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by amluto 6mo ago
Or… allow it, but tax it appropriately, don’t give any subsidies, and actually require that the operators deal with the negative externalities (noise, including subsonic noise, effects on utility pricing, etc). It really ought to be possi
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by amluto 6mo ago
When I worked in a lab that took videos with a UV camera, I still called them videos, and I would absolutely have said that I took a video of the subject (a methanol flame in this case). Essentially every color photograph you have ever seen
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by amluto 6mo ago
Surely there’s room for a middle ground. There are plenty of 1990s-era engines that were excellent designs, had no meaningful connectivity to anything except their own ECUs, and could be produced new for not very much money. Some of them w
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by amluto 6mo ago
The 9950X is an excellent CPU at a reasonable price point and works perfectly fine with an ordinary air-cooled heat sink in an ordinary case without stupid numbers of fans. The TDP is just not that high. source: my 9950X, happily running ai
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by amluto 6mo ago
Re [3]: sure, if you have two quantum computers, and you’ve built an entanglement network that can get them into a controlled entangled state, and they both have useful amounts of coherent memory that lasts long enough to be interesting (da
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by amluto 6mo ago
Now I’m contemplating just how small and light of an instrument could be carried on a Starlink-style satellite that could detect a large ship. A smallish COTS telescope, e.g. a Celestron 8SE ($1700 retail) could easily see a ship from the
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by amluto 6mo ago
Other than data sovereignty, does the data center location really matter that much? Current inference systems are not exactly low latency.
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by amluto 6mo ago
That’s a very valid nitpick :)
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by amluto 6mo ago
> On one hand, government should not compete with private enterprise because it has many unfair advantages. Imagine paying taxes to subsidize your competition, who is also exempt from regulations that apply to you. Are there any real exa
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by amluto 6mo ago
Yes and no. Grover's algorithm is provably optimal [0]. No quantum algorithm will ever find an n-bit key by queries to any reasonable sort of oracle faster than Grover's algorithm, and Grover's algorithm is way too slow to b
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by amluto 6mo ago
I would like to see the government (at all levels) have more in house capabilities and less absurd degrees of outsourcing. I’m currently watching an 8-figure park remodeling project happening near home. Instead of hiring one or two competen
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by amluto 6mo ago
> For instance, IPv6's NDP is built on actual IPv6 packets (ICMPv6), rather than some spoofed IP-lookalike thing. No layering violation, and, thanks to multicasting, no need to dump a bunch of broadcast traffic on the layer 2 networ
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by amluto 6mo ago
My old flip “feature phone” could go about two weeks on a charge. I miss that.
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by amluto 6mo ago
I gave this a quick skim, and: > - Strict SPSC & No CAS: I went with a strict Single-Producer Single-Consumer topology. There are no compare-and-swap loops on the hot path. acquire_tx and acquire_rx are essentially just a load, a mas
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by amluto 6mo ago
On the one hand, it's not particularly toxic as toxic things go. On the other hand, 0.6% is not a small concentration.
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by amluto 6mo ago
> I recently saw a video discussing a researcher who published a fake scientific article about a fictitious disease, with bogus author names, even a warning IN the article itself that stated "This is not a real disease, this article
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by amluto 6mo ago
Why do you expect web search tool calls to continue to be useful in the presence of modern AI slop farms, AI-assisted SEO, and search engines largely turning themselves into AI-based question-answering engines? (At present, Gemini's qu
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by amluto 6mo ago
Vacuum flush toilets are common on airplanes, trains, and ships and use a lot less water than a conventional toilet.
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by amluto 6mo ago
> Tell us your hopes and dreams for a Cloudflare-wide CLI No long lived tokens, or at least a very straightforward configuration to avoid them. One option: an easy tool to make narrowly scoped, very short lived tokens, in a file, and may
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by amluto 6mo ago
> Especially when the US is a net exporter from oil and could conceivably protect domestic industries from the same? The oil companies would likely be extremely unhappy if they were not permitted to export their products.
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by amluto 6mo ago
Fun quote from the OP: > But here’s the part that really gets us. At our CORE, our instinct is to only email folks when we actually have something fun to share. A big release, something we’re excited about, news worth your time. I would
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by amluto 6mo ago
When you mix different liquids, all manner of complex things happen to their vapor pressure vs temperature curves.
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by amluto 6mo ago
Some of these is IMO a bit silly: > a low SOC battery could not guarantee a minimum runtime for safe shutdown during a repeated outage A lot of devices are unconditionally safe to shut down. Think network equipment, signs, exit lights, a
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by amluto 6mo ago
Sure, but when you stick a UPS in the closet to power your network or security cameras or whatever for a little while if there is a power interruption, you expect: a) If the power is out too long for your UPS (or you have solar and batterie
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by amluto 6mo ago
> the Teflon chemical Teflon is PTFE, which is fully fluorinated but is also very much a plastic: it’s a highly unreactive solid at reasonable temperatures (which sadly do not include temperatures commonly encountered on stoves). By “the
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by amluto 6mo ago
The only commercial kitchen stove I interact with on a somewhat regular basis is a miserable piece of crap. It has multiple pilot lights, some of which go out frequently and stink up half the building with unburnt fuel. I suspect that jus
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by amluto 6mo ago
Most (all?) decent datacenters also have generators on site, and the intent is that the UPS will never run out of charge. So the fully-discharged case is an error and it might be intentional to require intervention to recover.
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by amluto 6mo ago
I assume that datacenters UPSes are better, but I’ve never used one except as a consumer of its output. But I’ve had problems with UPSes that advertise auto-restart but don’t actually ship with it enabled. And that fancy APC unit was sold b
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by amluto 6mo ago
One of my favorite bits of hardware is a UPS. I’ve played with several over the years, from fancy server-grade rack-mount APC stuff to inexpensive edge stuff. Without exception, downtime is increased by use of a UPS. I used to plug a serv
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by amluto 6mo ago
GPT 5.4 is remarkably good at figuring out machine code using just binutils. Amusingly, I watched it start downloading ghidra, observe that the download was taking a while, and then mostly succeed at its assignment with objdump :)

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