LandStander

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How feasible is it to have a local, FOSS, encyclopedic LLM for question answering and basic help with common technical tasks? I feel like that would be enough for me.

Comment · 2 months ago

FTA Modafinil

Free Trade Agreement Modafinil?

Comment · 3 months ago

why did we start with main+tail rotor helicopters? Nowadays 4-rotor quadcopters appeared and have taken over

The quadcopter advantage is in it's mechanical simplicity, but having fewer longer blades is better for aerodynamic efficiency(at the expense of max airspeed). This matters less at RC scale, but at full size, even an all-electric helicopter will likely have more range than a quadcopter with the same batteries.

Comment · 3 months ago

That's why I repurpose or discard all of my old socks every time I Invest in a new set. I do this about every two years. I rotate them for uniform wear. I've successfully eliminated the possibility of mismatched socks.

Comment · 1 year ago

This is a great example of a good use case for 3D printers. The smooth marble run action combined with the interwoven organic forms would be a huge PITA to fabricate with any other method I can think of, even if your just making one.

Comment · 1 year ago

The song is "Never Gonna Let You Go" by Sergio Mendes

Comment · 1 year ago

OneZoom.org has a nice common ancestor search feature. Here are the results for albatross and crocodile:

https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Archelosauria=4947372?otthome=...

Comment · 2 years ago

I remember as a young kid, it was the closest I could find to the Sea Duck from Tail Spin.

Comment · 3 years ago

I know not to hope for it to ever catch on, but my dream date-time format would be:

year/day/hectosecond.second(.millisecond and so on to the desired precision)

The current date-time, to the second, would be 2023/308/342.65

The days, like the years and second-based units, are 0-indexed.

There are 100 seconds in a hectosecond, and normally 864 hectoseconds in a day.

And to go with it, I'd advocate either a "3-on, 2-off", or "6-on, 4-off" work cycle, depending on the nature of the work, or even just personal preference. This way, today(308) would obviously be on a "weekend" either way.

Comment · 3 years ago

Water mined from the moon might be much cheaper by the time something like this is built. That being said, a giant sterile swimming pool seems like an odd feature for an interplanetary spacecraft. I'd rather see a well-balanced aquatic habitat, if anything.