Drachefly

Drachefly t1_j6n3mw6 wrote

Reply to comment by ProbablyMyRealName in iPhone crash detection feature makes 100 false calls by speckz

Seems like a good way to handle this would be to only trigger if it goes from violent motion to nearly totally still.

If you're still moving, figure that you're fine. That would get rid of roller coasters, as after all that violent motion, you get up and walk way from it. Similarly with skiing. You reach the bottom and glide to a halt, then begin walking around.

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Drachefly t1_j23ppo1 wrote

Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] Ten days. It was announced we had only ten days before the world-ending meteorite reached its destination. Anarchy and societal collapse in most regions of the world seemed inevitable. What we didn't account for was the supernatural beings that had, until now, been quietly living among us. by humble_nomad

Reminds me of To the Stars, in which an interstellar war breaks out hundreds of years after the events of Madoka.

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Drachefly t1_ixyrgxl wrote

Reply to comment by jayisgod in [WP] You discovered the legendary monkey’s paw which can grant you any wish. Out of fatal curiosity, you wished for the rest of the monkey. A finger curled and your wish was granted. You then found yourself face-to-face with Sun Wukong himself: The Monkey King, Destroyer of Heavens. by Veloci-RKPTR

Heck, even the intro part of the story explaining how he got in that much trouble, he just did his own thing, to great effect.

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Drachefly t1_iu0wqok wrote

Reply to Major breakthrough in cancer research: Papers reveal 'dark matter' that contributes to disease's growth by Ezekiel_W

Making a tool to help people try to do this was my first job out of college, in 2001.

Maybe it would have worked if people had used the tool with colossal data sets like this. Instead, they… threw 3 patients at it in a time series 5 elements long. Amusingly, the organization I was working for was also called the Institute for Cancer Research. Just, a much smaller one an ocean away.

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Drachefly t1_is21ftz wrote

Reply to comment by Girafferage in South Korean researchers say they have developed an anode-free lithium-ion battery that is 40% more energy dense than existing batteries and will enable EVs to travel 630km (390 miles) on a single charge. by lughnasadh

If the price of Lithium goes up by a factor of 1.5 another big mine in another country becomes profitable to run. If it goes up by a factor of 3 it becomes economical to extract it from seawater.

There is a limit to how bad this price can get, in the medium-long term. You can have price spikes. If those are projected to continue, production will increase and the price will come down.

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Drachefly t1_irl5mhi wrote

Reply to comment by programmermama in Quantum philosophy: 4 ways physics will challenge your reality by ADefiniteDescription

Outside the system, obviously. And that makes the claim trivial. Even in Newtonian mechanics you couldn't see the whole universe at once, let alone to perfect precision. But if you're outside the system looking at some accessible representation of it, then it doesn't matter whether it's quantum or classical - a god's eye view is possible. I've done simulations of (simple) quantum systems and it was totally possible for me to see all outcomes from an event that would normally cause decoherence and make coherent superposition impossible. That we can't do that for the universe is just a matter of our being in it.

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