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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
So many (perceived) problems with spaceflight and building moon bases and the like are solved by simply making the process and cost of launching faster, easier and cheaper; the problem that NASA has always had is that each launch, even with
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
I was curious since I hadn't heard from Starship in a while, but by the looks of it they plan to launch the first V3 later this month!
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
I kinda get where you're trying to go, but is Moby Dick style writing the best way to convey information? That is, prose is good for entertainment, but less so for conveying information, even less so for exactness.
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
You'd be surprised: https://www.ethosdesignsystem.com/ (okay it's a design system, not so much a framework, but still)
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
A better question would probably what they don't do; just going off the wiki page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM ) for recent history, they're in health care (imaging), weather, video streaming, cloud se
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
Neat, there's no Street View coverage but there is clear sattelite imagery: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RjGUAMExUrD6aqs59 Apple's maps version has that section blurred out though. Bing's sattelite images seem to
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
These two don't have to be related per se, but it sure helps with maintaining a healthy mutually beneficial military relationship.
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
Isn't it also in the insurer's best interest that the hospitals do good work? They'd be another force against hospitals using AI to diagnose or misdiagnose people. Of course, given that these are legal cases, it would take ye
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
Yus, apparently some software was broadcast on the radio, people could record it on tape and use it on their Commodore and such.
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
For any country, really; wars cannot be won anymore unless you exterminate its inhabitants completely. At best you can force a regime change, but as Afghanistan showed, that's fragile and tenuous at best if it's not fully backed b
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
Except that it's a bit more complicated than that. Russia has nukes and is under attack from Ukraine, and while in the past they sabre-rattled that they would use tactical nukes if there was ever any incursion, they haven't done s
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
Why would they do that? They won't have any nukes (not after the Cuban missile crisis), and the island isn't big enough (plus closely monitored) to house any significant amount of weaponry. What would they shoot them at? It'd
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
I was curious about the claim about those vendor status pages, wondering if there's postmortems that actually single out AI. The source cited as [3] is a Reddit post with a poorly cropped chart, and it doesn't include any data fro
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
I'm just an armchair wikipedia browser, but it's an interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Basque_language This article talks about the Basque language from before contact with the Romans, 5-1
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
This was / is likely a factor in the "kernel of truth" with the whole "deworming tablets cure covid-19" thing, the chances of survival of people in certain areas infected with the virus increased if they were admini
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
Which makes for an interesting thought / discussion; code is written to be read by humans first, executed by computers second. What would code look like if it was written to be read by LLMs? The way they work now (or, how they're
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
I love the irony / (perceived) sarcasm in your comment, :p.
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
Because they're self-aware perfectionists and are actively working to stop it, because they reach for all kinds of tools like grammar checkers and AI, but they're aware that using those will make the post lose "their" vo
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
If you can devise a tool that can detect AI generated content, you can use it to filter data. But the harsh truth is that "gold standard" training data is from before 2022 or whenever the cutoff was. And even that needs to be cura
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
Yeah, the internet has been shitty for uh. decades now. 15 odd years ago people were already complaining about listicles and youtube comments. Best thing to do is to avoid idly browsing social media and curate your internet experience.
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
It's an interesting model, makes me wonder if prolific open source contributors do it ("leave a tip if you like this MR" kind of thing).
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised that the beer apps cost less to develop than one AI generated video.
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
I can see some usage for this use case - "look Morty, I turned myself into a pickle!" - but just like image / meme generators, this is like 10-30 seconds of engagement within a friend circle at best (although some might go vi
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
It's the same with e.g. faceapp, fun for a minute but then... then what? And this is the challenge that these tools have - they have to have a free tier to get people to explore it, but unless they can make it a habit, those people wil
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
The HTML generator meta tag (f11 to open dev tools) says it's Astro: https://astro.build/
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
Vinyl (IMO) isn't about it being retro or having "better" sound quality (whatever that means, it's mostly subjective), but about having a collectable, physical item. I think CDs were a step backwards, not because the sou
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
Exactly, there have been loads of tools over time to make software development easier - like Dreamweaver and Frontpage to build websites without coding, or low/no-code platforms to click and drag software together, or all frameworks ev
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
>>It has type hints, which are optional, which means they’re not there. >I mean it is there, and it works. The argument is that developers will avoid using things if they don't have to, especially if they're not used to i
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
Counterpoint, inlining CSS / JS used to be an optimization in early website optimizers, because fetching multiple files incurred more HTTP overhead, and (...I think) compression was more efficient working on a single file vs three. I d
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
Which is why a lot of people are called jerks when in truth they're not actually doing anything wrong.

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