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by WJW 1y ago
Well no, the problem was that the bot didn't give them the answer they wanted. It's more like "finely tuned to waffle around pretending to be knowledgeable, but lacking technical substance". Kind of like a bad salespe
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by WJW 1y ago
> in the 100-2TB range where probably most businesses lie Assuming you mean that range to start at 100GB, I've worked with databases that size multiple times but as a freelancer it's definitely not been "most" busines
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by WJW 1y ago
> There is a massive AI fatigue going on in the Sales, CxO circles. > If you are selling "AI-powered" or "AI based" software, Seems like you just answered your own question. Don't sell "AI-powered" s
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by WJW 1y ago
There is a weird ability that everyone seems to have, which is that by looking at any random object around you, you can accurately predict how it would taste/feel if you put it in your mouth . Go on, try it right now by choosing a ran
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by WJW 1y ago
Love this idea. Maybe I'll make a gem or something to make enabling that easier.
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by WJW 1y ago
Not GP, but exactly what he says: don't fall for the HN narrative that the only way to be successful in life is to found a startup and become a billionaire at 25. Carefully and diligently working your way up the career ladder and consi
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by WJW 1y ago
The history of tariff talks seems to indicate that rather than oblige, China would stop all shipments of semiconductors to the US and Trump would back down after a week or two.
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by WJW 1y ago
Even if it's zero, he could still be a shitty person who shouldn't have access to that button. If anyone should have such access at all, of course.
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by WJW 1y ago
Ships like that are typically optimized to look small from "low" angles, ie from the perspective of other surface combatants and sea skimming anti ship missiles. The large flat surfaces are not so much used to reduce RCS by thems
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by WJW 1y ago
Drone propellers make a distinctive noise, which can be isolated quite well from background noise with FFT analysis. I doubt they'd choose to use AI for that, as classical methods work perfectly fine and need much less processing power
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by WJW 1y ago
Sure, but not as well as a dedicated radar system and at much higher cost. In TFA they spotted small speed boats at 4 km, and needed a trailer full of RF equipment. Drones and missiles would be detected even later, since the antennas of cel
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by WJW 1y ago
(context: I used to be involved in the design of military radar systems for the Dutch navy) The radar absorbing compounds of stealth aircraft are highly optimized for specific wavelengths (usually X-band) and fall off heavily outside that f
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by WJW 1y ago
AIS is not mandatory for all vessels, and in any case it can fail both on the vessels themselves and in the control center. Just for normal safety purposes you would want to have a secondary system to be able to continue operating busy port
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by WJW 1y ago
I think that is basically what I said already? What is ensuring historical positioning if not the righting of (perceived) old wrongs? In any case it's clear that it is not the fabs that China cares about when it is talking about (re)co
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by WJW 1y ago
China doesn't want Taiwan for the chip making plants, but because they consider its existence to be an ongoing armed rebellion against the "rightful" rulers. Getting the fabs intact would be nice, but it's not the main o
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by WJW 1y ago
I don't think that's true, at least it wasn't conceptually radical. People have noticed the cost of "throwing away" the lower stages for ages, and many approaches have been thought of how not to do that. Take the (p
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by WJW 1y ago
I'd have to say some sort of B-tree. Though many bugs live in mine, I still like it. The amount of leaves it has throughout the seasons may very wildly, but I like it even if it has no leaves at all. I don't think I have ever fram
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by WJW 1y ago
Almost everybody knows python these days, almost nobody knows Perl. It's not weird that OP chose a language they already knew.
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by WJW 1y ago
Wouldn't that lead to interference with the original device using that MAC address? Ie both of you getting packets meant for the other etc?
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by WJW 1y ago
Top of what? It seems to be the same few people at the top for decades now.
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by WJW 1y ago
Don't fall for the lottery winner bias. Some companies just strike it rich, often for reasons entirely outside their control. That doesn't mean that copying their methods will lead to the same results.
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by WJW 1y ago
No a PR that actually makes the world a better place. Be the change you want to see and all that.
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by WJW 1y ago
Should take you no more than 5 minutes then.
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by WJW 1y ago
Send in a PR then?
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by WJW 1y ago
Not even. It's just overhead.
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by WJW 1y ago
While it's true that most explosives use nitrogen-based compounds, only a vanishingly small amount of all nitrogen based compounds are used for military applications. Rough estimates are that about 85% goes to producing fertilizer, mo
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by WJW 1y ago
I guess you could have it as some sort of monopropellant? Have some cryogenically cooled N6 flow to the combustion chamber, where it heats up and self-decomposes. Initially you'd have to have some other form of thermal energy input to
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by WJW 1y ago
It seems plausible that Mother Nature had to make some compromises when designing the cochlea, like how much easier it is to grow a (rather symmetric) cochlea than the weird shape from the article and maybe optimizing more for certain sound
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by WJW 1y ago
1. Start with a non-crazy shape that sort of does the same thing but worse (ie non-linearly or with big power fluctuations for different frequencies). Almost all shapes will interact with a sound wave in a frequency dependent manner so you
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by WJW 1y ago
Do you mean a prism?

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