obidee2

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by obidee2 6mo ago
> You could integrate acceleration to get speed - the flight is short enough to make compounding errors easy to ignore. ‘Easy to ignore’ is not a term I would use here, especially given the motion environment of a rocket. It seems like
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by obidee2 8mo ago
My sketchy napkin math gives an order of magnitude of a few months of panel output to get it in space. 5kg, 500W panel (don’t exactly know what the ratio is for a panel plus protection and frame for space, might be a few times better than t
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by obidee2 8mo ago
I’d like to introduce you to the internet. There’s a reason /s was a big thing, one persons obvious sarcasm is (almost tautologically) another persons true statement of opinion.
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by obidee2 8mo ago
Halloween happens once a year, that’s a big reason it’s tolerated. Also, many parents do provide guidance/control over how much and how fast the candy is eaten. Because otherwise everyone suffers. The better comparison is what if ther
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by obidee2 8mo ago
This is a really interesting comparison, but a flawed analogy. (I’m absolutely not challenging your preference for tube amps.) LEDs clearly do not produce anything like the spectral energy of blackbody radiation (sunlight, incandescence bul
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by obidee2 8mo ago
Why stupid? Vector images are widely used and extremely useful directly and to render raster images at different scales. It’s also highly connected with spacial and geometric reasoning and precision, which would open up a whole new class of
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by obidee2 8mo ago
Anyone expelling a student over a single “ai” label from turnitin alone is a complete idiot. Perhaps that happens occasionally, but that’s clearly the result of horrible decision making that isn’t really turnitins fault. Anyone who gives 1
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by obidee2 8mo ago
“Less interesting” is an interesting value to compare things that are typically measured by utility. Human form factor robots are definitely more interesting to us as humans, but really only economically viable for high mix low volume task
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by obidee2 8mo ago
So you don’t think the government should have any economic policy? No taxes, education, or social welfare services?
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by obidee2 8mo ago
That was widely ridiculed, but despite how it sometimes seems policy makers are not so stupid to believe saving water from cups not drunk would make a meaningful difference directly. One of the big hurdles for changing human behavior at sca