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by XorNot 4mo ago
If they stop R&D right now they'd have to fire most of their staff to realize the savings and sell off their datacenter capacity. They would show a profit for 1 year and then become completely irrelevant.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
My company has Claude. People were excited to use Claude. Absolutely no one, despite the option, considered a grok model.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Which is not the point of the research paper: the point of it is they've targeted a novel mechanism (waste clearing) and observed two effects impacting markers for Alzheimer's. Amyloid beta might not be causative, but if you hit a
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Okay so the thing is I want a wood fire simulation too. With as much physics sim on combustion dynamics as possible.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
As someone who recently did some hand splitting of firewood I can directly relate to this.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
https://yougov.com/articles/51000-support-for-under-16-socia...
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Its wildly popular to the tune of 70% support amongst the general population? The HN bubble needs to realize that it's not that people don't care, it's that they really want this and also when it didn't work started comp
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by XorNot 4mo ago
I bought this one and it works: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/aw/d/B0BS1VXS6L?psc=1
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by XorNot 4mo ago
> (assuming that SpaceX wouldn't be a willing launch partner) really think about that statement when discussing deliberately avoiding government jurisdiction... (perhaps also consider that it is not the case that no one can damage
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by XorNot 4mo ago
It is worth noting that this is also identical to the way in which international waters works as well, so there's plenty of legal precedent. But it's also irrelevant: all your infrastructure supporting such a thing, including your
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Yes because when your infrastructure is Earth based, your staff is Earth based and your customers are Earth based, your company's legal registration and owner are Earth based, it would be absolutely impossible for a government to enfor
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Sure: which is a higher and less accessible orbit. The relative fuel cost might be small, but in absolute terms the ship carrying payload is carrying a lot more to do it - see the number of Starships to refuel a Starship in LEO. And here&#x
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by XorNot 4mo ago
The real issue is that the power situation in LEO is still actually terrible! Your solar is a little more performant, but you're plunged into hard shade every 45 minutes.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Sure but conceptually no one should've been able to crack any hashing scheme anyone half-way decent at their job could come up. SHA256 is the default and it's unbroken. Even SHA1 has scant few known collisions. So like...what the
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by XorNot 4mo ago
You literally just need several oracles which sign hashes at the time they receive them and record that fact. As a community service you need them to have enough scale that no individual hash or source can be tampered with without being lik
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Which still sounds like your employer was simply incompetent because why was any type of perceptual hashing scheme even involved? Signing digital data with hardware secure tokens is a commodity capability in the iPhone many of HNs users are
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by XorNot 4mo ago
While generally true, it's worth remembering that thin shirts can have an SPF as low as 50 or so, which isn't much.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Can you give an example of an extermination program which was thwarted by a lack of accurate census data? "The Nazis used a data source to implement an extermination program" is not a statement which proves that your problem was t
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by XorNot 4mo ago
In the sense that you can claim two things are synergies by just saying they are, sure. Whereas in reality automotive companies do not organically have rocketry divisions.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
From your own link: During her testimony in front of the Senate Foreign Relations committee about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland answers a question from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
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by XorNot 4mo ago
I really just want someone to make a decent point and click design library. I don't want to steward an amateur coder I just want to draw exactly what I want out of toolkit of good enough components. Give me VB6 or whatever for the web.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Not quite true: you're also limited by the mechanical strength of your windings and core (this is the upper limit on superconducting magnets like at CERN and in fusion plants).
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Conversely you're already not dealing with that, so the letter and spirit of the law are both being ignored and the American voter doesn't care.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Isn't this just a continuation of the performance art of the modern corporate environment though? There's an entire industry producing pages of documents which aren't read, aren't responded to, but need to be at least X
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Vanadium flow batteries are more expensive and less durable then LFP and the price won't come down because Vanadium is an expensive metal to get. They were interesting but the whole concept just has problems and has for over a decade a
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Its also just strategically sensible. China is well aware it has very long supply lines for oil, and the less of it they need the better.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Which reminds, generative AI means we should be able to get the book version of Chernoff faces into grafana now...
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by XorNot 4mo ago
It wasn't a competition though just mutual incompatibility: aliens so alien that we can barely comprehend their motives and are implicitly regarded as hostile by our manner of existence. I'd say the case it was making has only bec
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Right but they're heavier with far fewer weight concerns then an aircraft. Torpedos are large, heavy and expensive. The point is a very thin wire had a surprisingly long range - versus this system which has a very low bitrate much past
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by XorNot 4mo ago
I definitely hate the G-keys on a Logitech G915 more though. It's a perfectly good full size mechanical keyboard with low travel...and a row of keys on the left hand side which obliterates the typing ergonomics of it. Meanwhile they

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