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931.
by varjag 2y ago
The UK is a class society much closer in nature to East Asia than the United States. Wealth accumulation is still to a great extent occurs along the stratified classes and they ain't sending their kids to engineering schools.
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by varjag 2y ago
> Your description is one possible end state of a Dyson swarm, and itself includes a subjective measure (what you consider dramatic might not be what I consider dramatic). My description is Freeman Dyson's description. Naturally you
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by varjag 2y ago
Dyson Swarm in particular is a megastructure harvesting much of the star energy to the extent its spectrum is dramatically shifted to infrared. I can't stress enough that a lone satellite is not a swarm, Dyson or otherwise.
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by varjag 2y ago
It is possible to send a singular satellite pretty much anywhere. It is not possible to build and maintain a Dyson Swarm. At the sizes of modern satellites you'll need trillions of those, which is completely unrealistic with Earth-side
935.
by varjag 2y ago
By that yardstick fusion doesn't require new technology either. Humans successfully performed nuclear fusion many times since 1950s and there are thousands ready packaged fusion devices around the world.
936.
by varjag 2y ago
It was not possible at all with 1960s technology, nor it is possible today.
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by varjag 2y ago
> A tiny fraction of the current funding. 2-4 orders of magnitude less. Operational costs were correspondingly lower, as they didn't need to pay electricity and compute bills for tens of millions concurrent users. > But once the
938.
by varjag 2y ago
AI in the past (adjusted for 1980s) was pretty well funded. It's just that fundamental scientific discovery bears little relationship to the pallets of cash.
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by varjag 2y ago
Jack Welch was chemical engineer…
940.
by varjag 2y ago
A high estimate? Google alone stands at 180k employees. I'd imagine at least a half of those are technical positions.
941.
by varjag 2y ago
I dunno man. A good third of my class seems to be working at FAANG and we're all from an unremarkable university in Eastern Europe. I'd imagine the prospects are much better if you start in the States already.
942.
by varjag 2y ago
You can absolutely register your designs with EU patent office. https://www.euipo.europa.eu/en/designs
943.
by varjag 2y ago
If you want a detached house (or a townhouse) in Norway it means wood.
944.
by varjag 2y ago
Wiretapping google executives is two orders of legal magnitude more difficult than sending the company a discovery order.
945.
by varjag 3y ago
Yes it was some of that certainly. I could gauge roughly what kind of effort the problem would take, what kind of constraints it would have to run with and select among the tools I am comfortable with. I read about Erlang but never did anyt
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by varjag 3y ago
Sorry about that, should be up again!
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by varjag 3y ago
Lots of single mode fiber in redundant loops. In longer tunnels you'd have several technical rooms along that hold the loop ends into L3 switches. Within the loop you have emergency cabinets spaced 125m. Apart from fire extinguishers a
948.
by varjag 3y ago
We certainly do use both. For example in communication we process socket layer conditions and remote operation results together to synthesize Evacsound's own nomenclature of conditions in distributed operation terms. They are then re-s
949.
by varjag 3y ago
It is a bell sound as the sister comment points out. We found that a multitude of sounds work with negligible difference in perception. The bell however was consistently voted the most comfortable in post trial questionnaire.
950.
by varjag 3y ago
Fortunately it was uneventful, as the idiom is the same as in any other programming language that support them. We used bordeaux-threads package for portability across the implementations.
951.
by varjag 3y ago
Thank you Mark! There are blessed and cursed projects out there, and this one has definitely been the former.
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by varjag 3y ago
Author here, if you have any questions.
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by varjag 3y ago
Heh right nobody buys the mini lathe over a Monarch as a matter of preference! I got it when I wanted to learn some machining and didn't have a ton of space. Over the years had a few mods including the usual (tapered bearings on the sp
954.
by varjag 3y ago
Nice one! I liked the carriage rollers 10EE has so much that I made similar ones on my Chinese lathe instead of finicky gibs it came with.
955.
by varjag 3y ago
I shall correct belatedly, the heuristic I point at after IsA is not in fact not-IsA. Also, the system runs out of stack space not of heap space.
956.
by varjag 3y ago
See when people say "tech" colloquially it means website and app developers, not us embedded dev hobos.
957.
by varjag 3y ago
These estimates are really approximate and depend on the exchange rate. The lowest rate of NOK/USD on my memory was 5.6 and the highest nearly 12. Developer salaries in Norway are decent as Europe goes but if you want to make money han
958.
by varjag 3y ago
The brothels bit is oddly specific, but it's worth mentioning consuming prostitution in many European countries (including some of those with top wages) is illegal.
959.
by varjag 3y ago
For sure that's incredibly complex, that's why they have committees, expert panels and standards bodies. Even about dumb shit such as gaming.
960.
by varjag 3y ago
The EU is not a dictatorship so decisions aren't made by one (incompetent or brilliant) person. And frankly gaming is not quite quantum field theory: if you can call yourself an expert at it so can thousands people working in the gover

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