Frezik

How long back? IEEE 754 floating point was released the same year as Excel v1, and it’d be a while before there was hardware support. Floating point numbers were often dodgey back then on just about everything.

What’s the difference between interpreted and compiled?

I need a big truck in case I need to haul wood from Home Depot once or twice a year, because that’s worst case scenario. It needs to be an EV with 1000 mile range, because that’s worst case scenario. And I need to make enough to live in Silicon Valley, because that’s worst case scenario.

I disliked the second one specifically because they gave it a decent budget. The original is genius for how it does so much with so little.

The third is an oddball. Made-for-TV budget and quality. It’s interesting for fans of the series, but nothing special.

That trash literally was burned, just not for energy.

Clone of a clone of a steam deck that already wasn’t selling well.

Starlink still requires ground stations, and those ground stations can and are a limiting factor. I was up at a cabin that had Starlink, and service is still in the “better than nothing” phase.

There is concern for fucking up things like radio telescopes. Also, creating a Kessler syndrome event. “But LEO wouldn’t have an issue with that because it would burn up”. Two things:

• Everything in LEO being destroyed is still really bad. Astronauts would likely die.
• Objects in lower orbits can get ejected into higher orbits and hit things there. Kessler sydrome in LEO could potentially start a chain reaction in higher orbits.

Plus, the EU and China are understandably worried about Musk being the only game up there and want to deploy their own equivalent systems. So now there’s not just one system of satellites threatening Kessler syndrome, but possibly three.

Just roll out fiber everywhere like we have with electricity.

They also get bad when placed on truck routes. Mankato, MN put a bunch in and didn’t think about how semis would get around them.

And yes, they’re for cars, not bikes.

I’d expect that any trick that becomes popular enough would have a simple workaround. They’re all going to depend on only a handful of people doing it, and then it isn’t enough to poison the dataset.

Not sure if bottom poster got that from an LLM, or if they’re satirizing it.

The software is where most of the magic happens. How do you control steppers and ink output otherwise?

Not with nuclear thermal propulsion, it wouldn’t. Time to Mars is estimated at 45 days with them.

Sorry, but he’s a shithead. He tends to simp for the authoritarian aspects of the Chinese government, and the books are written to show that only tough authoritarians can make the hard but necessary decisions for humanity. The third book is basically “women are too weak for the task”.

It’s a fun story to read for the imagination behind it, but its themes should go in the wood chipper.

On an interstate (all on/off ramps, no intersections, clear of pedestrians), that would be fine in terms of safety. The road would take more wear and tear, and gas millage plummets. At a certain point, the curves in the road don’t sweep gradually enough for all types of cars and trucks to handle it. If designed for it, 150mph can be done safely. The German Autobahn proves it.

When you have intersections and pedestrians and such, things are different.

FWIW, it doesn’t work. The preprocessing for LLM training isn’t going to be fooled by that. It’s just making things harder for everyone to read.

Jira almost seems like overkill if all it’s for is bug tracking. Though I’m guessing all your clients are just used to it, so let them have their comfort zone?

I hate Jira so much. It’s designed to do everything for everyone, and that makes it a big, wet, hairy dog.

Nuclear rockets could have easily made space relatively cheap. The tech was actively tested by NASA, and it worked pretty well. Nixon canceled that program and saddled NASA with a mandate for a Shuttle without the proper funding.

The USSR’s manned program, OTOH, was built mostly to hit a number of firsts (first dog in space, first man in space, first woman in space, first space walk, etc.), but do it as quickly as possible. This resulted in a series of “get it done right the fuck now” decisions. NASA did it the slow way, with each technical advancement building on the last, which is better in the long run (if you fund it, mind you). Russia did enough to build Soyuz and then ran that for decades.

The tech did not hit physical limits. The two major approaches to space flight hit different bureaucratic limits first.

Cyberpunk like Blade Runner was a direct response to the optimism of the golden age of SF. They said there wasn’t enough sin in those stories. So they had protagonists who were heavy drug users taking out assassination contracts on big corpo CEOs and banging a prostitute in a back alley after they’re done. They have high technology compared to the time it was written, but it doesn’t help the common people make their lives any better. The Earth is a polluted wasteland, and the cities are stuffed full of people with trash all over the place.

Guess which approach is closer to what actually happened?

It was originally the Brass Woodsman, but the actor died of AIDS contracted from the gold paint.

They won’t. Nuclear has long been thrown in as a “maybe we’ll do this”. The economics have long run against it.