Valgrim

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by Valgrim 4y ago
So far every comment on this thread miss the main customer for this tech: the military. Driving fuel trucks along thousand of kilometers where the enemy can bomb your convoy anywhere, just to run the lights and computers, is incredibly dang
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Any liquid fuel is cursed by the tyranny of the wagon equation (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32735688 ). At the price a liter of any fuel gets at the end of the supply chain, a lot of things become economically
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Simple question here: Video files are HUGE. An iPad, even with a fairly large storage for a tablet, would be quickly swamped by the files, and to transfer the RAW video files to and from the device would make it quite frustrating. Is there
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Even if the results are not 100% historically perfect, 99% of the hard job is done. Skin tones, plants, skies, water... they all look incredibly good, and the object segmentation is almost perfect too. The tool seems to struggle with fabric
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by Valgrim 4y ago
How does malware and trojans relate to text generation?
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Of course their theories were borne out of observations, that's what theories are, a model of our world that fits past observations. When we make an observation that doesn't fit the model, it's surprising because it's by
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by Valgrim 4y ago
It may be a case of "no true scotman", but in my opinion, given that we are in 2022 and not 1522, any society doing this kind of thing does not deserve to be called "civilized", and it should be a shame to consider them
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by Valgrim 4y ago
I find it cool actually that this kind of knowledge (Q&A) can be readily downloaded and stored for offline consultation on any device.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Will chess.com provide an automated tool that uses the same methodology to analyse every player that uses it's platform? If not it seems unfair to other high profile players. But imagine they do, will those players get automatically ba
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by Valgrim 4y ago
This summer, I went to see my extended family in Europe. This year was an extremely hot and dry summer, and the temperature reached close to 40°C every day for almost 2 months. I lived in an old house made of "pisé", a form of ram
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by Valgrim 4y ago
I guess one could use this technique to create any sort of very precise measurement or calculation tools, like slide rules or sextants.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
As far as I'm concerned, I would absolutely love an immersive game where I can just walk around, plant trees, and see them grow.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
There is a microsoft garage project that helps you do it that way: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/advanced-for...
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Using ammonia as fuel doesn't "just" release n2, it also release a lot of nitrogen oxides, which are significantly more powerful greenhouse gases than CO2, contribute to the formation of smog and acid rain, and destroy tropos
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by Valgrim 4y ago
One of the limitations I run into with OSM-based route finders is the lack of data for truck limitations - at least in my country. The data model supports it, the routing engines support it, the government has publicly available information
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by Valgrim 4y ago
I believe you meant the longitude problem.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Integration into Office365 pretty much integrates collaboration and automatically saves every change, so you can go back to any version back in time.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
How can there be a supply chain crisis and a inventory surplus? I don't get it. It seems the market is completely upside down. Is the market completely incapable of adaptation? A few days ago I took a plane and more than half the fligh
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by Valgrim 4y ago
There's no data about bone loss on mars gravity. There's no reason to believe there's a linear relationship between gravity and bone loss (we only have two data points: 1G and 0G). Bone loss may be preventable with pills or s
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Nitrogen fixation occurs naturally in the soil by bacteria. As the nitrogen is consumed by different species up from one trophic level to another, from plants to insects to bird, the nitrogen gets more and more concentrated. Birds are fairl
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Demagoguery implies an appeal to emotion rather than reason. The argument presented in this articles stems from reason and is an analysis of real, verifiable data, so I'd say no.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
This reminds me of the device used in Jules Vernes " From the Earth to the Moon". The projectile has "thick lining of leather fastened on springs of best steel", together with some sort of hydraulic system, meant to abso
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by Valgrim 4y ago
I don't see how the two are related. I don't think people find a great sense of purpose in a job if the only thing that job provides them is to not starve to death.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Can you explain what interpolation and extrapolation mean in this context?
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by Valgrim 4y ago
This is the root problem of so many "designer" products which try to combine together different things. Of course those who practice these kind of activity know that the alternative to this bundle of joy is cheaper, safer, lighter
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Nice, i've seen one of those school buses drop kids near my home the other day. The blue bumper is quite distinctive. The suspension was a bit noisy. Not sure if it's due to the weight of the batteries or the crappy Montreal stree
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Why not ship cases of hard drives then? With the plummeting cost of space launches, it seems reasonable to include enough ΔV(1) for a return mission. (1) https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/delta-v edit: We could also se
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by Valgrim 4y ago
It feels more like Gilliam's "Brazil" and less like Orwell's "1984".
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Apart from Minecraft, which game on that list would be considered "major"?
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by Valgrim 4y ago
If there's one thing I would absolutely require a Level 5 Full Driving Automation for, it's for freight.

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