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by Voultapher 7mo ago
The linked article covers that in depth, it's not implausible to punch a hole through a storm with pulsed laser of that class. Honestly we don't know enough about these systems to know their operational limits but we know weather
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by Voultapher 7mo ago
Lasers. No really, near-future laser systems with adaptive optics and good spotting - for example distributed SAR satellites - dramatically shift that balance [0]. [0] https://toughsf.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-laser
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by Voultapher 7mo ago
If only I had seen that before somewhere https://youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw
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by Voultapher 8mo ago
I find that writing good tests is my ticket to understanding the problem in depth, be careful about outsourcing that part. Plus from what I have seen LLM generated tests are often low quality.
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by Voultapher 8mo ago
Yep, I understand why let's release this one feature everywhere is a great lure and I do get annoyed when desktop vs mobile spotify gets features later or never. However, a phone is not a desktop capability wise and what we usually get
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by Voultapher 8mo ago
Framing man made climate change - aka the 6th mass extinction event - as a problem in search of a solution is by itself the very reason we won't "solve" it. Trying to solve climate change in anything but a very narrow sense i
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GiganticWebsites is AI and humans at its worst(github.com)
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by Voultapher 9mo ago
Science has a massive blind spot, one it can't fathom exists. For many today, especially on HN science is closer to a religion than what they themselves view it as. This is not a particularly popular believe since it contradicts a lot
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by Voultapher 9mo ago
There was also Abiy Ahmed, who went on to commit a genocide [1] the following year in Ethopia, it's less talked about than the one Palestine. Imagine giving Benjamin Netanyahu the nobel peace price, what a joke of an institution. [1]
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by Voultapher 9mo ago
> I myself am saving a small fortune on design and photography and getting better results while doing it. Tell me you have bland taste without telling me you have bland taste. But if your customers eat it up and your slop manages to stan
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by Voultapher 9mo ago
Salting your ground water is also a second-order effect. The way you put that statement into quotes shows that you value human well being over everything else. Personally I don't. Life on earth is a co-op and we don't win by being
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by Voultapher 9mo ago
4K on 24" equates to ~184ppi, not sure how you concluded > 200. Source https://www.sven.de/dpi/
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by Voultapher 9mo ago
This is utterly ridiculous. When has the last time been when we humans did a process in an ecosystem at industrial scale and it _didn't_ make life worse for the local co-op players? We don't know _how_ it will mess things up, but
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by Voultapher 10mo ago
For me it's the prefect example of why LLMs are boring AF when it comes to creativity. Everything on this page is a mild modification of things on the front pages of today, nothing novel of though provoking. Hey AI please create art, a
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
Our viewpoints don't seem that far apart and thanks for the nuanced take. Personally I believe we know that technology can't fix this by definition because the problem is of social, cultural and economic nature. Our lifestyles are
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
It would be great if we could engineer our way out of this situation, but we can't. For many years I strongly believed in our cleverness, after all I was clever and in the narrow domain I worked in - tech - cleverness was enough to ove
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
This reads like a badly done, sponsored hype video on YouTube. So if we look at what NVIDIA has to say about NVFP4 it sure sounds impressive [1]. But look closely that initial graph never compares fp8 and fp4 on the same hardware. They jump
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
I like to call them slow-AI. They are paperclip optimizing AIs. No single component wants the larger outcomes, yet they happen. These slow-AIs are terraforming our planet into a less habitable one in order to make GDP number go up, at any c
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
Ah yes, the if we change something that would mean we would have to change everything and that would be absurd, so we can't change anything ever argument. Classic.
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
Somewhat disheartening to see all the arguments here saying it doesn't matter how we name stuff. Lived language creates reality. There are groups of black people that complained about the terminology, repeatedly [1]. So isn't it a
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
What a waste of time article. There is plenty of debunking of the points already so I won't repeat them. Yes C++ has many many issues, and yet most of the biggest most complex software systems in existence are written in it. I don&#x
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
Seems like trying to solve poor performance with caching, not that all caching is bad, but it's often more rewarding to make the thing so fast it doesn't need caching if you have control over the code in question, which they very
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
Because I've met several homeschooled adults over the years, and talking to them that's something most of them had in common when explaining the impact it had on their life. Looking for more objective data I found this one source
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
I don't think it'll need draconian enforcement, parental controls on iOS and Android can co-exist with Linux. Having the option to enable specific filters on a client side and requiring a pass-code or OS level permissions to chang
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
Seeming mature to an adult isn't the thing in question though, is it? Not feeling or appearing awkward when interacting on their own in their 20s is what is being criticized. The anecdotal evidence you present doesn't include home
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
> And more importantly, we can provide a better environment for them to mature socially. Citation needed. Every perspective I've heard personally - and mirrored in comments here as well - from the non parent side of things, is quite
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
Quoting their own video: > You can verify your code quality at a glance, then ship with absolute confidence. Proclaiming absolute confidence after a glance leaves me with scant confident in the merit of the confidence.
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
> Measles, a dangerous illness that for decades has rarely infected Canadians, is back – and spreading. [...] Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., left, now the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, stands with protesters in Olympia,
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by Voultapher 11mo ago
A true human supremacist society - I know controversial term but it fits way too well. You and I live in it and it sucks how many people think like that. Life is a co-op, winning does not mean being the last ones left standing.
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by Voultapher 1y ago
One of the best engineers I know works for [1] Woven by Toyota, Inc. They do care about getting software right, arguably more so than the german automotive sector. Don't get me wrong they all want good software, but wanting good softwa

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