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There's the simple physics of a vtol craft when landing needing to push down a lot of a air very fast just to lift an average human - plus the weight of the craft itself. There's a…

No, but to most people the only exposure they've had to the term "Effective Altruism" (if they've even heard of the it) is morality-washing personal greed that never quite seems to…

A spaced en-dash is also commonly used in British english for the parenthesis equivalent. So it's not really "anglosphere". While there's no central authority, both Oxford and Camb…

It mostly works because the object you're sling-shotting with is moving relative to the initial origin of the probe - if you can line it up so the object is moving in the direction…

Yeah, many of the theoretical solar sail ideas fall down on what I consider a useful "probe" is, and what it can mass. As mentioned in my other comment, if you define the "probe" t…

It might help a bit, as you mentioned that Voyager is currently going about ~17km/s, so nearly 0.005% c, so it's already nearly 1/200th of the way there to our target of 1% c. But …

Space sails are super low thrust though, even lower than my VASIMIR example - so will take even longer to reach the desired speed - though they have the advantage of not having to …

No, not even close. The issue is simply exhaust velocity and reaction mass, that leads us into the tyranny of the rocket equation - in that you have to carry that reaction mass wit…

They're really simple - arguably the problem is people try to treat them as a single complex unit rather than just "5 junctions in a row". Trying to think of them as a whole is rat…

Even then the "reserved" section is a carve out guaranteed chunk to allow stuff that might need contiguous physical memory (display scan out buffers and page tables, for example) a…

Imgur were found to be in breach of the data collection laws before any "you must check IDs" laws were even discussed in parliament, let alone passed, where the guidance was pretty…

I find this amusing as Apple were the people I had direct interactions with that didn't run stuff like fuzzers or sanitizers as a matter of course - at least not in the situations …

I remember this being a thing done a while back using linux's MTD/phram drivers - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap_on_video_RAM - not sure if that's still relevant though as I…

A modern allocator with per-thread cache can satisfy some allocations in 20-30 cycles - dynamic dispatch can easily double that, even if the target is still in cache. It's one of t…

I think the real point is they didn't - until it became a "marketing" thing for another company who did it for them. A lot of these issues would be highlighted by "legacy" (pre-AI)…

And the ones who get the "payday" are just the ones we've heard of. How many people didn't get media attention, don't have the ability (time/money) to sue, lost that case, and thos…

But each new customer is still losing money. As I said, subsidized growth only matters if you can recoup those subsidies afterwards - and that's what I'm not sure will be true. I t…

From what I've seen pretty much every company is limited by hardware supply, to the level where's there complaints from current customers about the speed of new customer growth is …

Get back to me when there's an AI company that's actually profitable and we can compare their service and pricing. Claiming that there's some small subset of their services (like i…

For higher than audible frequency sample rates there's a good chance you can tell the difference. It often causes weird aliasing and harmonics in the more audible frequencies on "r…

And bottled water likely varies by at least a similar amount - they're not testing and re-printing every bottle after all.

Yeah, many of the things we consider part of what an "Operating System" provides to programs today were provided by DOS Extenders (or forwarded to something like windows if running…

Publishing things that are still available for purchase from storefronts (like steam and gog) seems to be stretching the definition of "abandonware". While many people would likely…

No, that didn't happen. You're confusing two different events together. The guy who posted the photo of brown skinned people with the "imagine the smell" comment was American and l…