robonerd

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by robonerd 4y ago
Having thousands of boost-phase interceptors already in LEO actually puts a real damper on anybody trying to do something about it, the economics of the game favor whoever implements such a system first. They will be able to use large roc
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think there's little doubt that tons of soot and ash in the upper atmosphere can cause periods of global cooling. The problem with the nuclear winter hypothesis is in the link between nuclear war and tons of soot in the stratospher
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by robonerd 4y ago
> what's your risk tolerance? That's the key question the whole matter hangs on, but there's no objective answer for it. Neil Armstrong privately estimated his chance for successfully returning to earth at 90%. That&#x
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by robonerd 4y ago
It's not clear what exactly you mean by physical interference, but either way I think you're mistaken. Starlink is already proving the viability of launching huge constellations of fairly large (a ton or so) LEO satellites. If
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by robonerd 4y ago
Nuclear Winter has been generally discredited by modern modelling. The whole premise was likely politically motivated by scientists who wanted to make nuclear war less likely to occur, by dissuading politicians with this yarn. (A true nob
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by robonerd 4y ago
It's nothing new. There were numerous classifieds Shuttle missions 30+ years ago that are still classified. People have more or less figured out what these missions were, but they're still classified and and a lot of the details
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by robonerd 4y ago
WW3 will likely make a mess of orbit, particularly LEO. However most of the debris that intersects LEO will decay in the order of years to tens of years. After the war (assuming anybody is in any shape to be sending stuff to space in the
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by robonerd 4y ago
> If you intentionally [...] knowing [...] knowing This hardly seems relevant to mosquitos.
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by robonerd 4y ago
You're not cooking hundreds of recipes at once; I'd just convert them when I need them.
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by robonerd 4y ago
If you're simply trying to follow volumetric recipes, then volume-to-mass conversions are useless because you'd be trying to follow the recipe with more precision than the person who wrote the recipe in the first place. It's
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by robonerd 4y ago
You mean they have "names and addresses"? I fear that if/when the masses wake up and start anti-tech pogroms, they won't be discriminating. Such mob actions are rarely precisely targeted; they'll come for programme
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by robonerd 4y ago
As is often the case, preventative maintenance is a lot cheaper than remediation. It's easier to safely dismantle a tree that is dying but not yet rotting. If you ignore the problem for too long, that's when things fall on your
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by robonerd 4y ago
You need an extension and some sort of shim script for it to work, but it's well worth it in my opinion.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Then use them.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I already have "Provide search suggestions" turned off. It's pulling both of these suggestions out of my browser history. The order firefox uses for suggestions pulled from your history is inconsistent. When searching you
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by robonerd 4y ago
> if you want example.com, type exam in the awesomebar and example.bar will show up in suggestions I just tried it. I have example.com in my history, and typed "exam". Example.com is the second thing firefox suggests. Be
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Brave have added in-browser Torrent Useless bloat. Dedicated torrent clients are made better and work better. > TOR Interesting, but the popular advice is to only use the Tor Browser. I don't know if that's good adv
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by robonerd 4y ago
> A rational interpretation of the question "are you rational?" is if you are rational relative to other humans, not that you are a theoretically perfect rational being. Experience with people who tout their own rationality h
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by robonerd 4y ago
Between sponsorblock and ublock origin, I never see ads or paid promotions on youtube or any other website like that. That mostly leaves [presumably] unpaid promotion of Mullvad on sites like HN.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Video heavy sites, especially YouTube. Right-click -> Open With mpv It's a pain in the ass, but the performance gap is immense. On a desktop I wouldn't bother, but on my laptop this has a real impact on battery life.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Most VPN providers you typically see pushed are very suspect at best. Ironically (I hope?), Mullvad is by far the one I see pushed the most.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Firefox's address bar always seems to show me example.com/xyz when I want example.com, but shows me example.com when I want example.com/xyz. Furthermore, sometimes the "switch to tab" suggestion is at the top, and
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by robonerd 4y ago
Everything and everyone.
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by robonerd 4y ago
The best anybody can aspire to is being rational some of the time; no human is rational all of the time. Anybody who thinks they're rational all the time is only demonstrating just how irrational they are, by believing something so ir
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by robonerd 4y ago
He's talking about trees , not lumber. A nice healthy mature oak in the backyard is a thousand times nicer than a scrawny sapling that might give you shade in 20 years if it survives that long. The flipside is that sometimes the matu
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by robonerd 4y ago
The small and good ones all go to shit eventually. Eventually the karma-addicts figure out how to pander for points and turn the subreddit into a flanderization of itself, using a torrent of low-effort nominally on-topic posts intentioned
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by robonerd 4y ago
> The media generally reported the numbers [...] pretty accurately. What part of "I don't doubt the statistics." did you not understand? > "I leave it to you as to..." Oh gee, thanks your permission to t
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by robonerd 4y ago
No, that would be observed through media, not personally observed. Perhaps, re-read my comment?
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Designing the most wheel-chair inaccessible building that meets all accessibility codes! > btw guys this isn't really about accessibility guidelines it's just about, uh, the importance of not relying on those guidelines, o
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by robonerd 4y ago
Biological life confined to a single solar system: If it happened once, it could happen twice. Post-biological life: There is presently no evidence of it happening even once.

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