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by bleuarff 3y ago
Where do you get that average life expectancy of 10-12? I never heard a figure that low, and I doubt humanity would have lasted that long if the average life expectancy was barely enough to reach sexual maturity. Also, I think these life ex
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by bleuarff 4y ago
When you have business in space, having independent launch capabilities is a strategic matter, whatever your relationships with your partner countries are. E.g. Europe wants to keep access to space without having to rely solely on the Unite
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by bleuarff 4y ago
Geostrategic considerations might make it impossible to use a foreign launch site.
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by bleuarff 4y ago
My understanding is that a root system is much more efficient at extracting nutrients from the ground that whatever plants used before.
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by bleuarff 4y ago
Holy duck, that's some hardcore debugging. There's more story and suspense than in many Hollywood thrillers, thanks for sharing.
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by bleuarff 4y ago
Your reading comprehension of these texts is probably more than just the statistical words correlations that LLMs only care about.
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by bleuarff 4y ago
I don't want to sound harsh, but "my personal comfort is more important than finding ways to reduce energy consumption" seems pretty selfish to me. That's the kind of things that make me think trying to reduce our carbon
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by bleuarff 4y ago
Yes, that feature was really helpful for understanding stacking contexts (and debugging related issues). I don't know why it was abandoned.
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by bleuarff 4y ago
Is there any artist whose style cannot be imitated by an AI given selected images? I'm pretty sure an AI can correctly mimic Picasso if you give it 32 blue period paintings. Does that mean Picasso has no artistic value?
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by bleuarff 4y ago
I'm (badly) paraphrasing Brett Devereaux, but for most people, knowledge of the past comes not from history books, but from popular culture. When pop culture is wrong about some aspect, the collective mental representation gets a littl
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by bleuarff 4y ago
I'd say the stereotype may include a willingness to break the law in order to achieve some technical feat.
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QUIC Is Not a TCP Replacement(systemsapproach.substack.com)
60 points by bleuarff 4y ago|14 comments
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by bleuarff 4y ago
My understanding is that they analyzed remains from Cambridge cemetery, meaning they were probably city-dwelling people and not peasants, so less prone to agricultural works where you catch the worms.
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by bleuarff 4y ago
I started learning Go maybe 2 months ago, and we're now using it at work in production for small-scale projects, with plans to make it our default server-side language. The onboarding experience has been quite easy and effective I must
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by bleuarff 4y ago
That was my first thought upon reading the title, but you have ton ponder it, though. Does it fit the "reallistically" criteria? I mean, sure it's been done already so it is possible, but this is advanced work and probably no
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by bleuarff 4y ago
From TFA: "The innovation combines food-safe Casein labels with the p-Chip micro transponder — a blockchain crypto-anchor that creates a digital 'twin' for physical items. This scannable new food tag is smaller than a grain
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by bleuarff 4y ago
My music folder is at 410 GB right now, of which 160 GB are FLAC, the rest is MP3.
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by bleuarff 4y ago
It's nowhere near these volumes, but at work we recently experienced traffic spikes like 35-fold in the span of 30 seconds for a few minutes, then faded regularly for a few hours. Our scaling was too slow to be of any use for such patt
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by bleuarff 5y ago
This idea was present in Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series, where all human who ever lived are brought back together. There's a scene that struck me where characters from different eras such as the paleolithic, middle-ages an
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by bleuarff 5y ago
Or France, where the first 4 procedures are paid for by health services. Going to the pharmacy for the ovarian stimulation drugs for my wife and seeing the one-week treatment would have cost us hundreds of euros; I sure was glad to live in
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by bleuarff 5y ago
They can probably out-lawyer and out-PR nearly every company on the planet, so it's not surprising from Facebook that they try this route when the negotiations failed, if they really wanted that name.
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by bleuarff 5y ago
Isn't that the majority of the web today?
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by bleuarff 5y ago
France has invested a lot of money into this company. And it was approved to become the official search engine on many state administration's computers, even after an audit revealed the terrible quality of their product. Things are a b
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by bleuarff 5y ago
I'm no expert, but there's probably some electronics in that arm whose operating temperature range is a lot higher than the temperature of space.
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by bleuarff 5y ago
Thanks for the additional info, I had forgotten Niel was the backer.
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by bleuarff 5y ago
There are 2 competing offers to buy the company, as I know of. One from OVH founder Octave Klaba, the other from JB Kempf, of VLC fame. So no, I don't think it should go out of business - in the short term.
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by bleuarff 5y ago
It took me the description of the mithraeum, well into the article, to remember that I've visited this church, some 25 years ago. It's wild how these teenage memories are coming back :). Very interesting article otherwise, I'
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by bleuarff 6y ago
OVH is not Europe-only, it has datacenters in America, Asia and Australia[1]. [1] https://www.ovh.com/world/us/about-us/datacenters.xml
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by bleuarff 6y ago
I recently set up one of their "stardust" instance, which is the absolute cheapest one I found at ~2€/mo. Works as intended , not much more to say about it.
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by bleuarff 6y ago
I'm aware of that, but that was an afterthought. Anyway, it's not made to be stared at, and with light modulation it's quite faint when the room is dark. so I don't think it matters in the end.

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