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by brk 8mo ago
Factory overhiring can happen easily by adding speculative 2nd and 3rd shifts. No need for extra equipment, tooling, or physical capacity. Lines with specialty equipment and tooling can also often be sped up. That can allow for other jobs t
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by brk 8mo ago
While I am in the camp that believes camera-only FSD won't succeed, your comment isn't entirely accurate. CCD and CMOS sensors can easily work in sub-freezing temperatures with various kinds of heating. There are 10's of mill
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by brk 8mo ago
It's been "coming this year" for almost a decade now. The bugs you describe are not embarrassing, they are critical issues that prevent it from being called FSD.
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by brk 8mo ago
It failed based on the sales projections that Tesla set. Also, several reviews have not exactly been kind, along with lots of comments from owners about annoying issues and malfunctions. If Tesla needed beta testers for things they hadn&#x2
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by brk 8mo ago
I used it once, a couple of weeks ago. Had been meaning to sign up for a couple of years and then just randomly completed the process recently.
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Airfoil (2024)(ciechanow.ski)
531 points by brk 8mo ago|60 comments
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by brk 8mo ago
Everything I've read about desalination is that it is not really economically feasible. Has that changed? I don't think CA can "just crank up desal plants" in a practical sense.
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by brk 8mo ago
It's really intertwined. While California exports a LOT, people need to eat and the economies of scale lean towards eating locally grown crops. Living in a desert creates some degree of demand for local crops.
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by brk 8mo ago
Not an expert, but a more-than-casual-observer as someone who has lived on the water (literally and figuratively). A core part of the problem is things like the farming in California that uses excessive amounts of water, which is already br
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by brk 9mo ago
When you say "Art" can only come from a person who drew a line directly with their own hand, vs. a person who told a computer to draw a line, it's false scarcity. Both lines could wind up looking identical, but the Artist is
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by brk 9mo ago
"Artists" are currently trying to create false scarcity, not totally unlike the DeBeers/diamonds false scarcity. Historically, Artists have often had (mostly) uncredited assistants that handled a lot of the grunt work. This i
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by brk 9mo ago
Not just deferred message propagation, but also a way to setup medium to high powered rebroadcasting stations. For political unrest scenarios, you don't always need 2-way communication, but you do need to distribute critical info. A li
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by brk 9mo ago
It's a neat concept, but in critical scenarios where you are trying to distribute information because traditional wireless methods are down, methods like this can make it easy for users to be targeted via RF transmissions. Hard to imag
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by brk 9mo ago
Have you tried asking many people to "keep it down"? Generally that doesn't end with them politely keeping it down.
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by brk 9mo ago
Funny thing is that Ford made an electric 90’s Ranger. Sold only in Mexico IIRC. Internally it was referred to as the Ranger Glider.
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by brk 9mo ago
Alternate take: Is this really "a ridiculous amount of tech", or just "how things are today"? At one point in history aluminum and other alloys were considered pretty cutting edge. As was in-house electricity and plumbin
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by brk 9mo ago
I recall those days as well, but I think it's much harder to replicate today. In that era, computers were new and rare. Any interaction with a computer was notable, and then the ability yourself to not just interact, but actually CONTR
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by brk 9mo ago
You are right. Also, it's not just data from the US, it's data from around the world. It also comes in real-time or near real-time, so you gain insight into where drones are actively flying. If you've managed to fingerprint i
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by brk 9mo ago
I agree on the need to create an ESP32 equivalent. But the ESP32 doesn't really correlate to DJI here. DJI collects a massive amount of telemetry data and terrain data, forces the average user to upload this data, and isn't exactl
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by brk 9mo ago
That was my thinking. I already use several of these apps, the $130/mo. is a no brainer to pick up the others.
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by brk 9mo ago
It’s an 18 pound phone case for less than a dollar. How bad could it be?
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by brk 9mo ago
That sounds like you have an overly shitty ‘smart’ TV. Plenty of external devices (I’m partial to AppleTV) have no significant lag. Or it could be you’re using some niche service that has its own issues.
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by brk 9mo ago
Tried a few random images and scenes, overall wasn't that impressive. Maybe I'm using the wrong kinds of input images or something, but for the most part once I moved more than a small amount, the rendering was mostly noise. To be
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by brk 9mo ago
It's a good starting catalog. Missing a handful of entries, but the data is mostly superficial and incomplete. Looks primarily like a giant web scraping project.
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by brk 9mo ago
Yes, in the same way stored passwords of today may eventually be broken by the quantum computing tools of tomorrow. The post I replied to implied that gait analysis is a viable alternative option. Gait analysis is not an option today, or th
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by brk 9mo ago
I work in this space and have for quite a while. There is no productized gait analysis software available to the commercial markets.
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by brk 9mo ago
Because that isn’t a thing.
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by brk 9mo ago
Though Buffet has kept that first house, he also bought several others along the way.
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by brk 9mo ago
Weird. Digital recording and mastering was definitely a thing at that time. You’d think they would have been crashing the HDDs of PCs in the recording studios.
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by brk 10mo ago
That sounds good on paper, but is really impossible to implement in any practical way. In this case, the kid was holding the clarinet like a weapon, and though we have not seen the actual video, the descriptions of it make it sound like ove

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