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by stetrain 2y ago
There is a continuum between a human who has heard a lifetime of music and later wrote similar but different music inspired by what they have heard, and a copy machine that directly reproduces (with minor degradation) a copywritten work. Th
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by stetrain 2y ago
iPadOS has a built-in feature called Sidecar that lets you use it as a Mac external display with mouse-apps and all. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102597
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by stetrain 2y ago
The Florida incident wasn't from Crew Dragon, it was "trash" released directly from the ISS: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-space-station-deb...
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by stetrain 2y ago
This is a mission requested by and developed in partnership with NASA, with the service provided by SpaceX. Now the people in Australia or Canada don't have a direct stake in NASA, but it's not just SpaceX doing this on their own.
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by stetrain 2y ago
Some statements from NASA: > After the more recent debris sightings, NASA and SpaceX now acknowledge that improvements are needed. The agency recently stated that initial studies expected the trunk to burn up fully upon reentry. “NASA an
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by stetrain 2y ago
From the dashboard, and the Tesla BMS is fairly accurate as long as you allow it to calibrate at 100% charge occasionally. I have also not seen a noticeable change in my range for actual long distance driving over those years, and I do occa
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by stetrain 2y ago
I have a 5 year old EV with around 95% of its original battery capacity. I think battery degradation of newer EVs will not be the limiting factor in their lifetime or in transitioning from combustion vehicles. Under 1% of EVs from 2016 or n
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by stetrain 2y ago
EVs do better at high altitudes and altitude changes than combustion vehicles. Combustion engines, especially naturally-aspirated ones, lose power at high altitudes due to lower air density for combustion. Combustion vehicles spend just as
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by stetrain 2y ago
Right, but that's true in a combustion vehicle as well, and in the EV you regain energy on the downhill while a combustion vehicle at best continues to consume idle amounts of fuel and wears its brake pads.
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by stetrain 2y ago
This either requires 1) Different swap stations for every brand of car or 2) a majority of car brands agreeing to use a common size, shape, and spec of battery pack across their vehicles. Personally I don't see that becoming a reality
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by stetrain 2y ago
According to NOAA the expected arrival time of tropical storm force winds in Jamaica is 8am-2pm EDT, with hurricane force winds to follow: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov Although it has dropped from Category 5 down to Category 4.
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by stetrain 2y ago
But the 14th amendment didn't actually work in practice. Nearly 100 years later and many states had explicitly racist laws and policies - in some cases supported by the Supreme Court - and those that the 14th amendment were supposed to
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by stetrain 2y ago
There was also a pretty significant constitutional crisis in the middle of that that involved an actual war between states with the deaths of many Americans to settle it. Whether we have adequately updated the constitution along the way to
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by stetrain 2y ago
There is only a mandate for how the electoral votes cast by states determine who becomes president, but now how states cast those votes. Some states cast them all for the popular winner in that state. Some split them proportionately among t
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by stetrain 2y ago
At a certain point in time, building new streetcar lines and "streetcar suburbs" along those lines was fairly common in US cities. Often the property developer and the streetcar operator were the same company or ownership: https:
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by stetrain 2y ago
I agree that there is a limit to the "just charge people what each option costs and let market forces sort it out" capitalist utopian idea. Some are willing to pay large amounts for convenience that causes harm to many others. At
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by stetrain 2y ago
> If you want them to use public transit, make the public transit more convenient and cheaper than driving! So charge drivers for the actual value/cost of the land they park on, the lanes they drive on, the maintenance and infrastr
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by stetrain 2y ago
I think you're talking about the certificate signing stuff which isn't technically the same as cross-compiling. But anyway, the whole topic I brought up is Valve's Proton layer which doesn't require cross-compiling the g
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by stetrain 2y ago
Right, which is why I'd rather Apple accept that their heart isn't really in the PC games business and work to enable Valve or others to handle that experience. My point was Apple could do it themselves, but they haven't, the
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by stetrain 2y ago
In what way is cross compiling not allowed for Mac OS? Proton doesn't require devs to cross compile either. The point is it runs unmodified Windows games on Linux. Apple could be having the same benefits that the Steam Deck is currentl
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by stetrain 2y ago
Apple could do it without Valve. They could actually make a big effort to bring tons of game devs into their store with a system that doesn't require them to modify their games to run on Mac or iOS. But they haven't, and I'm
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by stetrain 2y ago
If Apple would work with Valve to support whatever they need for a Proton equivalent layer for Mac, that would be awesome. The current state is that a large chunk of the few steam games that have been ported to Mac were 32-bit and refuse to
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by stetrain 2y ago
If 95% users don't want it, then Apple should be happy to provide it as an option since nobody will use it and it will have no impact on Apple's business, right?
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by stetrain 2y ago
Just a few years ago the US government imposed a 220% import tariff on imported Bombardier jets to protect domestic commercial airliner manufacturing: https://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/news/us-government-impo... ht
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by stetrain 2y ago
>> re-organizing into worker ownership and control > What makes you think such a system would work better than private or state ownership? Why would private ownership where the majority of shareholders are employees be worse than o
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by stetrain 2y ago
I read someone who retires and "takes up farming" as retiring to a house in a rural location and maintaining a garden and maybe some small quantities of livestock. IE someone who is not depending on the "farm" to be a co
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by stetrain 2y ago
Existing planes continuing to fly doesn't necessarily keep Boeing in business, at least not in their current form. Or do you mean Boeing is so critical to maintaining the existing commercial fleet that they won't be allowed to fai
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by stetrain 2y ago
There are lots of ways to consider "nationalization" but here are some examples. The US temporarily became a majority owner of GM as part of their 2009 bankruptcy. > Through the Troubled Asset Relief Program the US Treasury inv
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by stetrain 2y ago
Would the US actually let Boeing fail currently?
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by stetrain 2y ago
What's threatening? I read that as just wanting their access removed as per policy/procedure, with no special treatment, because that both protects the employer from potential tampering and the employee from accusations of such ta

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