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tectonic

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About tectonic

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  |   https://andrewcantino.com    |
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Recent public activity

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    Seeing both the Starlink mass simulators deploy and the camera view from the last simulators looking back at Starship was really cool.

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    Really needs sort by distance.

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    Comment #46644611

    Of course: https://m.xkcd.com/2977/

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    The level of negativity in these comments is surprising. We can certainly debate whether billionaires should exist at all, but given that they do, here’s one who’s putting his mone…

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    Cool, congrats on all the work you’ve put into this!

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    My laptop has stickers, one of which is a photo of my previous laptop and its stickers. One of those is a photo of the laptop before that…

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    Comment #45867742

    This is cool!

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    Comment #45307284

    VIPER lives again!

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    Comment #44024501

    That was made by Erik Wernquist, he's awesome. https://vimeo.com/erikwernquist

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    I agree, soon systems of agents will be trained with good engineering practices not just locally-good code. Already when I work with current SOTA agents I find myself basically pai…

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    The first orbital launch attempt from continental Europe, and the first of Europe’s batch of newspace commercial launch startups. I hope they figure out what happened and iterate q…

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    Comment #43357421

    Why is this flagged?

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    Comment #43065110

    Me too! I learn so much about coding from that server in high school, it was definitely a formative experience, learning to code with other teens all over the country.

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    One likely source of FRBs are magnetars, which are just absurd objects. We wrote about them in Orbital Index a little while ago ( https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2023-03-15-Issue-…

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    I think they are more drawing an analogy between the atom one or more black holes with a cloud of particles around them. Black holes are quantum mechanical and so the resulting sys…

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    Memorize your blockchain private key, promise to give half to whoever wakes you.

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    Comment #41119896

    It’s why we have many tiger’s eyes gemstones and banded iron deposits.

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    This is more or less why I created Huginn. Excited to see more people thinking about systems that let you set complex triggers to know when the world changes.

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    NIAC awards are so fun. We write about them frequently in Orbital Index because they're crazy and weird and speculative. Here are some recent favorites: - https://orbitalindex.com/…

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    We'll be covering this in detail in this week's Orbital Index. https://orbitalindex.com One thing that's unusual about this mission is that it required a loitering communication sa…