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Small correction: It's Mark Rober, not Roper

Sounds more like a combination of pitch and yaw: "I trimmed the aircraft to fly in a kind of sidelong skid: nose high and with the tail swung around slightly to the right"

Oh no, now the vacuum of space is leaking into the base of a mountain!

I think a solar sail mostly works at a broad reach or a run, so it would be more of a jibe than a tack ;)

Why does the WC take so much more prep than other tournaments? Is it because of the format, or just the pressure to win?

Honestly, that's awesome and I'm glad you're having fun with it haha

Do you think that benefit outweighs the wild variance in valuation of most cryptocurrencies? I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm genuinely curious.

Why try your absolute best to not think about it, instead of taking some steps to reduce your animal consumption and actually feel better about it? I get that something like mortal…

Airflow uses it for task ordering within a DAG, but that's used in the parsing step that happens before/outside of any actual task execution so it's not really in the source code o…

I completely agree, with the exception of wanting easy support for powering from a lipo battery and also charging that battery without disconnecting it. This has led me to use the …

I've always wondered about this too, but kind of landed on something like this: Sure, there might be (and probably is) life out there that falls so far outside our definition of "l…

I felt the same way for a while (this is FUN, this isn't work!), but at one point I came back to the game after a few months off, started a new factory, got to something like "auto…

There's a "Pokerbots" class/competition at MIT (during January aka Independent Activities Period), along with a robotics competition and a real time strategy video game bot competi…

Wow, that's a great test of spatial reasoning (or something akin to spatial reasoning). You kind of have to rotate the shape in your brain to figure out which direction to turn fro…

I think it would be neat if you could get bonus points for multiple clicks within the same arc. So like if you click right when the ball enters the arc, and there's sufficient dist…

Your second version of it makes me think of WallStreetBets' "loss porn", where people are fans of others losing money.

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series is also rich with detail about sailing in the Age of Sail more generally (with some in-depth details about whaling in many of the books). I'…

Wow, how are you pulling that off (the freely seeing friends and family part)?

Hmm, I wouldn't say this is nonsense. I can consistently reproduce the issue by charging on the left side (making the computer completely unusable), and then switching to the right…

I think "100 billion business" means that the business (Shopify) is valued at $100 billion. (I'm not sure if that's true, that's just how I interpreted it)

There's that word again. "Heavy." Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?

That would only give you one-directional communication, while the hilltop-to-hilltop systems described in the article would work both ways.

Well said, and I just want to add some detail about how square-rigged ships are able to sail close-hauled: They typically (or maybe always?) have "staysails", which run fore-and-af…

Calling AirPods “those air pods”, but also having something as “young” as “big_chungus” as your username... I’m having a hard time figuring out your age!

The weird part of this sentence is that "...will be the first to..." has an implied "arrive at" or "develop" after it -- so it could be read as "Helion Energy is breaking the fusio…