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Actually no. In the movie, there is already gravity present in the hub - generated by rotating this large cylindrical hub. Running in such hub would increase gravity slightly but no running is needed at all! Just being in such hub is comparable to running in cylinder mentioned in the paper.

Running in small (10m) diameter cylinder increase gravity significantly without need to spin the cylinder.

Anyway to minimize effects of Coriolis force in spinning cylinder, I think that the size of the cylinder would be significantly larger than the size in the movie.


Are you thinking of the space station? The running scene was in the interplanetary ship, with a 12m diameter cylinder spinning just enough for moon-level gravity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_One


So the word "diverse" is another word for "not white"? Is this a subtle way to state that "non-white" has big effect for overall productivity?


"not white" isn't a race or demographic. african americans aren't the same as african-africans, and those are different from mexican, indian, asian, native american, etc.

and given how indians and east asians tend to be the overall wealthiest demographics, plus the "hispanic paradox", suggests that this is a way more complex issue then you're framing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_paradox


I called out several ways the US is more diverse, and ethic is one of them.

Yeah, it can be a challenge to integrate every cultural background into our society and it is something we fail to do with equal success.


Little, insightful and funny comparison of 16 queries and 6 language models (ChatGPT4, GPT4, Claude-2-100k, Llama-2-70b, PaLM, Pi).


You can use delta-v, so the closest is the distance rocket use the least fuel/mass. It is a very good measure how easily to get to that destination in space.


One can install and use nextcloud. You get similar client and similar experience. You need to care about your data and server though.


Taking care of data and servers is the big problem, even for people who are more into computers. There are many holes to fall into.


There are Nextcloud providers :-)

Here's a list in French: https://wiki.chatons.org/doku.php/services/nextcloud

BTW I'm learning from it that /e/ [1] partners with Murena [2] which offers accounts with 1 GB of free storage. Apparently, Murena is French.

[1] https://murena.io/

[2] https://e.foundation/


Also some of us here work at public companies and these systems are under scope since finance needs away to share/edit financial documents with each other. These big firms have soc1s. Running our own infra would put that infra under scope which is a huge burden.


Situation is really messed up.

I understand that 16GiB (16*2e30 bytes) chip is present (delivered to user), but some of it is broken and not available (industry standard). Therefore capacity is less than 16GiB. Also I believe that there is a threshold, that manufacturer is using to throw away chip that are too broken to be sold. Ok so far.

So proper declared capacity should be threshold value (minimum) or threshold to maximum value declared range. I understand that this proper capacity is not very nice round number.

Problem has past: Around 2000, manufacturers started using GB (10e9) instead of GiB (2e30) that gives them some margin (7%) for chip defects. Later margin was not enough, so they started using more misleading specs like this. It seems that margin is at least 10% nowadays instead of <7% in the past.

Personally, I would be satisfied with stated margin size (like 7%, 10%, 12% etc) to maximum capacity, f.e. "USB flash drive 16GB max capacity, at least 90% usable."


> Problem has past: Around 2000, manufacturers started using GB (10e9) instead of GiB (2e30) that gives them some margin (7%) for chip defects

It actually started somewhere around 1995 -- with mechanical disk makers all choosing to advertise GB drives using the power of ten instead of the power of two, while maintaining the same labeling on the outer box.

And the reason was not to account for "chip defects" -- it allowed them to ship slightly less capacity, but print on the box a number that appeared larger to those who did not read the 4 point type fine print on the back.


(Note that 1e9 is 1 000 000 000 and 2e30 is 2 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000, different from 2^30.)


I'd guess that some family member like son Jan Pinkava https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684342/ or grandchildren contributed.


Yes! I have few of them and they are repairable as well (for ok price). They last for many years.


I did not find a way how to get rid of orbital debris in the article.


Me neither, so I'm reasonably disappointed. Can I propose a method?

We should shoot something really sticky up there, creating a snowball effect. When it becomes to heavy it will fall and disintegrate. We will have some collateral damage, but you cant make an omelet without breaking an egg.


I think it needs a certain density of debris to get into that Katamari Kessler Syndrome.

Also you might want something with a low aerodynamic profile to help with reentry


I agree, I even know people who want to discuss something, but my role is not to respond too much, just nod or acknowledge things from time to time and primary to listen as their thought gets more clarified by the moment they said them aloud ... :-)


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