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manicdee
·hace 4 años·discuss
Reader, Wave, G+, Hangouts, Stadia and soon RCS.

Never build a business on a Google project, only ever use Google as a side hustle.
manicdee
·hace 5 años·discuss
"Tesla rear-ended another car while on autopilot" is an immediate red flag in any discussion about car accidents. It shows that the writer is about to launch on a rant with a clear agenda, and this is an argument in which facts, logic and critical thinking are not going to be welcomed.

You were upset that someone hit you, that's fair. You then swallowed the at-fault driver's story hook line and sinker, and now instead of being angry at the other driver for being negligent you're angry at the NHTSA for not Taking Me Seriously™.

11/10 to the at fault driver for such skilled deflection where she managed to not only avoid responsibility for her mistake but amplified your rage to the point that not only did you absolve the at-fault driver and blame the manufacturer of the car they were driving, but you are now angry at a regulatory agency for not taking immediate, decisive and visible action on a single word of mouth report.

TL;DR: you've been played. Double check the contact details the at-fault driver gave you.
manicdee
·hace 5 años·discuss
The car tells you "please keep your hands on the wheel". It then proceeds to nag you if you don't put enough torque on the wheel, and then brings the car to a halt in the middle of the road.

Please don't propagate myths about "Tesla doesn't make it clear that you have to be in control of the vehicle."

My AP has many times disengaged because despite paying attention to the driving I wasn't putting enough torque on the wheel to convince AP that actually had my hands on the wheel.
manicdee
·hace 5 años·discuss
Donald Knuth, “The Art of Computer Programming” would grow more volumes by guest writers, perhaps.
manicdee
·hace 6 años·discuss
Dream width is where people go to post stuff that isn’t allowed elsewhere.

So while explicit imagery is not the norm, nor is it normative, it’s not unusual and is to be expected.
manicdee
·hace 6 años·discuss
It already does work like this with Facebook and Twitter controlling which posts are displayed for you.

The enforcement works better when you aren’t aware of it. Being covert means you don’t protest so loudly.
manicdee
·hace 6 años·discuss
Spambots just post pages full of plagiarised content peppered with links, a hangover from SEO days when the belief was that a Google paid attention to word count of pages linking to your content.
manicdee
·hace 7 años·discuss
They don’t have to clone Raptor, just use an open cycle hydrolox and suffer a weight penalty of extra insulation. That will still give them a reusable LEO launch vehicle with tens of tons payload capacity. Raptor is what it is because SpaceX wants it as part of their Mars project, meaning hydrogen is off the table due to long term storage requirements.

As for the jet engines, is that what you know or what you have been told? What is the provenance of that data? Is there any chance that you are victim to a Chinese disinformation campaign?
manicdee
·hace 7 años·discuss
ULA will have engines from Blue Origin, and both ULA and BO will have second mover advantage in designing their own fully reusable launch systems.

Once SpaceX has got Starship working even only for LEO missions, China will have a clone up and running within two years. ULA might be a bit slower due to overly zealous bureaucracy.

Eventually these launch providers will mean SLS gets cancelled with NASA funding switching more to pure science (eg: building missions to look for life on icy moons, not the rockets to get them there).

Congress will continue to hamstring NASA even as their best and brightest depart for commercial operations with bigger R&D budgets.
manicdee
·hace 7 años·discuss
- Kerbal Space Program

- Mass Effect 1–3

- Minecraft

- Surviving Mars

- Offworld Markets

Just a few of my favourites. There are so many bad games out there because there are so many games.

Those last two are about base building, one is an open-ended colony simulator, the other is a commerce based RTS with definitive end conditions.

Whether you want something to meditate to or something to get your competitive juices running there’s plenty out there to choose from.
manicdee
·hace 12 años·discuss
It's very bad trolling if all you get is an informational answer. The distance between Cunningham's Law and Trolling is measured in tears per fact.

As the fact drops to zero the ratio asymptotically approaches infinity, at which point you have entered trolling nirvana.

As the tears approach zero you have entered zen, the world where all facts are made plain and understandable, and problems no longer exist.