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by vl 2y ago
Mars launch window is every two years. It is very inefficient to launch at other times. As for moon, I'm surprised with the estimate you have provided. Apollo needed just one launch for each mission. Even if SpaceX will do orbital re-f
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by vl 2y ago
There is a full launch video on the SpaceX website: https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...
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by vl 2y ago
What is even more impressive to me is that they were able to quite reliably stream all this through Starlink. This shows how mature and usable Starlink is. The fact that you can have live internet connection on re-entering space ship - trul
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by vl 2y ago
I own a Tesla, for practical purposes it is self-driving.
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by vl 2y ago
I don’t know extent of your injuries, but weight exercises fixed back pain for me. You can’t seat in the good posture if there are no muscles to hold it.
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by vl 2y ago
If you think about it, entire web infrastructure is buzzard and inefficient. Sane design is to have some kind of bytecode for web code and some compact format instead of html. The waste of delivering this data and then executing js is enorm
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by vl 2y ago
I’ll mention Typescript. It elegantly improves almost unimprovable mess of JavaScript. It makes JavaScript development much more productive and pleasant. And it’s surprisingly powerful.
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by vl 2y ago
AT&T we have now is not really related to this old evil AT&T. Actual company that uses this brand in mobile space is used to be called Cingular. They bought AT&T remains and promptly rebranded.
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by vl 2y ago
YouTube as we know it today is only possible with Google’s acquisition. YouTube burned through literally billions of dollars for many years until it became profitable much later. Only likes of Google could have bankrolled it. Google did thi
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by vl 2y ago
This gel, if anything, will enable addiction.
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by vl 2y ago
What is charge in this context? Photons can’t leave the black hole, so this charge as good as lost?
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by vl 2y ago
What British Cheddar your Costco has? I don’t think mine has it.
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by vl 2y ago
They are getting full officer salaries and rank promotions and so on even while they are on deployment. Obviously they can’t access money/benefits while on deployment, but they get them when they get back, either by being recalled or t
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by vl 2y ago
To know if fine is disproportionately small you need to know the volume of sales of the mislabeled goods. If they sold only $500k of goods, then fine is unreasonably large, for example.
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by vl 2y ago
Not at all. I literally mean that libraries are funded by communities (i.e. private groups, towns, counties, states), and some communities chose to fund them lavishly and some not to fund them at all.
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by vl 2y ago
But you realize that you paid for all of this with your local taxes? It’s not like there is a magical place where laser cutters chose to spawn for free.
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by vl 2y ago
Libraries are funded from local taxes, this is why there is a difference.
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by vl 2y ago
Weight and distance numbers are from Wikipedia, potential energy formula is from school. You are welcome to recalculate :)
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by vl 2y ago
If so, why not to get different chair (perhaps used car chair) and set it up the same way as it setup in the car?
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by vl 2y ago
The problem is that top-level competitive work takes a lot of mental and emotional effort. So even if I’m spending time on health, I can’t do it work 100% effort, and so result is still suboptimal.
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by vl 2y ago
I agree with your points. What this calculation shows that godwits must rely on favorable winds and updrafts (which benefit any flying object, including birds, since motion is relative); if this is not the case, they just not going to rea
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by vl 2y ago
What this calculation shows is what glide ratio Godwit must have if it spends 1/3 of its body weight very efficiently to gain altitude and reaches destination in completely calm air. By the looks of it it doesn’t have this glide rati
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by vl 2y ago
This is interesting. Let’s say 600g Bar-tailed Godwit goes on 13500 km flight and spends very optimistic 200g of fat. Theoretically, if fat is only used for going up, it can climb to 170km (i.e. potential energy). This means that to get to
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by vl 2y ago
In this case it also has decorative purposes: horizontal shelving in this space would be boring. So it sacrifices utility for the sake of decor.
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by vl 2y ago
In US, quite often on international flights now they just use camera to scan you and let you in without even presenting the boarding pass. It’s not rolled out everywhere yet, but it’s pretty surreal to use.
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by vl 3y ago
Increasing speed with slingshot works because you leave vicinity of the planet in the same direction planet travels. Basically this allows you to add planet’s speed to your own. Within solar system you cannot increase speed by slingshotting
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by vl 3y ago
Fidelity has flat 2% no fee "deposit to fidelity" card since forever. Probably Robinhood is competing in "small customer" segment and just passes all rewards to customers since it's attractive for their target custo
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by vl 3y ago
It doesn’t look good tonight - 30 min forecast is negative, and then cloud cover is forecasted around 1 am.
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by vl 3y ago
What is the best time in Seattle area to see aurora tonight? Any time after nightfall?
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by vl 3y ago
While indeed modern embedding are more robust; All embeddings are first layer of DNN. In case of word2vec this is shallow 2-layer network. Selection of embedding is multiplication of embedding matrix by one-hot vector, which is usually opti

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