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SpaceX Plans to Catch a Rocket from Space [video](youtube.com)
2 points by adwn 2y ago|0 comments
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Except better, because it doesn't only work on Windows, and because I don't invite a dozen viruses into my computer.
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System prompts sometimes contain the information that "it" is an LLM. Maybe in the future, those prompts will include motivational phrases, like "You can do it!" or "Believe in yourself, then you can achieve anythin
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> Your commentary on Pin in this post is even more sophomoric than the rest of it and mostly either wrong or off the point. I find this quite frustrating, especially since I wrote detailed posts explaining Pin and its development just a
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> […] with not much incentive to optimize your cost. Competition fixes some of this […] Just like employing other people!
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> Any respectable employer/employee relationship transacts on results rather than time anyway. No. This may be common in freelance contracts, but is almost never the case in employment contracts, which specify a time-based compensat
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> Your response has no bearing on your pay. Who cares what you say? Then why not say what you know is right?
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> nor do they respond "Sorry, you're right, 1+1=3, my mistake" without some discernible reason. Look up the Asch conformity experiment [1]. Quite a few people will actually give in to "1+1=3" if all the other
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by adwn 2y ago
Writing non-trivial programs is easier in Rust than in C, for people that are equally proficient in C as in Rust. Especially if you're allowed to use Cargo and the Rust crates ecosystem. C isn't even in the same league as Rust
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>> […] less practicable […] not impossible . Having to forward login emails creates more friction than sharing a password once.
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Well, feel free to spend your own time on writing such a tool and releasing it as Open Source. That would be a really cool project! Until then, don't complain that others aren't willing to donate a significant amount of their work
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It is customary to add a short disclaimer when you're promoting your own product or project.
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> these are real, well run companies with good fundamentals I'm not disputing that. But even "real" companies don't warrant P/E multiples in the three-digit range, unless there's a very good reason to ex
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> You can also just say things you don't understand are always created by fools. Do you have a better hypothesis that would explain the extreme valuations of those stocks? > But to say that each one of these has a high P/
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> in space stations by capturing CO2 emitted by astronauts and produce stuff You mean all ten of them? https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/
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> ultimately responsible are the shareholders who demand ever higher profits, and the top management has to deliver that That's not how this works. The shareholders don't have direct authority over the decisions made by the c
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It's great that you're so knowledgeable about branch predictor behavior, but many people aren't and for them this is new, maybe even valuable, information. I guess this article's just not for you then, and that's ok
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> Hey, just a reality check: It's rather condescending of you to assume that the developers of Ladybird aren't fully aware of the consequences that their choice of license entails.
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If I recall correctly, Rust was born with building a browser engine in mind, or at least it was one of its earliest motivations. So Rust would have been a thing even if Mozilla had focused on their core product.
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> Go make a table with 4 legs and also every leg has 4 legs. If you have to make up nonsensical examples to prove your point, then you probably don't have a point. > You were a kid in shop class. Now you want your kids to take
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> That's because we subsidize the world by investing in a massive portion of the science and tech for producing medicines. How much of the money that flows into the US healthcare system really goes towards medical R&D, and h
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Presumably OP meant that if plastics are incinerated anyway, it's better to get some additional use out of that.
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(I'll use position 1...5 to refer to the characters in "aaaaa", and first, second, third level to refer to the initial and then the recursive calls to the Str rule) 1. When the PEG parser enters the third level of Str
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No, orlp is right, as far as I understand. It's not a bug in the tool, but inherent to PEGs in general. Wikipedia has a section on this problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar#The...
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Thank you, that makes sense.
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Addendum: Is it because they want to throttle the number of pitches they get? That would work, but wouldn't it also filter out the best and most promising startups, which will easily find a more approachable VC, and leave only the more
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by adwn 2y ago
> that does not mean that VC's are a public service, under some sort of obligation to answer the phone and listen to whoever wants their attention. That's not what I'm saying at all. My point is that they need pitches:
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Ask HN: Why do some VCs make it so hard to pitch to them?
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> Check the bio. > Mattereum Still none the wiser.
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You're only considering the false negatives while forgetting about the true negatives . VCs don't have infinite funds at their disposal; a heuristic like "being late to a meeting leads to a rejection" can be beneficia

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