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by pieix 2y ago
A huge portion of USPS international package volume is “ePackets” from China. These are a special service provided by USPS since 2011 for Chinese/HK goods that are cheaper and faster than normal USPS international shipping. These ePack
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by pieix 2y ago
The solution is to grow our way out of it — make more energy, make cleaner energy, develop new technologies — rather than browbeat people into submission with moral arguments because you don't like how they've chosen to deploy the
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by pieix 2y ago
Thanks for explaining my intent, you nailed it.
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by pieix 2y ago
> AI isn’t a co-pilot; it’s a junior dev faking competence. Trust it at your own risk. This is a good take that tracks with my (heavy) usage of LLMs for coding. Leveraging productive-but-often-misguided junior devs is a skill every dev s
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by pieix 2y ago
Anybody used this yet and can share example outputs?
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by pieix 2y ago
Right, and that doesn't contradict what I wrote.
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by pieix 2y ago
Regular coding questions mostly. For me o1 generally gives better code and understands the prompt more completely (haven’t started using r1 or o3 regularly enough to opine).
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by pieix 2y ago
Are there any metros with intra-city high speed trains like this?
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by pieix 2y ago
Elo on different card games/board games would be a great eval metric now that the systems are general enough to play Codenames, chess, poker…
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by pieix 2y ago
I’m a big 2A supporter but would still want the would-be kidnapper to be deterred by other means. I can be incapacitated or caught unaware, JP Morgan and Charles Schwab cannot.
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by pieix 2y ago
This shows another of the many ways in which a having a trusted third party involved in your finances is actually a good thing.
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by pieix 2y ago
Do you have any favorite Flutter projects I could click around? It’s an intriguing concept but I’ve been offput thus far by Google’s lack of adoption of its own framework.
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by pieix 2y ago
I might have missed it, but I’ve never seen a Soyuz booster fly twice, let alone 25 times.
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by pieix 2y ago
Wasn't my intention at all to imply that they did something wrong and need to scramble to fix it. Just observing that a large portion of the web is built around the assumption that traffic is intermittent, where even a small burst of r
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by pieix 2y ago
Makes you wonder how many sites out there are just ~10k requests per hour away from being bricked.
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by pieix 2y ago
The controversy here is that LibGen doesn't legally distribute its content. Mass-scale training on pirated content is... legally murky, to say the least.
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by pieix 2y ago
Thanks for the feature request, guys — I just shipped a realtime clock with the ability to go backwards through time :)
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by pieix 2y ago
Hey, thanks! I hadn't seen Celestia until another commenter mentioned it. Cool project, definitely some UX cues to take from it like the progressive hiding of labels and ellipses as you zoom out.
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by pieix 2y ago
Thank you for sharing this with your family and for maybe increasing the number of space nerds on this planet! Exactly what I was hoping for with this project.
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by pieix 2y ago
Yep, all open source: https://github.com/gordonhart/atlasof.space It's a static React app using Three.js for rendering and a few backend functions deployed on Netlify. It's been a pretty great experience depl
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by pieix 2y ago
Hey, thanks for flagging this. I had the sign flipped for Earth's axial tilt. Fixed now!
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by pieix 2y ago
Great suggestion, just added it. Thanks for teaching me about FarFarOut.
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by pieix 2y ago
Thank you and not off topic at all, I was thinking this the whole time I was working on this project. The modern browser is magic.
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by pieix 2y ago
Nice find. That's the only one up there currently, mostly because it's in a simple heliocentric orbit (most spacecraft are not). I want to add more but need to figure out how to properly find their current position+velocity to sta
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by pieix 2y ago
Your edit is spot on — there's a lot out there in the Kuiper Belt / Oort Cloud that we don't know about. It's hypothesized that there are many objects out there, with more mass than in the Asteroid Belt. It's no coi
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by pieix 2y ago
Initial conditions are modeled by Keplerian elements around the main parent body. These are 6 scalars that describe the size, shape, and orientation of the orbital ellipse as well as the body's position along it at a given time (epoch)
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by pieix 2y ago
Three.js for all of the fun 3D stuff, vanilla canvas drawing for annotations like dots/labels/offscreen indicators. Three.js is an incredible project.
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by pieix 2y ago
Fair point, I'll change (only after outing myself as somebody who pays more attention to writers than physicists)!
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by pieix 2y ago
Appreciate the comment! The Expanse and Paul McAuley's Quiet War series both get a lot of inspiration credit for this project. I tried to include every body that has some "brand recognition", whether from fiction or from real
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by pieix 2y ago
A big inspiration for this project was the "Solid Orrery" from Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series. I nearly went with this name!

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