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by bigtones 1y ago
This just seems so quintessentially British, it made me smile. I bet Larry has seen some things in his time.
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by bigtones 1y ago
BYD is definitely slowing down. They are cutting prices to increase domestic demand and have cut back worker shifts at their Chinese factories from three to two per day.
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by bigtones 1y ago
I'm working on a new kind of encyclopedia and reference website that is way more engaging and rich than a single page of text on every subject like Wikipedia. Back in my childhoold we had Microsoft Encarta on CDROM and it was a very co
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by bigtones 1y ago
>> Casper Klynge, a former Danish and European Union diplomat who worked for Microsoft, said the episode was in many ways the “smoking gun that many Europeans had been looking for.” Damn right. Strong evidence that Europe should look
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by bigtones 1y ago
LOL, I see what you did there ;-)
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by bigtones 1y ago
That sounds about right. Thanks for the insight.
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by bigtones 1y ago
Sky honestly does not even look that impressive from the video on their website. So it can save calendar events if you type something into a prompt. Wow.... What am I missing ?
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by bigtones 1y ago
A piloted vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft that doesn't take off vertically. Congratulations on this significant first UK.
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by bigtones 1y ago
Yeah, just watched that very entertaining video and there is no resin in that bulletproof wood - it's just had all the lignin squeezed out and cooked under pressure.
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by bigtones 1y ago
My niece in Australia has a rare genetic disorder and when my wife and I had our first baby in California a few years ago we were concerned about that. We also had fantastic insurance and the hospital team there did a test where they took a
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by bigtones 1y ago
That Kevin Chen video using Excel was amazing and hilarious. Thanks.
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by bigtones 1y ago
Rest of World looks like a fantastic news website I was not familiar with. I just spent a half hour reading a whole bunch of interesting articles there. Well done for helping build it - its super fast from Australia.
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by bigtones 1y ago
$700 million is a really cheap semiconductor plant - I wonder what node size that fab was? Maybe they got an estimate on how much a competitve semi plant really costs - and its in the tens of billions of US$.
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by bigtones 1y ago
We needed a 16GB machine to import all the data into Meilisearch, as the batch indexing is quite memory intensive, but once it's all indexed we scaled it back to half that RAM and it works great - very performant.
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by bigtones 1y ago
We use Meilisearch in production with a 7 million article corpus - it works really well.
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by bigtones 2y ago
What an awesome story and very well told. Brings me back to the old days and put a smile on my face. Thanks for sharing.
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by bigtones 2y ago
No, Tesla has their own seperate training supercomputer called Dojo that it optimized for computer vision. Its one of the top 20 supercomputers in the world by compute.
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by bigtones 2y ago
> He’s very knowledgeable about space topics, has good sources, and has been extremely fair to Musk in the past. None of the writers of Ars Technica are anything like fair to Musk.
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by bigtones 2y ago
This was an engaging read and really well written considering the dryness of the subject matter. I enjoyed it.
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by bigtones 2y ago
Looks like they're currently No. 12 on their cited Clickbench benchmark - so not quite in the top 10 three weeks later.
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by bigtones 2y ago
Thanks, amended post.
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by bigtones 2y ago
Edited: Very similar to another Tesla crash in China with a social media protest. In that crash the brake lights did not come on at all. In fact the acccelerator was pressed down 100% for a full five seconds before the crash which was entir
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by bigtones 2y ago
Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz has hired Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran who became a national figure after he used a chokehold on an agitated subway rider.
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by bigtones 2y ago
CloudFlare as a reverse proxy out front of AWS
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by bigtones 2y ago
Its the browser that does this on the client, not YouTube on the server.
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by bigtones 2y ago
I worked for a California based American tech company while living in Perth, Australia for the last two years. All of what the OP says rings true, but I can tell that he is living on the East Coast of Australia because living in Perth we ha
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by bigtones 2y ago
You can change maps to many older maps under the "Explore Maps" option on the home page of the site. it seems you can either explore maps or history, but not both at the same time.
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by bigtones 2y ago
eeTimes is behind the times for sure.
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by bigtones 2y ago
EV Battery packs are very heavy and dense. The ID4 has an aerodynamic Cd score of 0.28 - Mach-E has a Cd of 0.29 and Model Y has a Cd of 0.23, so its in the middle of the pack.
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by bigtones 2y ago
This is not going to end well. They YouTube video comments are brutal. At least they're 'copying nothing' from other car brands I guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnYpL0GQfA

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