djexjms

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by djexjms 10mo ago
This is obviously incorrect. Latency is not the same as bandwidth. EME hobbyists will bounce voice signals off the moon.
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by djexjms 10mo ago
20 to 30 years would ensure that abandoned media that was formative to a person growing up will enter the public domain within their lifetimes which would be a nice thing to have in my opinion. It would also ensure that any work done by an
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by djexjms 11mo ago
Sure the SLS is a total mess, but from what I understand, there wasn't ever really a concrete plan on how to use SpaceX rockets to actually get to the moon. The following video is a presentation given at a NASA meeting explaining the i
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by djexjms 1y ago
Wait a minute, that doesn't sound right.
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by djexjms 1y ago
For what it's worth, the entire Lichess corpus of puzzles (over five million positions with solutions and theming tags) is available for download in CSV format at https://database.lichess.org/#puzzles
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by djexjms 1y ago
That's a nice ideal. I honestly kind of agree with you in the sense that I wish that was how things were. But in my view, it's easier to think about the police as a force whose primary purpose is to enforce the property rights of
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by djexjms 1y ago
What about ignoring due process while doing so? Is that, in your view, in line with the constitution? If it is, what recourse does a US citizen detained by ICE (either accidentally or not) have? Also, how do you view Trump's efforts to
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by djexjms 1y ago
Reading this comment thread was a fun way to start my day. Always funny to see people react to satire about them.
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by djexjms 3y ago
Things started getting tricky at level 7. I can see that level 8 is solvable, but I'm not going to have time to solve it before leaving for work. Neat little puzzle.
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by djexjms 4y ago
Even if it turns out not to be the perfect solution, it might turn out that this kind of measurement might be useful for things like estimating the effectiveness of medication and other medical interventions, or even lifestyle changes. Imag
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by djexjms 4y ago
That one take on it. The other is that it could potentially save literally tens of thousands of lives. Immediately classifying a potentially life-saving medical technology is a threat to the second amendment might not be the best look for 2
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by djexjms 4y ago
I think more caution is warranted here. That argument seems to rely on our experience of reality being an accurate representation of objective reality. There are some ideas that are surprisingly difficult to dismiss that essentially state t
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by djexjms 4y ago
But that is actually a fairly accurate description of the paper you asked it to summarize for you. It's not the models fault that you don't like the argument of the paper.
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by djexjms 4y ago
Another way to look at it is that the fact that the rocket moved at all was due to the rockets. The fact that those rockets propelled the spacecraft into lunar orbit and then back to the landing zone on earth was due to the math.
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by djexjms 4y ago
Maybe the strategy here is to just not make any blunders.
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by djexjms 4y ago
In case you didn't know, this was the correct answer. Nice troubleshooting!
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by djexjms 4y ago
I am a CDL holder who used to do long haul trucking. I haven't had a chance to get behind the wheel of these vehicles yet, but the only criticism that I feel holds weight here is the one about not being able to get the light levels on
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by djexjms 4y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist. I'm just some random internet dude who likes learning things. My understanding is that a single photon wouldn't count as an observer. It doesn't even experience time (from the point of vi
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by djexjms 4y ago
If you want an educated and informed populace (the kind you need for democracy to be worth a damn), then access to information for as many people as possible is a necessary but not sufficient condition. I don't buy that people are dumb
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by djexjms 4y ago
You just need one piston. Load the robot up with some rock ballast if you want, but even without, a thumper style compacter would still work in 1/6 g.
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by djexjms 4y ago
The raw transcripts are linked to from the article.
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by djexjms 4y ago
It is an interesting design problem for sure. I'm not expert on this stuff, but the first thing that comes to mind is gravel roads. Plenty of moon rocks would be available to be crushed into gravel. You might not even have to do that.
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by djexjms 4y ago
Yeah. After reading the article, I have to agree. But I'm no expert in this area. It seems like it could certainly help. If I had to guess, things like ECRAM and reconfigurable analog computing chips will have more of an effect than th
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by djexjms 4y ago
I think the point here is that the people performing the actual experiments think that the amount of animal testing is inappropriate. If you do an experiment and it ends up killing the animal, that is one result. One data point. If you do t
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by djexjms 4y ago
My partner of the last six years is trans. Your post doesn't strike me as hate speech, but what Hacker News commenters seem not to understand is that making overly general statements about entire groups of people can often lead to an o
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by djexjms 4y ago
Third field down after simulating the impact.
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by djexjms 4y ago
I'm curious what kind of loyalty you think employees owe their employers in these kinds of extreme circumstances. We are talking about a radical change in direction and working style. Whatever deal these employees thought they were sig
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by djexjms 4y ago
A lot of the top comments seem to be saying no. I'll go ahead and make the argument that, yes, this technology will eventually pretty much end most programmers jobs. I'm not talking about tomorrow. Even if the technology was perfe
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by djexjms 4y ago
If anyone is interested in the opinion of an actual CDL holder, I think the technology has amazing promise and will eventually be adopted for many kind of CDL driving. I used to work for a public utility company (water/waster water), a