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“250mph” AVERAGE speed. Most cars take off at that speed.
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> Designs that distribute props across the leading endge, or right on the leading edge of the rudder, are exciting From a purely aesthetic point of view, pusher props are way cooler. If the wings are far back and the plane has canards, e
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Wings can also be excellent for heat rejection - in-wing batteries have a lot of surface per unit of volume and are constantly exposed to low temperatures. Which may result in them being too cold and you needing to spend power heating them,
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Relativistic Lightsail Propulsion Dynamics(arxiv.org)
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A less traveled road to a cool story would be that, while dreaming, you are experiencing unfiltered realities from many nearby timelines simultaneously (hence the fluidity of the reality of dreams, where things change from a moment to the n
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> Well, sure, it's a computer of sorts Mostly analog, with some threshold-triggered functions and lots of weighted adders and maybe multipliers. > but how much else will matter remains to be seen! Indeed, and the similarities bet
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Whistleblower warns about USPS plan for Trump mail voting order(npr.org)
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Lekuo SouthBridge Max Puts an AMD B650 Chipset onto a PCIe Card for More I/O(phoronix.com)
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If we can skip the Thiel version of Hell, we really should.
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It is important because it keeps knowledge fresh. When knowledge goes stale you can no longer make things, and evolutionary paths are restricted to variations of what exists at that time. You can miss global maxima because there is no easy
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China plays the long game. They don’t worry about midterms.
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> they preferred "autographed" stuff, "prestige" items That’s sad. Maybe other museums would be more enlightened. In the end, unless the museum is well funded by a government grant or something similar, it’ll need to
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Not all computer museums fail - there are a few that have endured. The one in Mountain View, for instance, is a direct continuation of the one from Boston. A lot of very nice computer collections are parts of bigger ones in larger, less spe
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PEP 843 – Export Statement for DRY Re-exports – peps.python.org(peps.python.org)
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The IBM PC, Part 2: Tsunami – Creatures of Thought(technicshistory.com)
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Python Software Foundation News: 2026-psf-board-election-candidate-interview(pyfound.blogspot.com)
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The State of Django 2026: Boring is so back – The JetBrains Blog(blog.jetbrains.com)
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> I believe they implied other means may result in quicker conflict resolution. Making wars unending quagmires is an excellent form of preventing them. Had Putin known how bad it would turn out, I doubt an invasion would be his option of
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I wish we could manufacture these things again. Preserving the ability to build obsolete machines is important.
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And there was a nuclear war as well. I know that, and I’m happy it’s not often we explore that in detail or treat the “dark age of Star Trek” as something that could be normalised. It’s always portrayed as a barbaric time humanity escaped f
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On the HFS+ side, you should probably not be using HFS+ anymore. Not supporting encrypted file systems is one way to reduce the maintenance cost of keeping a file system before phasing it out definitely. It’s nice they do that in phases at
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Cerebras's Next Generation CS-4: Fast Just Got Faster(newsletter.semianalysis.com)
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The Space Review: The Soviet space program as seen from Washington, 1964–1968(thespacereview.com)
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It turns out that Orion's much-maligned heat shield performed well(arstechnica.com)
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> not something like this When all you make are hammers, all your enemies look like nails.
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This is kind of why we need more Star Trek. Not that I don’t enjoy others, but I prefer space communism to almost any other possible future, especially the ones Peter Thiel has reserved for us.
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Wearing one is like wearing The One Ring. You are invisible to your hobbit friends, but the Nazgûl can see you from the other side of the world. It’s perfect for attracting the attention you want the least.
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Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept(aviationweek.com)
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The IBM PC, Part 2: Tsunami – Creatures of Thought(technicshistory.com)
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Private group wants to launch "cheapest possible" mission to Alpha Centauri(arstechnica.com)
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