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It's worse than that (in terms of ping) because the typical "we get 100% solar" means that it's in a polar orbit over the dawn/dusk terminator ( https://en.wikipedi…
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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1008121639337320454 > [I recommend] all of them, especially Surface Detail…
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A solar panel deployed to space isn't deployed in its open / unframed configuration. Rather, it's sent in a way that is folded up into a compact volume and then unfolds into the full s…
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Compare the cost of a RAD750 (the processor on the JWST) to its non rad hardened variant. Additionally, consider the processing power of that system to modern AI demands.
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> Even the cheapest kind will superconduct in space (because it’s so cold). Space is not cold or hot - it isn't. It's a vacuum. Vacuum has no temperature, but objects in space reach tem…
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I'd also recommend the variant Wizard for this. Similar basic game and mechanics, though there are 8 additional cards to the 52 card deck - four wizards and four fools. A wizard can be played in…
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He is very influenced by The Culture of Iain Banks. They're really good sci-fi... and describe a hedonistic world where machines do the hard thinking and bidding of the biologicals. https:&#x…
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That paragraph was written in 2019 which predates LLM slop. Some people just write that way.
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Pagat is a wonderful source for all things card games. https://www.pagat.com - in particular https://www.pagat.com/class/trick.html which at that level is the gro…
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It is. I do. It is. My simple description of it is that its bridge with revealing cards for bidding and dynamic partnerships. There is an iOS version of it - https://apps.apple.com/…
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> maybe Tim Walz https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2026/01/29/tim-walz-say... > MINNEAPOLIS (Gray News) - Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he will not run for elec…
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> And then there’s that pesky night time and those annoying seasons. The two options there are cluttering up the dawn dusk polar orbit more or going to high earth orbit so that you stay out of the …
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Realizing the impracticality of it (and that such approaches often collapse under the infeasibility of it) ... wouldn't it be better to... say... cover the Sahara in solar panels instead? That&#…
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OCTOBER 03, 2024 - https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren... > Boston, MA – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Deere & Company (Jo…
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TRACTOR PULLS: It's Not What You Think - Smarter Every Day 276
: https://youtu.be/VZ6_8WJ3mh8
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Not 100% sure about that one - though even that they were sued is an issue. Note that part of this is also that worker's comp excludes farm labor. So you can't get compensated through w…
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Politically, trying to exempt farm equipment from the clean air act to try to bias the rural vote to a more republican side of the ballot.
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As long as the manufacturer isn't on the hook for a violation of the EPA when the owner modifies their vehicle to be out of spec. For automobiles, this has been the case - that the owner is respo…
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This reminds me of a bit from Car Wars by Cory Doctorow. It is currently at https://doctorow.medium.com/car-wars-a01718a27e9e in a text only view. The original had a bit more mixed …
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It's which side of the drainage basin is the water moved to? When the water is flushed back into the system, does it drain back into the Great Lakes? or down to the Gulf of Mexico? On the southe…
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A kurzgesagt on this: Why Your Brain Blinds You For 2 Hours Every Day https://youtu.be/wo_e0EvEZn8 and the sources for that video - https://sites.google.com/view/…
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With Mockito, I can mock the returned result of someCall(). However, it also means mocking list.stream() and mocking the Stream for stream.filter() and mock the call stream.toList() to return a new mo…
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Yes. The test passes. https://imgur.com/a/4qlTKlc To try to monkey patch this in, you would need to also assert that it wasn't called with [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]. At which poi…
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That wouldn't fail though. It was called only once with [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]. The second time it was called with [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]. Likewise, if some_call returned [2, 4, 6, 8, 10] i…
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The python code would be def some_call():
return [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
def print_evens(nums):
for n in filter(lambda n: n % 2 == 0, nums):
print(n)…
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In functions that you write, that might be possible. How would you assert that a given std::vector only was filtered by std::ranges::copy_if once? And how would you test that the code that was in the …
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Trying to write the easiest code that I could test... I don't think I can without writing an excessively brittle test that would break at the slightest implementation change. So you've got…
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In C++, the code would look like: #include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
std::vector<int> someCall()
{
return {1, 2, 3, 4, 5,…
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How would you suggest tests around: void func() {
printEvens(someCall().stream().filter(n -> n % 2 == 0).toList());
}
void printEvens(List<Integer> nums) {
nums…
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The code works perfectly - there is no issue that a unit test could catch... unless you are spying on internally created objects to a method and verifying that certain functions are called some number…