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by Thrymr 1y ago
So are tides.
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by Thrymr 1y ago
> Many of America’s most critical sectors, such as healthcare, are especially slow to adopt due to a variety of factors, including distrust or lack of understanding of the technology, a complex regulatory landscape, and a lack of clear g
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by Thrymr 1y ago
It might help obscure your physical address in public records and keep private companies from finding it as easily, but yeah, it's not going to keep the government-wide database from locating you.
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by Thrymr 1y ago
Leaves aren't even very green, if you look at the full spectrum of sunlight. They only reflect around 10% of green light, while they are more like 90% reflective in the infrared. So you could say that leaves are infrared. It's onl
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by Thrymr 1y ago
Yes, but the liability account in the Fed's case is /dev/null, isn't it?
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by Thrymr 1y ago
Or just write a python script wrapper for the syncthing client :)
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by Thrymr 1y ago
Indeed, it is such a "narrow-scope experiment" that it is basically a business role-playing game, and it did pretty poorly at that. It's pretty hard to imagine giving this thing a real budget and responsibilities anytime soon
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by Thrymr 1y ago
https://archive.is/qYAg2#selection-1131.0-1131.41
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AI valuations are verging on the unhinged(economist.com)
7 points by Thrymr 1y ago|1 comments
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by Thrymr 1y ago
Why is a Q just an O with a tail? Why is W just two Vs stuck together? These things are historical and seem normal now, and are hard to change.
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by Thrymr 1y ago
> The decades of the space program that lead up to (and included of course) Apollo 11 represented, I think, the highest level of optimism we could have mustered for the future It was less than 11 years from the creation of NASA to Apollo
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by Thrymr 1y ago
> I'm guessing you're a SW engineer. > It doesn't matter what you think. It matters what high level managers/CEOs think. In the short term, perhaps. In the longer term, it matters whether it actually works.
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by Thrymr 1y ago
> I don't know why Google does so much worse with trails than OSM, but it really does. I expect that Google never saw a market in trail mapping. I also assume no Google employee took an interest in trails as a 10% project. Google Ma
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by Thrymr 1y ago
Have you ever seen an academic department? Surely the lab scientists and engineers would assert that they need a bigger budget than the mathematicians, and so on.
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by Thrymr 1y ago
Game recognize game.
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by Thrymr 1y ago
The business side of this is largely a retelling of The Innovator's Dilemma: large successful businesses often struggle to adapt to nimble challengers that can innovate in ways that are structurally very difficult in the larger org.
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by Thrymr 1y ago
The nature of subscriptions is that you keep paying for them forever whether you're eating them or not. Maybe you forgot about your sandwiches and they're just piling up on your doorstep.
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by Thrymr 1y ago
It's hard to see any of this as "trivially fixable." Taxes are inherently political, politics are complicated, changing incentives on this scale are pretty much impossible in our political system. "Taxes are simple... an
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by Thrymr 1y ago
Robotaxis are "scheduled for volume production starting in 2026". Sure. "On stage at the Tesla Autonomy Investor Day in Palo Alto, California, Musk boasted about Tesla’s self-driving technology, predicting his company will ha
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by Thrymr 1y ago
Apparently OpenAI now just defines it monetarily as "when we can make $100 billion from it." [0] [0] https://gizmodo.com/leaked-documents-show-openai-has-a-very-...
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by Thrymr 2y ago
or grande non-fat lattes?
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by Thrymr 2y ago
And does it reduce divisiveness by forcing this to happen in a few hours across the federal workforce of a couple million people? If this was a serious rationale, the agencies would have some time to make a plan and implement it (say 30 day
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by Thrymr 2y ago
Well, at least he got over his "mission of DOGE is extremely important" phase quickly enough. May he go off and learn something about himself and the universe studying physics.
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by Thrymr 2y ago
Wait until you hear who's going to be nominated to head the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the FDA and other agencies. For now they warn against and prohibit the interstate sale of raw milk [0]. That may not la
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by Thrymr 2y ago
> Would he want to continue working on Scholar for another ten years? “One always believes there are other opportunities, but the problem is how to pursue them when you are in a place you like and you have been doing really well. I can d
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by Thrymr 2y ago
But they don't need to publicly disclose it, so "you" probably don't know the price. Someone does, sure.
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by Thrymr 2y ago
But not productively. In monoculture agriculture, all but a single planted crop is a weed by definition, and we have no way of making use of it at scale. Sure, you can eat dandelion greens from your yard, but that does not scale. There are
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by Thrymr 2y ago
man cal: Two different calendar systems are used, Gregorian and Julian. These are nearly identical systems with Gregorian making a small adjustment to the frequency of leap years; this facilitates improved sync
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by Thrymr 2y ago
Humanity is doing pretty well at glacier reduction. It is true that total glacier eradication is a bigger challenge.
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by Thrymr 2y ago
The F150 Lightning actually worked for the purpose, if you read the article.

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