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by bad_alloc 9y ago
This gives me DDR (East Germany) vibes: The rethoric, the symbolism and the motivation are all similar to how the DDR presented itself.
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
Thank you for this writeup, this was before my time on the internet. > People remixed each other's work until the core DeCSS algorithm was only a single line of code. Gzipped, there was nearly nothing left What was the actual number
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
IF the bug is present in all processors that use speculative execution AND Intel products use speculative execution THEN it is a bug in Intel products. It would only be correct to say "This is not a bug or a flaw exclusive to Intel p
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
At christmas we're all sitting on our asses at home and farting. So a lot of wind is actually being produced!
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
The A380 has two hydraulic systems. If the priamry fails, the aircraft is still fully flyable. Some extra things like slats don't work anymore but those aren't critical for flight and landing. If the secondary hydraulics fail, the
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
* Publicity * Human capability >> robotic capability * Mars as a very long term "Backup Earth" * If you can go to Mars with humans you can go to the Moon with humans as well. * Human capable systems can also carry robots, th
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
Wikipedia says: > Savonius turbines are used whenever cost or reliability is much more important than efficiency. The German article is a bit more detailed and claims that Savonius tubines are effective at speeds as low as 2m/s and
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
This is a great example of space exploration that could produce technology relevant for applications on Earth: If you have a complex machine that can do usefuk work on Venus, you can use a similar concept for ultra-durable equipment here. S
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
Unless it were possible for each objective function to converge to a next one that slightly extends the current one. However, what would the starting point be? Is this mathematically definable? What does the (im)possibility to define such a
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
WARNING: The page immediately shows you a picture of the affected man's hand. You might not want to see that, it's quite graphic.
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
Not only that. Friend-or-foe identification can boil down to "only targets shooting at me are hostile". That policy isn't any good for human soldiers but robots operating on that principle could avoid a lot of collateral dama
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
> It’s one of the least threatening issues facing our country, the one with the lowest risk factors of any environmental threat. It’s safer to work at a nuclear site than to sit at a desk trading stocks The relative safety is often broug
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
> what if I'm tracking objects in interplanetary space? I guess you'd just want to store the orbital information of that object, as it probably won't stay at a fixed position.
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
Thanks :)
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); // what the fuck? Indeed. I hope there's some omitted documentation for this. Does anybody know how this works?
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
Decency and foresight is highly subjective. Actually encoding what we understand as "decent human behaviour" into AI is a huge problem: If you create a system that decides about giving somebody a loan in the US based on a financia
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
Can confirm. We've been waiting half a year for one arm. It's not only production, training courses are packed and support technicians are hard to get hold of.
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
> I am saddened by this. > House fires were doing a great job of partitioning houses from people that should never have been owning them in the first place. I was really hoping that a significant portion of my house had been burnt to
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
> What a bubble. We can't even get clean water to all of the citizens in the wealthiest country on the planet. You can be space faring while ignoring people. It won't help and it's unethical, but not a showstopper. Still,
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
Pillows help to keep the head elevated when lying on the back or on the shoulder. Since the astronauts are in zero-G, there's probably no real need for that.
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by bad_alloc 9y ago
Yes. Math is an universal language. Programming languages are either domain-specific by design or you extend them until they become maths again.
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by bad_alloc 10y ago
Looking at the makeup of CO2 emissions [1] (ignoring methane and other factors) it seems that it makes the most sense to avoid unneccessary heating and electricity consumption (which most people will already do because it's good for yo
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by bad_alloc 10y ago
10500€ for 7 degrees of freedom is awesome. Usually you get small 6 axis bots for 20k - 40k, without collision detection. Not to mention user friendly software.
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by bad_alloc 10y ago
Especially if you pursue a degree in a technical field, German quickly gets wierd. You encounter a lot of long, composite words ("Doppelkupplungsgetriebe" or "Motorsteuerungseinheit") for which the language is already fa
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by bad_alloc 10y ago
This is wierd, ZF primarily builds gearboxes and car parts. What can they do with a keyboard company?
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by bad_alloc 10y ago
Machines fall flat in many aspects: They don't heal, reproduce or "survive" well without human help in any way. Then again, they do things that are impossible with organic systems, like going to space, travelling at supersoni
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by bad_alloc 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification :)
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by bad_alloc 10y ago
What do you mean by "black consumers"? Are those supposed to be people who want to discredit the company or actual black people?
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by bad_alloc 10y ago
Not in this case: The galactic arm we're in is longer than expected. So it just extends further into intergalactic space than previously thought.
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by bad_alloc 10y ago
Sorry to throw rocks at your idea, but you apparently haven't experienced an angry kid: I would not hand them a 800$ - 1000$ device while they're throwing a tantrum. ;)

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