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Author is probably Australian, I would use the same words. Just checked linkedIn, yep they are from NSW.

How did you manage meaningful attitude control with only torque rods? They would need to big (read: heavy) to be useful — was this just stabilising in inertial frame or active poin…

If you’ve read the book, they stressed many times that this was irrelevant to the model and also probably untrue

Hmmm. > the listening circuit must also be tuned to resonate at the expected frequency of proton precession, which will depend on Earth’s magnetic field at your location > the freq…

I think the URL is telling

Somebody wrote a tool for pushing Apple airplay to chromecast [1]. There might be a way to push arbitrary streams? [1] https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect

Sorry for snooping—if this is about Foxtel, they were also sold to a UK company this year right? I guess you’d expect some staff turnover, but not mass layoffs.

Honestly par for the course for human treatment of chickens. See chick culling [1]. Billions of baby chicks are macerated live because they are not commercially useful. > Worldwide…

Not really, this is still a point of debate among vegan communities. Many of us have no moral issue with food grown using animal-derived biotech, as this does not require animal ag…

1. Observations of genetic drift and biodiversity are consistent with our model of evolution at every scale. This model is the best fit to the data regardless of politics and media…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

(Non-consensual sacrifices)

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The article is proposing the latter. Low AVP could contribute to symptoms of ASD. If this is true, they expect a positive correlation between ASD and other better-known issues caus…

Nice to see some Adelaide representation! I’ve had the pleasure of working with these guys— we have a Neumann thruster on one of our satellites. Very cool technology and great team…

Low effort AI answer

Did you mean to leave in the ChatGPT preamble?

This might be the case now but shouldn’t be a particularly useful distinction for very long— on the grand scale of intelligence, the difference between the smartest human and the a…

> The next time somebody claims that the human brain operates according to bayesian logic, simply ask them what prior probability they (currently, until the next update) would assi…

Also Dragons Egg by Robert L. Forward

Being part of specific cultures and communities definitely does though