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by Animats 3mo ago
IBM's AN-FSQ-7 panels from 1950s SAGE have shown up in a huge number of movies. They are still showing up in new movies. Woody's Electrical Props in LA rents them out.[1] Those slanted panels aren't the computer. Those are
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by Animats 3mo ago
That's cute. They need to be able to deal with other flying umbrellas nearby, if this is to be a product, of course. This would probably sell in Shenzhen.
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by Animats 3mo ago
Yes. There are companies which want "passion", which is really about employee motivation. Zappos, which is a shoe store, has been laughed at for this.
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by Animats 3mo ago
Megawatt racks are coming.[1][2] 10x or 20x more than current practice. There is a lot of plumbing involved. See [2] for more than you really want to know about the plumbing. "You got 400 gallons per minute?" for his rack, the sal
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by Animats 3mo ago
"Cult-building" on the agenda?
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by Animats 3mo ago
There have been some attempts to convert office buildings with large rectangular floors into long, narrow apartments so every apartment has a window. It's possible, but difficult.[1] Plumbing and sewerage turns out to be a huge headach
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by Animats 3mo ago
The article notes that the US overall office vacancy rate is 23%. Seattle is 37%. Have we reached "peak office" at last? How many people in offices does society really need, anyway?
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by Animats 3mo ago
In industry, you usually have professional machinists and toolmakers doing much of that. They're better at it than grad students. I once worked at an R&D facility for heavy hydraulic equipment. It looked like a factory with an offi
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by Animats 3mo ago
Yes. "To understand this, we have to go back to..." 10 minutes of unnecessary retrospective, allowing insertion of three more ads. Usually you can skip that and get to the five minutes or so of new content.
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by Animats 3mo ago
That's what Naomi Wu really did while producing influencer type maker videos. "She knows Shenzhen like the back of her hand." Someone who bought her services describes her leading them confidently into sketchy alleys and up b
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by Animats 3mo ago
> When I was a kid I was amazed that people like Edison and Tesla had labs not filled with gear from some lab manufacturer, but stuff they built themselves from first principles. Edison did not build his stuff himself. Edison had people
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by Animats 3mo ago
2018, sorry. When TechShop went bust.
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by Animats 3mo ago
See "Maker Movement", 2005-1018. Here's a practice factory that GM operates to train new employees to work on an assembly line.[1] There are plywood mockups of cars rolling on conveyors, and the new employees bolt things on.
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by Animats 3mo ago
This study uses iPhone usage and birthrates at the county level. The rural/urban distinction for counties has a strong correlation with wideband cellular data coverage, and that effect was even stronger in the early days of the iPhone
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by Animats 3mo ago
It makes sense as a porting tool, if you need to port the Rust compiler to some target that has a C compiler. But it doesn't mean rustc generates code for that target, only that you can run it there. You'd still have to teach LLVM
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by Animats 3mo ago
> With wood you are up against nature. You're up against your wood vendor. Anyone familiar with Home Depot "fresh from the tree" lumber has discovered this.
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by Animats 3mo ago
There are four functions here: - Discovery (as in search) - Monetization (as in ads) - Hosting (as in storage) - Playout (as in data distribution) PeerTube only performs the fourth, and maybe the third. It's not a flooding distribution
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by Animats 3mo ago
Do you want to make games, or do 3D engine programming? If you want to make games, use an existing engine. Unreal Engine, Unity, Godot, and Bevy are good choices. You'll learn the higher level issues of graphics, not how to push pixels
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by Animats 3mo ago
> 3D game rendering and 3D/2D CAD rendering and 2D vector rendering are completely different skillsets. Actually, no. Autodesk acquired Alias, and got the Maya animation system, in 2005. Soon after, the CAD tools had cinematic quali
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by Animats 3mo ago
Um, yes. 4,900€ for a 1KW device. That's way above market price. On Amazon, a 1KW wind turbine is $500 to $1000. About half that on Alibaba. This is a common technology now, with lots of makers. Almost everybody sells a bladed turbine
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by Animats 3mo ago
"There is an enormous amount of value moving across the Internet today that goes unmonetized or undermonetized, not because no one would pay for it, but because the tools to charge for it have never existed." Every road a toll r
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by Animats 3mo ago
"unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the Natural Sciences" That's a reflection of underlying simplicity. There are only a few classical physical laws. Physical prediction follows from that. Hence the power of math.
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by Animats 3mo ago
Note related article yesterday: "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For". Seems to be part of a general anti-ownership policy. The lord giveth, and the lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the lord.
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by Animats 3mo ago
Craig Venter wanted to do this. But he died earlier this year.
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by Animats 3mo ago
Needs a team with someone who works on product fit and market evaluation. A handheld device that analyzes hidden materials cheaply has a market. Microwave beam-forming and neural nets in a handheld device at a low cost is new technology. An
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by Animats 3mo ago
Get this guy into YC. He knows how to do it, but not how to sell it. This needs to join the families of devices that find wooden studs, electrical wiring, and plumbing. This is a general purpose technology. It can be reprogrammed to find ot
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by Animats 3mo ago
Three Mile Island was expensive, but nobody was injured. TMI had a big, strong containment vessel. Although they had a meltdown, the containment did its job and held. Fukushima had too small a containment vessel. It was only slightly larger
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by Animats 3mo ago
Not under LILCO management.[1] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/28/nyregion/the-end-of-lilco...
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by Animats 3mo ago
Huh? "Will be?" It's not up yet? Are they an approved TLD registry? Their "pamphlet" is just their web site as a PDF file. Are they selling domains, web hosting, DNS service, or what? Right now, the only thing you c
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by Animats 4mo ago
"The hallucination problem is the difference between a clever toy and a system a hospital or a bank or a court can actually rely on. It is the whole ballgame for enterprise AI." This is the big problem with "agentic" AI.

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