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by ajb 1y ago
Yeah those are good What they should have done is a smaller project to roll up all the old legacy radios into SDR, leaving the new ones as custom silicon. That would have stood a decent chance of working, and then they could go for the more
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by ajb 1y ago
The US military had a project to unify all their hardware radios into a mega SDR (software defined radio) project called JTRS. It was a massive debacle and didn't deliver very much. One of their bad decisions was to organise it around
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by ajb 1y ago
If this is a metal box like a shipping container, you'd have to attaching it to the outside somehow. However the website just says "steel framed" which suggests the sides might not be metal, in which case it might work. Howev
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by ajb 1y ago
We don't actually know that they didn't try first-line antibiotics. My guess is that they did, and it's one of the things that didn't work. The UK is a bit cautious about causing antibiotic resistance, but my understandi
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by ajb 1y ago
In the case of git bisect, the number of commits. In the alternate case, it depends what debugging strategy you decided to use.
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by ajb 1y ago
It's a lot easier to optimise your phase change fluid for a temperature range than to add another constraint to chip design. Anyway, apparently fluid in heat pipes work at a range of temperatures not just at the exact temperature of ph
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by ajb 1y ago
It's useful when the codebase is difficult to debug directly. Eg, your users have a bug that maybe appears on specific hardware, which the developers don't have. The users can't be expected to comprehend the code base enough
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by ajb 1y ago
That's cool! Last I heard safari was buggy and behind on web audio - did you run into any issues there?
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by ajb 1y ago
I hope you are right I'm a little confused by your point here: >This is how engraving went too. It wasn't overnight. The tools were not distributed evenly and it was a good while before amateurs could produce anything like what
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by ajb 1y ago
A bold assumption, that it will continue not to. I have a 185 year old treatise on wood engraving. At the time, to reproduce any image required that it be engraved in wood or metal for the printer; the best wood engravers were not mere repr
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by ajb 1y ago
Funny thing, it's been ages since I heard of a software startup touting it's filed patents. Used to be par for the course. But there still seem to be loads of software startups.
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by ajb 1y ago
I find thunderstorm noises superior to white/coloured noise - because it's a natural sound the brain filters it out, and obtrustive noises are camouflaged within it, and filtered out too. So the loudness required is less than the
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by ajb 1y ago
The first startup I worked for had 1 IT guy among 12 people, and everything was in-house, including servers. The second grew to 50 people and did not ever employ an IT guy for internal work - most stuff was run on SaaS and the total cost wa
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by ajb 1y ago
>I don't get this analogy at all. Instead of a human information flows through a neural network which alters the information. These days most photos are also stored using lossy compression which alters the information. You can think
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by ajb 1y ago
Woops, my apologies for spreading misinformation. I genuinely thought they had the trademark, but it's confirmed that they don't: https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p... Nevertheless,
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by ajb 1y ago
They own the trademark of "Open Source" and use it to exercise a right to define which licences are truly open source. Now, I guess they are becoming involved in the question of what it means for an AI model to be open source, he
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by ajb 1y ago
FYI hn generally downvotes jokes, as it doesn't want to be like Reddit where there is often a flood of jokes and no discussion
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by ajb 2y ago
One thing I've been meaning to try, but never got round to, is to stick a URL on an envelope, pointing at a page with an address, and see if the mail (royal mail, in my case) actually deliver it. I suspect they would but that it would
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by ajb 2y ago
There is also a feedback effect. Most people are part of groups which aren't strongly selected for moral character, but the rich and powerful become surrounded by people who are after money and power, unless they deliberately manage to
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by ajb 2y ago
What they want to believe is that their wealth is in proportion to their hard work and talent. But even ignoring luck, in a "tournament market", rewards are a strongly nonlinear function of inputs. Being no 2 in a market which is
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by ajb 2y ago
A few years ago someone made a fluorescent GM rabbit. I guess if they give that gene to a deer after a few generations it would spread through the population and solve the issue. If we consider it safe and ethical to release GM animals into
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by ajb 2y ago
The ai-2027 folks absolutely do claim that. Their scenario has "Humans realize that they are obsolete" in late 2029.
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by ajb 2y ago
There's no indication that any of them are well versed in anything to do with the physical world (manufacturing, electronics, agriculture, etc) but they forecast that AI can replace the human physical economy in a few years, including
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by ajb 2y ago
Very interesting; thanks. So it is possible on the tech side, but needs organisations to take advantage.
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by ajb 2y ago
My previous employer made kit computers for kids. One day a mum turned up at the office with her boy, complaining that the speaker on the product has started making an unpleasant noise. The conversation then went a bit like this: Head of su
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by ajb 2y ago
There are many theoretical astronomical risks. For example, if we happened to come into the path of a relatively nearby gamma-ray burst, it could eliminate all life. Given that life has existed on the earth for quite some time, the 'L
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by ajb 2y ago
Not convinced by this. We need a way to reflect that human "social trust" is born distributed, and centralising trust subverts it. But here, while they introduce third party verifiers, rather than individuals deciding which verifi
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by ajb 2y ago
Sounds really shit. The RFID card will have a chip too. The 'tendrils' are the aerial which is a thick loop (of many wires) round the outside. So punching a hole in one corner is a non-starter, but there's a good chance you c
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by ajb 2y ago
There are two different types of contract. But it's hard for most companies to do 'pay for output' because they aren't capable of specifying the output. And contractors don't want to do it because then they are taki
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by ajb 2y ago
This is good advice. One thing to note is that deep breathing needs to be slow. If you over oxygenate you may get weird sensations which can cause more anxiety. The standard advice seems to be 'square breathing': In for count of f

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