Rhinobird (u/Rhinobird)

Rhinobird commented on I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery fulghum.io/album-cards... · Posted by u/jordanf

housebear · 5 months ago

Love this. What are you tapping the cards onto? What is reading that info and then pulling the music? (I'm not super savvy and can't figure it out from the writeup).

Rhinobird · 5 months ago

I just assumed they were tapping them on their phone and had some kind of app, or website something

Rhinobird commented on NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9 twitter.com/NASA/status/1... · Posted by u/ripjaygn

nickff · 2 years ago

The trouble is that government contracts always strongly incentivize ‘excessive outsourcing’, and Boeing’s absorption of MD increased the dependence on government contracts, though Boeing was already on that road (especially after taking on Rockwell). Government oversight (almost) always discourages large profit margins, which makes increasing low-risk costs very appealing. In addition to that, there are strong political incentives for ‘distributing’ contracts widely, with the Space Shuttle being a famous example of this, having parts made or assembled in 48 different states.

Rhinobird · 2 years ago

>In addition to that, there are strong political incentives for ‘distributing’ contracts widely,

Government/Defense contractors can track their suppliers and tell Congress exactly how many jobs are in which districts per project.

Rhinobird commented on NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9 twitter.com/NASA/status/1... · Posted by u/ripjaygn

throwaway81523 · 2 years ago

Erm the Space Shuttle had a reusable first stage 40+ years ago.

Rhinobird · 2 years ago

The space shuttle was refurbishable. It needed an army of 5000 engineers a few months to get it flight worthy after each launch.

And ultimately that wasn't enough for safety.

Rhinobird commented on Physicists Suggest Universe Is Full of Material Moving Faster Than Light futurism.com/the-byte/uni... · Posted by u/croes

TheLoafOfBread · 2 years ago

Finally we are getting out of bandaid of dark matter. But... To constantly move faster than light, don't you need constant input of energy to at least keep the speed? Especially when you are an object with some mass?

Rhinobird · 2 years ago

No. Once moving an object keeps moving unless there is force that pushes it.

There is nothing in space to apply force on particles. One would also presume these tachyons don't interact much with regular matter, like neutrinos

Rhinobird commented on Insect memories may not survive metamorphosis quantamagazine.org/insect... · Posted by u/pseudolus

romusha · 3 years ago

Somehow reminds me of that story where our form right now is actually human larvae form, and we'll metamorphosize into "adult" humans once we eat the "apple of eden"

Rhinobird · 3 years ago

That reminds me of Pak Protectors from Larry Niven's Known Space stories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Protector

Rhinobird commented on Humanly traversable wormholes (2020) arxiv.org/abs/2008.06618... · Posted by u/nabla9

GordonS · 4 years ago

I was just about to say that same thing - any time I've seen wormholes in sci-fi (I'm reading Peter F Hamilton right now!), you go through in an instant (for all observers).

It's like sci-fi uses wormholes as a practical alternative to travelling at sub-C, relativistic speeds.

Rhinobird · 4 years ago

Yeah. Think teleporter instead of warp drive

Rhinobird commented on The Color of Infinite Temperature johncarlosbaez.wordpress.... · Posted by u/c1ccccc1

pope_meat · 4 years ago

The color blue hadn't been invented yet.

Rhinobird · 4 years ago

that's probably true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

Rhinobird commented on Show HN: Clone your voice and speak a foreign language coqui.ai/... · Posted by u/_josh_meyer_

Rhinobird · 4 years ago

My question is, how long until we have automatically dubbed anime?