Darrell @darrellprograms

Recovering pointless argument vegetable. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Joined March 2019

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Darrell @darrellprograms

32 minutes ago

@ScreamyB0I @AstroJoeB The Orion test flights were specific tests of Orion, very different from Gemini. Apollo also test-flew the Apollo capsule on a rocket smaller than Saturn V (Saturn 1B). In the 60s, there was no commercial launch industry to just buy orbital launches from.

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8 hours ago

@ScreamyB0I @AstroJoeB Gemini was pioneering work. Completely different vehicles from Apollo so they could get their first experience with rendezvous. What has NASA been doing for the last half century that they would need this again?

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13 hours ago

@FrostTalkIRL @PenWrangler Next year, there'll start to be GPUs with terabytes of high-speed flash with read speeds comparable to VRAM.

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15 hours ago

@_n4bi_ Drain the oil from the tuna, then add mayonnaise to the tuna. What's in mayonnaise? Mostly oil. Hmm...

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20 hours ago

@a_fellow_of I'm surprised what words people know and don't know. I still remember two SCOTUS justices reacting with surprise and interest to "orthogonal" in 2010. I had been using that word as if everyone knew it.

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a day ago

@AndrewCurran_ @intspg This is an opt-out class action. Authors "accepted the offer" who never even heard about it. On a per-work basis, authors got a pittance, but the lawyers made out like bandits.

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2 days ago

@rob_mcrobberson @ctjlewis Yeah, "extremely smart guy using LLM solves long-standing math problem" is not "LLM solves long-standing math problem".

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2 days ago

@ctjlewis @rob_mcrobberson The search space of 140 character strings is absurdly huge. Like, in the neighborhood of the number of atoms in the known universe cubed. That's not a reason for it to be easy to find.

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2 days ago

@Flatt0pH8r There's a market for cheap vehicles in the US. What keeps them out is manufacturer collusion backed up by politics. There's no "business case" for Toyota in making congress mad at them so they increase barriers for foreign brands.

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2 days ago

@lithos_graphein They did it! They caught one! I've seen them, but they always run away!

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2 days ago

@FloridaMhan @WomanDefiner @earleeburg Or they did stuff like launching nails through unrepaired gaps or soft spots.

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2 days ago

@FloridaMhan @WomanDefiner @earleeburg The picture is of the ceiling, not just the underside of the roof above the ceiling. You can sue an electrician if he carelessly puts a bunch of ugly holes in the plaster on the far side of a wall he's working on.

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2 days ago

@my_little_mori People say "studded leather" armor from Dungeons & Dragons wasn't real, but false brigandines (with the studs but not the plates) absolutely are historical, and they often were still designed for protection as well as appearance, while being less costly or more comfortable.

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2 days ago

@giodgoy @Robotbeat Full flow staged combustion is not needed, and it's not clear yet that it was a good design choice for Starship. SpaceX may end up losing its reusability lead because they prioritized performance and end up relying on an overcomplicated unreliable high-maintenance engine.

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2 days ago

@TorgrimKnutson @HistContent It'd be funny if the writing got real tiny near the bottom corner.

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2 days ago

@mov_axbx Begun, the clone wars have.

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2 days ago

@jmgwritten In a game, creatures like this have an obvious function: you know immediately on sight that it's horrible and it would be a heroic deed to kill it. No further consideration or explanations needed: you met one, so you're in a combat encounter.

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2 days ago

@jmgwritten This is as silly as objecting that goblins add nothing because they're just small, evil men. Owlbears are visibly unnatural, don't respond to nature powers like natural creatures, are inclined to live in dungeons, and normally fight to the death.