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avaldes | 4 years ago | on: The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works

Given that price tag, what would be the political backlash against NASA if the JWST fails? Would that be enough to cancel other projects for good?

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: An “incident” with the James Webb Space Telescope has occurred

The JWST won't be "in orbit". The L2 Lagrange point technically orbits the sun and is far out of reach even for starship. There's currently no way to service the thing if something goes wrong.

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: A rough proposal for sum types in Go (2018)

> Stop trying to make Go complicate.

You mean enterprise-y.

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: Bun – fast JavaScript and CSS bundler

Those _awesome_ pages are getting ridiculously specific

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: A comprehensive guide to ‘go generate’

> go ./... magic custom (that means this and all recursive subdirectories).

There. I did just learn it without following a tutorial or somethin. It's so simple, easy to remember. It's even faster to write that -R or -r.

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: They don't even know the fundamentals

The speed of light puts a hard constraint in the simultaneity of data availability in a network. You can't have data replicated faster than c no matter how fast is your hardware.

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in Movie Master on MS-DOS

Can you imagine what internet distraction would do to the release schedule of GRR Martin? Hmmm

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: Message from cycling heaven: it’s not that fantastic here

If I understand correctly, what that image is saying it doesn't matter what type of car you use still they're all space inefficient?

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal

I got it: "don't be evil"

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: Exome sequencing and analysis of 450k UK Biobank participants

> I can't help but suspect that a lot of the genome is a part of the boot sequence that helps you go from one cell up to all the differentiated organs and tissues and systems.

Boot sequence. Amazing. I've always been interested in how the DNA transcription looks like a Turing machine with the RNAP being the head and the one DNA strand being the tape. Is there any research in that kind of computational analogy or is it just a coincidence?

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: Writer Liu Cixin on How His Visions of the Future Collide with Reality

If I want hard sci-fi I can read Lorentzian Wormholes from Matt Visser or something like that. You can't explore such crazy ideas from TBP without going off the rails with speculation.

> - Attack of the Flat, Interchangable Characters

Yeah, I agree with you, but I don't know yet if this is a cultural thing with Chinese literature that can't be translated to English or simply that Liu can't write good characters.

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science

By Dr Chad Broman in Journal of Astrological Economy. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or didn't get the joke

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: Crews are abandoned on ships in record numbers without pay, food or a way home

I'm sorry but is this a template response? This kind of situation is a bureaucratic mess spanning an awful lot of jurisdictions. What "your representative" can possibly do to help abandoned crewmen on a ship in a forgotten port in whatever place in the world when the ships operator is a chain of shell companies to the point that's virtually impossible to pinpoint a single entity to blame. It has to be a better way.

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: Prometheus Fuels (YC W19) Closes Series B with $1.5B Valuation

> EV passenger cars are feasible for the average person today.

Where? California? The world's bigger than the US and Europe and massive EV adoption in the developing world isn't a thing. EV are still a expensive luxury in most countries.

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: Plans for a new city in the American desert

Stillsuits obviously, so you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?

It's The Economist, they're their own platform to support whatever content they want. Banning them from HN will hardly have any impact. It's not like banning a single individual.

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence

> The botulism bacteria is capable of voting,

I tried my best Google Fu and couldn't find any references to this. Do you have any? Sounds fascinating.

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says

> Amazon has also changed the lives of basically everyone in the developed world, which definitely cannot be said of

How so? This is way too generous to Amazon. Buying things online faster is not a life changing feat. Neither are home assistants like Echo or Alexa. Maybe I'm missing something.

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: Code-First vs. Product-First

Is it when you're writing for example mission critical embedded software?

avaldes | 4 years ago | on: Arm China Has Gone Rogue

The "red background with five yellow stars" is the chinese flag. It's a common graphic pattern when you want to convey the idea of a person of geopolitical interest. Like putting Biden in front of the American flag o Macron in fron of the french one. Isn't specific to china nor represent any anti-china meaning.