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by stouset 6d ago
You did, but you aren’t specifying which. “I bought the car” would indicate that you bought a specific one that is jointly understood. In fact, if you had previously talked about a specific car you were thinking about buying, “I bought a
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by stouset 7d ago
What’s particularly interesting to me is that for stars the size of our sun, regular old gas pressure dominates. The sun’s atmosphere is held up essentially just from the temperature (and therefore high kinetic energy) of the plasma. Only o
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by stouset 11d ago
I was more concerned with the latency than the bandwidth.
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by stouset 11d ago
I’m shocked that this is performant enough to work in practice. Isn’t the timing window for VR responsiveness extremely tight?
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by stouset 11d ago
This seems to be the consensus viewpoint but outside of a few highly specific and known-in-advance incompatibilities on work laptops, I have been essentially a day-one adopter since Leopard and I cannot recall any issues that rose above a
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by stouset 11d ago
It doesn’t even matter. The sheer disparity in vulnerabilities over twenty years versus one year is impossible to hand-wave away. We are talking about fourfold more CVEs over a twentyfold reduction in time.
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by stouset 12d ago
There have been twelve CVEs reported against coreutils in the past twenty years. There were forty-four against this project in just the last audit. I am all for RIIR in cases where it makes sense. This does not even remotely appear to be
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by stouset 12d ago
I’m a huge proponent of Rust and generally lean a lot closer to the RIIR mentality than most, but this effort seems to be such a waste of effort and resources. There have been a dozen CVEs reported against all of coreutils in the past twent
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by stouset 12d ago
I love that you think the current administration will actually consider this when deciding whether or not to suck it dry anyway.
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by stouset 13d ago
Umbrella insurance is intended to give you coverage in excess of those numbers.
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by stouset 14d ago
It really is. That's why anyone with an aviation background is absolutely stunned that it happened. So, so, so, so, so many opportunities to avoid this accident were actively ignored and/or bypassed. I said it elsewhere but these
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by stouset 15d ago
The thing I’ve come to appreciate between my first few days in a sim, a lot of sim time, and then actual time behind a yoke is that like a lot of things, landing is peaceful and easy if you’ve done all the prep ahead of time. Which is pre
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by stouset 15d ago
There were quite literally multiple warning alarms that went off that should have automatically triggered this exact response.
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by stouset 15d ago
Yeah, time in this type could be argued as a reason they weren’t properly configured or on a stable approach, but that is exactly why go-arounds exist. Mistakes happen, errors get made, so you go TOGA, fly a holding pattern until you get so
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by stouset 15d ago
My response was to your point about “fighting over the controls”, as if there would have been a tug of war on the yoke as the FO tried to wrest control of the plane from the captain which is nonsense. If anything, it would have been yet on
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by stouset 15d ago
Including the complete failure of the FO to act assertively, order a go-around, and to take the controls when it was clear the captain was not responding appropriately. If this had happened and the captain had fought over the controls and s
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by stouset 15d ago
“My controls” is something every single pilot has heard since day 1 of training and has a learned, immediate response to.
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by stouset 15d ago
“Go around. My controls.” Four words said by the pilot monitoring that any pilot flying will understand and react automatically to.
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by stouset 15d ago
If we don’t create the torment nexus first, someone less responsible will build the torment nexus. The only ethical choice is for us to create the torment nexus before anyone else.
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by stouset 15d ago
That was quite literally a realistic threat we by all accounts narrowly avoided. There were multiple cases where a single person overrode procedure and used their judgment to avoid nuclear catastrophe.
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by stouset 15d ago
> I think we'll find throttling to G-A and then aborting the G-A caused the crash. Not even a chance.
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by stouset 15d ago
This sounds about right to me, so I upvoted.
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by stouset 15d ago
Nope! Far, far longer. I don’t know the specifics that the GP used but Andromeda is about 2,500,000ly away. An observer on Earth must perceive you as taking more than 2,500,000 years to get there, as you would have to have exceeded the sp
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by stouset 15d ago
People who voluntarily choose to get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle while intoxicated are not, in fact, good people.
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by stouset 15d ago
In any aviation incident, it’s generally a good idea to wait for the full NTSB report before drawing any firm conclusions. That said, it is exceedingly difficult to find any explanation for what happened in this case that doesn’t boil dow
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by stouset 15d ago
If I understand correctly, the only thing you need to do for correctness is express your axioms and your theorems faithfully. For standard purposes, I assume most of the axioms you want to use are prior art and can be easily reused. These a
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by stouset 16d ago
Relativity is weird. If you keep accelerating, at some point the objects stop accelerating toward you faster but the distances get shorter. To an outside observer, the trip might have taken you millions or billions of years while to you i
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by stouset 16d ago
I would argue that the tech being top notch doesn’t mean it isn’t what’s holding it back. The tech just isn’t there yet. Apple tends to wait until it is.
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by stouset 16d ago
Bordering on zero human drivers fit that profile. The competition to AVs isn’t a mythical race of flawless humans. It’s the drunk, speeding, distracted idiots who currently operate motor vehicles (e.g., us).
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by stouset 16d ago
Okay, so it’s functionally identical. Got it.

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