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Vacuum of the Imagination: Why Space Rockets Could Have Flown Centuries Earlier(angadh.com)
2 points by angadh 2mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Botference – A TUI to Plan with Claude Code and Codex Simultaneously(github.com)
1 points by angadh 6mo ago|0 comments
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Inflatable Space Stations(worksinprogress.co)
3 points by angadh 10mo ago|1 comments
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by angadh 10mo ago
You are vey correct—the talk and link have nothing to do with Soma. I can only presume, based on timing of the talk being 1960, that his thoughts here link to mescaline and the practical utopia he talks of in Island, whose inhabitants make
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by angadh 10mo ago
The author of this piece—which I am—is reporting on Huxley’s MIT talk. He predicted a drug that improves mental efficiency/focus. And the talk discusses alternative non-pharmacological approaches. You are welcome to either actually rea
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Is Huxley saying Education is a Technology?(angadh.com)
1 points by angadh 10mo ago|0 comments
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The Button of Mass Distraction(angadh.com)
2 points by angadh 10mo ago|0 comments
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by angadh 1y ago
Appreciate the thought—my comments in Claude's analysis are now added on the margins. The exercise is not meant to do much else but spot patters in my thinking that I can reflect on. Nothing particularly novel here from Claude but it i
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by angadh 1y ago
This post is updated now to have these reflections on the margin notes. No need to scroll down. I was not done with this post when whoever found it here linked to it.
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by angadh 1y ago
Thanks also for the link—didn’t know about the Barnum effect!
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by angadh 1y ago
Usually that’s what I typically do in talking with Claude but my first vault is so haphazard at this point that it’s a bit of a lost cause. This prompt to find contradictions was merely to see where the contradicting notes are, as a little
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by angadh 1y ago
A better prompt could have been used—I literally was just getting started on this as a fun little thing to discuss with a friend that is travelling. It was not meant to show up here. facepalm moment
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by angadh 1y ago
From the author: https://x.com/angadhn/status/1950225316032422008
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by angadh 1y ago
This links to my blogpost but I did not post it to HN. This is as much a surprise/shock to me as it is to you :D
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by angadh 1y ago
Thanks for the thorough comment—yes, the heat pipes etc haven’t been accounted for. Might be a future addition but the idea was to look at some key large parts and see where that takes us in terms of launch. The pipes would definitely skew
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by angadh 1y ago
please read Table 1.
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by angadh 1y ago
should be fixed now.
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Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship(angadh.com)
199 points by angadh 1y ago|349 comments
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by angadh 1y ago
analyzed Starcloud’s whitepaper (a fun read!) claiming a 40 MW orbital data center could be launched for $8.2M in a single Starship flight. Using ISS-proven solar and radiator systems as conservative baselines, the same system requires: * ~