jackmott

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by jackmott 3y ago
There is often some margin, and it doesn’t take much. Many early failed falcon 9 landings were very explodey
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by jackmott 3y ago
I remember a couple of years ago a root exploit in Sudo that was the result of failing to check for a sentinel value, thinking “that is a bug that wouldn’t happen in Rust, even though it isn’t related to memory safety!” Rust enums are sum t
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by jackmott 3y ago
he doesn’t think women should vote and donated millions to trump, does that help with the ethics?
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by jackmott 3y ago
Really misplaced negativity, her youtube channel is a treasure, almost nobody in the world manages to produce a breakthrough in physics research, that doesn’t make them garbage.
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by jackmott 3y ago
Imagine a huge vat of water, you add some blue food coloring. it swirls around in there, predicting how blue any spot in the vat will be is very hard. predicting the total amount of blue is very easy. the confidence on global temperature i
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by jackmott 3y ago
yeah its a problem that comes up regularly, fails and can’t be rolled away. probably need legislation because so many ev fanboys pretend this isnt a problem. (i am an ev fanboy)
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by jackmott 3y ago
ok, how?
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by jackmott 3y ago
how does minify affect the times to decompress and load the css I wonder?
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by jackmott 3y ago
They excelled at building an ev supercar and components for porsche, ferrari and others
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by jackmott 3y ago
Sudo had a root exploit recently that wasn’t memory safety related, but the rust sun types would have prevented that too. They remove any urge to use sigils (ie negative 1 or 0 mean something special) which you can forget to check. Its easi
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by jackmott 3y ago
there is loss from the atmosphere when you beam it down
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by jackmott 3y ago
Yet the warming continues at exactly the rate we expected since the 1980s, given the rise in co2 we are measuring. Strange coincidence, or maybe the fact that the code is fortran doesn’t say anything about the accuracy of the math.
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by jackmott 3y ago
if the 2nd stage re entry turns out to be fundamentally unworkable, big setback. but if the rocket fails for any of 100 other reasons, no big deal
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by jackmott 3y ago
aerodynamics mostly, motor efficiency partly
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by jackmott 4y ago
Poaching sounds like capitalism to me, that idea rich CEOs love until it doesn’t work in their favor.
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by jackmott 4y ago
agreed, many language features have trade offs or limited usefulness, but after years in the profession I feel that sum types are something every language should have.
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by jackmott 4y ago
Its pretty gross that tech people look up to this company and its founder. We should be doing everything we can to bring them down. This company led by a man who regrets that women got the vote and that apartheid ended in south africa and
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by jackmott 4y ago
poorly understood systems like humans?
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by jackmott 4y ago
cycles hurt a lot less than just time does, but of course there would need to be some incentive!
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by jackmott 4y ago
I have a Tesla, when using just cruise control it has slammed the brakes: because of shadows that confused it because of concern about cars crossing the intersection ahead where there is only the need to gently slow because of a car crossin
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by jackmott 4y ago
Sustaining 20k people in Antarctica isn’t a problem people can’t solve, it just isn’t at all useful. Sustaining a colony on mars would be useful to mitigate planetary scale natural disasters. The problem is humans as we exist bow are not
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by jackmott 4y ago
That is a strange psychological state. Being unaware of why something is impossible but desperately waiting for someone to tell you why it is. History is full of millions of examples of things that were asserted as impossible by smart peopl
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by jackmott 4y ago
At least you are aware it is happening! That is a huge first step, the last bit should only require you to harden up a bit.
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by jackmott 4y ago
The problem wasn’t sharing the story. The problem was after sharing the story and getting a lukewarm response the story teller kept pressing for an enthusiastic response. Does that make more sense? Have I misread the article perhaps?
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by jackmott 4y ago
And now we still live under the thumb of billionaires made by those acts 80 years ago, and he insults the youth for complaining about it to.
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by jackmott 4y ago
Some people enjoy that stuff, it’s important for us to remember that, and it is important for them to remember some of us hate it.
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by jackmott 4y ago
Surely these are engineered in cooperation with corporations so that politicians can get their win with the electorate and eat their corporate cash too?
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by jackmott 4y ago
Are you a real person?
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by jackmott 4y ago
Texas will take your children from you if they get a report that they are transexual
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by jackmott 4y ago
It is tough calculus to choose a repair even if you do it all yourself. Say a 400 appliance. Its old so worth say 200 now. You need a 75 dollar part. There is some large chance the part you buy isnt quite the right variant you need or yo

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