AdrianTheFrog

AdrianTheFrog , 6 hours ago

The last launch really was incredible. It managed to land relatively softly and pull off all of the flips while it’s fins were literally falling apart. Obviously the fins weren’t supposed to be falling apart, but it’s crazy that it still landed.

AdrianTheFrog , 6 hours ago

The last 2 launches have gotten to (near) orbit just fine, although I think the payload door failed on one of them iirc. If they were carrying payloads they probably would have been able to deliver them (I don’t think they have made payload fairings for things other than starlink yet though)

AdrianTheFrog , 5 hours ago

No one cared when Astra’s first three attempts (with a much less ambitious design) recently failed to reach orbit. Of course, launching rockets is hard and SpaceX’s first, less ambitious rocket also failed on its first three attempts. I’m sure other manufacturers have had their own share of problems. IMO people mostly think worse of spacex because it gets more publicity, but some degree of failure is always to be expected with new ventures in commercial rocketry.

AdrianTheFrog , 6 days ago

Do not get a base ender 3. Get something direct drive with input shaping and auto bed leveling if you can. If you want a printer that "just works" where (after some setup) you can just press a button and get a print, auto bed leveling is a must-have IMO. I don't have one myself, but I think the neptune 4 for ~$220 is a good option, anything else with similar specs would also work. Look at some reviews on youtube.

AdrianTheFrog , 6 days ago

Ender 3 IMO is mostly obsolete now, nowadays you can easily get something for a similar price with better features across the board. Yes, an ender 3 will work, but why get one if you can get something better for the same price? (video on the topic)

AdrianTheFrog , 6 days ago

Yes, it can be pretty impressively good. It 'just works' and can print at amazing speeds. Note the small bed size and lack of ability to tinker though.

AdrianTheFrog , 7 days ago

Birds are dinosaurs in the way tomatoes are fruits

AdrianTheFrog , 7 days ago

Reuters is the source, they’re fairly reputable.

AdrianTheFrog , 16 days ago

it seems like the physical limits in the strength of cubes are probably becoming a problem lol

Those are some pretty beefy motors. Its interesting that they don't have a link to a product page for the motors on the video, as I assume that was the primary justification for the project.

AdrianTheFrog , 16 days ago

I would argue that the internet is probably the least permanent form of media as anything can instantly disappear at any time. Its interesting to see people suddenly realize the impermanence of the internet and I think it highlights why projects like the internet archive are so important.

AdrianTheFrog , 23 days ago

If the internet isn't fun for you, find a community on the internet that you actually enjoy being in. Easier said than done, I know, but the internet is a big place.

AdrianTheFrog , 23 days ago

I have heard a lot of people criticize specific aspects of the language that they deem to be bad design, especially the type system. Its probably mostly because its popular though.

AdrianTheFrog , 26 days ago

It's hard to tell if the youtubers are getting more annoying or if its my tastes that are changing. Probably both tbh

AdrianTheFrog , 26 days ago

Yeah, I wouldn't say really that his channel has gotten objectively worse, just that he has realized that 90% of people who watch his channel are children and he has aimed his channel towards them - I just have to accept that I am no longer the target audience.

AdrianTheFrog , 1 month ago

Voting tests in the US were abolished for a reason

AdrianTheFrog , 1 month ago

Even with automating shitty jobs that no one wants, you're still getting people out of a job and the only way they have of making money. This is kind of how people reacted when Boston Dynamics showcased its warehouse robot. It seems that we need a universal basic income first, but no politicians are willing to do that at least until unpleasant jobs are automated. There's a bit of a chicken and egg problem there. And, on top of this, companies don't care that much about automating shitty jobs because the people in them get low wages, so they don't cost the company much to employ.

AdrianTheFrog , 1 month ago

As someone who has tried out a lot of open source image AIs, I would say that 'original art' is something it can't do. It can make a lot of stuff, but if you deviate too far from the topics it knows it just stops giving you what you asked for. In addition to this, most of the originality the generations do have comes only from the prompt.

AdrianTheFrog , 1 month ago

It clearly does, and allowing this to be enforced clearly breaks precedent, but with how the Supreme Court is now who knows what will happen.

AdrianTheFrog , 1 month ago

Shutter encoder, it has a ton of useful tools built in for quick video conversion, compression, trimming, etc, and it works very well for batch encoding of a lot of different video files

Affine, its a surprisingly feature rich notes app (open source but all cloud features are currently paid)

KopiaUI, an easy to use automatic backup program

AdrianTheFrog , 1 month ago

Currently any AI models that have the ability to make complex decisions are trained to recreate patterns from their training data. At its current state, you'd have to be pretty exceptionally stupid to make an AI that wants to kill you, and give it that ability at the same time. Of course - who knows what's going on at all of these private corporations and military contractors, but I think regular war, fascism, and nuclear weapons are by orders of magnitude the bigger threat.

AdrianTheFrog , 1 month ago

Double-ended extension cords belongs in the top left right corner. Sounds bad and is bad.

Remember, you’re probably more technical than the average person. Double ended extension chords sound fine if you haven’t heard of them before until you think about it for five seconds.

AdrianTheFrog , 1 month ago

Remind me how Mr. Joe is protecting trans people down in the southern states?

The president can say "Hey Congress, can you make this bill?" but Congress has no obligation to listen to him. Unless trans rights are being violated specifically by executive agencies, the president's influence is pretty limited.

It's different with Isreal, in that Biden has to approve foreign aid bills made by Congress, he himself expresses support for aid to Isreal, and he has the power to make treaties (as long as Congress approves them)

AdrianTheFrog , 1 month ago

Our government does not give him the power. I'm taking a class on the US government right now and this is literally just how it works. We give that power to congress and the states, and we can't really change that without a constitutional amendment. This is with regards to trans rights in the south, he does actually have some more power when it comes to Israel.

AdrianTheFrog , 1 month ago

The 10 month ago one (on the right) looks like the original, it was a much more upvoted thread and has much less suspicious usernames

AdrianTheFrog , 1 month ago

The IDF has killed 11 thousand men, 9 thousand women, and 14 thousand children, making 34 thousand total killed (an unknown number of which were civilians). Hamas has killed 0.6 thousand military personnel and 0.8 thousand civilians, making 1.4 thousand total killed (57% of which were civilians).

The number of children killed by Isreal (only children) is 17 times larger than the number of civilians killed by Hamas. Of course that doesn't make killing civilians OK, but I struggle to see an argument that Hamas is worse than the IDF. And if Hamas is the only method by which Palestine can defend itself, then there is a solid argument to be made for it being the lesser evil.

AdrianTheFrog , 1 month ago

If Palestine wasn't oppressed, no one would be joining Hamas and they would have no power. This is a problem Isreal created for themselves.

I recommend this video, it really shows how what Isreal calls peace is still so oppressive.

AdrianTheFrog , 2 months ago

Time machines don't exist and (as far as we know) cannot exist. Therefore, we can say they work however we want. If you can travel back in time, surely you can do that while remaining close to an arbitrary point of reference.

AdrianTheFrog , 2 months ago

https://xkcd.com/989/

AdrianTheFrog , 3 months ago

Writing "Abolish PACs and lobbying" implies reverting Citizens United v FEC so you probably don't need a separate list item for it

AdrianTheFrog , 3 months ago

Citizen's United is what is preventing the government from abolishing lobbying, so abolishing lobbying implies reverting Citizen's United. You could either have one or the other on the list, but you don't really need both.

AdrianTheFrog , 3 months ago

I think everything works in windows but the old windows media player. You can test it by setting the time in a windows VM to 2039.

AdrianTheFrog , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

It had no payload on any of its flights. Rockets that have enough time/money put into development to have a reasonable expectation of working on the first try (and don’t have such an ambitious design) normally launch with a payload on their first flight. Sometimes, even those fail on the first few flights. Having the first few of a new rocket design fail before reliability is achieved is common (ex: Astra) and SpaceX’s other rocket, the Falcon 9, is known as the most reliable rocket, I even suspect it achieves landings more often lately than most others do launches.

Starship's last launch went decently well, reaching orbit (which is as far as most rockets go!) but failing during reentry. It is also supposed to be the rocket with the largest payload capacity to low earth orbit, with 100-150 tons when reused and likely 200-300 when expended.

AdrianTheFrog , 3 months ago

The funny thing is that NASA contracts the same companies as the military anyways (in the modern day, at least)

NASA Prime Contractors Aerojet Rocketdyne, Boeing, Jacobs, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman currently have over 3,800 suppliers contributing to Orion, the SLS rocket, and the lunar spaceport at Kennedy.

It gets slightly less funny when you realize that that's the reason Nasa's latest rocket made primarily from Space Shuttle parts is way more expensive than basically any commercial rocket. Essentially Congress only agrees to fund NASA if it means they also get to fund these military contractors.

AdrianTheFrog , 3 months ago

People here are not understanding that language changes with location

AdrianTheFrog , 3 months ago

If your goal is to make everyone traumatized and live in fear of the government from a young age, then sure

AdrianTheFrog , 4 months ago

Life expectancy is still basically the same.

No? life expecancy has gone from ~28 years to ~75 years

t’s not like people didn’t live well into their 90s even Before Common Era.
Yes, but this has gone from being the exception to being relatively frequent

The maximum life span a human can achieve has not changed, but life expectancy absolutely has. (last 2 paragraphs)

AdrianTheFrog , 6 months ago

My mom's a mathematician, she got annoyed when I said that the order of operations is just arbitrary rules made up by people a couple thousand years ago

AdrianTheFrog , 2 months ago

That proof for the order of operations sure seems to rely a lot on our current order of operations...

AdrianTheFrog , 2 months ago

"Wrong answers" only according to our current order of operations, math still works if you, for example, make additions come first (as long as you're consistent about it).

OFC it is a convention and to change it you would have to change all expressions ever written all at the same time, to avoid confusion between competing standards. I'm not arguing that it should be changed, only that there is no 'high truth' behind it.