When Worlds Collide was a fun movie that was a double feature shown with the classic War of the Worlds, and had their ship launch via a ramp. The science for such a thing isn’t great, but it was the 50s and looked cool then. The biggest problem is the atmosphere thickness at lower levels. During rocket launches you can hear them talk about reaching max q, or maximum dynamic pressure, where the combination of velocity and air thickness puts the most stress on the structure. Above that it gets easier to go faster, and in the end you need to go fast to avoid falling back down.

Saw a Jason Bourne movie, didn’t use the right car.

I don’t know… the Moon is beautiful, but George Carlin had a point on worshiping the Sun:

“I’ve begun worshiping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It’s there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There’s no mystery, no one asks for money, I don’t have to dress up, and there’s no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to ‘God’ are all answered at about the same 50% rate.”

No one mentioned (probably an assumed thing) to turn the water on full hot to let it warm up, then move it to the preferred mix position. Doesn’t waste the cold water which will stay more or less the same temp, it’s only flushing out the cold in the hot water line. And because you have it fully on hot, it takes less time.

Or get a tankless water heater to get it almost right away. I’ve seen debates on which is a better choice when factoring everything in, and I think it’s a close tie with no clear winner, each having their caveats.

Yes, but with others coming back has a cost. Beric Dondarrion is the first in mind, who loses memory each time he’s brought back, and in the book presents the idea that remaining alive requires some life force that runs out even with the resurrected (based on what happens).

Of course none of this happens to Jon…well, maybe it does, as would explain why he acts so out of character as things close. He must have died again in the final seasons off screen.

Think of federation as potential redundancy for data and discussion. Individually an instance of whatever platform you’re using can be great, bad, or start off nice and get worse, but as long as there is federation of the good parts of communication among the people, there’s going to be somewhere else you can go if your first source goes downhill. It’s not perfect, but it’s far better than a single location where users are at the mercy of whoever runs and controls it.

I’ve picked up a muscle memory now to scroll down a certain amount when searching for things. I did notice the other day the AI give me introduction text for a script solution, followed by “something went wrong.” Indeed.

A timeline where saying, “you’re no Kim Jong Un” is an insult.

A real President, sponsorships notwithstanding.

2025? This is internet tradition going much further back. No, not Reddit. MUCH older.

I thought it was still a Biden economy if it was floundering.

It’s actually OUR economy, and he’s supposed to help it run well. Like a casino.

Cars then were simpler, you got less for the price. Yes, today’s cars are overpriced, but maybe not as much as it seems.

I’ve seen videos of Suburus embarrassing normal 4X4s in climbing stuff, so this is a simple one. I mean an old Civic or Yugo would probably beat a Cybertruck too, so it’s a low bar.

“…under these conditions and for these wages.”

I’d rather not given what comes between. Can we instead get the future of the civilization in Strange New World’s pilot episode? They got the advantage of learning from the mistakes Earth made before they did the same and leapfrogged into the better stuff.

Possible, measuring the orbit will determine that likelihood. The article gives a few other formation possibilities as well. Finding a few other systems like this will help narrow down what exactly happened here. It doesn’t seem that impossible to me, not like the title implies, given that while the star is low mass for a star, it’s still a large mass, and the planet isn’t that huge (50% less mass than Saturn despite being a bit larger in size).

This just sounds like an extension of our understanding of how things are in the universe similar to pre-Voyager thoughts on what they’d find from our own system’s planets and moons. What we found was each place was unique with its own fascinating discoveries and not “just another rock”. Seems we’re finding that out for other solar systems as well.

Reminder that while it’s not Lemmy, you can see the same stuff and more if you join Mbin. The power of the Fediverse is that there are lots of ways to do things, important for situations like this.

Ironically, I haven’t looked into the current situation with .io lately, so I might be doing the same thing eventually. But being such a huge domain, there might be some adjustment to avoid dropping so many websites.

“You…cannot pass. Sorry. I don’t make the rules.”

LLMs can be good at openings. Not because it is thinking through the rules or planning strategies, but because opening moves are likely in most general training data from various sources. It’s copying the most probable reaction to your move, based on lots of documentation. This can of course break down when you stray from a typical play style, as it has less to choose from in the options of probability, and only a few moves in there won’t be any more since there’s a huge number of possible moves.

I.e., there’s no calculations involved. When you play a LLM at chess, you’re playing a list of common moves in history.

An even simpler example would be to tell the LLM that its last move was illegal. Even knowing the rules you just told it, it will agree and take it back. This comes from being trained to give satisfying replies to a human prompt.