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by qayxc 5y ago
> (ok, the 0-20 range has exceptions in many languages, so it's fine) (ok, the 0-99 has exceptions in many languages, so it's fine)
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by qayxc 5y ago
Sound a bit inconsistent - why weren't 10 - 20 also changed? Would have been great to have a language that's consistent all the way through as far as counting is concerned :)
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by qayxc 5y ago
That's a strange takeaway from this. Ecco simply missed the fact that the Tetris AI used here is actually exactly that: a deterministic algorithm that uses heuristics to search the best placement options. This is not deep learning in c
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by qayxc 5y ago
Well, they can't move to 5nm because Apple bought basically the entire 5nm production from TSMC. In other words, they couldn't move to 5nm because they wouldn't be able to procure any significant volume from it. Why bother wi
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by qayxc 5y ago
That's not true. You can easily make aself-contained biosphere yourself using just a glass bottle, some water, dirt, and a few select species of plants, algae, or insects/orthopods [0] You can even buy them [1]. [0] https:/&
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by qayxc 5y ago
> likely because none of the NASA Centers is really focused on it. That's what I thought until I started looking into it. The module has actually been built (several versions in fact), but never completed and launched. It turned out
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by qayxc 5y ago
I completely agree with your issues regarding the settings, lack of discoverability. The whole configuration system of Windows is a mess and needs to be replaced. Windows updates in general are a convoluted mess that breaks things regularly
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by qayxc 5y ago
That's due to a reversal - in the 60's and 70's the iron was expensive and labour was cheap. Today it's the other way around and most organisations don't lease the actual iron, they lease the infrastructure around i
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by qayxc 5y ago
Old? I worked with IBM mainframes just a couple of years ago (mid 2010s) and that's still their business model. Need more processing power for your quarterly reports and annual stocktacking? No problem, give them a call and they'l
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by qayxc 5y ago
> What's next? You don't own anymore the CPU, you just rent it, the same way the software today is using subscriptions? Young Padawan, you've never dealt with IBM and their mainframes...
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by qayxc 5y ago
Sigh. You are contradicting yourself a little here. > Non-technical users don't configure active hours usually. Many are not even aware of this feature. Ok. Fair enough, but then don't end with this: > maybe Windows is not i
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by qayxc 5y ago
At about 10,000Gs of acceleration (as per their claims¹ ~2200m/s in a 100m vacuum chamber, e.g. a=v²/r ≈ 97,000m/s² or roughly 10,000Gs) any human passenger would be liquified and form a nice smooth film on the inner surfaces
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by qayxc 5y ago
Interesting. Still doesn't match the "random reboot" claim. First of all, rebooting outside of active hours and while the machine is idle is the expected and intended behaviour (esp. in Home edition). Secondly, pushing back u
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by qayxc 5y ago
I'd be very interested in a source for that as I've not encountered this and haven't read about it in technical publications either.
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by qayxc 5y ago
What are these "random reboots" people keep mentioning? My Windows boxes usually run about 12 to 14 days between (manual!) reboots, and those reboots are normally done to switch between operating systems. It's been literally
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by qayxc 5y ago
It's worse than that. Whitespace is a hellish invention in the world of computers: there are multiple characters that may or may not render as whitespace with no way to distinguish them by just looking at the output. Yet to the machine
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by qayxc 5y ago
The Windows filesystem API supports CS file- and directory names just fine. It can be enabled on a per-directory basis like so: > fsutil.exe file setCaseSensitiveInfo C:\folder enable NTFS had support for this for decades now - it was de
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by qayxc 5y ago
Google Translate is a horrible tool for "translating" single words or lists of unrelated words. Use a proper dictionary for that. The very nature of statistical models makes proper translation without context impossible for these
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by qayxc 5y ago
Wait, in that context (EEE) it'd be Windows that'd get extinguished, as it's not Linux that's being extended here.
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by qayxc 5y ago
Seamless cross-system access to files and programs. Show me a VM that allows me to access the entire host and client filesystem seamlessly without barriers. WSL allow you to do just that and for that alone it's very useful. You can aut
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by qayxc 5y ago
> Not much maths in engineering/CS in germany either. That's simply not true. It depends entirely on the particular institution and its roots. There are two origins of CS in German universities: electrical engineering and maths
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by qayxc 5y ago
Aye, turns out the whales are close friends with Koko and agree with everything she, um... said.
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by qayxc 5y ago
> Strontium-90 has better power-density per unit mass than Pu The power density of Sr-90 fuel is 15% lower by mass than Pu-238 - 0.46kW/kg thermal compared to 0.54kW/kg thermal. You must have been looking at the wrong figures.
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by qayxc 5y ago
> I suspect the use of plutonium for RTGs in spacecraft is mainly because people already had a pipeline for extracting and concentrating plutonium for the weapons industry. You suspect wrong. In order to be a decent RTG power source, an
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by qayxc 5y ago
> how important is the launch window when you start thinking about bulk transport to Mars? Launch windows aren't just about time of travel. They are primarily about the energy required to get to your target. You can in principle lau
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by qayxc 5y ago
> It gets ignored because it is a symptom of not being able to cheaply launch probes. Is it, though? Let's do a quick and very superficial analysis of the costs here. Say we want to send a probe the outer solar system, like the moon
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by qayxc 5y ago
> Based on what, your gut feel? Based on the fact that every orbital launch requires airspace restrictions, local road closures, blocked patches of sea and launch permissions. The regulatory framework alone is incapable of dealing with t
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by qayxc 5y ago
The author is a physicist, not an engineer and shows in all of his articles. Physicists are trained to check whether a concept passes the constraints of the current theoretical models. If it does, the rest is just an engineering problem - i
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by qayxc 5y ago
Exactly. Way too many people seem to ignore the cost of developing and certifying scientific instruments. There's nothing gained from sending 50t of metal to the outer solar system. Scientific instruments are usually purpose-built and
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by qayxc 5y ago
Even 90,000 launches over 10 launch windows is 9,000 launches per window. Launch opportunities are about 30 days max per window (depending on the flight profile) so that'd be 300 launches per day or over 12 launches per hour . I&#x27

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