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by russfink 2y ago
All very interesting and the brief is easy for me to read.
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by russfink 2y ago
A lesson in how not to use parentheses in technical writing.
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Starliner's thrusters and parachute systems are to blame(discovermagazine.com)
2 points by russfink 2y ago|2 comments
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by russfink 2y ago
New to me information - I had not heard about the parachute issues.
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by russfink 2y ago
When will AI integrate with argument parsers? ffmpeg —-ai “convert this video to NTSC output and make the audio track quieter” my input.avi
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by russfink 2y ago
Get me open source Jolt and I'll be all over it...
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Why some get Covid and others don't(goodgoodgood.co)
2 points by russfink 2y ago|1 comments
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by russfink 2y ago
Refer to the Nature article linked in the text.
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by russfink 2y ago
I’d make a font with a colored red squiggle over the apostrophe, because so many people misuse apostrophe’s. Cough.
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by russfink 2y ago
Can someone spell out the consequences of a failed thruster? Eg miss the reentry cone and skip off the atmosphere into space?
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by russfink 2y ago
So which is better - producing a mathematically correct ray tracing of an object, or producing what appears to be a mathematically correct ray tracing? Have we entered the age of AI approximations?
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by russfink 2y ago
Some of the diagrams look like “introduction to drafting” assignments from back in the day.
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by russfink 2y ago
Who recorded it and how long did it take? Weeks?
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by russfink 2y ago
It feels like this trick would violate the terms of service...? Caveat: I don't use Cloudflare.
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by russfink 2y ago
Beautiful!
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by russfink 2y ago
I agree, but sadly when officials start trusting, they stop looking, and this opens it up to more widespread cheating.
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by russfink 2y ago
https://youtu.be/KMU0tzLwhbE?si=1df0XsriTET6OWRT Warning - serious ear worm.
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by russfink 2y ago
Still, 19 miles vs 250 miles (and static not 17,500 mph) for the ISS - maybe the balloon passengers feel 0.98g?
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by russfink 2y ago
Can you install a shell? Does it work with MS Secure Boot? If not, what small distro might do that?
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by russfink 2y ago
Shaka, when the walls fell.
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by russfink 2y ago
Think in terms of projections. Take a piece of paper. Poke holes in it to make the word “TEXT.” Face the front of it to the mirror - it’s reversed in the reflection, but in a way that matches the backside of the paper. Hole for hole, they
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by russfink 2y ago
The man with roses is particularly profound. Did he just return from a hospital where his beloved died moments ago?
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by russfink 2y ago
Should we pursue such a simulation in an undersea environment instead? Real stress, real risk, real isolation - but could pull someone up if super urgent. Would also simulate the long voyage to get there.
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by russfink 2y ago
This isn’t Gunnar’s fault. The problem was whomever stored ordered data in a hash file. I have been in this business for decades and I have run into the situation where changing the shape of memory uncovers bugs. Every time it causes many h
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by russfink 2y ago
The definition of irony.
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by russfink 2y ago
Could you explain the URL name?
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by russfink 2y ago
Would love to know how they maintain it, eg replacement parts.
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by russfink 2y ago
One more - 311 miles of airport luggage-like conveyors: would the standard cardboard box survive the many, many hops and interchanges required? Sometimes I think ideas are published so that people in forums such as HN can come up with bette
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by russfink 2y ago
And why a “belt” instead of a custom rail conveyance?
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by russfink 2y ago
Dragon can hold seven, or four, but can it fly with two trained people then return with those plus the two Starliner crew?

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