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tgarv
·2 years ago·discuss
Small correction: It's Mark Rober, not Roper
tgarv
·4 years ago·discuss
Sounds more like a combination of pitch and yaw: "I trimmed the aircraft to fly in a kind of sidelong skid: nose high and with the tail swung around slightly to the right"
tgarv
·4 years ago·discuss
Oh no, now the vacuum of space is leaking into the base of a mountain!
tgarv
·4 years ago·discuss
I think a solar sail mostly works at a broad reach or a run, so it would be more of a jibe than a tack ;)
tgarv
·4 years ago·discuss
Why does the WC take so much more prep than other tournaments? Is it because of the format, or just the pressure to win?
tgarv
·4 years ago·discuss
Honestly, that's awesome and I'm glad you're having fun with it haha
tgarv
·4 years ago·discuss
Do you think that benefit outweighs the wild variance in valuation of most cryptocurrencies? I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm genuinely curious.
tgarv
·4 years ago·discuss
Why try your absolute best to not think about it, instead of taking some steps to reduce your animal consumption and actually feel better about it? I get that something like mortality is an intrusive thought that you can do nothing about, but it's pretty easy to take steps to reduce meat consumption and actually feel better about it.
tgarv
·4 years ago·discuss
Airflow uses it for task ordering within a DAG, but that's used in the parsing step that happens before/outside of any actual task execution so it's not really in the source code of tasks at least.
tgarv
·4 years ago·discuss
I completely agree, with the exception of wanting easy support for powering from a lipo battery and also charging that battery without disconnecting it. This has led me to use the Adafruit Feather RP2040 lately because it has a builtin lipo charger and will automatically switch between USB and battery power as needed, but of course it doesn't work for projects that need WiFi. I'm hoping that we'll get a board that easily combines the two soon.
tgarv
·4 years ago·discuss
I've always wondered about this too, but kind of landed on something like this:

Sure, there might be (and probably is) life out there that falls so far outside our definition of "life" that we would never detect it. If it's undetectable, and maybe even incomprehensible, to us, then what's the point in even thinking about it in the context of a "search for life"? What we really mean by the question "Is there life out there?" is "Is there life out there that's similar enough to the life we see on Earth that we could recognize it as such and interact with it?"

I don't have a good way to phrase what I'm getting at without sounding dismissive - I do think it's interesting to think about other forms of "life", but it seems almost philosophical at that point and not scientific.