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by bdamm 6y ago
Starlink is going to dominate this. Cellular can't economically scale out to meet the vast rural coverage. There are still plenty of towns that don't have basic coverage even now, and to think that suddenly they're going to g
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by bdamm 6y ago
You're right, the benefits of a great debugger are so overwhelming that putting up with crummy key bindings is worth it. There have been many times where I've been plowing away in some $IDE, then swap over to vim to do some text m
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by bdamm 6y ago
I'm with you on this, he's probably a fall guy who's "caught" because he "confessed" or something like that. Two reasons for this; one, Twitter isn't exactly the kind of joint you stroll into and take
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by bdamm 6y ago
This is a demonstration of selection bias.
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by bdamm 6y ago
I suspect very many adults would also gobble up GPT articles without knowing any better too. Just witness the production machine of most news organizations. They can write entire "stories" around a single tweet. The new data is le
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by bdamm 6y ago
I still cling to the belief that there is something we don't understand about biological processes that is allowing our unified sense of self and sense of consciousness that a machine simply cannot ever have. Unless of course we find o
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by bdamm 6y ago
It's certainly miles ahead of where I thought we were at. Today's GPT-3 discussion (in this thread and elsewhere) have really opened up my concept of what is possible today. And I'm starting to wonder how many news articles a
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by bdamm 6y ago
Ok. Tesla is not for you.
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by bdamm 6y ago
Still need ML to build the menu of paths.
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by bdamm 6y ago
Well they're still much louder than an EV.
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by bdamm 6y ago
Genuine quiet is really tough. Even in the middle of Yosemite you can hear planes going by at 25 or 30 thousand feet. Planes flying Denver to San Francisco are already on an approach track when they fly over Yosemite.
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by bdamm 6y ago
The upcoming battery powered models are getting pretty good. In some cases they have even more power than you can get from a gas motor, and of course the agility, quiet, and easy starting of an electric motor.
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by bdamm 6y ago
You should because it's a terrible career, although really I think most pilots end up bailing out of the pilot career into good industries so in the end, no big deal. Let 'er rip and enjoy the view when you get it
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by bdamm 6y ago
I think by "life" the parent was talking about microbes on Mars or waterbears on comets or something. Technology developing life is a different thing entirely. If we find primitive life nearby, then there probably is primitive lif
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by bdamm 6y ago
If you really must have an OLED then you might have to wait until Tesla or someone releases a car with an OLED. But this issue of being blinded by the screen has not at all been a problem for my use of my Model 3. Also I am quite sensitive
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by bdamm 6y ago
Yes, the electric unicycle scene is off the hook [1] and the OneWheel scene is growing too. I personally just did a OneWheel DIY build [2], and it is absolutely great. So, thanks Segway! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q
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by bdamm 6y ago
Well if you like driving with NO internal light, you CAN turn off the screen. I also enjoy occasionally driving with no instruments.
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by bdamm 6y ago
I've done rural night driving in my Tesla Model 3. Yes, the display can be dimmed down well below the headlight reflection luminosity. The display also switches into night-mode automatically at sunset, where the colors become grey-on-b
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by bdamm 6y ago
Rental companies can and will (eventually) rent out EVs. And when they do, I'll likely never have to drive another gas car again.
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by bdamm 6y ago
I don't see why it's FUD. Having the engine go under the mount pushes the car... up in the air, where it can roll over. The fact is that mass distributed at the nose and tail (gas tank) is worse for dynamics than having the mass e
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by bdamm 6y ago
It would be. I also can't find any. One of the challenges here is that in many cases Teslas (the pre-eminent EV of course) aren't even considered "cars" that qualify to be in a safety survey, because (just as an anecdota
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by bdamm 6y ago
I can hammer the go pedal in my Tesla any time I want and not worry about trumpeting the intersection. It's pretty satisfying actually. Which is probably why ICE drivers are starting to hate Teslas. But you know what they say... if you
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by bdamm 6y ago
EVs are much safer than gasoline cars because of how the mass in the car is distributed. Gasoline cars have a giant brick in the front (engine and transmission) which moves back into the passenger compartment in a frontal collision. Automot
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by bdamm 6y ago
Have you driven a Model 3? It's like night and day. Everything that burns gasoline feels like a dinosaur to me now after driving a Model 3. I can't stand renting cars, they are all complete junk compared to my Model 3 at home. I s
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by bdamm 6y ago
Increased thunderstorms is a fairly straight forward consequence of more heat in the atmosphere. Thunderstorm formation is basically enormous thermals/dust devils that keep growing. More heat == more vigorous thermals == more thunderst
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by bdamm 6y ago
Most airplanes have a "too slow" warning as well, e.g. a speed at which the gear ought to be down because there isn't any other reason to be going so slow except to be landing. The speed also factors into gear retraction, e.g
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by bdamm 6y ago
Regardless of any psychological label, the woman is clearly panicking, and the panic is caused by the police interaction. Being afraid and panicking is not illegal. If the police wanted to do this differently, they could issue a ticket for
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by bdamm 6y ago
Or really, like pretty much any developed nation.
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by bdamm 6y ago
Flukes seem to be happening a lot these days. I know some of it is sensationalism but still, 38ºC north of the arctic circle is something.
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by bdamm 6y ago
Hmm. Ok, there's a march on Washington being organized by Al Sharpton for families of people that have been killed while in police custody. Such a march is possible because there are so many. What do you think the ethnic makeup of that

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