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High quality, slow motion video: https://x.com/dwisecinema/status/1935552171912655045

There's a high quality slow motion video available [1] that shows the problem was almost certainly a failed pressure tank, not the engines. [1] https://x.com/dwisecinema/status/193…

Because the major categories are very hard to cut: Social Security: 22% Interest on the Debt: 14% Medicaid: 14% Medicare: 14% National Defense: 13% That's 77% of the budget in thos…

> If I ask ‘ Linux "sort" command line for sorting the third column containing integers’, Wow, that's actually quite a lot. You can also just say "sort 3rd col nix."

The blown up whale in Oregon is sort of like the SR-71 speed readout story. Reposted endlessly, but you just kind of accept it.

Steel is by no means obvious. No one else in the industry uses it. (No one else in the industry uses carbon fiber, either, except things like fairings). The obvious choice that eve…

There is absolutely no chance Starship is developed using steel without Musk. There is absolutely zero chance that Mechazilla would exist without Musk. These are massive elements o…

I did exactly that, and it was very close to the actual sklearn output.

I tried with alternate values and got the same result - not quite precisely exact, but extremely close values.

It shouldn't be, though. There is way too much democracy in California localities. There should be no elected school board, transit districts, utility boards, assessors, sheriff, a…

> oxygenated atmosphere Of course, the oxygenated atmosphere only exists due to life. Otherwise, it would just rapidly oxidize everything else.

Solar panels across the entire roof of a data center can't generate much more than 1-2% of the total power usage of the data center. Would need a solar farm with about 50x-100x the…

AC is not harmful to the planet, carbon-based sources of energy are. The ideological framing of the degrowth movement is all around us.

Because they're not even remotely comparable products

I was also amused by a UX complaint on a site that is totally borked in a non-obvious way on Firefox. It's not totally broken, it shows the first frame of the image, there's just n…

Fly the drones in pairs? Relay drone goes to a significantly higher altitude in the middle? * / \ / \

Claude has absolutely no idea how many deaths occurred as a result of this outage. It's scary that people are taking these hallucinations as some sort of reasoned fact, or importan…

That's exactly what Elon has said. He's said that 99.99% of all vehicle miles are useless from a training perspective. https://www.teslarati.com/fsd-distance-driven-training-musk/

> For the second test, my wife reluctantly gave me permission to try out FSD for interstate driving, which should be its best case scenario. Except this isn't the new FSD stack, it…

The eventual plan is to build an orbiting space station, the Lunar Gateway. Astronauts will then launch on SLS/Orion, which will perform a Trans Lunar Injection. However, before th…

Not really. In a perfect world where we had an unlimited supply of batteries, charging infrastructure, and all-renewable electricity, BEVs would be best. But we don't live in that …

I mostly work at home, and when I'm coding, I generally have music on. I like to sing along with music, and I sit at my desk singing and coding all day long. But I could never do t…

Interesting. When the disaster first unfolded, a lot of experts came out to say the bridge appeared to lack protective barriers to help absorb the energy from a ship impact. [1] Ho…