rekenaut

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by rekenaut 9mo ago
Especially if with the radiators you can just roll out as rolls of aluminum foil, which is very light and very cheap.
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by rekenaut 10mo ago
I don’t think this has been true for the vast majority of NASA’s existence. [This 1966 NYT article about Gemini]( https://www.nytimes.com/1966/03/20/archives/gemini-8-mishap-... ), [this 1986 article about
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by rekenaut 11mo ago
Potentially a much greater filter is going from unicellular to multicellular life, no? If it likely took billions of years to get from unicellular to multicellular life on Earth, and only (hundreds of) millions of years to get to life that
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by rekenaut 1y ago
Dozens of us use Julia. Dozens!!
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by rekenaut 1y ago
Where does this idea that a programming language has to be Turing complete come from? As far as I can tell from cursory searches, the most broadly understood understanding of a programming language is a formal language for directing computa
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by rekenaut 1y ago
If nobody else is claiming the land, you don’t even need one!
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by rekenaut 1y ago
Traditionally, interns exist as a well-vetted and well-shaped supply of labor (which is very difficult to find through the traditional hiring process). The work they complete is secondary. Are companies going to stop needing good employees?
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by rekenaut 1y ago
> Or a quote from Kurt Vonnegut's player piano, "Nobody's so damn well educated that you can't learn ninety per cent of what he knows in six weeks. The other ten per cent is decoration... Almost nobody's competen
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by rekenaut 1y ago
The difference is much greater than this. It’s $20/month for a machine that can provide instant answers to any prompt in any topic hundreds of times a month vs $200/assignment that may take days to received and you have to edit yo
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by rekenaut 1y ago
Is it possible that the methods of cheating in the past were a lot more ineffective, risky, or expensive? If a tool like ChatGPT makes cheating a lot easier and less risky, of course more students will use it.
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by rekenaut 1y ago
Because whether the government gets it or this collective organization gets it, you’re still out a $1. Besides, very few people will actually care enough about $1 to partake in literally any amount of effort to regain it.
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by rekenaut 1y ago
This isn’t remotely true, the United States is the second largest manufacturing nation by value [1]. And manufacturing is still the dominant industry in many regions of the US. We might not be great at making consumer goods, but consumer go
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by rekenaut 1y ago
Perhaps it’s just nostalgia on my part, but I really don’t understand imposing the constraint of making every Mac app look like the rounded iPhone app buttons. To me, it makes it harder at a glance to distinguish one app from another compar
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by rekenaut 1y ago
Is it feasible to get 100 million people to play this game even if it was free? I have to imagine that once you get to $400 million, every additional dollar has effectively no value add. When is it not better to just target a smaller user b
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by rekenaut 1y ago
Trust me, the 80% meeting workday became prevalent loooooong before the 2020s.
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by rekenaut 1y ago
In my pocket, I have a wallet, timer, alarm clock, calculator, telephone, atlas, directory, camera, stock broker, flashlight, tape measure, television, music collection, encyclopedia, transit time table, library, notepad, and translator. Ho
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by rekenaut 1y ago
Outside of urban centers, the only other device that is similarly valuable is a car, but the average American new car purchase costs 65 times the average American new phone purchase. While there is obviously a lot of nuance here, this makes
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by rekenaut 1y ago
They’re not important to (most) young people today for the same reasons health insurance plans aren’t important to young people today: they just haven’t reached the professional world yet. Once they get there, computers suddenly become very
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by rekenaut 1y ago
I feel that saying "120k is basically minimum wage for major metros" is absurd. As of 2022, there are only three metro areas in the US that have a per capita income greater than $120,000 [1] (Bay Area and Southwest Connecticut). A
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by rekenaut 1y ago
This is very cool! I love the idea of having a device dedicated to local transit as opposed to having another thing pulling me to my phone. I wish there was something similar for American cities.
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by rekenaut 1y ago
I wonder if there is any connection between the models producing exaggerated outputs and the litany of exaggerated or overconfident claims that academic media offices or the press have produced from previous studies. Maybe the models traine
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by rekenaut 1y ago
Not to mention the endless legal fights to get anything new built.
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by rekenaut 1y ago
Students entering smaller colleges now have to ask themselves more than ever whether their university will be open in four years when they plan to graduate. With increasing closures of private and public colleges alike, I’m sure this will c
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by rekenaut 1y ago
This is great aspect of it, but that doesn’t diminish that it feels so tedious to work with compared to Julia and Matlab. Some of that is just from trying to shoehorn Python as a scientific computing language, but I think it’s time to revis
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by rekenaut 1y ago
LabVIEW is really fantastic because it’s really easy to throw lab software together in a few hours or days and just get hardware test stands off the ground, especially when you don’t have a SWE in your department and you have an engineer wh
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by rekenaut 1y ago
I don't know that that's true. For subset of people, this correlation may be true. To be extremely anecdotal though, I have never had trouble maintaining my weight even though I don't exercise, have a mostly sedentary lifesty
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by rekenaut 1y ago
I often say "definitely possible" when I am not sure what the chance of something happening is but I ought to acknowledge that it is possible. It is definitely possible that I should choose better language to communicate this.
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by rekenaut 1y ago
OnShape is great (we have been using it exclusively for a project over the past four months, the collaboration tools are phenomenal), but FreeCAD has made some fantastic progress over the past year. Some of the underlying technology problem
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by rekenaut 1y ago
I've discovered that the people I most enjoy being around are those that are authentically optimistic. Not those that are blind to everything negative, and not those who are faking it to ameliorate themselves, but those who are encoura
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by rekenaut 1y ago
This works great for finished consumer goods, but bulk cargo that makes up a significant portion of both rail and truck traffic like grain, liquid products (crude oil, gasoline, vinyl chloride), ore, etc. have very specialized transports th

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