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thatoneguy commented on SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight   space.com/space-explorati... · Posted by u/mpweiher
fluoridation · 3 days ago
How much money did it cost to orbit Saturn V (including R&D of course)?
thatoneguy · 3 days ago
How does that matter? It's doing a thing already done nearly 70 years ago but at its own pace.

I bet it will get to the moon cheaper, too, and the Muskonauts will use less expensive lenses than Hasselblads to take photos.

thatoneguy commented on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/carride
epistasis · 3 days ago
X hides discussions. If somebody sends you a link you can't see the discussion without an account and logging in and being extensively tracked.

Not sure what you mean about anti-Elon bias. This was straightforward reporting of the truth. If reality has an anti-Elon bias then perhaps it's not bias.

thatoneguy · 3 days ago
Reality has an anti-Elon bias
thatoneguy commented on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/carride
nomilk · 3 days ago
Can't help but notice arstechnica seems to have an anti-Elon agenda.

I recall them posting articles claiming Twitter's content was important for historical reasons (agree on that) and would disappear once Elon took over, which afaik, didn't happen.

thatoneguy · 3 days ago
You forgot to add "yet" unless you can predict the future will 100% accuracy. Only once it's sold to someone else can you really say he didn't do it.

The data's longevity was probably helped by being a potent source of hate to power Musk's AI

thatoneguy commented on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me   boston.conman.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/classichasclass
thatoneguy · 4 days ago
Is it fair game to just return fire and sink the crawlers? A few thousand connections via a few dozen residential proxies might do it.
thatoneguy commented on Cellular Starlink expands to support IoT devices   me.pcmag.com/en/networkin... · Posted by u/teleforce
cjrp · 25 days ago
Isn't power consumption an issue though?
thatoneguy · 25 days ago
It doesn't take a lot of juice to send signals straight up. Iridium has been using transceivers to do similar IoT things for decades and my old Inmarsat satphone used a fraction of a watt to get my voice up to geosynchronous orbit just so someone standing next to me on an outdoor landing could hear a message from space.
thatoneguy commented on Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos   news.cornell.edu/stories/... · Posted by u/CharlesW
dsign · a month ago
The problem of authenticating footage has a disappointing but sufficient solution:

1.- Use filming devices that sign the footage with a key, and the device has some anti-tamper protections to prevent somebody from stealing the key.

2.- The thing above is useless for most consumers of the footage, which would only see it after three to four transcodings change the bytes beyond recognition. But in a few years everybody will assume most footage in the Internet is fake, and in those cases when people (say, law enforcement) want to know for sure if something really happened, they’ll have to go through the trouble of procuring and watching the original, authenticated file.

The alternatives to 1 and 2 are:

a) To engage in an arms race, like the one which is happening with captchas right now.

b) To roll back this type of AI.

b is not going to happen, even with a societal collapse and sweeping laws against GenAI, because the way GenAI works is widely known. Unless we want to roll back technology itself and stop producing the hardware, and culture so that people don’t know how to do any of this.

thatoneguy · a month ago
Film worked for a long time (and still works) despite the availabilty of film printers.
thatoneguy commented on Japanese scientists develop artificial blood compatible with all blood types   tokyoweekender.com/entert... · Posted by u/Geekette
thatoneguy · 3 months ago
Amazing! Literally the premise of the HBO show _True Blood_ from the 2000s. Japanese scientists invent artificial blood which allows vampires to "come out of the coffin".

OK, I guess we'll wait and see about the vampires. But the blood substitute and Japanese scientists thing was spot-on, at least.

thatoneguy commented on AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder   resobscura.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/findhorn
NoOn3 · 3 months ago
At least in the Soviet Union, they were free...
thatoneguy · 3 months ago
In Soviet Union, university education free but came at cost of living in Soviet Union

- Yakov Smirnoff, probably

thatoneguy commented on The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic review of the evidence (2022)   nature.com/articles/s4138... · Posted by u/flaxxen
arcticbull · 6 months ago
SSRIs aren’t shown to be much better than placebo and are shown to be about as effective as therapy — which is actually durable.

There’s also rates of sexual side effects in excess of 70% [1] and they cause weight gain which is separately associated with depression.

In fact industry data shows a smaller gap between SSRIs and placebo than FDA data. See Figure 1. [2]

The problem with SSRIs is that serotonin receptors are all over the body including in the gonads and they play a large role in appetite regulation.

They do something but it’s not nearly what people assume.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6007725/

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4592645/

thatoneguy · 6 months ago
My-not-much-better-than-placebo sertraline sure has been working its placebo-like magic for 30 years next year.

How long are these double-blind studies? Surely they're not years long to show that the placebo effect is maintained over a decade or something.

thatoneguy commented on Leica Just Recorded the Highest Revenue in Its Entire 100-Year History   petapixel.com/2024/11/20/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
thatoneguy · 9 months ago
I've owned a Leica Q2 and Q3 and the former was what finally got me to ditch my phone's camera and get back into photography. Leica's color science is some of the best out there, even if their technology stance is a bit like Apple's in that they're not the first to do anything but often the first to do it right.

That said, I outgrew the Q3, sold it for pretty much what I'd paid for it and bought two Sony cameras and some lenses. I got tired of "zooming with my feet" and the Sony 70-200mm GM II shoots like it's from the future.

u/thatoneguy

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