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by restalis 2y ago
For people comparing this to existing solutions: this is an open-source work, ready for anyone with chip production capability, with no product licensing involved or due royalties to be paid. And, given chip's simplicity, the productio
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by restalis 2y ago
This doesn't make sense. I, for one (transitioning to Linux usage only gradually), haven't been aware of the systemd and its criticism, and I'm grateful for the info. Then, the informed users can vote with their feet. Things
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by restalis 2y ago
Still, the machinery gets more eyeballs and scrutiny to how it works than what some Joe's given codebase does, so chances are that the cause of failure will be somewhere on Joe's side. Then, the code will still need to be debugged
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by restalis 2y ago
"until the code evolves [...]" That is already a desirable place to be, where you managed to get a working implementation ready to evolve. My issue with opinionated languages like Rust is that they make development more expensiv
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by restalis 2y ago
Can't those "more subtle costs" be pulled out of the product cost itself and offered or at least expressed separately? Say customer support, if it'd be offered as a paid service instead of "free" as in baked-in
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by restalis 2y ago
"Efficient" in the economical sense, that is. Unless, the civilization covers a very wide area (basically everywhere in there, for light years around the impending supernova) and the protection amounted for each and every civiliza
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by restalis 2y ago
"It would also not be re-orientable, so any "telescope" launched to that location would only be able to observe a single target." I just presume that such observation spacecraft makes sense to be made as a rather long
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by restalis 2y ago
The most expensive part is to support the risk and cost of research & development. Sure, that renders you the first place for a while, but expect others to move easier (and thus faster) after you marked the trail.
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by restalis 2y ago
"When Musk first proposed this, I thought he was crazy." "Is there a word for that - something out of fiction becoming mundane?" Musking?
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by restalis 2y ago
"instead of using $100,000+ radiation-hardened aerospace/defense grade chips" Well, that makes perfect sense considering that both the spaceport infrastructure, and the booster need to do their calculation on the ground lev
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by restalis 2y ago
To me, it's not risk reduction that they're after with that booster catching mechanism, but weight reduction. Those landing legs that we've seen before (and the mechanism related to them) are costly weight that is absolutely
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by restalis 2y ago
"dealing with the control tower" I know little to nothing about GA, but... it only makes sense to take time if the procedures are still done somehow manually, like speaking with human operators out there. It true, the dependence
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by restalis 2y ago
"Without microorganisms, nothing rots." That is not (quite) true. The lifeless bodies of flora and fauna won't rot, but they will decay. Macro-molecules (like proteins), the basis for all life, are fragile and easy to brea
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by restalis 2y ago
The most relevant (practical) questions to me are, how does this capacitor behave long-term? How does it fare over a large number of charge/discharge cycles? I'd like to assume that, since it's not a battery, thus not based o
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by restalis 3y ago
"keep in mind that silicon wafers are still quite expensive and probably too expensive for human scale objects" That is wrong. The expensive part in silicon chip production is the process. It's just that hard to make workin
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by restalis 3y ago
Well, the U.S. did intervened (through the Dutch government) in the ASML business, hurting their sales already, with no (disclosed) compensation.
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by restalis 3y ago
"Don’t allow arbitrary abbreviations of subcommands. [...] you allowed them to type any non-ambiguous prefix, like mycmd ins, or even just mycmd i, and have it be an alias for mycmd install. Now you’re stuck: you can’t add any more co
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by restalis 4y ago
Think about what it would mean to endeavor into project of reviving an extinct species. Not a bacteria or some worm, but one of the most complex organisms as target. This by all accounts is a monumental task, never-done-before kind of stuff
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by restalis 4y ago
Not the OP, but my experience when I had interviews and worked on improvement wasn't that much on technical side as it was on "soft skills" that had a bigger impact on the interview outcome than I was previously willing to ad
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by restalis 4y ago
"As an aside, static code analyzers are not able to provide the same kind of guarantees rustc does to arbitrary C++." Yes, and now the question becomes - is this due to hard limitations of the C++ as a language (in the sense tha
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by restalis 4y ago
Besides what I've already said about Rust in the past¹, the only thing that I understand Rust has over C++ is additional cross-checks, performed at every compilation. In C++ these kind of additional expensive operations are covered b
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by restalis 4y ago
Also, the robot voice. A while ago, SF movies were projecting robot voices easily distinguishable from human ones. I made peace with the idea that I'd hear something in line with those vocal timbres when the time would come, but nowada
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by restalis 4y ago
That "safe (by default)" aspect of a given programming language isn't free. It's similar to the security of a system that comes at the expense of its usability. The direction C++ developed itself was to provide performan
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by restalis 4y ago
"Occasionally I force myself to actually work on some of the projects I've daydreamed and planned out (forced, because for some reason that part is much less innately interesting to me than the planning and conceptualizing, even
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by restalis 4y ago
"There are alternative ways to make plastics ( https://hempplastic.com/ ), and hemp is just one example." Hmm... Thanks for sharing! Regarding bio-plastic, (from my once attended school chemistry class) I only kne
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by restalis 4y ago
"Similarly, there is no simple way to decarbonize plastic production, and the measures will range from plant feedstocks to more recycling and to substitutions by other materials." Isn't this the area that it made the most s
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by restalis 4y ago
"So even if we left these critical industries untouched, we could still reduce fossil fuel consumption by 83%" I think these industries are not the most challenging ones about finding carbon-free alternative solutions. One of th
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by restalis 4y ago
From the article: "if the black hole’s temperature is high, the radiation is composed of all elementary particles, photons, electrons, quarks, and so on. It’s really unhealthy. And a small black hole converts energy into a lot of thos
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by restalis 5y ago
This seems to be one of those discoveries that happen to have the potential of changing a lot the world as we know it. Yes, the electronic consumer gagets that we carry around with us may be engineered to consume their battery more efficien
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by restalis 5y ago
Something even more impressive, IMHO, from the same source: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-brain-implant-has-allowed-a-b... It's Star Trek like technology (think TNG series' Geordi La Forge).

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