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by kersplody 18d ago
Cool now let's exempt hobbyists from the 3-D printer must certify you are not printing gun parts pending legislation.
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by kersplody 27d ago
And for people that know their history, the DoD basically built Silicon Valley as we know, funding research and buying essentially 100% of the output of valley fabs for several years for Radars, then ICBMs, and then flight computers (F14 wa
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by kersplody 2mo ago
It's the negative free cash flow combined with the intention to pivot away from the car industry to humanoid robotics is what I'm tracking.
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by kersplody 3mo ago
A single shopping to trip to Walmart or Home Depot can buy items that can be repurposed into bombs and physical and chemical weapons with only a little bit of know-how. Are we going to require mandatory ID and shopping cart analysis to all
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by kersplody 5mo ago
NOPE, RAD hardened space parts basically froze on mid 2000s tech: https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/product/radiation-hardened-...
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by kersplody 8mo ago
For now. FCC could change this in a couple of months. There is talk of canceling FCC certifications for Autel/DJI.
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by kersplody 10mo ago
Could MS Just fix explorer.exe crashes when dragging directory windows between a 1080p display and a 4k display in a multi-monitor setup? Please?
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by kersplody 1y ago
Yep. 0ft-1000ft AGL Takeoff, Climb, Approach, and Landing are the tough bits. The rest (Cruise) is very low demand and much easier than driving.
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by kersplody 1y ago
Next flight should be a mass simulator of at least 100 tons to orbit. This flight was around ~10 tons to almost orbit. The economics of Starlink basically require high cadence Starship launches with 50+ Starlink v3 satellites on each flight
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by kersplody 1y ago
Not quite, but it's a major milestone. Still quite a bit of work to go on the rapid reusability part (burnt flaps, oxidized body, missing tiles, tile waterproofing). Starship might actually deliver payload to orbit on flight 11.
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by kersplody 1y ago
HACKER NEWS ADMINS: You might want to remove this thread for legal reasons :)
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by kersplody 1y ago
Or Europe. Or the UK. 10+ prison plus civil damages in all three jurisdictions should it be prosecuted for various "Unauthorized computer access" laws. Even just browsing protected endpoints is a criminal violation. Publishing any
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by kersplody 1y ago
At least wikipedia has an out in the legislation by disabling content recommendation engines for UK users, this includes: 1. “You may be interested in…” search suggestions on the Wikipedia interface—these are algorithmic, content-based reco
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by kersplody 1y ago
Look at UC Davis Gifford Center’s April 2024 “Farm Labor Issues in the 2020s” summary report: https://gifford.ucdavis.edu/events/past/april-4-2024-farm-la... Very few U.S.-born workers respond to job ads for seaso
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by kersplody 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiant_Mercury
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by kersplody 2y ago
There is also a plan afoot to replace income taxes with tariffs following the McKinley Economic model, involving high tariffs, gold standard, focus on industrialism, and economic imperialism. It kinda made sense in the days where there was
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by kersplody 2y ago
The connector could reasonably be shrunk. It just now has essentially no design margin so any minor issue immediately becomes major! 50A DC is serious current to be treated with respect. 5A DC is sanely manageable.
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by kersplody 2y ago
12vhpwr has almost no safety margin. Any minor problem with it rapidly becomes major. 600W is scary, with reports of 800W spikes. 12V2x6 is particularly problematic because any imbalance, such as a bad connection of a single pin, will quick
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by kersplody 2y ago
Correct, the stage 2 bootloader and system firmware must be on the SSD. The OS can then boot from an external volume. https://support.apple.com/guide/security/boot-process-secac7...
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by kersplody 2y ago
Volumetric live action performance capture. Basically a video you can walk around in. Currently requires a large synchronized camera array. Plays back on most mobile devices. Several major industry efforts in this space ongoing.
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by kersplody 2y ago
Wet mud and sand is far easier to clean than the thick black tar that accumulates on road bike chains. Tire and tarmac dust is nasty.
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by kersplody 2y ago
It's fine to be a monopoly because you have the best product. It's not OK to use that monopoly position to stifle competitors. So has enough anticompetitive behavior occurred to distort the market? Unless I'm missing somethin
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by kersplody 2y ago
And ironically decreasing coal and fuel pollution decreases albedo causing faster warming which will persist for a few decades until things balance out. Less pollution is good, particularly when it comes to reductions in sulphur dioxide fro
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by kersplody 2y ago
Local LLMs are also a fantastic too for creative endeavors. Without prompt injection and having the ability to modify the amount of noise and "creativity" in the output, absolutely bonkers things pop out.
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by kersplody 2y ago
It's more of a city state encircled by greater London. The City of London has a separate government and rights that predate England, inclusive of the right to opt out of any parliamentary law or ignore the mayor of Greater London. The
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by kersplody 3y ago
Not that simple: Most of these Chinese fishing boats are classified as Chinese Merchant Marines, a devision of the Chinese Military, so sinking them is an act of war. This is a real headache for managing illegal Chinese Fishing of Vietnam w
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by kersplody 3y ago
Russian and Chinese Surface to Air Missile (SAM) systems are really good. Modern versions can detect and target most stealth aircraft at a range of 15-35 miles, depending on radar cross section and electronic countermeasures in use.
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by kersplody 3y ago
It's only a little worse (14t/yr/pc vs 13t/yr/pc). Oil and gas extraction related emissions is the primary driver of that difference.
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by kersplody 3y ago
It is the only practical solution. The only way to get humanity's energy equation to balance is to dramatically reduce the population or dramatically reduce energy use per capita or invent and deploy a mythical free energy source withi
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by kersplody 3y ago
The macro challenge is that we have already overshot and the IPCC appears to be massively understating the current state. According to Hansen et. al.'s Global warming in the pipeline [under peer review], "Equilibrium global warmin

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