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by tbabb 7y ago
Sure, but it's still a maladaptation to a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place.
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by tbabb 7y ago
15". It's a good 1.5" from the right arrow key to the edge.
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by tbabb 7y ago
Seconded. I frequently mistype L/R as up/down, and this is infuriating when striking 'command' + arrow to go to the beginning/end of the line (an extremely common op for me), and instead going to the top/
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by tbabb 7y ago
> the more remote your location the further you likely are from the nearest ground station I thought downlinks were going to be pizza box-sized antennae. Why would it be far away from you? That could live on your roof.
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by tbabb 7y ago
I do wonder if that fairing endeavor will come out net positive over the lifetime of Falcon. They paid for a specialized boat to catch the things, and iterated on the boat design several times. Starship is the real reusability project; Falc
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by tbabb 7y ago
So carriers are responsible for policing the content of calls? I can think of no more blatant way to ruin net neutrality.
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by tbabb 7y ago
> Timezones are already an abstraction that separates clock noon and solar noon. In places, clock noon and solar noon are already forever an hour or more apart even during standard time. Sometimes even places with the same longitude are
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by tbabb 7y ago
So we can change the fundamental time system, but a business changing its hours from 9am to 8am is impossible?
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by tbabb 7y ago
> if the sun sets later The sun sets when it sets. We are choosing what clock label to put on that moment. Getting up an hour earlier and thinking of the same clock position as "later in the day" is exactly the same as using DS
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by tbabb 7y ago
Using permanent DST instead of ST means: - Clock noon and solar noon are one hour apart, forever - It's the same thing as rotating the clock labels for all the time zones by one step, all around the Earth We are choosing what label t
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by tbabb 7y ago
Let me know when you find any near a major city!
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by tbabb 7y ago
Setting aside the economic infeasibility of a 2000 foot hole, the rocket's gonna have to fly out of it at some point.
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by tbabb 7y ago
I don't follow. What's the hole for?
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by tbabb 7y ago
At 13 miles distance, a Starship-size rocket is ~65dB, which is about as loud as a vacuum cleaner, and is the FAA noise limit for residential neighborhoods near major airports. Near the rocket, the loudness is over 200dB, which the essentia
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by tbabb 7y ago
This is not happening soon. Safety/redundancy of rockets (including SpaceX's) compared to airliners is abysmal—about five orders of magnitude worse. With passenger manifests in the hundreds (necessary for the economics to work), a
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by tbabb 7y ago
> Does that second option make any sense? No, because the hacked sites only display the fraudulent content to web crawlers, and explicitly hide it from legitimate users.
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by tbabb 7y ago
It's nearly impossible in the US to vote for a candidate based on policy instead of party, due to the twin dangers of split majorities and Keynesian beauty contests (a.k.a., the need to choose for "electability"). The only re
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by tbabb 7y ago
Yes, but it's not everything. You've got two and a half of the original four criteria there: > An individual of an species has to initiate the production of another individual ️^ reproduction > of the same species It depends
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by tbabb 7y ago
> Species must consist of "individuals" who join in pairs Where did you get pairs from? If the Pikachus reproduced by binary fission (splitting in half and then growing a new half, like cells do), or had 18 genders, they would
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by tbabb 7y ago
I assume by "spreading" you mean that the Pikachus can reproduce? Can they mutate? If so, then they satisfy all four boxes and they count as life. If the Pikachus are made of cells, they'll certainly mutate/vary, since t
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by tbabb 7y ago
I'd say yes. Note that "alive" by the given definition doesn't imply "conscious" or "intelligent" (though that is certainly logically possible for software too, though I doubt that has happened yet).
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by tbabb 7y ago
> or a single "mother" creature How did the "mother" creature come to be? By what mechanism did its complexity emerge? There is no known or plausible mechanism by which complex life can arise without evolution, and te
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by tbabb 7y ago
Life is that which is subject to Darwinian evolution. That definition catches every single thing you'd call life, excludes all the things that clearly aren't, disambiguates some grey cases, and illuminates one or two new phenomena
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by tbabb 7y ago
That is different from prioritizing imagined, hypothetical injustice over real, actual injustice. Something obviously bad happens, and everyone falls over themselves to correct and defend not the bad thing that just happened, but a thing
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by tbabb 7y ago
I think it's very interesting how, despite knowing nearly nothing about the situation, everyone here is quick to doubt the victim, and make up scenarios (for which there is zero evidence) where the harasser is the victim.
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by tbabb 7y ago
There's legal precedent that public figures blocking constituents on social media amounts to a first amendment violation, so that idea may actually hold water. Naturally that only applies for government officials; the first amendment d
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by tbabb 7y ago
I bet it'll work. First, I think most of the time the hidden content is going to be very low-quality (and thus not gratifying to explore), rather than "juicy", and users will quickly learn that. Second, it puts a huge damper
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by tbabb 7y ago
Lab is not energy linear, and if you're doing rendering/illumination, you won't want to use Lab (unless you're deliberately trying to stylize). It is designed to be a good model of human color perception, not the physics
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by tbabb 7y ago
This is why I much prefer the Lab color space over HSV or HSL— it's much better suited to interpolation and mixing. The critical properties are: * It's a vector space, so mixing colors means mathematically mixing the components. T

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