Animats

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by Animats 5mo ago
Southwest Airlines just banned humanoid robots on their flights.[1] [1] https://aeronauticsmagazine.com/news/no-robots-allowed-south...
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by Animats 5mo ago
Key statement: "The fact that the ratio between costs of constructing a home and the costs of the various materials is already so low is fundamentally what makes achieving substantial economies of scale difficult." That's str
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by Animats 5mo ago
Right, as noted above, last week The Economist finally said it's real. That's a reversal from their previous position. The Economist likes to look at actuals, which always trail real time, rather than projections. Now they can see
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by Animats 5mo ago
That may go with the task of looking for low-level security holes.
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by Animats 5mo ago
Oh. YouTube drama. Legally, it's one of those Uniform Commercial Code things that was worked out many decades ago - the rights of a consignor in a business transfer.[1] This is a routine problem with standard answers. [1] https:/
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by Animats 5mo ago
This guy tried to resolve a legal dispute without a lawyer. Any competent business lawyer should have been able to straighten this out within days. He even tried to do process service himself, which nobody does. You pay a process server $10
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by Animats 5mo ago
What can quantum computing do right now?
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by Animats 5mo ago
Yes, read that. What these people are talking about seems to replacing training of NNs by something else entirely. The big question is, does that work? At all? It's premature to discuss network architecture until that basic question is
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by Animats 5mo ago
Probably good for about two more years, tops. Like Google's CAPTCHA.
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by Animats 5mo ago
From the article: > Saab is also in the running to sell Canada some of its Gripen fighters. The Iran war has uncovered a vulnerability of the USAF's approach to basing. The USAF likes to build large, elaborate air bases. Many of the
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by Animats 5mo ago
That's when you realize you're not important enough to talk to a human.
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by Animats 5mo ago
pSOS was a different operating system.
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by Animats 5mo ago
The post-panic situation is a problem in Rust. After a panic, you're in a somewhat abnormal state. Rust panics are not supposed to be a catchable exception system. If something other than program termination is in the near future, that
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by Animats 5mo ago
Never pushed it that far. Mentioning safety in a C or C++ context was viewed very negatively back then.
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by Animats 5mo ago
The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the moment when railways got out of beta. There had been various kinds of tracked haulage before that, but it was mostly bulk freight, usually coal. The Liverpool and Manchester in 183
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by Animats 5mo ago
AI tools have started to kill software as a service by ... selling software as a service. I don't know how this will settle out, but from what NVidia and the DRAM people are saying, it's not going to get cheaper until at least 203
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by Animats 5mo ago
The real lack is that C doesn't have slices. Slices can do most of what pointers into arrays can do, with sane semantics. Slices were invented surprisingly late. They were implementable in the 1970s, but didn't really show up unti
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by Animats 5mo ago
> The problem with US ports being slow isn’t the longshoremen or the lack of automation, it’s the ports themselves. The Port of Oakland is a purpose-built container port. The Port of San Francisco is dead as a cargo port.
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by Animats 5mo ago
No, US longshoremen lost that jobs battle decades ago, Some got settlements that lasted for life, but there were no more new longshoremen. There's a good writeup of this in "The Box", a history of the shipping container by Ma
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by Animats 5mo ago
Is it actually back up?
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Iran president ends Internet blackout, orders access to be restored(thehill.com)
21 points by Animats 5mo ago|7 comments
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by Animats 5mo ago
Oh, Solvinity / DigiD. From the title, it sounded like someone had bought ASML.
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by Animats 5mo ago
I wonder what we end up with as an LLM-friendly programming language. It's likely to be something rather formal, with entry and exit assertions. Humans hate writing those, but LLMs need them to keep them on track and give them goals.
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by Animats 5mo ago
Wow. It declined all the way to zero? I'd have expected it to tail off. That's scary. What else can AI make decline all the way to zero? Customer support?
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by Animats 5mo ago
Right, that's the extreme case, where the problem is detected at compile time. Unfortunately, it's not a user-visible error message at compile time. Need to try an example where the size isn't known until run time.
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by Animats 5mo ago
It's a classic management remark, but one that you don't see that often. One form it takes is that a manager should spend a sizable fraction of their time with the subordinates who aren't having problems. They're the one
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by Animats 5mo ago
Right. It works for hotels, because, if your hotel conference rooms are uncomfortable, some conferences will switch hotels next year. So there's a strong business case for getting HVAC control right. Schools and colleges have the same
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by Animats 5mo ago
How much are you spending a day for the tokens to do that? Ingest big project, comment on it gets expensive. I'm not sure how expensive.
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by Animats 5mo ago
Most of this smart home stuff doesn't do much. Managing lights and entertainment just isn't that interesting. It doesn't cook or clean. Vacuum, maybe. There's been generation after generation of lighting control. There
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by Animats 5mo ago
> it seems the tech behind electricity has no moat Sure it does. You have to run a separate set of wires to each house to compete at the retail level. There have been regions which had two competing phone systems in the past, and there a

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