restalis

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by restalis 5y ago
"So why is everyone complaining? What is everyone aspiring for?" I can only speak for myself here, but I know it's a valid point for many that followed the same path I did. The work I come about to do requires constant and
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by restalis 5y ago
I use the quote separator for digit grouping on any occasion, i.e. also outside of computer code. There, we usually have non-monospaced fonts, for which the use of underscores is glaringly uglier compared to use of single quotes. I don&#x27
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by restalis 5y ago
C++ has (albeit only since version 14) the single quote as digit separator, which is (IMHO) a better choice: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/integer_literal
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by restalis 5y ago
The wells would recharge even without Earth's existing surrounding heat reserves. Moon (and Sun) induced tidal forces do manifest not only in the body of water but also in the Earth's crust, and the resulting tension/friction
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by restalis 5y ago
People will read, but only up until it gets too much or abusive of their attention. Error messages can be cryptic and cause some mental trashing until the reader realized her bad investment of attention, gives up, and makes a mental note to
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by restalis 5y ago
"If the objects are real, and (big) if they are violating the laws of physics as we know them, that means that our understanding of physics needs to be revised. Physics is physics." One little issue here though. The current unde
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by restalis 5y ago
I'd say that the surface of attack here is the industrial equipment's link to general computing equipment (which it's expected to be less secure). The solution just can't be to secure the whole world of software that may
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by restalis 5y ago
"this kind of rigidity is not part of our tech culture" Yes and no. "No" because there are best practices and bits of midleware that although may still get improvement over time, receive nevertheless fewer and fewer ch
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by restalis 5y ago
"And they can only build the aircraft they are certified to, using the same certified components, and the same certified tools." And that level of rigor is appropriate for the stakes that selling mass produced commercial aircraf
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by restalis 5y ago
"And yet it's just as plausible that the moon landings, like this circumnavigation of Africa, could have simply been a momentary flex of a civilisation at the height of its powers, not to be repeated for thousands of years."
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by restalis 5y ago
"Fluidics has been used for years in industry however. Both in automation and for vector control on Jet engines and other areas with high temperatures." Here on Earth we assume that the areas with extreme conditions can be conta
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by restalis 5y ago
What I can tell as an engineer, is that the main issue boils down to the level of maturity for the technologies you mention in your writing. It's not enough to have publications demonstrating feasibility, as from labs to field applicat
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by restalis 6y ago
We have months because there is a big celestial body close to our planet that helped humans track long-scale time since before any formalized time system, so we had to fit it in, but on Mars? Even though there are Phobos & Deimos (which
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by restalis 6y ago
"a Martian colony would still need to care significantly about the seasons and time of day" Sure, in most if not all of the places future humans may come to inhabit, the celestial bodies will obviously have a strong influence on
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by restalis 6y ago
I understand the appeal of having time tracking systems related to easy noticeable celestial bodies movement, but when such enlargement to a multi-planetary context happen, it makes more sense to think of an entirely new system altogether.
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by restalis 6y ago
I imagine that from engineering POV, having self-replicating cells that will also do the useful work won't be optimal. This self-contained single-cell system was the only one that could work in the wild initially, but after a while eve
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by restalis 6y ago
Just think about the mass of all microscopic organisms outside the labs that suffer mutations all the time. Worrying about innocuous bacteria turning into something bad on accident within comparatively very limited environment of a laborato
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by restalis 6y ago
Maybe that's the beauty of it. Maybe now's exactly the propitious time to play fast and lose with these things. The world today is more prepared than it has ever been - the overall impact may not even register as an independent ev
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by restalis 6y ago
As all engineering, it boils down to requirements. Mycoplasmata, from which JCVI-syn3A has been developed, is reported to "survive without oxygen", which means that it's not necessarily a "pure" anaerobic organism.
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by restalis 6y ago
"I've no idea how long a typical Suez transit is." For yachts it is (supposed to be) two days. It's one day to Ismailia on either way and then one for the rest. (The paperwork however, may take longer, but can be arran
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by restalis 6y ago
"What use do you think the UN should have? Should it be like a military force?" "UN's purpose never was and never has been to confront nations or blocks" That's funny, because Wikipedia tells us that UN &quot
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by restalis 6y ago
"all humans are some measure of weird, its just a question of how much, and in what way" This is true. However, from a similar (mild form, partially dealt with) ASD observer point of view, I also noticed that the said peculiarit
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by restalis 6y ago
Talking about the cost for a line of code is like talking about the cost for a line of blueprint design. Forcing cost evaluations for non trivial problems is like forcing a curved surface onto a plain map. It may be considered doable if adm
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by restalis 6y ago
"In some sense, we're all parasites on plants, that in turn feed on the energy delivered by the giant fusion reactor in the middle of our solar system." I think that's wrong. By definition, a parasite interacts with a
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by restalis 6y ago
"cause income inflation. It will eat away at the wealth of the rich far faster than taxation would and they can't run away" I'm not sure what "income inflation" is, so assuming it's just currency inflati
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by restalis 6y ago
You're right that the destruction of equipment and loss of material resources in general is a failure that could have been prevented with a more cautious approach, but that's not the entire picture. Another resource, one that Mr.
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by restalis 6y ago
Landing may not have been one of the primary objectives, but it clearly was an objective, since they didn't just let it crash at will after having completed the flight maneuvers.
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by restalis 6y ago
"We are not rich enough to buy cheap stuff." - I'll promote this too, whenever I can, as long as I'll have expensive stuff to sell. As for friends and family, it's just "lean to quality" (not necessarily t
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by restalis 6y ago
You're a visionary, and I'm so glad reading you rise the gravity issue. When it comes to it, this consideration and the whole extraterrestrial direction-setting exercise, as simple and rational I expect it to go when I speak with
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by restalis 6y ago
There will be a lot of factors constantly perturbing the trajectories, so lacking the ability to take corrective actions should be out of the question. Unless something happens too close to the point of contact, I expect the situations to b

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