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by akiselev 4y ago
There are plenty of bad franchises (remember Quiznos anyone?) but McDonalds is probably the best counterexample. Opening a new franchise is almost impossible these days and McDonalds does a lot more due diligence on someone acquiring an e
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by akiselev 4y ago
Engines usually push (their contemporary) materials to their limits so it's not really a surprise that they're harder to make from scratch. The infrastructure to make ICEs is one of the largest in the world and they are only so ch
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by akiselev 4y ago
I believe Dr Daniel Jackson proved conclusively that they were used as landing platform for Ha’tak class capital ships.
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by akiselev 4y ago
If the black hole formed while in the system, the resulting radiation would wipe out all life in a light year radius. If the black hole captured the star, the tidal forces would slowly rip the planets apart.
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by akiselev 4y ago
“Synthetic” in this case doesn’t mean that it’s made using an alternative chemical process - it just means they’re not made in bone marrow. This process filters out stem cells from a blood donation and prevents them from becoming red blood
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by akiselev 4y ago
For ES6 modules, the exports object is frozen (made read-only) so the JIT can make some extra assumptions and optimizations. With bundles, unless the bundler inserts `Object.freeze` around `module.exports`, they have to be treated as dynami
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by akiselev 4y ago
> Overall, the idea that these two things are comparable feels grotesque and reductionist I agree with you there but the alternative - that they’re not comparable - I find equally grotesque and full of convenient suppositions rooted in
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by akiselev 4y ago
> On the other hand, I would say that traditional mediums (especially large format paintings) are relatively safe from AI generation/automation - for now. Why do you think that? I think large format paintings might be in just as m
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by akiselev 4y ago
Yes, it does. About 40% of steel produced globally is recycled and the number for some other metals like aluminum are even higher. IIRC almost 80% of steel production in the US is from recycled stock. Processing ore is very energy intensi
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by akiselev 4y ago
It looks like I have a related failure. Latest iOS Safari with DNS level adblocking.
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by akiselev 4y ago
I doubt any civilizations capable of robotic interstellar travel would consider unleashing a Replicator-esque paper clip maximizer into the universe a worthwhile pursuit.
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by akiselev 4y ago
>* Well, checks and balances in the American constitution were founded on the idea that there would be no "factions" (parties), and so the three branches (legislative, executive, judicial) would balance each other without any s
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by akiselev 4y ago
> It's still annoying to deal with though, since I know it's all in my head and is not an actual bladder issue. There might be some fight or flight response that causes you to tense up your muscles, triggered by the psycholog
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Second Sight's 'bionic eyes' have gone obsolete while still implanted(fiercebiotech.com)
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by akiselev 4y ago
“Reference design” is a term of art in electrical engineering, not aspirational product marketing. Reverse engineering 10-20 layer mixed signal PCBs with buried microvias is nontrivial and is the exact opposite of what reference designs are
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by akiselev 4y ago
I thought the whole point of product market fit was finding a product with a value proposition the market thought was worth paying for?
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by akiselev 4y ago
Does Google make the design files for the Pixel phones available to Android partners under NDA? The value of a reference design is basically zero without the schematics/layout and BSP. Or do you just mean upstreaming BSP drivers?
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by akiselev 4y ago
How long until we’re training models to “style transfer” text using a latent space that doesn’t distort meaning (too much) ala stable difussion?
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by akiselev 4y ago
>* That we have now run into a technology which makes many of _us_ uncomfortable should give you pause for thought and reflection.* You mean like the online advertising industry? That shit has been making many of us uncomfortable since
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by akiselev 4y ago
I suspect it starts in high school. A lot of AP subjects with written portions like AP biology or history are really hard to grade at scale so they have a relatively naive scoring system. The answer can be a total rambling mess but as long
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by akiselev 4y ago
> What's next? Cold and rainy England is expected to have the climate of Spain by 2050. Nothing native in England can adapt to that. So much of the world is going through rapid climate shifts that are devastating ecosystems. We&#x2
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by akiselev 4y ago
You need more scare quotes around “reliable” than brain. The airplane requires constant almost daily maintenance by dozens of highly trained professionals and yet none of its chips will survive decades save for a few lucky passive component
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by akiselev 4y ago
A very common adaptation among insects is producing large amounts of polyhydroxy alcohols like glycerol in the hemolymph that acts as anti-freeze or cryoprotectant depending on the species.
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by akiselev 4y ago
> Not all abstractions are created equal. I'd go so far as to extend the statistics aphorism about models to software abstractions: all abstractions are wrong (/leaky?), but some are useful for now . The problem with softwar
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by akiselev 4y ago
The mammalian brain have had a few hundred million years to evolve neural plasticity [1] which is the key function missing in AI. The brain’s structure isn’t set in stone but develops over one’s lifetime and can even carry out major restr
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by akiselev 4y ago
There’s plenty of domain specific desktop software that costs $5k-100k per seat per year that is horribly buggy to the point of crashing several times during the course of a professional’s average day. Stuff like Altium, Solidworks, Xpediti
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by akiselev 4y ago
Great catch! As a long time resident of LA, few people make the distinction (I surely didn’t). The LAPD has its fair share of awfulness [1] but when the allegations are this bad it’s important not to paint every cop as guilty by associati
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by akiselev 4y ago
This is a great reminder that the LAPD is largely a bunch of thugs with badges and guns. I don’t mean that in a teenage angst “every cop is a thug” way, but in a “raining federal convictions” way. [1][2] The current sheriff was a member of
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by akiselev 4y ago
> declining birth rate problem solved! > I'm scared. That is one dystopia I might be able to live with. As long as the watches don't default to Harvey Fierstein.
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by akiselev 4y ago
SF has one of the best saunas I’ve ever been to: Archimedes Banya in Dogpatch. Tons of pools and sauna rooms at different temperatures, private rooms, food, outdoor balcony, and so on.

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