Cocodapuf @ Cocodapuf @lemmy.world

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This is not the year of Luigi...

Yeah, that's not a bad idea

China won't sell just 1, unless they want it for the price of 30.

I mean yeah, most systems with a reservoir are going to use some kind of feed tubes to get the ink to the print head, and tubes just clog; basically, they only have 2 states of existence and one of them is "clogged". If you do very regular printing, like a full color page at least twice a week, then they aren't going to clog, but very few people actually print that consistently.

Truth be told, I'm just done with inkjet printing all together. At this point I can't recommend anything but a laser printer, you tend to pay more up front, but then it actually works and it keeps working for a decade or more.

Haha, yeah the French totally do that.

I remember when I was a kid and my dad worked in the computer industry. He went to France for work somewhere around 1990. I remember he said that France likes to keep their language pure, not adopt English words, and in technology, where there were a lot of new words, they didn't always have one for things. So for example, their word for "hard disk" translated literally to "spinning magnetic binary drive". Whereas, the Japanese would say something along the lines of "harta disku", which was at least more succinct.

Would you rather call it "official" or "certified" or "genuine" toner cartridges? Because that sounds worse to me.

I mean, they really do need some way to differentiate their product from others. Because they do guarantee that their cartridge works with their printer (and customers would hold them accountable if they did not). They really can't guarantee that with any others. (simply because they didn't design the others, haven't tested them, and have no power to change them if there was a problem. All of which is perfectly reasonable)

Meh, I think it's pretty straight forward. It's just a description of the scenario.

Mario games are first party content, because they're made by the same company that makes the console. This says nothing positive or negative about the game, just who developed it.

I've used printers that don't have cartridges, instead they just have ink wells you can fill with any ink. You do have more freedom with ink choices, but they're a different kind of hassle. It's not simply a better solution.

(Speaking of solutions, sometimes the ink you buy is more of a suspension than a solution, and it'll clump up and dry in the feed hoses, a real pain in the ass.)

Oh man, I have bad news for you about living languages...

But no, I know what you mean, I don't like it either.

But the thumbnail, isn't that just the album cover from Nirvana's Nevermind?

Is moderation difficult? What makes it difficult?

Oh my God, yes... So many things it's hard to even consider how to answer...

What happens to the “spirit of discovery and genuine community” when moderation fails?

We have the Internet today. Because moderation has broken down everywhere, it has been defeated, engineered around.

Wow, I can't believe this post has gotten so many down votes. It's such a reasonable statement.

Probably the only thing in the whole post I could disagree with here is the word "understand"

AI can generate slop, but it can also understand, categorize, filter, moderate. It can also be slow to adapt to new attacks, or be analyzed and manipulated.

It comes down to this, maybe they can improve upon something. They're talking about building something resistant to political trolling, hate speech, and misinformation. If they can do that, that would be valuable. I'm willing to wait and see.

I'm willing to wait and see, especially because Lemmy has no defense against that kind of thing. I think there's probably less hate speech and misinformation on Lemmy than reddit right now, but if Lemmy became the dominating service, it would have massive problems, just like reddit.

I like the federation aspect of Lemmy, that feels extremely valuable, I'm not discounting that. But I think not being open to other options or ideas is plain stupid.

Are you not entertained?

Heh, and if you don't believe that, ask a Texan.

Actually in retrospect, they really may not understand electrical grids...

Apple has a history of being the good guys when it comes to issues of encryption. As a rule, they want to keep your privacy (and theirs). But they also want to continue operating in many countries, and when something like this happens, they may fight it in court, but if they lose, they won't pull out of the region, they'll find a way to comply.

In other words, this is a problem with national governments. They need to stop asking app and os developers to do unethical things, there's enough pressure for them to do that already.

And who knows maybe it also shuffles these developers down a slippery slope... Maybe developers figure "if we must spy on users, we've already lost their trust, we might as well make a profit from it". And that leads us to the relationship we have with technology today, our tech is untrustworthy, we feel the oppression of the surveillance state and we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

Yeah, the application kind of assumes a lot of industry though. I mean if there isn't a lot of industry, what are you shipping off the moon? But still, 50 km of rail is a lot, but it's far less than the 325,000 km of tether that a space elevator would need...

Spin launch would definitely be feasible for some cargo, theoretically it would be a bit easier in vacuum, though that would probably also present other challenges. However, with a reasonably sized spin launch system (like the size of a 4 story apartment building), the payload needs to handle forces around 3000 Gs (which is a lot even for cargo). Unfortunately, you'd need to go larger for lower G force. So this also requires a lot of industry.

How does that help anything?

But to reiterate,

So what’s your plan?

You say "they have to act now" but what actions need to be taken?

Are you saying mass protest? Armed rebellion? What are you suggesting?

Well surviving the acceleration is trivial. I figured a 50km track in the post up above, in 50km you can accelerate up to lunar orbit velocities at just 1g of constant acceleration. So if your probe can survive sitting still on earth, it can survive accelerating at that speed.

You're right though, you do need a small amount of thrust when you reach the top of your arc, but really not much. 50 m/s of DeltaV would do just fine. In other words, opening a can of compressed air would basically do it.

Or alternatively, you could use a mechanical system; you could have the vehicle (basically a rail cart) separate from the cargo with a powerful spring, pushing the cargo up, and the cart down. That mechanical system is also more effective the higher the apogee is, so if you launched the vehicle into a higher, more elliptical lunar orbit, that small push at the top pulls your low end of the orbit up much higher.

Nah, it wouldn't do much damage. The tether's whole job is to be strong, but light. And being a long, thin fiber, it'll have a pretty low mass to surface area ratio (high drag in atmo). If it did come down, it would likely mostly burn up, or mostly be slowed down by the atmosphere.

Additionally, the length of tether with the most tension on it will be the section nearest to the ground. If the tether snaps near the ground, the whole thing gets hauled up to orbit for good.

To be clear, I'm actually not in favor of space elevators in general, I think there are many much more practical ways to get to orbit. I'm just saying that a broken tether should not be the end of the world.

If you really want to build something like a space elevator though, you should check out the tethered ring concept: https://youtu.be/8B2iqiKehyM