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by samplatt 4y ago
My previous boss (we were in the civil construction industry) has been saying for years that we are on the cusp of an industry-shattering breakthrough with generative engineering. We should be able to, by now, input terrain maps, account
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>playing Artemis, was put the "engineering" station in another room, with walkie-talkies so you had to actually "call down to engineering" to ask them to do things I love this idea for realism (and, tbh, to minimise t
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Most televisions only render at one resolution; they don't have the ability to dynamically resize the "window" of the player. I've always just assumed upscaling on the TV is just the same as fullscreening VLC on a large
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I'm guessing that a co-op wouldn't use the same industrial corrosive washing that larger agri-corps do; it'd be a lot closer to how the rest of the world washes their eggs.
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>Lately, I find myself using more and more plugins to make the "modern web" tolerable. Once upon a time, we used programs to guard against malware. AdAware, ccleaner, a whole bunch of them. I feel so old calling them "prog
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Going off heresay here, but I believe in the US, "washing" the eggs involves a high-acid solution that removes many of the layers that would otherwise keep bacteria and other bugs out. It's also the reason eggs are a such uni
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>I'm a HUGE space nerd and never heard of this. What else do I have no idea about?? Check out the Great Annihilator. Two black holes near our galactic core feeding off each other.
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I prefer: Why words, when word?
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What was the reason you chose to evolve yours for?
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Yeah, but if you don't have the standard Midwestern Accent, you're fucked. As an Australian I'd estimate that ~70% of everything has an error in the transcription.
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Most (80% was the number I saw) large bunker-oil engines with scrubbers installed simply dump the removed sulphides into the sea as wastewater instead of venting it into the atmosphere. Not to mention the colossal amounts of carbon-related
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As a WA-native I was aware Egan was from Perth, and though my respect for his desire for privacy always wins out over the cult-of-personality, I'm still kinda chuffed I live in the same remote city as a favourite author. (And, though I
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That looks like exactly what I was looking for, cheers. Windows auto-identifies the download as a virus, but I see the author has a page about this frustration on the website.
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I've been running a PiHole for a couple of years now and love it. It's hard to go on anyone else's network.
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General question for the class... Is there any way to stop this? Is there some entries we can add to the hosts file so that Windows and Office will instantly return as failed, rather than timing out?
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>but 'artistry' is one of the few categories of human endeavor where passion is encouraged by society to be followed almost to the detriment of the artist themselves. I'd say that almost everyone that works for a living ha
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Man, I gotta try reading the harder Greg Egan novels again. I'm fine with the biological and even some of the topographical stuff, but when he starts basing character development on actually visualising shifting through orthogonal dime
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>0.01g will get you to 0.1c in under a century Okay, cool, but that's TWO centuries including the flip-&-burn halfway through. Also, an NSTAR thruster gives 0.000092 m/s2 for a single-ton payload. That'll take roughly
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>Project Daedalus That's not a manned craft, which is what we've been talking about so far. It also doesn't have the deceleration stage - Daedalus would flyby Barnard's Star at 12% the speed of light. If you hit a roc
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I suspect you're getting ion propulsion confused with nuclear fusion. In order for deuterium and tritium to be useful for fusion, you're going to need kilograms of it, not individual atoms. And tritium is required to be radioactiv
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>A century ago, almost everyone thought that stepping on a divine body like the moon is absolutely impossible for humanity. A century ago we DEFINITELY conceived of visiting a divine body. 121 years ago a science fiction movie about land
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Certainly uncontaminated by higher lifeforms.
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The Quest has a fairly low refresh rate, which is one of the main barriers to delivering a product that doesn't make you sick. Back when Carmack was leading the tech dev, they came out with a rule saying that they needed a working mini
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>That's 1980s China, not 2020s China. HOOOO , boy. Are you wrong there. Major cities sure, and they're improving as a whole, but SO much of China's heavy-industrial and rural provinces are still run on and over systems th
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>IA.BAK has been broken and unmaintained since about December 2016. The above status page is not accurate as of December 2019. :-(
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Muphry's Law is a thing :-) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
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That's one of the most Vonnegut things I've ever read. Delightful.
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Man, reading comprehension is a funny old bugger. You can be intelligent and literate and educated and genuinely whip-smart and Muphry's Law will still fuck you the second you look away.
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Interesting. I was under the impression that YouTube creators hate the lack of transparent moderation and have been moving to other platforms - often, like TikTok.
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It's using a [Matterport camera]( https://www.amazon.com.au/Matterport-Professional-Experience... ) - they capture from 3 vertical directions (+45.deg, level, and -45.deg), and then rotates in a circle. Though the techni

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