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by bdamm 10d ago
> high tech, high intelligence, high fertility sect So, SpaceX?
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by bdamm 11d ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. The Shuttle requirements were absolutely modified by DoD's desire to ship military satellites and carry out operations. One of the many tug-o-wars that ended up with such a compromised
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by bdamm 11d ago
Ah, but humanity is an expansive and consuming force, as is natural since most forces in the universe are entropy increasing ones. And since amino acids have been discovered on asteroids and tardigrades and fungus have been shown to survive
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by bdamm 11d ago
Even space telescopes have been built on the skeletons made for spying, and rockets in almost any form were weapons before they were carrying peaceful missions. That we have Russian, American, and European components communicating together
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by bdamm 11d ago
Yes. "UI Speed" should be a configurable thing, so that if the UI changes as you're choosing an item, it acts instead on _what was there_ at a brief moment in the past, e.g. 20-50ms ago.
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by bdamm 11d ago
Well, by "computer" we're of course talking about colocated equipment with real capital costs. The data center operators are the equivalent of the people selling shovels to the gold rush prospectors.
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by bdamm 16d ago
The "hazardous attitudes" study in this report will be gold.
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by bdamm 16d ago
Do you have kids?
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by bdamm 22d ago
Tractor props have the benefit of creating an airstream over the wings which lets you generate lift at lower speeds - this is why leading-edge props are so interesting. Pushers can’t use that bonus feature of the airstream.
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by bdamm 23d ago
I'm pretty excited for the hybrid airplane. Use battery charge to get up to altitude. Hybrid power during cruise and top off the battery with the leftover power. Far less power requirements, far less fuel use, better climb performance,
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by bdamm 23d ago
This is the true reason for watermarking by LLMs. So they don't get mad LLM disease by digesting their own product.
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by bdamm 24d ago
Kind of arrogant no? Linux kernel development mailing lists are producing something immensely valuable with a much clearer impact on economic indicators than your average scientific paper. Comparing them is hard, but it's patently absu
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by bdamm 24d ago
Retrocompomorphism
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by bdamm 1mo ago
Indeed, it's just that since truth is both stranger than and has caught up with fiction, the grounds from which Laws of Robotics emerged is so much more fertile and more urgent now. It's absolutely clear that the 3-LoR is never go
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by bdamm 1mo ago
Oh how I wish Asimov could be alive to witness today's actual AIs and the cavalier attitude towards his "3 rules". If there is any author doing good work along these lines, actually good writing and not the smoking trash that
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by bdamm 1mo ago
Debatable. Optimus will be programmed by watching thousands of YouTube videos and by indexing the entire NEC. It is entirely possible that a single Optimus can be a master welder, electrician, and HVAC technician. What Optimus can't
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by bdamm 1mo ago
* The NSA has backdoored core routers of the Internet, to gather traffic and metadata. The metadata is not superficial, but since the Internet is no longer decentralized, the useful surface for spying has moved into the applicaiton domains.
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by bdamm 1mo ago
Would Ring be considered a mass surveillance apparatus? Accuweather? Facebook? Google? The Internet?
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by bdamm 1mo ago
Personally I agree with the desire for more traffic enforcement, even if it means I personally would suffer because frankly I like driving fast. But as a cyclist who also likes riding fast, and a parent to likes giving freedom to children,
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by bdamm 1mo ago
If this work has an implication for cryptography they might want to be anonymous for any number of reasons.
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by bdamm 1mo ago
I always thought the Powerwall was undersized, especially when you compare to the cost and capacity of a fixed-mount generator.
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by bdamm 2mo ago
It was never clear to me who showed up first, but I used Delphi first and then tried Visual Basic and was like "Oh! It's here too!"
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by bdamm 2mo ago
My electric mower has lasted longer than the gasoline mower before it, which literally had plastic valves inside the carbeurtator.
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by bdamm 2mo ago
Passkeys on my iPhone works awesome. Too bad for Yubikey. I don't need them any more.
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by bdamm 2mo ago
Just the other day I was creating an ID on a government web site, which offered a list of security questions such as "Title of your favorite movie" or "Someone that you admired as a child" and the answer was not allowed
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by bdamm 2mo ago
Deep dusk will be quite a disco ball.
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by bdamm 2mo ago
Because their economy is almost exclusively oil? Quite a few countries of the world would qualify if that's the case.
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by bdamm 3mo ago
"A modern passenger car" varies widely depending on what locale the reader is in. A passenger car in Jakarta is not at all the same as a passenger car in Los Angeles. Can we just use Kilograms?
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by bdamm 3mo ago
Why do you think that a platform with so many customers as to be industry defining, with dozens of interface options, with a massive feature set, with a global footprint and basically flawless uptime requirements, could be kept running by t
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by bdamm 3mo ago
If that was good business then presumably the brand could have done it at some point during their long slow decline?

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