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by thworp 4y ago
That section is very short and very general when compared to the rest of the very detailed analysis. I know a tiny bit about the failure of cargolifter and their problem wasn't just funding and market fit. They also had a big list of t
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by thworp 4y ago
This is a nice theoretical summary, but it's missing an analysis on why previous attempts at cargo airships failed (see https://www.airship-association.org/cms/node/214 ).
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by thworp 4y ago
The first part is correct, but if you do it properly (translate a proper db design into ORM) it's fine. You can just as well design a catastrophic data model with pure sql.
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by thworp 4y ago
> database design How does an ORM help with that in any way? Are there any ORMs that will normalize your data model and write apropriate constraints? If so I _have_ been under a rock.
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by thworp 4y ago
> saving the planet It's not about saving the planet, it's about saving humans . The planet will be completely fine and will adapt (painful though it may be). The ecosystem has survived much worse, it's just us humans tha
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by thworp 4y ago
Yes it works with less than half of the 20-25 tons of cargo that a regular semi transports.
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by thworp 4y ago
You know, software engineers at FAANG earn enough money after a few years that 10 of them could seed a nice capital base for a startup. Yet they don't do that en masse, preferring instead to take (and risk!) investor's money inste
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by thworp 4y ago
> the market has passed them by Sorry? Pure EVs are still below 15% of new sales in almost all major markets. Sure it's growing quickly but it's far from certain it won't peak at around 25%. A lot of people will probably r
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by thworp 4y ago
Yes, what a great point! This is why Mauritania had all of the world's richest men until 1981 when they outlawed slavery. If they hadn't done that Bezos and Musk would have nothing on the founders of Mauritanian SlaveTrade Corpora
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by thworp 4y ago
Of course nothing can fully prevent cheating. But from a player enjoyment perspective it is a lot worse (and more obvious) if your opponent can teleport his units across the map or make his workers mine 50% more ressources vs just automatin
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by thworp 4y ago
It might not be necessary to get acceptable performance, but it is a fundamental countermeasure to cheating. If you send actual game state data over the network you make it very easy for cheat developers. If you add server-side sanity check
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by thworp 4y ago
> [improving battery tech] This would be nice if it actually happens, but so far the new chemistries still have many unsolved fundamental issues, not to mention safety issues when increasing energy density further. > [cost per mile &#
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by thworp 4y ago
Not so fast here. From what I've been able to find out (telling that Tesla itself did not release any figures on weights for their semi) the Tesla Semi will weigh about 10 tons (without trailer), which is slightly more than even the mo
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by thworp 4y ago
Is that 3% for the cable only or the entire system including conversion to AC at both ends?
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by thworp 4y ago
Using a euphemism like "chaotic" for an event that would kill hundreds of millions (if it happens globally) and lead to a complete collapse of most social and economic structures is not exactly good form.
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by thworp 4y ago
Funny that you use the high speed rail network as an example. While China built an impressive amount of it in a short time, they also built way too much of it. The routes between smaller cities and some of the routes between larger ones los
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by thworp 4y ago
>I'm curious why you need multiple subnets at home; I at one point had separate subnets because I was using a wifi client as a ip level router, but was wondering what your use-case is. Not OP, but there are many use cases. First is
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by thworp 4y ago
I have a Dygma Raise and a self-built keeb.io Quefrency rev3 with ZealPC Silent Aqua switches ( https://keeb.io/collections/quefrency-split-staggered-65-key... ).
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by thworp 4y ago
Let's just assume that the effect of "restrictions" on case numbers is proportional to their harshness (which looks dubious when looking at global stats). Let's also blindly trust the Chinese numbers (which showed <50
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by thworp 4y ago
Yes, your GPU needs to support the newest DisplayPort 1.4 standard (with updated DSC) for 4k@144Hz. AFAIK all Nvidia 20xx series cards and Radeon RX 6xxx cards support that. The fallback is 4k@120Hz which should work with older cards, but
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by thworp 4y ago
> Such project needs a LOT of money just to start, and that will take YEARS to be finished. But the success of this project depends on variables that are extremely hard to predict: [...] You could say the same thing about chip fabs or la
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by thworp 4y ago
I have the LG 27GN950-B and it's pretty good. On mine the factory color profile (downloadable from LG site) passes the eye test for color accuracy. Tearing is minimal and I couldn't notice any lag compared to the previous 1080p 14
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by thworp 4y ago
To me the larger issue beyond any comparisons of risk profiles is the ethical question. If a government through its agencies coerces people to get a medical treatment that harms them in any way they are responsible for that harm. Even if va