Tossrock

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by Tossrock 5y ago
Time to share my favorite quote from them! (Again [1]) >Mr. Ohanian asked the panel, “One of the things I see time and time again is that we have companies who went to the West Coast and then come screaming back to New York. What was the
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by Tossrock 5y ago
I've sent an message to the address listed in your profile, it's coming from a nonstandard domain though, so if you don't see it, it may be in spam. Also, I now realize that the longbet page is still under review, so you migh
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by Tossrock 5y ago
100MW seems like a substantial moving of the goalposts, given your earlier statement that "there is no reasonably foreseeable future with fusion as part of the electricity grid" and that I've already cut the timetable by 25 y
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by Tossrock 5y ago
That would be my favored platform!
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by Tossrock 5y ago
I'll take that bet - say, $500 in 2021 dollars, that a fusion power plant is selling energy to the grid? I'll even make it easier and halve the time you suggested to 25 years, so we can settle the bet in 2046.
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Finally I can run yum on Ubuntu
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Blue Origin only "beat" SpaceX if you allow BO's test flight and disallow SpaceX's - SpaceX was landing their Grasshopper prototype as early as 2012.
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Not that much more (theoretically) - Al-air batteries could reach up to ~8kWh/kg, which is in the same range as jet fuel's 12ish. Aluminum is also denser than jet fuel, so per unit volume it could be even closer.
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by Tossrock 5y ago
I've said for a while that electric planes are the perfect use case for aluminum-air batteries. Aluminum-air batteries have up to 8x the energy density of lithium ion, but are not rechargeable, so using them only makes sense if you hav
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Sounds like you might be interested in Roblox - fully solved out of the box multiplayer, Lua based development, no shader access or particular graphical fidelity concerns. Some of the most successful games of the current era were developed
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Being reminded of an ongoing genocide makes some people upset. Those people might choose to avoid reading about it.
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by Tossrock 5y ago
Was not expecting to see iq in the comments there. edit: by "iq" I was referring to legendary graphics programmer Inigo Quillez, not intelligence quotient.
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by Tossrock 5y ago
> The general rudeness is ridiculous. I once had an interviewer ask me if I was a wizard with GO, C++, Rust, and C over the phone. Then when I said I had some experience with rust, he immediately cursed at me and hung up. > This exper
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by Tossrock 5y ago
It's a huge missed opportunity, given the amount of datacenter capacity they had, not to mention standardizing on BSD. With BSD's concept of jails, virtualization was way easier - and this was a decade+ before Docker.
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by Tossrock 6y ago
US air superiority fighters already include AR in their helmets.
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by Tossrock 6y ago
This could be an amazing IDE plugin.
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Because large agribusiness conglomerates extract their profits largely by creating negative externalities through pollution and underpriced illegal labor? That was kinda the whole point of the article. Government exists to create policy reg
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by Tossrock 6y ago
"FAANG datacenter" really highlights the absurdity of including Netflix in the acronym - they have no data centers of their own, as they're built entirely on the AWS stack.
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Though, heat pumps lose efficiency in very cold weather, and right now it's very cold in Texas.
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by Tossrock 6y ago
> Also, even the general approach for game development--presumably there's some white boarding phase followed by a wireframe phase etc like you have with app dev? What does that look like in game dev land, what are some reasonable t
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by Tossrock 6y ago
I now regret paying for Synergy!
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Sometimes known as the Crackpot Index, wherein naming a new effect after oneself is worth 20 points: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Series of heavy-payload drones to keep the cable aloft. The drones can draw power from it to power themselves indefinitely. And of course you'd need a massive slip ring at the tractor.
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Since you're soliciting them, here's a few concrete suggestions: - Avatars. A consistent, recognizable image can go a long way from transforming a faceless internet post into something closer to a person you recognize and would he
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Quantum Systems makes drones that do this, and they get massively longer flight times than standard quadcopters. Their Vector drone can fly for 120 minutes, comparable to this fossil fuel powered quadcopter, on batteries alone: https:&#x2F
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Hubs already makes money, by offering turn-key self-hosted Hubs instances for corporations via AWS image.
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by Tossrock 6y ago
I've wanted something like this for a while, but it's missing what to me is the most important feature: scaling the distance between entries based on the length of time between them.
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by Tossrock 6y ago
I wish these people the best, and I really hope they get a working fusion plant soon. That said, I can't resist sharing Admiral Rickover on academic reactors vs practical reactors: Important decisions about the future development of a
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by Tossrock 6y ago
Is the title an intentional homage to Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines?
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by Tossrock 6y ago
They may not be exposing the data they're collecting to ad buyers today, but it's a safe bet they're collecting it. You can extract a lot of signal on ad effectiveness based on what people look at via head pose, and once eye

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