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by apendleton 3y ago
Tesla has switched their newer lines to casting. It seems like it's mostly about manufacturing efficiency rather than strength -- they can cast the whole underbody of the vehicle as a single piece rather than having dozens of stamped p
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by apendleton 3y ago
The whole point of the current `unsafe` mechanism is that you have to explicitly opt one specific chunk of the code out of stricter checking, and it's obvious which chunk of code it is that needs that behavior (the bit inside the block
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by apendleton 3y ago
It seems like for that to work, you'd need to be mostly reliant on day-pass-type customers rather than longer-term ones -- if I were looking for a permanent arrangement to house a small team, say, I'm not sure I'd want to sig
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by apendleton 3y ago
This is "burst wave lithotripsy," compared to the somewhat-similar existing "shock wave lithotripsy." The new iteration apparently works more quickly and causes less pain, so can be performed while the patient is awake r
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by apendleton 3y ago
I think they're mostly targeting customers who want an AWS- or GCP-like experience from a developer perspective (compute is abstracted and you can provision it with an API, etc.), but want to own their own compute infrastructure and ha
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by apendleton 3y ago
It's more like: you have a machine that evaluates whether the peanut butter you're producing is up to spec (right viscosity, right fat content, whatever), and if your machine complains and says your peanut butter isn't coming
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by apendleton 3y ago
Maybe not on first offense, but after a demonstrated repeated pattern of interfering with emergency vehicles, sure, why not?
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by apendleton 3y ago
> I assume the more I watch the less each creator gets? I think this is true, but it still works out such that given the amount the average Premium subscriber watches, creators' typical per-view revenue is still higher for Premium v
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by apendleton 3y ago
That's not the claim. The claim is "because we know smart people have gone crazy, we know being smart and being crazy are not mutually exclusive, so someone being smart isn't disqualified from also being crazy." Which se
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by apendleton 3y ago
... I mean, it could be in nautical miles, no?
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by apendleton 3y ago
> The next question in my mind is whether incorporating private standards into legislation without compensation violates the the takings clause of the constitution. The standards cost money to produce, so it seems like _someone_ should p
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by apendleton 3y ago
> presumably in this particular case, the companies that wrote these particular fire protection and electrical standards did so because they wanted them to eventually have legal force. Sure, but the reason they wanted this is at least pa
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by apendleton 3y ago
This tone doesn't feel especially productive. You asked: > So what you're saying is that we're A-OK as a society with the gatekeeping of critical safety information behind private paywalls and copyright. but the comment yo
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by apendleton 3y ago
A nice thing about master passwords though is that since you don't have to type them in as often, they can be very long. 95% accuracy probably isn't good enough to reliably reproduce a sentence-length master password, at least if
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by apendleton 3y ago
I've also seen several different variants for chess on a torus (imagined -- still played on a flat board, but you play as if each edge is connected to the opposite one). Pieces end up having basically the same allowed moves (IIRC the o
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by apendleton 3y ago
Again, I feel like there are so many what-ifs that it's hard to say for certain. If it were to turn out that AVs were dramatically less likely to kill people than human-driven cars (seems not to be the case with current technology, but
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by apendleton 3y ago
> Really? Since when has making using something more convenient reduced ownership of it? These will be more convenient, but also dramatically more expensive, and _that_ certainly reduces the ownership of things. > the mean number of c
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by apendleton 3y ago
Without directly answering your question, it's worth noting that there are also additional optimizations made available by Rust that are not easily accessible in C/C++ (mostly around stronger guarantees the Rust compiler is able t
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by apendleton 3y ago
Sort of reminds me the Reply All episode "The Case of the Missing Hit": https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx which involves a similar search for an unidentified song (though in this case, just
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by apendleton 3y ago
Yeah, I also liked the idea but apparently have pretty different tastes. I was pretty surprised to see Pericles and Othello almost next to each other in the rankings. Pericles is... not at all good. There's this whole build-up of drama
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by apendleton 3y ago
Sure, but I'd think that makes the economics of operating fast chargers all the more tenuous. Like, if we assume they're mostly needed for people away from home, that means both that they're essential to adoption of EVs in ge
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by apendleton 3y ago
To your last question: the nature of having to attract clicks means youtube creators have to choose reductive titles that tease some particular nugget of information that's going to be discussed, but it seems pretty clear (at least to
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by apendleton 3y ago
They're still pretty squirrelly about the specifics of their commitment, though. In particular, it's not clear if it's hourly accounting (but the fact that they don't say so suggests to me that it isn't), and there
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by apendleton 3y ago
> the only factor in that transition was the complexity of the nervous system It seems likely to me that some arrangement of nerves is possible that's comparably complex to ours, but does not produce consciousness. (I dunno, maybe s
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by apendleton 3y ago
It seems like in the immediate term, and possibly forever, part of the process of decarbonizing the electricity sector is going to be demand management -- we have a finite amount of clean power available, and bottlenecks (interconnection, p
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by apendleton 3y ago
In the Spaces thing, he described it as being like an upside-down shower head, and to expect lots of steam billowing out during launch instead of dust, so I don't think it's a closed system.
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by apendleton 3y ago
I think it blowing up or otherwise failing was probably the most likely case and they didn't really hide that fact, but I get the sense that they expected that it would make it a little further along, and not destroy the pad, such that
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by apendleton 3y ago
The typical approach (a deep flame trench) is likely impossible due to the high water table so close to the beach. Some other novel approaches are likely possible, and I'm sure they'll now pursue one, but coming up with and buildi
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by apendleton 3y ago
Even assuming an absolute worst-case scenario climate-wise (no mitigations whatsoever, massive sea-level rise, etc.), Earth will still be dramatically more hospitable to human life than Mars for the entirety of Musk's lifetime, and ver
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by apendleton 3y ago
Yes, the preceding suggestion still had an (admittedly somewhat implausible) alternative reading, that "its" helps avoid.

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