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by tocs3 2y ago
"Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions" by Brian Hayes. It is a bunch of essays and are fairly approachable. Some of the titles are a bit risque but all of them are safe for work and interesting.
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by tocs3 2y ago
Maybe they should send paddles on the next resupply mission. This is not a new new delay. This is the same delay they announced on the 14th.
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by tocs3 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mulligan_and_His_Steam_Sh...
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by tocs3 2y ago
I don't know but I have heard about companies spinning off smaller companies.
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by tocs3 2y ago
There have been many times I wish that I had been more careful with stuff I had as a kid (an old star wars comic book for example). What are the things I should be careful with now.
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by tocs3 2y ago
I saw part of a video on youtube yesterday but it sounded like a spacex fan saying spacex would have to save he day with a rescue mission. There was not much info. So looking at more official sources. I suspect (read my guess from my armcha
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by tocs3 2y ago
When the contract was awarded in 2021 Blue Origin had to something like 20 sub orbital New Sheppard launches (thru 2021) and the BE-4 engine had not flown yet. SpaceX had over 100 launches. Including missions to the space station and crewed
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by tocs3 2y ago
How much might this change our understanding distances in the universe?
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$500 out January 2025.
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by tocs3 2y ago
I have been wanting to see something like this. There been a few programs but not as many as I thought there would be (ex. Biosphere 2 project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2 ). Are there many examples with
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by tocs3 2y ago
The closes thing to a conclusion I saw is "After controlling for relevant variables, we find consistent evidence of the relationship between people’s names and a preference for major life choices starting with the same letter as their
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by tocs3 2y ago
I have been a little bit of a hammer snob for much of my life. My father and I built houses late last century and he had (now I have) an old 12 oz hemmer with a leather handle. It is what a hammer should be (general sort of construction ham
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by tocs3 2y ago
I wonder how many finds like this are just thrown into the scrap pile.
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The geothermal project in remote areas in Kenya to mine bitcoin to fund conservation efforts and provide electricity for the small local population. This is easily a good humanitarian idea and can foster local economy. The El Salvador (with
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by tocs3 2y ago
I thought this was a good talk about energy use in the Bitcoin world. Improved efficiency of computing hardware. Increased development of renewable electricity. Development of geothermal energy in remote /economically disadvantaged are
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by tocs3 2y ago
I would like to see more colorful cars but I am finding cars dull in other ways. They are becoming like bejeweled wifi connected smart hammers. I used to have a hammer that I could just hammer on thing (and pull nails, and tap things into p
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by tocs3 2y ago
Was not sure but had to look up a definition. "Syndactyly is a condition wherein two or more digits are fused together." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndactyly I thought maybe it was some sort of condition
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by tocs3 2y ago
Or that the authors are themselves in a secret society that uses this gesture.
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by tocs3 2y ago
One of the NSF commentators commented the fuel for the landing burn comes from the header tanks (little extra tanks for this kind of thing). Still, I would think if one of the closed up sections had a hole that it would cause all sorts of o
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by tocs3 2y ago
They use the atmosphere to help slow the ship down. It takes most of the tank of fuel to get up there and moving so fast. It would take most a tank to slow down. So, they would need about double the fuel plus some for landing. P.S. I have n
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by tocs3 2y ago
Tools can sometimes be interesting enough in them selves to justify learning about just the tool. Not disagreeing with the comment just adding my take. I bought a little CNC machine years ago. I just wanted to learn a little more. Then star
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by tocs3 2y ago
I have been using an Ubuntu favor for more than a decade and find it easier than Windows when installing an OS. The user interface is about the same a Windows. It is not as easy as buying a computer with the OS installed but is not technica
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by tocs3 2y ago
As someone a little older I remember being able to talk to a person to get issues resolved fairly easily and reliably. The online help is great when the issue at hand is pretty cut and dry. It is nice for a non expert to be able to explain
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by tocs3 2y ago
Could this just be a ploy to see how they can manipulate language?
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In some sense this is true. Maybe though, we should think of capitalism as natural laws instead of a belief system. Believing that descriptions of supply and demand are the end all of economic behavior is like believing magnetism is the onl
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Things are constantly coming up in my life where I start thinking "The world really needs a ..." One would be a computer vision assorted nuts and bolts sorter.
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Did not read much before the paywall but... Even as a 'not an Elon fan' I will say that SpaceX looks to be out performing all the other American launch providers. I do not know if they are being unfair to any of the other companie
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by tocs3 2y ago
I wonder if Boeing will drop the Starliner after the first commercial crew contract is over.
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I enjoyed "From Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer From First Principles" https://www.nand2tetris.org/ It shows some of the basics of how a modern computer works. The lessons are like little puzzles and ca
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by tocs3 2y ago
Maybe even point out (in many cases) that poor leadership lead to the deaths.

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