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I'm Building an Airplane from 100-Year-Old Blueprints [video](youtube.com)
1 points by tocs3 1y ago|1 comments
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Xyla Foxlin is building (getting started) a Pietenpol Air Camper ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietenpol_Air_Camper ).
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SpaceX did OK with the Dragon capsule some years ago. I will happily give them credit budget wise and performance (and timing for something like that is hard). The Golden Dome project is a different animal all together. This is a cynical ta
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I worry less about what is in the water now and worry more about what will be in the water after maintenance starts looking like a cost that can be cut.
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by tocs3 1y ago
I think Elon has more to lose than the folks holding the purse strings for NASA. Defense contracts might make some pause for a little while but congress has a long history of supporting more traditional defense contractors and they could s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_School The results are reported by the school itself. I would worry that the to hours with AI is mostly teaching for testing performance. Still I can applaud the effort if it is real
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by tocs3 1y ago
I wonder, is there a big increase in music uploaded as more people find it easy to create music to upload? Is it replacing human made music or diluting it?
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SpaceX might have to stop launching DOD missions. Maybe The administration could deport Musk.
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Like humans pointing a laser pointer around cats.
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I agree and have often thought making work visas easy to get would help with illegal emigration. It would be easy for workers to hold employers accountable for reasonable pay and work conditions. They could call the police if there is troub
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by tocs3 1y ago
I quit a job I grew to hate. Advice from me is to think more about what you are going to do once you are not employed there. Try not to think as much why you do not want to be there. After all you have made a decision to go. Save some money
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by tocs3 1y ago
I am very skeptical of this idea that people will be able to write but unable to produce useful digital computers. I agree. When I first saw the post and the mention of humans in the reading end of the loop, I though "maybe there is
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by tocs3 1y ago
Well, good. I am not a fan of the politics in Austin. Still Right To Repair. Anybody know what it covers?
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by tocs3 1y ago
Synthetic aperture sonar has been around for some time. I was first exposed to multibeam bathymetry 25ish years ago and an acoustic camera at least 15 years ago. Maybe this is something with better specs? “You forget that it’s not a photo,
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by tocs3 1y ago
The solutions are NP-Completeeate[1]. Someone may write something to solve the 5x5 nongrams (I think there only 33,554,432) but there is always 6x6 nonograms to work with. [1] https://medium.com/smith-hcv/solving-hard-in
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by tocs3 1y ago
In the late 1980's I took a (mandatory) economics class in high school. Is that still done? I'm not rich but I have a little saved some that will be very helpful in the not to distant future (learning and doing are two different t
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by tocs3 1y ago
It might also be that part of the job of a programmer is to translate English (or you preferred human language) to a finished product. I have watched management talk to programmers about what they want. I sometimes wonder how things actuall
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I have been thinking about this for a long time. Thanks for the link. The biggest advantage of character-based encodings is that they can be decoded by humans (as opposed to dot-based encodings), which means that you don’t need a camera or
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The main thing I got from this is that Edwards Air Force Base is enormous.
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The Ethernet cable would presumably be sending digital data. As long as the environment that the cable is being used in is reasonable, the quality of the signal will not be improved because of better conductivity in the cable.
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Emacs is 1970s vintage and the article has it beat with a 1958 DOD program "dubbed Mechanization of Contract Administration Services, or MOCAS". Then they go to mention a company in Conroe TX that "To this day it relies on a
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A hidden measure in the Republican budget bill would crown Trump king(theguardian.com)
22 points by tocs3 1y ago|3 comments
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Doesn't it feel wrong to the author to snoop through that private information? It feels a little strange at first but I suspect (correctly or not) that he has sought and received permission from the daughter first. Although I did not
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I had to idea how fast the O2 is depleted in some of the closed spaces (made of steel). In closed containment, the time taken for oxygen level to fall to 19.5%, 10% and 6% at 10°C were 1.45, 18.08 and 25.3 h respectively whilst at 23°C the
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The tax code Section 174 stuff sounds like a likely case for reducing the number of developers on staff.
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An old (2015) NPR Planet Money story about VisiCalc. Episode 606: Spreadsheets! https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/25/389027988/epis... The 1984 story it was inspired by (acording to th
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Lucy's Moonlight: The 5% Champion(sligocki.com)
1 points by tocs3 1y ago|0 comments
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The first buyers of Altair could not find it in any shop. Every transaction occurred via a check sent to MITS, sight unseen, in the hopes of receiving a computer in exchange. I remember looking at lots of the add in the back of all the ma
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Many papers have errors, yes—but our major results generally hold up, even when the intermediate steps are wrong! This reminds me of a bunch of recent posts on HN about AI and its "reasoning" process. https://news.yco
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Are there current /mainstream visionaries that do not have a trustworthiness problem? I know the question sounds a little sarcastic but I would like to know.

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