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by yetihehe 3y ago
It could be IR sensor checking if your phone is near your face. But should be disabled when screen is off. Making a photo every several seconds would drain battery pretty fast.
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by yetihehe 3y ago
If you hover high enough in vacuum, gases have enough time to disperse and won't throw ejecta that much, but those melted aluminum droplets can travel relatively unimpended and solidify on contact. You land only when you have good soli
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by yetihehe 3y ago
There is a project to inject small aluminum granules into exhaust, so they melt when leaving engine but solidify on contact, which would be a good way to cover your landing site with solid aluminum layer. A rocket engine could easily melt a
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by yetihehe 3y ago
> assuming an infinite pen Like a pencil?
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by yetihehe 3y ago
I've used a lot of prefab concrete blocks for my house. For foundations - big concrete bricks, for ceilings - big prefabricated long strips with rebar. Of course, not all, but it's most of concrete used in my house. You could also
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by yetihehe 3y ago
When life freezes your house, make a huge profit from using temperature difference against environment!
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by yetihehe 4y ago
RegExTractor - simple java program to search for regex in text, then replaces each string with another one and appends all those results in other text window. VERY useful when you need to extract something from a text dump and present it in
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by yetihehe 4y ago
There was an idea of adding aluminum powder to exhaust and hovering a little over the pad, so that you deposit a solid metal surface where you intend to land.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
If no one existed, who would consider it true? It would have meaning to who? If you showed that statement to some old tribe which doesn't know numbers beyond 3 (Pirahã), they would not know what you mean. If you showed that without tra
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by yetihehe 4y ago
> A fairly central part of the philosophy of quite a few religions is that there is a God who is quite capable of giving meaning to things independently of humans. I think it's like that with all religions. I'd like to speak a
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Yes, I think it's equivalent and Sagan will held them as accountable as your chosen god. For "the person", you can just ask directly.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
For many people today swearing on the bible is just as silly as swearing on any scripture of a dead or newly invented religion is to you. Would swearing on a spaghetti monster be acceptable to you?
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by yetihehe 4y ago
People give meaning to things. Bible, Quran, etc have meaning only because people express that meaning. > But if the people being sworn in don’t view their documents as having some authority over their promise then what is the point? T
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by yetihehe 4y ago
In demo, they camouflaged a moving tank as a small compact car.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Peltier camouflage tiles to the rescue. You will be cold on outside AND you can keep warm on the inside. There were demos where a tank was camouflaged in infrared as a cow or a car.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Heh, in Poland we have farmers protesting because grain from Ukraine is sold much cheaper than locally produced one, it doesn't look like there are shortages...
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by yetihehe 4y ago
How did we leap from "I think it is bad idea because:" to "gun to your head in specific to move there against your will"?
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Ignorance lets you live happily when you are not strong. Problem with strength is that it requires a lot of strength to get more strength.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Yeah, I've tried doing it but nobody listens to me, they think I'm just stupid for having opinions "not like everybody else" or say "yeah, but what can we do about this?" or "yeah, but I don't trust t
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by yetihehe 4y ago
In theory. In practice, when you need to shake it more often than once per page, it becomes unusable. In physical universe, once you need to shake it more than once per scanline (perhaphs 1/600inch), you start losing resolution (classi
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by yetihehe 4y ago
How would you fix that?
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by yetihehe 4y ago
> Also -- supposing that this business model was completely viable from a security perspective -- the next step to building such a system might be to build an auction site for CPU cycles (or compute ability/compute time) -- sort of
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by yetihehe 4y ago
But popular support is. If you had no support from population, you would have harder time with waging war or defending. When your opponent has better propaganda and is able to spread it in your population, your population is slowing you dow
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by yetihehe 4y ago
> I don’t want this war to continue. Neither do Ukrainians. But they don't have much of a choice really. > Already too many people died on both sides. And who started that? > This is not my war and I don’t want to get involved
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by yetihehe 4y ago
It doesn't matter how carefully you chose your examples, internet is so big that exceptions will happen and people like to voice their contrarian opinions (nothing wrong with that).
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by yetihehe 4y ago
> Why difficult? Because too many people have adverse emotional reactions to such discussions. > Discussion that is considered rational culturally Discussions about free will stop being rational very early. > So we find an analogou
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Opponents of machine learning fear that ML will take over our thinking and it will stop us from properly thinking. But the same was said about writing things up by Socrates. Writing has transformed society and enabled wide spread of ideas.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
With rod logic machines from Diamond Age.
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by yetihehe 4y ago
Quantum entangled planes, what a time to be alive...
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by yetihehe 4y ago
I'm not seed expert, but I think for example acorns or any slightly wet seed will smash if shot at ground. Only dried hard seeds would have a chance.

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