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by Animats 4mo ago
That was also said about the B-707, which was supposed to have some parts commonality with their KC-135 Stratotanker built for the USAF. But as development progressed, the airliner and the tanker diverged. The B-747 went through a similar
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by Animats 4mo ago
The EV-only companies build much better EVs than companies that also build ICE cars. It took Tesla to get EVs going in the US. It will be interesting to see if Slate's little electric pickup truck really ships at the promised price poi
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by Animats 4mo ago
Cars and solar panels get hit the hardest with tariffs and restrictions. Solar panels: [1] Cars: [2] More devices are being hit by US digital sovereignty rules. Most US talk about this revolves around the EU not allowing processing of data
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by Animats 4mo ago
> It's interesting that commerce/business was this sophisticated in the Bronze Age. That trade would have records is not surprising. That trade would follow patterns based on distance is not surprising, especially since transpo
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by Animats 4mo ago
A YC startup as envisioned by a YouTube AI content generator. Quite good.
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Life at Every Dropout Billionare Level [video](youtube.com)
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by Animats 4mo ago
Right. Many restaurants won't do a split check beyond 3 or 5 people. This place in Dubai doesn't sound that bad. It can get much worse. Two of us went to a restaurant in Cupertino, near Apple HQ, where the table had a QR code. But
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by Animats 4mo ago
Agreed, but there's an intermediate form of this that's more likely. If everything you do for money goes in and out over a wire, AI replacement within a few years is more likely than not. Elevator mechanics will probably do fine.
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by Animats 4mo ago
First world influencer problem. "This past Saturday, six of us had an impromptu brunch after our morning yoga class..." In Dubai.
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by Animats 4mo ago
Of course, bakery products like that are really made on production lines like this.[1] There's a whole industry for artisanal bread making machinery. Machinery for fancy twisted form factors is available. Here's the Fritsch Multit
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by Animats 4mo ago
European copyright law has broader coverage than US law. Europe recognizes "sweat of the brow" copyright. Some databases are copyrightable in the EU even though there was no human creativity involved. The US does not do that, beca
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by Animats 4mo ago
We're there. The recent HN article about the Fender Stratocaster had some content from a Fender press release, which was regurgitating text from a legal aggregation site. It was, overall, bad coverage of the area of copyright on decora
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by Animats 4mo ago
That article, and LLMs, seem to pick up on an article from US Legal Forms.[1] That article itself reads like something written by an LLM. A more serious review of the works of applied art problem comes from the Columbia Journal of Law and t
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by Animats 4mo ago
Sadly, that's probably correct. No outside single point of failure that can cancel users at will can be allowed to gatekeep open source projects.
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by Animats 4mo ago
This is a place where European copyright law is significantly different from US copyright law. In the US, copyright cannot cover a "functional part", which is why there is a third party auto parts industry. Improved functionality
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by Animats 4mo ago
The announcement says both Wikipedia workers in Britain are setting a “global first” by becoming the first body of workers at the online encyclopaedia to seek union recognition. and Outside the United States, the United Kingdom is WMF’s
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by Animats 4mo ago
PI controllers (D = 0) are not hard to tune, but if the system has enough inertia to need a D term, then it gets complicated.
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by Animats 4mo ago
That's impressive. But why are there no near-term products? If you can cut through granite and such this way, it ought to be useful for other cutting jobs. There should be useful tools, such as small units for drilling pipe holes throu
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by Animats 4mo ago
(Molten salt, not molten sodium. There are molten sodium reactors, which have their own set of problems.)
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by Animats 4mo ago
Yes. History will record that bin Laden won. There's a pre-9/11 book about bin Laden, "The Man Who Declared War on America". Bin Laden was interviewed. Consider the situation at the end of the Clinton administration. Th
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by Animats 4mo ago
How often do you off-road and need 4WD? I have a Jeep Wrangler, and in winter I have to go up a muddy hill with about a 15% grade to a back pasture at a stable. I sometimes engage 4WD (high) for that, but I don't really have to. Very f
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by Animats 4mo ago
The trouble with molten salt thorium reactors is that they need an attached chemical plant that processes molten sodium mixed with radioactive elements. This is not something a utility wants to own, maintain, and operate. Here are some stu
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China's current plan: Since the country’s first Hualong One unit came online in 2021, 6 additional units have begun commercial operation, 16 units are under construction, and 18 units have received government approval in China. Accordi
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by Animats 4mo ago
OK, so when does the first one come online? "The strategy calls for construction to start on two new large-scale reactors by 2035, for five more to be planned or under development by 2040 and for at least one reactor to be under constr
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by Animats 4mo ago
Thanks. Just checked. Secure Boot is not enabled on any of my machines, which are Linux-only. Whew! (I wonder if any of the ASUS subnotebooks I bought off eBay for minor embedded stuff have this problem. Have to power them up.)
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by Animats 4mo ago
Found this on one machine. Key expires in 5 days. System runs Linux only and has never booted Windows, ever. Secure boot may be off. SHA1 Fingerprint: 46:de:f6:3b:5c:e6:1c:f8:ba:0d:e2:e6:63:9c:10:19:d0:ed:14:f3 Certificate: Da
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by Animats 4mo ago
Sorry, 150 miles. Not km, Slate is a US company.
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by Animats 4mo ago
This seems to fill a useful niche, but may be too downscale. Remember the Tata Nano.[1] Tata built a basic car with a price below 1 lahk, but it didn't sell. In the US, there's Slate, which claims to be making a small electric pic
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by Animats 4mo ago
IPv6 adoption has been increasing linearly for about 15 years now. Growth rate is about 3% - 4% a year, not compounded. Some long infrastructure transitions: - Railroad freight car bearings. First roller bearing freight cars, 1948 ("Ro
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by Animats 4mo ago
OK, now what? Someone offers open models as a service? That's basically a time-sharing computing business - people at terminals sharing remote computing resources. If you buy your own H100 it will be idle while you're typing or re

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