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by XorNot 4mo ago
Except it sort of does? You're paying for the food and shelter of the people engaged in all the manual labor in the supply chain which produces the electricity, for example. Some of them likely eat tomatoes, so for that electricity you
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Why in the heck was this comment downvoted? Because that was exactly my thought reading the article: the mind machine interface stuff is weird (and fMRI blood flow is never going to achieve a lot it is a blunt tool which this is related to)
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Conversely the last step to the door is as complicated as it is since till recently there was no plausible middle ground. You would always be sending out couriers so no real improvements in cost could be made. But if you can get a drone or
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Blades basically died out is the thing - AFAIK no one really wanted them and honestly the same is a risk for what Oxide is doing too. Blades have the basic issue of "how often do you want an unpopulated chassis?" - answer, never.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Seriously AI companies complaining about fair use is the biggest case of crocodile tears I can think of. Irony has been dead for a while, but they dug up the corpse and set it on fire anyway.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Just because it's not new doesn't mean that it was available or that the engineering needed to bring it to mass market wasn't significant.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
The Microsoft Access query builder is back!
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Okay: How? How do data privacy laws prevent a 14 year old from being cyber bullied online or consuming influencer content destroying their self-esteem? This is (in the most politically neutral way I can put it) what people who want social m
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by XorNot 4mo ago
How do data privacy laws address the significant number of voters who are being told and believe that social media use is causing issues for children and want something done about it? This is exactly what I mean: you've rocked up and s
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by XorNot 4mo ago
I am convinced that no one will make any progress on this issue so long as they refuse to understand that their aren't a group of shadowy figures pushing for this but rather a sizeable chunk of the general population, buoyed on by vari
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by XorNot 4mo ago
The problem with scenario one is it's still cope: "if you didn't develop the skills to use GenAI then you'll be left behind". But that's not the promise of GenAI models. The skill floor is constantly lowering
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by XorNot 4mo ago
That has literally nothing to do with the claim "electric cars are not particularly good for the environment".
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Yes but it's also buoyant. You can put a lot more stuff on ships, and increased inertia does offset the drag losses versus acceleration losses
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by XorNot 4mo ago
I somewhat suspect that's a temporary state of affairs. Nothing prevents a couple tons of batteries being put on a truck with a CCS charger to achieve the same thing. It won't be efficient but neither is driving a few liters of fu
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Have you considered that maybe most of the posters on this website weren't born yesterday and have also spent a lifetime absorbing facts from many sources and experiences? In fact most people have, in some way.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
This is literally oil industry propaganda.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
The core of the problem is that you have to have mandatory voting. Sending someone a $30 fine because they didn't vote serves a very important function: it gets you an independent check that they were aware they didn't vote, or
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by XorNot 4mo ago
The problem is there's a lot of analysis which does try to apply a generalist template to different parts of the world and it invariably leads to bad conclusions if you don't consider the local differences properly. Taiwan for exa
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by XorNot 4mo ago
The problem with let's get rid of NULL is that it's a real, required state. The vast majority of computing is actually not binary: any real input generally has at least 3 possible states: not set, true and false. In practice reall
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by XorNot 4mo ago
No because Ukraine needs things right now . Cheap is a secondary requirement to survival. So the reason you see a lot of drone designs is because they're constantly innovating to try and build something effective: which is not cheap.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
https://github.com/danderson/netboot/tree/main/pixiecore
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by XorNot 4mo ago
No they're harder to spoof. Jamming is easy, but requires more power to achieve a desired effect and as they note they're planning to operate a low altitude constellation with closer transmitters as a result, so harder to swamp th
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by XorNot 4mo ago
War is the definition of "not cheap" because the stakes are so high (you die). Ukraine is building what it can with anything it can get and also in a constant race to adapt and develop superior designs. You're not seeing &quo
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by XorNot 4mo ago
The third arm would put a load in one direction of the robot. You can no longer balance by swinging 1 arm back, you have to swing both of them, or involve a leg motion you might not want to because the third arm has a more limited range of
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by XorNot 4mo ago
No one ever considers the physics of this situation. You can't put a robot arm on a wheeled platform without making the platform very heavy otherwise the whole thing will topple over. This gives your entire assembly a mandatory floor s
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by XorNot 4mo ago
> also do people really want humanoid robots at home? The other day I was reflecting on how currently the notion of supervising AI agents sounds like my idea of hell and I'm glad I can mostly do my job without doing it. But converse
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by XorNot 4mo ago
I think if you're placing the ability to block out the world by force of will o a pedestal but judging people for wearing noise cancelling headphones, then you're just being a hypocrite. You don't disagree with the need or th
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by XorNot 4mo ago
"SpaceX is a fraud. Its all about control. That's why in the future you'll be eating bugs because it's Greta Thunberg". I am only partly paraphrasing actual conversation with my father in-law. I cannot stress enough
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by XorNot 4mo ago
That is statistically unlikely. Almost everyone has a "racist uncle" type story and that's what, out of 10 people in your family tops? Chances are at least 20 of them would.
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by XorNot 4mo ago
Maps straight up can't navigate sanely in Australia I've found. I've switched to OsmAnd for driving because it'll give a sensible main road following route. Google Maps reliably sends me down residential roads and adds a

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