sigstoat

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by sigstoat 6y ago
zero.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
these are a PITA to crimp. :(
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> So to ops point, there are alternatives to using salt, even with near-freezing temperatures. in my experience here in colorado, the most commonly chosen alternative is "do nothing". they dump the gravel/sand stuff out so
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by sigstoat 6y ago
indeed. i'm leaning on that "at least" pretty hard. i figured establishing that you'd have to spend as much as the prefab'd hardware cost in order to get something that isn't warrantied, and would be the first
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Anyone have a good argument why we can't get $10 per month high speed internet in rural areas in the USA? do you have any idea how much it costs to dig a trench? look up a calculator for figuring out the present value of a perpetu
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Seems like there's an opportunity to produce an open-source SpaceX compatible antenna that someone could build themselves. you'd need at least $400 of test equipment to check that the >$100 of parts were working right, and
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> would only be lowering the orbit indirectly. you know, in the wildly hypothetical world where this was implemented, i don't think the folks cutting the check would mind if you deorbited things directly, or indirectly.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> If you want to lower its orbit, you need to push it back. if you want to lower its orbit, you probably need to take a lot of complicated stuff in to account which doesn't fit into a comment. i won't charge the orbital dynamac
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Sorry to be pedantic, but modern rifle muzzle velocities are in the 1.2km/s range what caliber do you have in mind for that?
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Assuming you manage to grab a hold of debris without ripping off even tiny parts, how would you dispose of it? You'd need to deorbit it and you need a working engine for that. meet up with the debris, reorient yourself and the deb
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Nothing implied not being able to afford a $10 part. take a pill. it was a joke about the price about the blackmagic hardware. > I would also stipulate that someone with a BMD 6K camera has other cameras as well. no kidding.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
you can use the same software this guy was using, and take multiple photos and stack them https://www.heliconsoft.com the comment you're replying to was pointing out that using a camcorder and extracting stills from the vid
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> The first thing human beings did after discovering nuclear energy was use it for mass murder this is nothing but FUD designed to evoke a connection to death. technology isn't responsible for what its used for, and any negative pas
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> it just reminded me how far we have gotten away from buying beautiful handmade things that will last forever, and going with junk make in the cheapest country. selection bias. all the cheap junk your grandparents bought was disposed of
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by sigstoat 6y ago
and: if it is fine for Alice to sell those shares, what if Hertz is willing to sell them for less than Alice? Should Bob have to pay Alice's higher price for a worthless thing, to avoid some immorality happening?
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> We largely did in the US. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/12/americans-spend-over-1000-do...
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Once this is filled a bit, he can use that with some heuristics to estimate the data. how many inputs do you need before the heuristics start letting you guess than a function with 128 bits of input is a 64 bit multiply? and if the inp
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by sigstoat 6y ago
calling someone's book suggestion an "advertisement" is rude, and inaccurate. taleb wouldn't pay anyone to suggest his book when he could instead just show up here and insult everyone for free.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
can they own our food production infrastructure? how about our clothing industry? home construction? those all represent far more fundamental human needs than communication.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> -regulating ISPs as a free market is, to be hyperbolic, a disaster. there is effectively a monopoly in most parts of the country. starlink is changing that, as these articles and letters are being written.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> The existing companies are pulling out all the stops to try and keep from being decommissioned for as long as possible since, from their perspective, that capital investment is a sunk cost and the longer it runs the higher the profits
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by sigstoat 6y ago
while the comment you're replying to didn't make a distinction, i'll make the distinction that that was a nuclear weapons production facility (run by the federal government). further, some of it was constructed during WWII fo
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> run by for profit organisations, where cutting corners will at some level be appreciated to ensure the bottom line as though government bureaucrats and congressmen don't like coming in under budget, future consequences be damned.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Does anyone honestly think the United States has institutions sound enough to safely manage nuclear power over multiple decades? if US institutions can't manage nuclear power, what else can't they manage?
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by sigstoat 6y ago
i adore hugin, but it can just absolutely fall off a cliff in some cases. i was recently trying to get it to figure out the alignment of four separate cameras. i gave it a bunch of images from them, with all sorts of nice calibration target
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Living with anyone beats being out on the street a lot of folks on the street disagree
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> As an employee, you probably are close to last in line behind most of the other creditors, and may have to just write off that last (missed) paycheck. you're simply making things up. stop it. you can look up the hierarchy of credi
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> I know programmers are insulated and have a very warped view of the world look in the mirror. most businesses aren't giant megacorps owned by folks with yachts. and, hell, the megacorps? large chunks of them are owned by folks wit
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> the animators are seeing none of that money yet they are a core part of why the show is successful. and the animators of shows that flop still got paid something. if you want upside risk, you have to be exposed to downside risk.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> So they were going to lose money no matter what, and did it in the least-impact way possible (let the fruit rot). and at least that option might help fertilize their fields for next season.

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