@AntonSpanigly @greg16676935420 No they are well aware of how many sheets get used. Nobody is using just one.
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@greg16676935420 My guess is that a single piece was designed to adequately cover the surface area of the average butthole, with complete disregard of the need to protect the hand from getting poop on it.
Basically just bad engineering.
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@blind_via They have the same value here but not the same competition. They wouldn’t be used here because a human crew can do the job 100x cheaper and 100x faster. It makes sense in space because you can’t just hire people out there.
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Autonomous constructions robots intended for building space habitats before humans arrive, would be used on the earth long before that because the value is just as relevant here.
Space and Technology@spaceandtech_
Charlotte is a spider-inspired construction robot developed by Australian startups Crest Robotics and Earth Built Technology. It is designed to revolutionize building by using local raw materials instead of traditional cement. The robot can 3D print an entire 2,150-square-foot house in just 24 hours. With its bio-inspired legs, Charlotte can move autonomously, adjust its height during construction, and operate without the need for scaffolding. Although still in the prototype stage, Charlotte represents a major step toward sustainable housing solutions on Earth and future construction possibilities on the Moon.
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@Robotbeat Well at some point the science has to stop and the fiction begins or you would just be watching a documentary instead.
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The spin drives look awesome in the film. Well done. But I kind of think they'd just melt if it were attempted in real life. EDIT:26micron light is sort of hard to find good materials that are transparent to it. You would need something like 99.9999999% transparent I think. Nothing like that exists IIRC.
NoLifeJordan 🇨🇦🌌🚀@NoLifeJordan69
Learning about the spin drives and astrophage is crazy 30 million seconds of specific impulse and 60 kN of thrust for a single spin drive With 1009 spin drives on the Hail Mary
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@ReedSealFoss @BillyZelsnack Yes it is because these are already regulated by the US federal government. It’s illegal to turn an autonomous single-rotor helicopter into a consumer product. Outside of the military these will always require a very skilled pilot.
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@BillyZelsnack It isn't impossible to see something like this becoming cheaper, more simple, and more disposable.
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@Rix6145 @RelaxingNews @IMAO_ Don’t worry it’s not a problem because we named the fictional thing that magically fixes everything.
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@RelaxingNews @IMAO_ You didn't read the book, it was completely dependant on the astrophage having 99% efficient energy conversion... Basically they convert energy into thrust.
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Near the end of Project Hail Mary, I think the computer said it would take four years to get home but I thought he was over eleven light-years away. Did I miss something? Is that some relativity thing?
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@matthew_rs @RelaxingNews @JCrouchPhoto @IMAO_ Just because the deus ex machina was named doesn’t make it not an arbitrary hand waving away of the issue.
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@RelaxingNews @JCrouchPhoto @IMAO_ Astrophage. This shit eating the sun turns out to be an unbelievably powerful fuel that carries so much energy that they were able to harness it in engines that accelerate close
To the speed of light.
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@Bornakang You’re forgetting how expensive TVs were back then. Today we think of TV as entertainment for poor people but back then we were on the tail end of TV shows being primarily made for the upper middle class and above. Compared to the average TV owner in the 80s he was average.
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In the 80s/90s, Al Bundy was considered poor and fat. Let that sink in.
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@TerribleMaps To be fair there is a rather busy railway connecting those rivers.
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Why has the US not built a canal here to rival the Panama Canal?
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@intellivisi0x @TerribleMaps Today I learned that there’s currently no way to get from the coasts to the Mississippi river.
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@TerribleMaps National security. If attacked, we can lose the coasts and withdraw into the interior and be perfectly fine with the Mississippi for transport, but linking it to the coasts introduces an attack vector.
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@constans Richard Feynman became famous because he was one of the few scientists on the Manhattan Project who knew so little about it that his knowledge wasn’t classified and he was allowed to say whatever he wanted. Fame does not imply knowledge.
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The best explanation I’ve heard for this is that it’s because we have SO MANY top physicists that none of them can be “the famous one”
Raman Khatri@ramankhatri
why don’t we have famous physicists anymore?
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@cqcqcqdx I don’t understand. You’re obviously posting misleading infographics for a reason, but what is the point? Are you just trying to be funny? It’s just not a very good joke?
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@cqcqcqdx When this thing was new it cost an arm and a leg. And your other arm. And your coworker’s limbs. And your boss’s. These days they’re like 30 cents.
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@blind_via @DesignSpark_JP I have a $20 thermal camera and a $700 thermal camera and they both work fine unless your goal is to impress someone with a ppt presentation.
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@Adriksh I’ve never understood why Python devs complain about pointers because in Python literally EVERYTHING is a pointer.
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Python devs: Wait, you guys have to build the landmines yourselves? We just import landmine.
Adriksh@Adriksh
C pointers were invented because a systems engineer decided that instead of just passing the data, it would be much funnier to hand a junior dev the exact geographic coordinates of a landmine in ram.
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@straceX No I haven’t. I was implementing payment pages about 10 years before I got my first credit card.
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Layout design for parallel use of Kelvin-structured resistors
Take a closer look: bit.ly/3NzuCKC
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@MoroseJerk Is it evidence that we live in a simulation when we start seeing speedrunners?
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I genuinely thought they meant he shit himself what the fuck is wrong with me
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At 10*L/s, a 25m whale would need to swim 250m/s, that’s 900 km/h…
The real lesson here is that ‚close on a log scale‘ isn’t really as close as you think it is
Fermat's Library@fermatslibrary
A bacterium and a whale have almost nothing in common. Except this: Their max speed is ~10 body lengths per second. Why does life converge on the same speed limit? We break it down this week: #email-newsletter" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fermatslibrary.com/s/how-fast-do-…
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@giffmana Since nobody seems to know the correct answer: the training data contains both what you want the model to generate (positive reinforcement) and what you don’t (negative reinforcement). They took all the crappy generated images and said “don’t generate this”.
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I have a question about last year's image-generation progress, wonder what y'all think.
How did we go from all models consistently getting fingers wrong, to all models consistently getting them right?
This "flip" seems to have happened basically across all companies/models at the ~same time.
Even "random" non-frontier papers seem to get it right? Or they just cherry-pick the figures?
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@Nuri__desu They might be referring to the SSD's DRAM cache but that's probably a stretch
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Looking for a pc's "cache". New levels of lapping never achieved before
Python Developer@Python_Dv
True 😂😜
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