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iso947 commented on An Open Letter to the Communications of the ACM docs.google.com/document/... · Posted by u/alokrai

iso947 · 5 years ago

Can’t read it. Opened on my phone and there are at lost 7 letters per line - communications is split over 3 lines for example.

Rather ironic that a letter to a group that is about communication can’t use an appropriate technology to communicate.

iso947 commented on Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes petapixel.com/2020/12/26/... · Posted by u/elorant

jl6 · 5 years ago

Current LTO-9 tapes can store 18TB and the LTO roadmap doubles capacity about every 3 years. So this tape tech would be on the same scale as we might expect LTO-14 to offer in 2035.

So unless this is an incredibly radical breakthrough, that’s the timeframe I’d expect for the headline to become a real product.

Note that the article shows a table from IBM claiming they achieved 35TB-per-cartridge capacity in 2010, and that still isn’t something you can buy.

iso947 · 5 years ago

Why do LTO manufacturers always quote compressed sizes, like we’re in the days of stacker?

iso947 commented on He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition led to arrest of the wrong man nj.com/middlesex/2020/12/... · Posted by u/sharkweek

folkhack · 5 years ago

> These are cops willing to aggressively threaten lethal force when they are experiencing fear/anxiety/uncertainty based on what the suspect looks like, be it their skin color or their clothing.

There are also a fair amount of bully cowboys out there hiding behind the badge.

I was a teenage passenger in a car when a friend of mine held up his wallet in the light of the back window to see if he had his bank card or w/e. Cop car was behind us in traffic, pulls us over, and two cops get out guns drawn instructing everyone to get face down on the pavement.

Turns out they thought they saw a knife/gun when my friend had held us wallet up in the light, and they figured we were brandishing a weapon at them. We all got searched and when they found half of us Boy Scouts were carrying pocket knives things got really stupid really fast. We had to beg them to be rational with us, nose down on the pavement. Still makes my blood boil.

This is anecdotal in rural small-town Iowa.

iso947 · 5 years ago

It’s no wonder there’s so much call to “defund the police” in the US with te number of anecdotes that come out

It feels to me that the only solution is to completely shut it down

iso947 commented on FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night reuters.com/article/us-us... · Posted by u/skanga

chrisdalke · 5 years ago

The need for regulation and education around proper usage of consumer drones is definitely clear, as shown by your (and many other people's) experience! Most enthusiasts would agree that a solution is needed. Most drone incidents have been untrained or reckless operators piloting a DJI drone somewhere they shouldn't.

Most of the concern with proposed Remote ID regulations was because 1) The regulation didn't actually solve the issue of untrained drone operators and 2) Added a high barrier to entry that would stifle the large hobby/enthusiast/startup industry while giving large companies like Amazon free reign over the airspace.

iso947 · 5 years ago

People do not need educating not to spy on teenage girls with drones, they do not need training to not do it.

iso947 commented on Why are there so few children’s books set in the suburbs? psyche.co/ideas/why-you-w... · Posted by u/_mt3y

ComputerGuru · 5 years ago

There Is No Such Thing As A Dragon by Jack Kent (1974, I think?) has a clearly suburban setting visible when the kid’s dragon cum house on wheels relocates in chase of a bread truck.

(When’s the last time you saw a bread truck!?)

iso947 · 5 years ago

“dragon cum house”

Are you sure it’s a kids book?!

iso947 commented on 2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm intelligentliving.co/vert... · Posted by u/wrycoder

fsflover · 5 years ago

If markets valued the low-CO2 nature of nuclear, they’d be doing better

https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html

iso947 · 5 years ago

Compared with coal and oil, and ignoring waste. Nuclear costs more than wind and solar though.

iso947 commented on Starship / Super Heavy faa.gov/space/stakeholder... · Posted by u/zaroth

dxdm · 5 years ago

I don't get it, how does that answer the question about the economics of lifting fuel into orbit? Could you elaborate your point?

iso947 · 5 years ago

To land the volume of one starship on the moon takes 3 or 4 launches of a fully reusable craft - so just the fuel.

To land that with Apollo would take 100 launches of a single use craft.

iso947 commented on A Statistical Estimate of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy arxiv.org/abs/2012.07902... · Posted by u/ipnon

mcbits · 5 years ago

1/10 million species on Earth being intelligent doesn't really imply that 1/10 million planets with life would have intelligent life. Any planet with life undergoing evolution may also develop millions of species, with "intelligence" being an important trait for some of them. Problem is, that tells us nothing about how many planets could sprout life in the first place.

Even right now on Earth, we have multiple tool-using species spanning mammals, birds, and cephalopods, separated by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. They all seem like good candidates for developing technology at some point over a few million years.

iso947 · 5 years ago

In the billion or so years life has existed on earth, there’s no evidence any species built a nuclear bomb or had large plastic manufacturing or left anything in GEO, all of which we’ve achieved in the last 100 years.

Progressing to that stage this seems unlikely for a planet with life on.

iso947 commented on Starship / Super Heavy faa.gov/space/stakeholder... · Posted by u/zaroth

SteveNuts · 5 years ago

Didn't they do this in that movie armageddon? Hopefully space-x doesn't know something we don't.

iso947 · 5 years ago

Yes, two simultaneous shuttle launches from neighbouring pads

Watching the two heavy boosters landing on neighbouring pads was similar - except real. It was that shot that made me think “the future is here”

iso947 commented on Starship / Super Heavy faa.gov/space/stakeholder... · Posted by u/zaroth

numpad0 · 5 years ago

All of standalone LES activation ever in the history of human spaceflight had been successful in saving all occupants' lives.

Space Shuttle failed twice on the other hand, each time killing all aboard, and in neither cases of it its integral abort systems/abort modes did help at all.

So in theory the lack of capsule-only LES do not necessarily mean safer rocket, in the history and in the statistics it does.

iso947 · 5 years ago

Statistics say you shouldn’t call your reusable ship a word beginning with ‘C’

In 1963 a LES killed someone, in 1983 it saved lives.