uses some badly tuned and not understandable by humans, and also constantly changing, machine learning algorithm to decide to serve you or not. When something goes wrong with this, you have a a fairly small chance that you can re
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by nn3 6y ago
His examples have so many mistakes, it's hard to take anything in this seriously. - Ada (French). Ada is not french, it was developed for the US DOD. I also wouldn't call it dead. - Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon: ... garbage co
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by nn3 6y ago
Very cool. I would totally use that if it was available in an easy app for my city. Hopefully that research migrates quickly to the industry.
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by nn3 6y ago
It's discussed at the end of the article. Water level is dropping at ~3m/year. One NGO estimates the boom will only last ~10 years before causing massive problems for everyone living there (not just the farmers). Ironically solar
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by nn3 6y ago
I assume you mean classification here, full biology is a lot more. I wouldn't describe cladistics as hookum/voodoo. It's a quite well defined and successful method when used correctly, and has been in wide spread us since way
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by nn3 6y ago
GPT-3 generated text? Or maybe it's me, but I had a hard time getting the point of the article. It just seems to ramble on.
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by nn3 6y ago
He could use the stock as security for debt. That's a fairly standard practice by individuals who own a lot of stock in a company but don't want to show distrust by selling any.
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by nn3 6y ago
A lot of modern databases don't use Btrees anymore. With a LSM structure you can use other suitable data structures because they can be write-only. For example leveldb uses a simple binary search.
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IRS Source Code Standards(irs.gov)
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by nn3 6y ago
He didn't really say all that much about how the code is implemented, what algorithm it uses or even just what modules it contains. I guess reading all that assembler is just too tiresome. There's a reason nobody writes large prog
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by nn3 6y ago
I had expected something really fancy for the predictive model, but it's a really simple linear predictor that even I can understand ) That's somewhat comforting, but I guess that limits the properties of the key space where it is
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by nn3 6y ago
Yes I was referring to the ICBM program. No idea what Xuesen would have done without McCarthyism, but he might have well ended up staying in the US.

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