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by ordu 2y ago
> Each generation changes the message enough so that even a short period of 30 generations is enough to completely obliterate any of the original message. Wouldn't multiple transmission between generations and the comparison of di
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by ordu 2y ago
> what’s the big deal? Titanium needs to be processed carefully, to conform all specifications. Tiny impurities from atmospheric nitrogen can be fatal for a plane made from this titanium. So the supply chain must be known, certified or
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by ordu 2y ago
> The AI won't care if the human on the phone is angry, since it doesn't have emotions. I'd say that AI can care about humans emotions, but the wonderful thing is AI doesn't have to have programmed emotional respons
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by ordu 2y ago
But you also lose less velocity with the same drag.
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by ordu 2y ago
Why this obsession with "all words must be known"? People are perfectly capable to understand the core of the message even if it contains unknown words. It happens not every time, it doesn't happen for example when each one o
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by ordu 2y ago
The article says they are buying the time. New lines are slow to build, so while they are being built, it is possible to squeeze more from the existing lines.
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by ordu 2y ago
Kyra Dempsey wrote about it. https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/water-wind-and-fire-the-...
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by ordu 2y ago
> Not sure how IBM folks could not see this opportunity just because it was smaller scale than "what they did". Bureaucracy can be like that. Big bosses who might be really interested in increased profits rely on their subord
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by ordu 2y ago
> Healthy skepticism is generally a good thing but now SpaceX has clearly demonstrated an unprecedented ability to solve a large number of insanely difficult problems. I'd add "again" into your sentence. They already did
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by ordu 2y ago
IT DIDN'T! Both pieces had not exploded!
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by ordu 2y ago
It is a SpaceX approach. The brain is given for you so you don't strain your limbs unnecessarily, and the limbs are given for you so you don't strain your brain unnecessarily. So try it, see how it works (or rather doesn't wo
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by ordu 2y ago
It would be better if one could vote for the first and the second stage separately. I believe that the booster has a good chance for a soft splashdown, while the Starship itself will probably explode on reentry.
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by ordu 2y ago
It is the thing I love about emacs, it autoindents everything, so if you got brackets/braces/parenthesis wrong you see something you don't expect. But obligatory braces work too.
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by ordu 2y ago
> He gave me a mind shift: instead of thinking how it’s important or exciting to you, try to imagine why the author of it thought it was so exciting, to where they spent their career learning about that subject. That allowed me to compl
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by ordu 2y ago
Yeah, I hate it. I now can say "no" in such a way, that people immediately stop trying to make me dance, but when I was younger, it was really annoying.
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by ordu 2y ago
Not the top. At least not in US. At the time of Apollo program Americans became bored by news of Moon landings and new footprints in the Moon dust. One more Chinese probe is not big enough news. China already did that, nothings really new.
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by ordu 2y ago
I wouldn't say so. If we mark this a stupidity, then a lier's paradox is a stupidity also. If people could easily deal with such statements and understand them correctly, it doesn't mean there is no problem. Problem arises wh
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by ordu 2y ago
> Most "facts" aren't provable in the mathematical sense. Mathematics is not applicable to reality by itself. Math can be a tool among others to deal with truths and lies, but it is useless by itself. > Fake news and
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by ordu 2y ago
> the system promises to consume only 500 kilowatts of total power. I don't understand, if these 500kW is the power consumed by a computation itself, or does the cooling equipment consumption included? To suck out 500kW of heat ou
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Airport has never lost a bag. For one chief handler, it's all about respect(npr.org)
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by ordu 2y ago
> This kind of research is non-falsifiable Do you mean that we will not be able to witness the fate of the Universe? But this very article shows the case when the theory about a Universe fate was falsified or at least came close to it
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by ordu 2y ago
Compilation of a large project on a multiple cores can be slowed down by a terminal. Especially if the main language of the project is a fast compiling C. I'm not sure that urxvt can be a bottleneck, and if it can you'll not be ab
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by ordu 2y ago
We couldn't accomplish this. Theoretically speaking, yes we could, but "theoretocally" means "ignoring the half of the reality". We can't even travel to Moon now practically . To send a chunk of tungsten at a
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by ordu 2y ago
It is a nice scheme, but what if your target is not bound to gravity wells anymore and the most of its economy is artificial structures orbiting its sun? You will hit some ancient rocks orbiting the star, and even if people there dont need
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by ordu 2y ago
It may be linked to a sleeping position, but I'd bet not on poor oxigenation, but on obstructed blood stream that makes it hard to spread that chemical that turns sleep paralysis off. I do not remember details of phisiology of sleep pa
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by ordu 2y ago
> I think a reasonable explanation is they are also resistant to whatever the chemical the brain uses that causes sleep induced loss of consciousness to the point they are more prone to sleep paralysis. I cant rule out your explanation
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by ordu 2y ago
*> Programs designed to produce resilience against peer pressure... ... also could have a unintended effect. A kid could start to notice a peer pressure and get more clear idea how to follow trends or even predict them and to run ahead o
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by ordu 2y ago
In an inertial frame of reference there is not. In a rotating frame of reference there funny forces like centrifugal and a Coriolis force.
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by ordu 2y ago
> the arrogance of modern natural science due to its success makes us disinclined and demotivated to look outside the box of its current models I'd say it is not the arrogance that stops us, but the sheer amount of work invested i
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by ordu 2y ago
> not always we read things which has a direct impact on what we do. Sometimes ideas in one area can spark solutions for other problems. Of course, but this effect is unpredictable. You could get an idea while reading some fiction, bec

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