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by beambot 2y ago
Yes, and I'm sure all those public shareholders are mighty unhappy with the current board's stewardship.
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by beambot 2y ago
The quantum sensing (not computing!) they're referring to is more likely related to capabilities such as this: Room-Temperature Solid-State Maser Amplifier [...] Here, we report on a continuous-wave solid-state maser amplifier operatin
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by beambot 2y ago
Let's also be really explicit... CFS is targeting Q>1 by 2027 for nuclear fusion via the SPARC reactor, but not Q>1 for electrical generation. The latter is slated for sometime in the early 2030s via the subsequent ARC reactor. A
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by beambot 2y ago
Manatees and dugongs feel like "whale-like sloths", though I have no idea if they're taxonomically related
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by beambot 2y ago
Obligatory: Don't Talk to the Police (from a lawschool professor)! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
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by beambot 2y ago
As a written form of "stream of consciousness", it seems to have a lot of value to me. It's noisy, inefficient & meandering -- all the things those polished artifacts are not -- but it's also where you can explore n
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by beambot 2y ago
VC relies on IPOs and BigTech M&A to survive... Need someone to pass their bags to.
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by beambot 2y ago
The attitude underlying this comment likely makes you a bad culture fit...
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by beambot 2y ago
SoftBank isn't a US entity, right? Aside from their risk tolerance, that seems like an odd bedfellow for a national US initiative...
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by beambot 2y ago
That's pretty clever! Similar to Qi charger, but further offset. Can think of a half-dozen occasions I could've used one of these...
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by beambot 2y ago
If it's paying dividends, then it has de facto owners. Also, are there explicit constraints on "limited" balances -- eg fraction of money supply or fraction of GDP?
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by beambot 2y ago
"Cheated" how? You & others may not like it. It may not align with your ethos or your peers' norms. But I see nothing ethically, morally or legally wrong with parent's comment...
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by beambot 2y ago
> Yes, we pay well. Prove it. What city are you in, and what is total comp for software engineer & hardware engineer with 20 years of experience? I worked in national defense. It was a pain in the ass: shit pay, worst politics, massi
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by beambot 2y ago
1000x this. I was fortunate & got to spend the terminal 3mo of my father's life staying with him. He didn't want a funeral at all. His perspective, "If you can't visit me while I'm still alive & have time
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by beambot 2y ago
Corollary: I couldn't create an original visual piece of art to save my life, so prompting is infinitely better than what I could do myself (or am willing to invest time in building skills). The gen-AI bubble isn't going to burst
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by beambot 2y ago
Broadcom's handling of the VMWare acquisition gives me a renewed perspective and surprising appreciation of Oracle.
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by beambot 2y ago
Sounds a bit like playing with ice-nine... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine
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by beambot 2y ago
Starting to see more & more of this with drones. In some cases, it's for military to detect drones nearby. In others, it's being used by drone delivery companies to detect other planes in the sky in a way that is cheaper, wo
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by beambot 2y ago
It's double-speak. Neither company cares; they're just relying on plausible deniability while burying their heads in the sand. They will change only if there's sufficient pressure (financial, regulatory, social or some combi
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by beambot 2y ago
Maybe it's the first use of phased arrays for consumer satellite data terminals, but I believe phased arrays were mass-produced (and still are) for radar chips -- e.g. in automotive. Ran across this fascinating article on the history:
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by beambot 2y ago
The better website for Bay Area tech company dissolution is https://svdisposition.com/ which gets actual high-tech equipment...
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by beambot 2y ago
> These all come down to arguments about semantics and don't add anything to the science. This accurately describes much of science... > My heart can exist independently of me, and be transplanted into other people, but does it m
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by beambot 2y ago
Many of the "facts" you "know" are really just useful anecdotes, opinions, approximations or mental shortcuts rather than objective facts. These can still be wildly useful, even if they aren't "true" in t
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by beambot 2y ago
Fascinating. Any recommended books / bios?
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by beambot 2y ago
The car you describe is illegal. Backup cameras (and thus a screen too, though needn't be a touchscreen) have been mandatory on all new vehicles since 2018.
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by beambot 2y ago
Reminiscent of Nikola's semi truck demonstration...
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by beambot 2y ago
Highlights in a YouTube video: https://youtu.be/b28zbsnk-48?si=JamDRMuN07oWlcZi
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by beambot 2y ago
Very anti-open and getting less and less with each release. Rooting for Meta in this regard, at least.
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by beambot 2y ago
Yet another reminder about how an OSS option like Chumby was ahead of its time...
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by beambot 2y ago
Pointing at Boeing for any broad business thesis is difficult given recent developments (i.e. failures) -- maybe excepting a shift to finance-driven culture away from engineering-driven culture.

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