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by ralfd 8mo ago
The company lists their ISS solar panels as 28 kW for 331 kg, which comes pretty near to 100 W/kg. Company website: https://rdw.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/redwire-roll-out-... And their Opal con
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by ralfd 8mo ago
That is bad. One issue seems to be that brakes of electric cars can get issues over time as they are not used enough (because instead of true braking the regenerative recuperation is used). Good though: If you are in an accident Teslas are
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by ralfd 9mo ago
You didn’t answer how you would feel if you are fired tomorrow friday?
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by ralfd 9mo ago
But the comments here are the proof for xyzzy123 claim: No one wants to upload an ID and instead is moving to a competitor! To still suspect that this must be an evil genius plan by OpenAI doesn't make sense.
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by ralfd 9mo ago
> According to the NOS, the man, who comes from Breda, began his morning yesterday by taking photos at a defence site near the Gilze-Rijen air base. Drunk Russian James Bond?
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by ralfd 9mo ago
Can one downgrade back from unlimited too 100?
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by ralfd 9mo ago
If I calculate correctly then 500 kbps is actually enough for Netflix in standard quality. If one wants to binge watch 4K (7 GB per hour) then the unlimited plan makes more sense anyway.
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by ralfd 9mo ago
Do you have examples for good made up rules? I want to try it next time being with friends.
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by ralfd 9mo ago
I searched every part on hacker news and the most comments a submissions had was only 2. Two! I am puzzled why the parodies of bay area tech-culture fall flat here.
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by ralfd 9mo ago
I enjoyed summarizing this hilarious blog post with my Claude Code and I thank Scott for having his Claude Code write it!
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New Year 2026: Fusion Updates from Helion and Commonwealth Fusion
4 points by ralfd 9mo ago|1 comments
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by ralfd 9mo ago
Venezuelan social media. It is likely dominated though by opposition who left the country.
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by ralfd 10mo ago
Methanes energy can only be converted about 50% into electricity though.
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by ralfd 10mo ago
> Obviously they suggest you to instead get an Apple TV I did the same last year though when I couldn’t find a good non-smart tv. Even if you don’t like the advice it is a practical solution for normies.
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by ralfd 10mo ago
This was from Scott Alexander December link list: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/links-for-december-2025 > a Herasight client describes her experience with embryo selection, and her feelings upon the birth of her
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My Family's Embryo Selection Process [genetic sequencing and analysis](nudgedice.substack.com)
2 points by ralfd 10mo ago|1 comments
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by ralfd 10mo ago
No, she is lying on her back and you have the sideview of her breasts. The cartographer didn't want to draw an elaborate woman, he just wanted to draw (side) boobs.
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by ralfd 11mo ago
Maybe because Anglos sometimes pronounce e like i and ei is more common in english spelling for a long vocal? To be fair, German "ie" and "ei" is one of the few special rules which make no sense (or lost their sense in t
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by ralfd 11mo ago
It is noteworthy though that the causality goes the other way: the crazy one pipe dreaming about a city on Mars had this dream first and then became an oligarch to make it reality.
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by ralfd 11mo ago
I guess his fund did obfuscate the selling, or the selloff would have been known before the legally required disclosure.
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by ralfd 11mo ago
This gave me a bit of culture shock. Do American children not dye/paint hard-boiled eggs for easter? Hardboiled eggs are good two weeks at room temperature and 4 weeks in the fridge: https://www-ndr-de.translate.goog/ra
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by ralfd 11mo ago
> In his lecture, Sapolsky alleges that Patterson spontaneously corrects Koko’s signs: “She would ask, ‘Koko, what do you call this thing?’ and [Koko] would come up with a completely wrong sign, and Patterson would say, ‘Oh, stop kidding
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by ralfd 11mo ago
I have a hard time imagining physics. For example take a train moving 100 kmh to the north which wants to reverse direction to the south. It has to break and then accelerate again, a very costly operation. Except when the tracks make a turn
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by ralfd 11mo ago
I have no experience with Swift. > The invalid expression from above, where + was applied to String and Int, is still rejected, however with the new algorithm, it only takes the compiler 2 seconds to reach the limit. I think failing is o
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by ralfd 11mo ago
Joanna Stern is fantastic. I would have expected a discussion about this video but hn is sometimes strange in what is upvoted and what is ignored.
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by ralfd 1y ago
The nominal group in power should be able to deny/allow communication from the space above their country though.
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by ralfd 1y ago
For people never hearing an American say that: It is pronounced "Ar-kan-saw". It is written so strangely because it was named by the French and their stupid silent s.
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by ralfd 1y ago
But is the reverse true? Do you know people who thought “I will try heroin because it is illegal”?
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by ralfd 1y ago
> Empathy involves actively sharing in the person’s emotional experience. hm, i think Fricken has it right: He is actively sharing in the other persons emotional experience, it just is that he is feeling glee about it. Actually the highe
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by ralfd 1y ago
> I do the opposite of the author. I tend to add names to the Phone contacts of people I interact with, even if briefly. This is much much more useful! I don't recognize a phone number of random person 6 month ago.

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