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by xenadu02 3y ago
By then it was too late. Computer tapes were so expensive they were regularly overwritten after a certain number of years. Cheap storage is one of the most fundamental and under-appreciated game-changers. Another under-appreciated changes i
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The project was not really designed to reach interstellar space originally. It was a somewhat rushed program to take advantage of the "Grand Tour" where the gas giants would all be aligned enough that a gravity-assist orbit could
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by xenadu02 3y ago
> The value of a human life seemed to drop pretty low during the Depression, but it wasn’t that great before then either. Very true. Every 10 stories of building height had an expected death rate attached to it. Same for every extra 100f
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Well the perfection of a steam-powered car was interesting even though technically far too late to matter. Early steam cars were more like steam trains: big boilers that need to be fired an hour before you want to go anywhere and need regul
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The NTSB does not have any prosecution power and their investigation docket + reports are, by law, not admissible as evidence in court. The NTSB will not identify the person responsible even to Boeing, let alone anyone else. There is no &qu
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The NTSB redacts the names of individuals. None of the names Boeing hands over will ever be known to the public. No one will know they were interviewed by the NTSB nor who said what (even Boeing won't know that). At worst the final rep
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Buying Spirit is just them bringing that work back in-house. They originally spun Spirit out so they could offload employees and let Spirit cut benefits and pay as well as replace some work with offshore cheap labor. This is just another re
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Yes there are obviously bad employees but the line for actual incompetent/malicious employee is a lot further away than most people understand. A lot of bad management is hand-waved as crappy employees (by management - shocking!)
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by xenadu02 3y ago
No matter how technically correct that may be people just don't like doing work for some theoretical future benefit that may never materialize. Supporting 32-bit imposes a cost I have to pay right now today for the benefit of very fe
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Conversions are only possible one way and tend to be permanent. Industrial -> Commercial -> Residential. Industrial equipment is heavy and needs much more reinforcement of the floor plates and columns. You can convert an old factory t
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The headline in large type says "Full Self-Driving Capability" The normal-sized text says "Your car will be able to drive itself almost anywhere with minimal driver intervention and will continuously improve" Only once y
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by xenadu02 3y ago
There are also PoE over Coax devices if your house (like mine) was setup with NTSC security cameras: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G194BQD This device picks up PoE power and ethernet at one end and delivers
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Haha says someone who has never driven in San Francisco's Sunset district. Stop signs at every intersection... for all 40+ avenues. 90% of the time there are no other cars even remotely close to the intersection. Not even SF traffic co
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Full disclosure: participated in Tesla's IPO, own a Tesla. Tesla should be doing two things that would greatly reduce their liability while also keeping customers happy. Overall I think it wouldn't change the number of people buyi
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by xenadu02 3y ago
What I mean is if she has a luxury jet outfitted with a bedroom, living room, studio, etc that only she (and maybe 1-5 other people at most ) fly in that would make having a private jet bad for carbon footprint. But if the jet is configure
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by xenadu02 3y ago
No not really. Dynamic switching power consumption is proportional to frequency which is why things slowed down dramatically once we hit 1Ghz. Of course you must reduce voltages to reduce current and losses... but at a certain point your tr
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by xenadu02 3y ago
You don't just buy the machines or build a fab. Each fab is the development of an entire "process". Furthermore how the machines are used varies greatly. Everything from exact doping and cleaning processes to metal deposition
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I don't know about this case specifically but X has certainly not lived up to Elon's free speech claims. I guess that shouldn't be a surprise - people with big egos often have thin skin and can't live up to their suppose
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Intel used to have the fab lead over everyone else, generally being 1-2 generations ahead. That persisted for at least a decade. Then they had a huge whiff. Their 10nm node was due in 2016 and they didn't start volume production until
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by xenadu02 3y ago
3D makes every part of your heat story much worse. You don't want to just stack layers... modern chips already have tons of layers and each one is an opportunity to screw something up. Stacking of dies has its own problems but people a
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Aircraft make use of the air space above a bunch of people's random property. They could (in theory) also come down on top of you. I think it makes sense for that data to be public. If you don't like it don't fly. Also you ca
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by xenadu02 3y ago
On the contrary Boeing has spent the past 2-3 decades trying to screw over the workers as hard as possible. They've massively outsourced parts manufacturing. They don't even make the fuselages anymore! The whole point is to make t
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Much of the Bay Area is urban and suburban, with very little chance of a wildfire ever threatening those homes. Why stop writing policies in those areas?
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Its quite unfortunate because it would be a great opportunity to accurate price the risk to encourage better building standards and fireproofing. In reality we don't need people to move to greatly reduce the risk. In many wildfire even
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by xenadu02 3y ago
No way. What if those beings considered the simulation tainted and shut it down as a result? Not that this definition of simulation matches what most people think when this question gets asked. The answer is no you can't tell no matter
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Microsoft did port to Itanium. Customers just didn't buy the chips. They were expensive, the supposed speed gains from "smarter compilers" never materialized, and their support for x86 emulation was dog slow (both hardware an
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by xenadu02 3y ago
And that statement is hilarious in light of the many failed efforts (eg subsidies for Netbooks and their embedded x86 chip) where they lit billions on fire attempting to sway the market. FWIW I don't buy his explanation anyway. Intel a
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The short version as I understand it: amyloid plaques are a symptom but not a cause. There was a theory floating around that they're a neurological immune response to viral infection but I don't think there's enough evidence
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I wonder if Lockheed couldn't take a run at passenger airliners again. It would be nice to have a backup plan.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The $1 bill situation has been so ridiculous. I believe congress passed a law that prohibits the treasury from redesigning the $1 so it is stuck being mis-matched to the other bills. Meanwhile everyone seems to have some kind of fit over sw

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