avaldes

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by avaldes 5y ago
Given that price tag, what would be the political backlash against NASA if the JWST fails? Would that be enough to cancel other projects for good?
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by avaldes 5y ago
The JWST won't be "in orbit". The L2 Lagrange point technically orbits the sun and is far out of reach even for starship. There's currently no way to service the thing if something goes wrong.
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by avaldes 5y ago
> Stop trying to make Go complicate. You mean enterprise-y.
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by avaldes 5y ago
Those _awesome_ pages are getting ridiculously specific
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by avaldes 5y ago
> go ./... magic custom (that means this and all recursive subdirectories). There. I did just learn it without following a tutorial or somethin. It's so simple, easy to remember. It's even faster to write that -R or -r.
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by avaldes 5y ago
The speed of light puts a hard constraint in the simultaneity of data availability in a network. You can't have data replicated faster than c no matter how fast is your hardware.
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by avaldes 5y ago
Can you imagine what internet distraction would do to the release schedule of GRR Martin? Hmmm
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by avaldes 5y ago
If I understand correctly, what that image is saying it doesn't matter what type of car you use still they're all space inefficient?
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by avaldes 5y ago
I got it: "don't be evil"
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by avaldes 5y ago
> I can't help but suspect that a lot of the genome is a part of the boot sequence that helps you go from one cell up to all the differentiated organs and tissues and systems. Boot sequence. Amazing. I've always been interested
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by avaldes 5y ago
If I want hard sci-fi I can read Lorentzian Wormholes from Matt Visser or something like that. You can't explore such crazy ideas from TBP without going off the rails with speculation. > - Attack of the Flat, Interchangable Characte
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by avaldes 5y ago
By Dr Chad Broman in Journal of Astrological Economy. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or didn't get the joke
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by avaldes 5y ago
I'm sorry but is this a template response? This kind of situation is a bureaucratic mess spanning an awful lot of jurisdictions. What "your representative" can possibly do to help abandoned crewmen on a ship in a forgotten po
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by avaldes 5y ago
> EV passenger cars are feasible for the average person today. Where? California? The world's bigger than the US and Europe and massive EV adoption in the developing world isn't a thing. EV are still a expensive luxury in most
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by avaldes 5y ago
Stillsuits obviously, so you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day
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by avaldes 5y ago
It's The Economist, they're their own platform to support whatever content they want. Banning them from HN will hardly have any impact. It's not like banning a single individual.
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by avaldes 5y ago
> The botulism bacteria is capable of voting, I tried my best Google Fu and couldn't find any references to this. Do you have any? Sounds fascinating.
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by avaldes 5y ago
> Amazon has also changed the lives of basically everyone in the developed world, which definitely cannot be said of How so? This is way too generous to Amazon. Buying things online faster is not a life changing feat. Neither are home as
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by avaldes 5y ago
Is it when you're writing for example mission critical embedded software?
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by avaldes 5y ago
The "red background with five yellow stars" is the chinese flag. It's a common graphic pattern when you want to convey the idea of a person of geopolitical interest. Like putting Biden in front of the American flag o Macron i
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by avaldes 5y ago
> That's anecdotal. I know many people that use bitcoin every day. Which country?
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by avaldes 5y ago
> Ruby considered harmful I mean...
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by avaldes 5y ago
Not a native English speaker so... what does it mean "cooking up" EEG electrodes?
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by avaldes 5y ago
Irrelevant in context. Priesthoods in the examples above are just structures to preserve and transmit the knowledge of their respective missions to future generations. However corrupted are real religions it can't be denied that they&#
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by avaldes 5y ago
> what organization could stay incorruptible for 10^9 years? Create a religion around the project, like the technicians priesthood in Asimov's Foundation or like in some proposals for long term protection of radioactive waste sites
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by avaldes 5y ago
Wins? I love rust but this is so weird. What does "win a survey" mean in the real world?
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by avaldes 5y ago
For reference Pluto is just 39.5 AU from the Sun and the Oort cloud starts at 2000 AU.
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by avaldes 5y ago
> Investors are professional bullshit detectors. Are they though? It's hard to believe that after Theranos, Nikola, Solar roadways, crypto scams, WeWork, Juicero, etc.
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by avaldes 5y ago
Wrong. Is a blog about Apple M1
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by avaldes 5y ago
The shift to Vue3 and a new paradigm (composition API) left the community in a state of confusion of where/how/when to migrate. The old paradigm is still supported but more like a legacy layer than the way to go. It reminds me of

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