True, it would need to accelerate somehow. Maybe there could be some kind of on board propulsion that would be enough once it's in space. Solid rocket motors could be fabricated as part of the process but the timing and…
I'm not sure what you're talking about, my initial comment was a (sort of silly) idea about building a mass driver on Titan that uses native materials to launch payloads on an inward bound trajectory, not to ferry them…
That's not really a problem if the supply is continuous. Think of the last time you drank a 12-year scotch, that distillery had to be set up and start producing at least 12 years ago for them to label the product that…
They have lower crime rates, more modern infrastructure, plentiful housing, lower cost of living (especially electricity), they're the place to be if you want to manufacture anything, affordable childcare, incredibly…
Given a choice between China and the EU at this point I would choose to live in China.
It's much more of an oligarchy where even though the members of the elite are elected the body of them as a whole appears to have enough influence over new members to force them to act in accordance with an ongoing…
The inner solar system was what I was thinking, returning to Earth like you said is a bit pointless but even a slow trajectory with a constant supply would be useful to have fuel and feedstock already in orbit near Mars…
I wonder if you could design a plastics production plant, injection molding system, propellant plant and an extremely large potato canon in order to launch large canisters of hydrocarbons and oxygen on a slow return…
I'm sorry those other things haven't worked for you and I can understand the struggle of giving up on pursuits like that. I was hoping to communicate through what I wrote that you don't need to do things the traditional…
This feels like a marketing ploy to sell the book.
I did say that starting with something active may not be the best introduction if you want to improve your general ability to control your attention. That said, it does work for many people including myself since I…
More of a Roman fort I'd say.
You should include the same advice that is given for exercise, it can and should occasionally be a bit painful but you have to discover your safe limits and only push yourself a little past them each time. You don't…
It's all exertion, for both "meditation" and exercise. I'm convinced that meditation doesn't work for a lot of people because it has too much dogma about what it's supposed to be, and maybe those aspects are valid for…
It turns out things are more complex than they may initially appear.
Core vim is around 300k lines of C89 code and it's just a text editor. It's over a million lines if you include all the scripting, language features and tests.
I have experimented with that a bit but not in a rigorous way, it's good to know that there is value in doing it so I'll try to integrate it into my process. Thanks for the tip!
I've had the same experience and it has really put me off working on personal projects using AI quite a few times, though I keep coming back. My recent experience with Fable and the latest Sonnet have actually been very…
I think this is a really good insight. It's definitely the back and forth in Claude Code or whatever harness you use that breaks flow and leads to frustration. This seems to be what Fable is solving since it is capable…
Rare earth metals aren't rare, it's a misnomer.
This is such a defeatist and low agency take. "means of production" are not a limited resource like gold that you have to extract from natural sources or divvy up. They are fundamentally skill and knowledge that anyone…
They own the means of production for the leading models but they're far from monopolizing them since the techniques are well known. At this point it's a matter of having a head start and lots of capital to pay for the…
If I remember correctly, the novel was concerned with a generation ship travelling to a distant star. This is not the same as space habitats in a solar system where there are plenty of sources and sinks for all…
If you showed me a primate and I didn't have any knowledge of the existence of humans and then asked the same thing of them I'd also have to get creative about how they may evolve to be an intelligent society.
>Humans are not naturally prone to bouts of violence like other species That... does not check out. There are plenty of violent people, I've met many.
True, it would need to accelerate somehow. Maybe there could be some kind of on board propulsion that would be enough once it's in space. Solid rocket motors could be fabricated as part of the process but the timing and…
I'm not sure what you're talking about, my initial comment was a (sort of silly) idea about building a mass driver on Titan that uses native materials to launch payloads on an inward bound trajectory, not to ferry them…
That's not really a problem if the supply is continuous. Think of the last time you drank a 12-year scotch, that distillery had to be set up and start producing at least 12 years ago for them to label the product that…
They have lower crime rates, more modern infrastructure, plentiful housing, lower cost of living (especially electricity), they're the place to be if you want to manufacture anything, affordable childcare, incredibly…
Given a choice between China and the EU at this point I would choose to live in China.
It's much more of an oligarchy where even though the members of the elite are elected the body of them as a whole appears to have enough influence over new members to force them to act in accordance with an ongoing…
The inner solar system was what I was thinking, returning to Earth like you said is a bit pointless but even a slow trajectory with a constant supply would be useful to have fuel and feedstock already in orbit near Mars…
I wonder if you could design a plastics production plant, injection molding system, propellant plant and an extremely large potato canon in order to launch large canisters of hydrocarbons and oxygen on a slow return…
I'm sorry those other things haven't worked for you and I can understand the struggle of giving up on pursuits like that. I was hoping to communicate through what I wrote that you don't need to do things the traditional…
This feels like a marketing ploy to sell the book.
I did say that starting with something active may not be the best introduction if you want to improve your general ability to control your attention. That said, it does work for many people including myself since I…
More of a Roman fort I'd say.
You should include the same advice that is given for exercise, it can and should occasionally be a bit painful but you have to discover your safe limits and only push yourself a little past them each time. You don't…
It's all exertion, for both "meditation" and exercise. I'm convinced that meditation doesn't work for a lot of people because it has too much dogma about what it's supposed to be, and maybe those aspects are valid for…
It turns out things are more complex than they may initially appear.
Core vim is around 300k lines of C89 code and it's just a text editor. It's over a million lines if you include all the scripting, language features and tests.
I have experimented with that a bit but not in a rigorous way, it's good to know that there is value in doing it so I'll try to integrate it into my process. Thanks for the tip!
I've had the same experience and it has really put me off working on personal projects using AI quite a few times, though I keep coming back. My recent experience with Fable and the latest Sonnet have actually been very…
I think this is a really good insight. It's definitely the back and forth in Claude Code or whatever harness you use that breaks flow and leads to frustration. This seems to be what Fable is solving since it is capable…
Rare earth metals aren't rare, it's a misnomer.
This is such a defeatist and low agency take. "means of production" are not a limited resource like gold that you have to extract from natural sources or divvy up. They are fundamentally skill and knowledge that anyone…
They own the means of production for the leading models but they're far from monopolizing them since the techniques are well known. At this point it's a matter of having a head start and lots of capital to pay for the…
If I remember correctly, the novel was concerned with a generation ship travelling to a distant star. This is not the same as space habitats in a solar system where there are plenty of sources and sinks for all…
If you showed me a primate and I didn't have any knowledge of the existence of humans and then asked the same thing of them I'd also have to get creative about how they may evolve to be an intelligent society.
>Humans are not naturally prone to bouts of violence like other species That... does not check out. There are plenty of violent people, I've met many.