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by K0balt 2mo ago
I think it’s fairly speculative, but I used to hang out with scientists from the UAF geophysical institute, I still keep in touch. They seem to believe it is the case. some of them have told me that if they were to publish it would be caree
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by K0balt 2mo ago
Yeah, hot garbage is trending these days, unfortunately.
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by K0balt 2mo ago
And it’s even more stupid because he just could have asked Claude to build it from scratch. I mean, it’s not Rocket science and all of the resources needed are in the public domain. It would be done in 3 days. 4 hours if you want to ship ho
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by K0balt 2mo ago
TBF the specific backdoor isn’t the point of the article. It’s a cautionary tale. The point is that practically all systems above the MCU level, and even some of those, have lower level systems that are often undocumented or not intended fo
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by K0balt 2mo ago
Frankly, the self reinforcing methane loops we have already triggered make emissions almost irrelevant at this point. If we want a planet compatible with human prosperity, we have no choice but to do planetary scale geoengineering; albedo m
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by K0balt 2mo ago
CO2 capture and planetary albedo management are going to be the only way. For cO2 capture to be meaningful, we need to increase our planetary energy production by 2 or 3x so we can put that energy into sequestration, and obviously those gai
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by K0balt 2mo ago
I wouldn’t say it’s easy. It takes extreme measures. I left my home country with my family of 5 and built an off grid community in an agricultural area in the developing world because I was not happy with the practical agency that was consi
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by K0balt 2mo ago
Because photosynthesis grinds to a halt at about 40c. This is what people are missing. Climate change isn’t the world hiding in their apartments with the AC blasting, its cities burning a week after everything seemed fine. Civilisation tak
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by K0balt 2mo ago
This seems to be a case of “I want to use services from companies that are built on business models hostile towards my sovereignty, privacy, and rights! ; I can’t believe hostilecorp wont let me work around their hostileOS?” I mean, it real
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by K0balt 2mo ago
Seriously question; why is the answer to this not a phone that can just run GNU/Linux? Is it just the lack of application support? I mean, you’ll have blobs, but at least at the os level you’ll have options? Can’t you run an android sa
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by K0balt 2mo ago
Late revision.. either these pilots weren’t using one, or the military was jamming everything. Probably the latter. I can say from my personal experience that it’s really, really easy to get so used to using GPS that you are utterly unprepa
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by K0balt 2mo ago
Sure, but every pilot has an iPad, basically, and an iPad with foreflight might have saved their lives. You even get synthetic vision.
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by K0balt 2mo ago
Everyone knows what the police need to catch more criminals is a comprehensive network of underseat security cameras. I’m sure they would never misuse that kind of access.
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by K0balt 2mo ago
lol the very first paragraph of my comment. But yeah, IFR is getting more dependent on gps approaches… which is incredibly stupid because it becomes trivial to disrupt air navigation. It’s a bit better with newer chipsets that support GPS,
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by K0balt 2mo ago
GPS is not essential to air navigation. It’s nice to have, and there are some approaches that legally require it to be operational in order to fly them (IFR procedures) but aviation has other systems in place to guide aircraft under conditi
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by K0balt 2mo ago
To be fair, hammers are bad screwdrivers. They are faster at driving screws and require less finesse to do so, but are really bad at taking them out, often break the screw, and often result in a fastening that superficially looks correct bu
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by K0balt 2mo ago
Since we all know that at this point, someone is definitely going to build the torment nexus, we all may as well get involved and help, so that at least we can exert some limited degree of control over the eventual character of the torment
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by K0balt 2mo ago
Why would anyone imagine that the folks that brought you Epstein island would do anything remotely useful?
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by K0balt 2mo ago
About $300 per dev per month. Importantly, we are not buying tokens, but the coding plans.
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by K0balt 2mo ago
We run extensive harness optimization, where everything is specified in advance, then a plan is made, then a naive review of the plan vs the specification vs the blast radius, then implementation, tests, then a naive review of test coverage
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by K0balt 2mo ago
We built all the tooling as Claude-code tools (mostly in python) and the rest is just documentation for preloading the context and as reference material to pull in by policy before certain tasks. Really, there is nothing complicated or heav
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by K0balt 2mo ago
Your process engineering is lacking. Just throwing AI at existing workflows seldom produces good results. Processes have to be reengineered to benefit from the strengths and cover for the weaknesses of AI systems, with observability at the
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by K0balt 2mo ago
It’s like herding cats, if you’re doing it right. There should be enough adversarial tension in your process that the majority stays on track, but the parts where you are managing and have strong observability are the points where AI needs
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by K0balt 2mo ago
I find this is the difference between people that 2-4x their productivity and improve their shipping quality vs those that don’t find AI very useful. It’s all about the process, the adversarial tension, and the documentation driving the pro
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by K0balt 2mo ago
Idk, ymmv. I’ve had very good outcomes writing embedded firmware for complex systems, drivers, etc. it’s really, really good at not bodging the kinds of things that always catch meaty developers unawares. OTOH, we run extensive harness opti
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by K0balt 2mo ago
Lots of experiments along those lines, actually.
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by K0balt 2mo ago
lol
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by K0balt 2mo ago
The sheer volume of air moved by high pressure gas turbines makes that large and costly. Not impossible, but very large. These units are 2 per container size, intake and exhaust silencers would probably increase their footprint 5-8x. Not
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by K0balt 2mo ago
Room temperature superconducting cables will be really nice, one day.
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by K0balt 2mo ago
The problem is the salvaged aviation turbines. Airplanes are prevented from operating at high power levels above cities. These engines-from-old-airplanes are likely being operated in their high efficiency range, around 80 percent, so they a

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