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by usrusr 3y ago
Would it be good for federation? As in ability to dump a large amount of mixed quality images on a local instance and then sync only a subset ("tagged favorite", "rated 4+ stars" or something like that) to an off-site in
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Feels a bit like history repeating (well, rhyming) with the time back when Java was "the language of web applets" and then Sun created the Hotjava browser and confusion reached the point where minds simply blank out. Few technolog
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I like to think of "whatever browsers do in js" as an updated common baseline. Whatever your regex engine does, describe it as a delta to the js precedent. That thing is just so ubiquitous. I do wonder though what's the highe
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If it's dangerously unknown to the contractor, chances are inhabitants won't know better. The contractor only exposed for a few hours, inhabitants live there.
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Vastly more electricity has been supplied by hydro. Nuclear is tiny.
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The difference is those who still waited on the major update ("almost 6 months") would still be able to jump on some 13.x.y security fix on short notice, without breaking their JVM, whereas people already on 14.x who can't wo
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The difference, if I read gp correctly, is that an older major release would still get new security updates when necessary, but if you already are on the current major, which had been out without this problem for quite a while, you will onl
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by usrusr 3y ago
Poor quality, yes, but journalism on blog.oracle.com?
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Didn't they have their own JVM distribution back in the Sun days? The sarcastic take would be on MacOS, third party software is deprecated, period.
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When people use an Uber instead of owning a car, they will never ever sit in a car that hasn't been recently washed. When they drive their own car, the threshold for good enough is so much lower for all but the most fanatic washers. Ch
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by usrusr 3y ago
Thanks, missed that detail. So the plane, when it becomes available, would be almost long enough for blades deployed off-shore today. (e.g. Siemens-Gamesa SG 14, 108m and 115m)
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Even as a kid still going through that phase where English lessons at school consist of very simple descriptions of family life that add some new words each week, I felt betrayed by GW BASIC documention referring to some concept with the cr
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It's an off-shore turbine only because the blades are too big for ground transport. Really feels like missing an opportunity not aiming higher with that purpose-built plane.
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Or ships passing by on the horizon, or aircraft painting contrails in the sky. Really terrible to have a sight line to evidence of human existence. And all those fields, vineyards, orchards and meadows humans have created in place of native
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by usrusr 3y ago
That's an approach explored by many it seems, and success on this front would certainly have to be considered a risk of investment in novel transport solutions. As far as I know, factories heat-treat (and pressure-treat) those composit
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And real nimby impact (as opposed to the impact imagined) scales much less than quadratic, because larger rotor implies lower rpm and rpm has a huge impact on perception. Small rotors emit a very strong "presence" when you are any
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Take twelve blades, run the generators as motors and, uuuh, attach an 40GW CNG power plant? Suddenly clearing out thay landing strip for Windrunner does not seem all that hard ;) The least-unrealistic approach to go full Munchhausen on gett
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Started too early I guess. Ten years later and the blade transport use case would have come in at just the right time to salvage the investment. Back when Cargolifter shut down, rotor sizes were still in a range where ground transport isn&#
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by usrusr 3y ago
> The blades are big but not colossal: by compare, the offshore Vestas V164 10MW turbine has 160m blades (weighting 35t); this is being designed for ~100m. That's the part I really struggle with: I could easily imagine value in taki
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Or A Very Large Quadcopter, because they already know a thing or two about making large rotating airfoils with a hub full of neodynium and coils? My guess would be range is the limiting factor, helicopters struggle keeping themselves in the
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by usrusr 3y ago
When wind is faster than their maximum speed. Chances are they can take much higher wind speed than the elaborate truck ballet required to transport huge blades on the ground. Wind turbine installation isn't exactly an all-weather proj
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Thanks, must have missed that detail in the stream. Hope they find a good explanation candidate in the data!
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Video feed interruption was very much expected, and went through a series of on/off before the final signal. From what we saw in the live presentation, both scenarios are possible: breakup while transmission was up, transmitting as lon
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Iirc F9 had its main challenge in that final suicide burn. Usually the boosters made it there just fine and then "only" failed to get the parameters aligned just right. Based on what we saw today, the main chokepoint for Starship
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by usrusr 3y ago
Orbit is a speed, not a distance. You could do a suborbital hop that has its highest point beyond the orbit of the moon. (if you aim very, very well)
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Phase change heat storage is well established techology. It's in the product you buy when you want to have building scale latent heat storage. I've even seen a company trying their luck at the business model of selling heat in twe
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So this is basically the swordfighting sim in the Snow Crash metaverse (well, The metaverse, this one does not require a qualifier), but ported to Monkey Island. Should we take Hiro Protagonist's swordplay acumen as a warning to questi
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The good news is that very strong downdrafts, in absolute terms, simply can't happen close to the ground, because the air in question needs somewhere to go.
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I certainly hope that anyone proposing a Unicode CSV variant as a joke would pick some raised hand emoji as the separator and the victory gesture (0xe011, also popular as an approximation of how an air quote emoji would look like) as the qu
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An interesting perspective, makes it surprisingly fair play and totally crippling to third parties at the same time. I guess the outcome will be that outside some completely irrelevant oddballs there will just be one or two entities like Ep

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