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by ragebol 2y ago
Paying for something was hard when the internet got started, so things were free and paid for by the website's owner. Ads were a way to offset the cost a bit. People got used to everything on the internet being free, also when paying
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by ragebol 2y ago
But the intention was there. And if you're a banker, (intend to) steal but still end up paying more, maybe you're not a good banker, lol.
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by ragebol 2y ago
Sounds plausible, your guess is as good as mine
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by ragebol 2y ago
Maybe the ice skaters took it from ships, also an old Dutch tradition I suppose.
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by ragebol 2y ago
For anyone else (besides me, being Dutch) wondering about the name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_roll?useskin=vector#Name TL;DR: it's from ice skating where there's a similar move. But no idea why it&
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by ragebol 2y ago
This is great, also the various calculators and parts designer. I've been looking to build an articulated clock, which is pretty much an orrery like this but without planets and different gear ratios. Difficulty is that I'd like t
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by ragebol 2y ago
Gotta have bootstraps first as well
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by ragebol 2y ago
I have to admit that i found the statue of Liberty much smaller than I expected. Many things are larger than the statue, even when including the pedestal.
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by ragebol 2y ago
Is neutron to be man rated?
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by ragebol 2y ago
Boeing and SpaceX are both not NASA, so same level of indirection. If Boeing went the iterative route with some failed experimental launches, that could/should be just as acceptable. But they didn't, they went for the first time r
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by ragebol 2y ago
Handy if they host conferences, for people worried about too many TLDs perhaps. https://con.cern is not yet used, so...
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by ragebol 2y ago
> Unfortunately, however, launch within 2023 became unfeasible, and without clear schedule certainty in the near-term, it is with a heavy heart that Maezawa made the unavoidable decision to cancel the project. I forgot this was to launch
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by ragebol 2y ago
In the Netherlands there's a scout event called Hike and Seek, where there's a 100 checkpoints in a 8 km radius around the start. Some 70 teams try to get as many of those as possible without being spotted over the course of Frida
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by ragebol 2y ago
They're boycotted out of a lot of stuff, yet still make due.
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by ragebol 2y ago
Am Dutch, can confirm. My window frames (some tilt and pan) are RAL 7016, ceiling RAL 9010 and walls RAL 9001 (or vice versa, idk).
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by ragebol 2y ago
I was under the impression the bridge rolled forward as the works continue.
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by ragebol 2y ago
I wonder why too. Same for weights: why have a ton (1000/kilo kilograms) if you can have a megagram (which is the weight of 1 cubic meter of water at the right conditions) The only 'commonly' used unit of measure larger than
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by ragebol 3y ago
Too obvious indeed. Can I read anywhere about what you're working on? What other approaches exist?
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by ragebol 3y ago
Are there any efforts to combining a knowledge base like Cyc together with LLMs and the like? Something like RAG could benefit I suppose. Have some vector for a concept match a KB entry etc, IDK :).
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by ragebol 3y ago
Was thinking if The Ring, but might be due to the head, straight after
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by ragebol 3y ago
I suspect that they have something like that indeed. In robotics, there is the concept of a Whole-body-controller, and I think BD has one of these for their robots, which can be calibrated for each individual robot. And the tools & skil
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by ragebol 3y ago
That is a very good-looking robot and no doubt very capable. But did I see correctly that it can just turn it legs 180 degrees to move backwards, as well as it's head? Talk about super-human abilities! Bit creepy though
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by ragebol 3y ago
Seeing this, I have to rant for a bit about paying for QR codes. Some not-tech friends hosted a pub quiz some time ago, paper with QR codes on each table with a URL that in the end points to an e-mail address for ordering drinks. Worked lik
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by ragebol 3y ago
> attention I see what you did there
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by ragebol 3y ago
Can't anyone with some Bitcoins and some dollars be an exchange?
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by ragebol 3y ago
Exchanges or centralized exchanges?
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by ragebol 3y ago
If people can choose their own moderators, then they can choose to have one that does allow wiew-broadening content, but eg. presented without conspiracy loonies, hate, violence. Imagine there's a checkmark: "only stuff I agree wi
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by ragebol 3y ago
This is great! I'd love this as a plugin for Obsidian :-)
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by ragebol 3y ago
Given that farming in general is about 1-2% of GDP and farmers get a lot of subsidies (about 25% of the EU budget), I'd say not too much. But I don't have exact numbers here. They're pretty taxing on the land though. But tho
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by ragebol 3y ago
I live in North Brabant, and around here, it mostly cows and maize/corn. Somehow, some people think of this as 'nature' (it's indeed green, I guess), while the original would be heath lands on poor soils. Now, with all t

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