Mawr

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by Mawr 4d ago
Yeah, Astra, not like it matters. It will gleefully make db queries that perform full table scans instead of adding an index. I need to intuit that that's what's happening and then explicitly instruct it not to be negligently dumb
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by Mawr 5d ago
It's a direct consequence of the stakes involved. It's literally a life-or-death decision and the rules pilots abide by are written in blood. Production incidents are comparatively trivial, irrelevant issues.
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by Mawr 5d ago
> Given the pilots braked at 146 kts, released at 120 kts to throttle up for G-A, then four seconds later ditched the G-A and re-applied brakes, this sounds like they got stuck between going around and committing to the landing and never
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by Mawr 5d ago
"If you think safety is expensive, try an accident"
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by Mawr 5d ago
An overcautious go-around is a non-event though. A big part of the monitoring pilot's job is noticing when things have gotten too far and taking over controls. This does very much include scenarios when the pilot flying has fallen to t
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by Mawr 7d ago
The situation in question: "yielding to a pedestrian crossing the driveway entrance to the parking lot on the right-hand sidewalk". Now, really ? As far as backwards logic goes, this is up there. Better to break the law and endan
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by Mawr 8d ago
Surely this has nothing to do with specifically table tennis, nor that it's amateur. A better example would be mixed boys/girls sports classes in school, where the boys deliberately hold back as to not injure/scare the girls.
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by Mawr 11d ago
Hauling "hundreds of pounds of supplies every single day" is a fringe use case, essentialy nobody does this, it's not relevant. "Maybe you don't understand people's needs and motivations as much as you think yo
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by Mawr 11d ago
Only if "a lot" means <0.1% of people, at most.
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by Mawr 12d ago
We need energy, therefore we should subsidize coal plants.
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by Mawr 12d ago
Ah yes, the "free market" fallacy. Watch this: - My trucks require roads and do more damage to roads than trains do to rail tracks? No problem, roads are paid for by the taxpayer, while the rail companies have to pay to build and
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by Mawr 13d ago
I can't draw a pelican. Literally my only point of reference would be AI pelican drawings from the test. Otherwise I wouldn't know how to draw one at all. I would be able to draw an accurate bicycle, but I'm an outlier on
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by Mawr 14d ago
> No I mean up to 60... km/h "Cyclist" and "someone on an illegal e-bike" are not one and the same thing. > And you can see here "normal" bikes clocked at 36 Km: No, those people freewheeling on a re
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by Mawr 14d ago
It's probably a device meant for and tested to measure cars, not arbitrary objects. Probably needs to be used in a specific way too.
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by Mawr 14d ago
Decisively declaring long-term predictions wrong only two years later seems a little premature? E.g. a company of the size of Meta/Google/Ms may very well be dying and still producing numbers that look like growth for the next f
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by Mawr 14d ago
> A note on subscription prices from LWN Not enough of a spine to say "We're increasing LWN subscription prices"? Also, nice editorializing in the submission: "A Note from LWN". Yeah, a "note".
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by Mawr 15d ago
Right, a $1,688 robot that can: - Cook food - Clean up - Bring me stuff from the fridge - Load a dishwasher - Fold clothes So I guess my main question is: What do you hope to accomplish by shamelessly lying? I mean, beyond the lack of shame
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by Mawr 15d ago
> No need for snarky "but ours is foss smugface" comments. Oh? So you opened the discussion with your hugely snarky, flamebaity comment, it backfired and now it doesn't feel so good? You're allowed to post such commen
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by Mawr 15d ago
If only there was a way to directly share those understandings with others, through genetic material or something...
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by Mawr 17d ago
If you're just gonna be replacing entire orders of magnitudes of difference with the word "too", then everything "has a lot of environmental impact too". > We can't go cherrypicking environmental problems. H
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by Mawr 18d ago
> I have to wonder what things would look like with different priorities. Things aren't as simple as more money = more good. Rapid progress requires adversity, the kind you'll find when nations compete for military power, for e
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by Mawr 18d ago
You can cut down a tree regardless if you use a knife or a chainsaw. You can get to work each day regardless if you walk or drive.
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by Mawr 19d ago
> Like nat gas or hydro Since hydro is impossible to "just" build, that's gas only. No, there's no "nat" gas. > geographic diversity works really well "Give up your energy independence :)" I&#x
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by Mawr 19d ago
Now calculate what % of habitable land on Earth that exclusion zone takes up. Yeah, that's a lot of zeroes.
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by Mawr 19d ago
> Although generally safe these reactors aren't totally safe. I have some seriously bad news about the safety of your totally-safe house against meteorites. Or for that matter, thermonuclear explosives detonated directly above its r
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by Mawr 19d ago
Are those large-scale events in the room with us? Or are you saying over the last, however many decades of all sorts of countries running nuclear plants, we've just been oh so lucky to have a negligible number of serious accidents? Luc
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by Mawr 19d ago
> Why should consumers choose expensive nuclear powered electricity when cheap renewables, or stored renewables are available? That's why truly free markets are a bad idea? We've been through this. Repeat after me: the value of
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by Mawr 21d ago
unplugs ethernet cable
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by Mawr 22d ago
Battery life in mobile products doesn't matter now?
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by Mawr 23d ago
> just dump it in a desert Hmmm, a radioactive desert vs an entire polluted atmosphere, I wonder which is worse... No, storing a few cans of solid waste is decidedly NOT a real problem. However, undoing the damage we've done to the

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