Animats

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by Animats 2mo ago
Yes. There ought to be a lot more small claims court cases in the US, just to keep businesses honest.
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by Animats 2mo ago
Good point. The steel rusts, expands, more water gets in, more rust, concrete cracking, exposed rebar, rebar rusts away, no tensile strength, collapse. (I was going to link to a picture, but at least half the images of corroded rebar found
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by Animats 2mo ago
What's the FCC's statutory authority for this? This adds mobile LIDAR units to the FCC's "Covered List". The CFR entry for the Covered List [1] claims this is under the Secure and Trusted Communications Act of 2019,
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by Animats 2mo ago
Of course, you need "forever plastics" to make this work long term. It's like everything else where you have a material with decent compressive strength but weak tensile strength. You need something with some tensile strength
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by Animats 2mo ago
On the moral front, see The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" by Jonathan Haidt (2013). This has a nice analysis of why different people think about ethics quite differently. Haidt looks at axes of m
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by Animats 2mo ago
It's worth thinking about incentives from the standpoint of feedback control theory. Typically, you have an input, an output, a measurement of the output, and an output goal. There is some lag between the input and the output, and ther
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by Animats 2mo ago
7 GW! All California load is 35GW right now.
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by Animats 2mo ago
> I hear similar from professional clothing photographers who find that even if they want to support the human models, they're forced by economics to use the GenAI models. That, too, is a job that's gone. I used to know some ac
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by Animats 2mo ago
I mean let Claude make it into a movie. A task which is quite possible.
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by Animats 2mo ago
Now have it make it into a movie.
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by Animats 2mo ago
Addressing the question in the title, "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers", look at what happened to printers. That was a good skilled trade for centuries. Then it just went away. Phototypesett
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by Animats 2mo ago
California has only four really good wind sites, and they already have wind farms on them. The real US wind belt is from the Texas panhandle northward to Canada. Look at a wind map of the US.[1] Grid-scale battery storage just keeps getting
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by Animats 2mo ago
It's 10 PM. Do you know where your children are? We do.
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by Animats 2mo ago
There's the Yanna9x approach to someone snatching a phone and running off.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XHyi0Q8vrOA
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by Animats 2mo ago
Is there a standard parts list of immediately available parts, like JLBPCB? [1] [1] https://jlcpcb.com/parts/in-stock-parts
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by Animats 2mo ago
Drone and defense teams get boards back in 7 days. Quick turn in the US is 2 to 4 days.[1] That's expensive but available. [1] https://www.surfacemountsolutions.com/services/quick-turn-pc...
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by Animats 2mo ago
That is a public-sector union. That's different. Political power matters in that space. A useful private sector union to watch is The Animation Guild, IATSE local 639.[1] They represent traditional animators in Hollywood - Disney, Drea
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by Animats 2mo ago
> I take the point, but I think the author picked a poor analogy. He may have missed the point. AI-generated code does not seem to have parsimony, for one. Generating code is cheap, so there's no drive to condense it. LLMs are not y
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by Animats 2mo ago
Amusingly, there are streaming sites you can't watch without permission from your "television provider".
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by Animats 2mo ago
ESPN, however, demands that they get the full 6 MHz.
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by Animats 2mo ago
Sorry, without Google accounts. I don't want a Google account on my phone. I've never had one.
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by Animats 2mo ago
The video of newspaper production is a chopped up version of "From Trees To Tribunes" (1937).[1] [1] https://archive.org/details/0194_From_Trees_to_Tribunes_M002...
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by Animats 2mo ago
After September, will you still be able to install F-Droid on phones with Google accounts?
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by Animats 2mo ago
What's a good phone for use without Google's Play Store? F-Droid only. No Google account.
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by Animats 2mo ago
Probably more useful for interrogation than coding. Under current US law, can people entering the US be subjected to mind-reading?
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by Animats 2mo ago
The animated Russian version: [1] (1984) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxP3TyuQx0
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by Animats 2mo ago
LIDAR units are nowhere near that expensive. Even ten years ago, the Velodyne top of car units only cost about $80,000. The short range ones, found at vehicle corners and on the rear, are now around $200 - $1500. The long range car-top un
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by Animats 2mo ago
> "SAIL researchers" I went to the reunion for those guys last month. There are only about a dozen left.
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by Animats 2mo ago
Here's a half-decent example.[1] The visuals are good, the plot is adequate, and the audio is poor. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5w1jiTYrTw
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by Animats 2mo ago
Keep telling yourself that, right up to the layoff.[1] [1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ademola-adelakun_pov-you-get-...

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