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by jlmorton 1y ago
High quality, slow motion video: https://x.com/dwisecinema/status/1935552171912655045
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by jlmorton 1y ago
There's a high quality slow motion video available [1] that shows the problem was almost certainly a failed pressure tank, not the engines. [1] https://x.com/dwisecinema/status/1935552171912655045
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by jlmorton 1y ago
Because the major categories are very hard to cut: Social Security: 22% Interest on the Debt: 14% Medicaid: 14% Medicare: 14% National Defense: 13% That's 77% of the budget in those categories. Everything else is 23%. The Federal defic
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by jlmorton 1y ago
> If I ask ‘ Linux "sort" command line for sorting the third column containing integers’, Wow, that's actually quite a lot. You can also just say "sort 3rd col nix."
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by jlmorton 2y ago
The blown up whale in Oregon is sort of like the SR-71 speed readout story. Reposted endlessly, but you just kind of accept it.
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by jlmorton 2y ago
Steel is by no means obvious. No one else in the industry uses it. (No one else in the industry uses carbon fiber, either, except things like fairings). The obvious choice that everyone uses is aluminum, or various alloys, like aluminum-lit
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by jlmorton 2y ago
There is absolutely no chance Starship is developed using steel without Musk. There is absolutely zero chance that Mechazilla would exist without Musk. These are massive elements of the Starship program. Now, it's true enough that he d
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by jlmorton 2y ago
I did exactly that, and it was very close to the actual sklearn output.
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by jlmorton 2y ago
I tried with alternate values and got the same result - not quite precisely exact, but extremely close values.
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by jlmorton 2y ago
It shouldn't be, though. There is way too much democracy in California localities. There should be no elected school board, transit districts, utility boards, assessors, sheriff, and so much more. No one is properly informed about cand
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by jlmorton 2y ago
> oxygenated atmosphere Of course, the oxygenated atmosphere only exists due to life. Otherwise, it would just rapidly oxidize everything else.
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by jlmorton 2y ago
Solar panels across the entire roof of a data center can't generate much more than 1-2% of the total power usage of the data center. Would need a solar farm with about 50x-100x the land area.
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by jlmorton 2y ago
AC is not harmful to the planet, carbon-based sources of energy are. The ideological framing of the degrowth movement is all around us.
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by jlmorton 2y ago
Because they're not even remotely comparable products
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by jlmorton 2y ago
I was also amused by a UX complaint on a site that is totally borked in a non-obvious way on Firefox. It's not totally broken, it shows the first frame of the image, there's just no indication at all that the image is actually mea
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by jlmorton 2y ago
Fly the drones in pairs? Relay drone goes to a significantly higher altitude in the middle? * / \ / \
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by jlmorton 2y ago
Claude has absolutely no idea how many deaths occurred as a result of this outage. It's scary that people are taking these hallucinations as some sort of reasoned fact, or important opinion.
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by jlmorton 2y ago
That's exactly what Elon has said. He's said that 99.99% of all vehicle miles are useless from a training perspective. https://www.teslarati.com/fsd-distance-driven-training-musk/
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by jlmorton 2y ago
> For the second test, my wife reluctantly gave me permission to try out FSD for interstate driving, which should be its best case scenario. Except this isn't the new FSD stack, it's the old one. It's a fair criticism of t
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by jlmorton 2y ago
The eventual plan is to build an orbiting space station, the Lunar Gateway. Astronauts will then launch on SLS/Orion, which will perform a Trans Lunar Injection. However, before that, a Starship will be launched into LEO. There will th
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by jlmorton 2y ago
Not really. In a perfect world where we had an unlimited supply of batteries, charging infrastructure, and all-renewable electricity, BEVs would be best. But we don't live in that world. Plugin hybrids with smaller batteries are likely
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by jlmorton 2y ago
I mostly work at home, and when I'm coding, I generally have music on. I like to sing along with music, and I sit at my desk singing and coding all day long. But I could never do this if I was reading something. It's impossible to
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by jlmorton 2y ago
Interesting. When the disaster first unfolded, a lot of experts came out to say the bridge appeared to lack protective barriers to help absorb the energy from a ship impact. [1] However, the NTSB says the bridge did have these barriers. The
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by jlmorton 2y ago
It's worth noting that when George Sowers and ULA did their well-known business case analysis for re-use (nearly 10 years ago, in 2015), their analysis concluded that it would take 10 flights to pay-off the penalty of re-use. The analy
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by jlmorton 2y ago
It's not double counting, it's just the average difference from CPI vs McDonalds hamburger inflation
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by jlmorton 2y ago
> McDonalds burgers were 15¢. Okay, it was the McDonald's hamburger that seems to have been $0.15 in 1963. That is $1.53 in CPI-inflated 2024 dollars. The cost today is $2.19. That's about a 0.6% difference in the compounding i
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by jlmorton 2y ago
> It was two years of effort from at least one guy and more likely a team. You think these guys have standups?
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by jlmorton 2y ago
You are conflating entirely different statistics. For every stat other than driverless vehicles, you used the fatality rate. For autonomous vehicles, you used the accident rate, and you included all manufacturers and a stat from 3 years ago
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by jlmorton 2y ago
> This is why driverless cars are still just demos Not directly the point of the article, but is it fair to say driverless cars are still just demos when they're operating on every street, road, and freeway from San Francisco to San
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by jlmorton 2y ago
I'm perplexed how you're talking about this like it's a common problem people have had, something that's been ongoing for years. There is no stuttering problem on audio playback on any of the smart phones you've lis

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