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by c_o_n_v_e_x 6mo ago
>People who shoot someone or throw bombs at someone even though that someone never did something against them I think the point is that there's going to be an increasingly large percentage of the populace who think that the AI bosse
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 6mo ago
Having previously worked in a few DCs in SG, I was incredulous when I saw those sales figures.
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 6mo ago
I suppose the extreme take would be that it becomes a de facto bounty hunting platform
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 8mo ago
>Having everything in one unit is a recipe for a single point of failure disaster. They're optimizing for something other than resilience.
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 9mo ago
I agree with your market analysis. Private jets are often referred to as "time machines" given how much time HNW / exec travelers can save. There's a market segment that's willing to pay a high premium for reduced
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 1y ago
Humans weaponizing water flow (or lack there of) has been routinely used through out history.
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 1y ago
You're paying for: - Trade licensing fees - Liability insurance - Medical insurance - A vehicle to move equipment around - Vehicle insurance - Tools to complete the job - The time taken to drive to your residence - The time taken for t
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 1y ago
email sent!
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 1y ago
>Terrestial transmitters can be much closer. Making them nice targets for the enemy
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 1y ago
Living in Australia and interested in buying a business, I can attest to biz4sale-type sites being a real problem.
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Q-CTRL publishes GPS-denied quantum magnetic navigation flight trial results(arxiv.org)
3 points by c_o_n_v_e_x 1y ago|0 comments
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 1y ago
There's a lot more to manufacturing than "just" being a line assembly worker. The factories have to be designed and built. This includes all of the manufacturing processes, equipment, tooling, automation, etc. All of which a
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
Labelling Singapore as a petro-state is a stretch. Collecting taxes from refining is a very different thing than reaping the benefits of royalties from oil production.
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
This was also in the news last year: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
SG is very small country and yet someone was buying 1/3 of the volume of the US market in Q3. The DC market in SG has a very low vacancy rate meaning there's very little available space.... i.e. where are all those GPUs going if
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
https://techwireasia.com/2023/12/what-did-singapore-do-to-nv... Having previously worked in the DC space in Singapore, when I read the sales numbers, I was in disbelief. IMO, there was only a very low probability
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
Not NSA - you'd have someone from US Bureau of Industry and Security tracking you down (no pun) for most likely violating export controls if you were to openly share information on building the technology. Celestial tracking is a dual
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
There's very good simulation tools available but scrappy startups can rarely afford them. You also need to people who know how to use the tools appropriately.
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
6th gen Texan here with a very german sounding last name. My dad's side of family immigrated from Switzerland through Galveston. The original surname was sprinkled with umlauts. Someone tried Americanizing the name so people could pr
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
There were far fewer planes in the air before GPS. In order to squeeze more planes into the same volume of air (aka "airspace density" or "airspace efficiency") you require high performance navigation systems. GPS isn&#
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
>You reach a point where you are a foreigner wherever you are. I left the US in 2009 to move to Singapore. After 14 years in SG, I moved to Australia. During my time overseas, my accent has picked up hints of Australian. When I go bac
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
Or you try to capture water that's already condensed... cloud droplets.
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
In theory, connected devices that control large energy loads ("large" on a household level of energy consumption) can be coordinated at scale to "attack" the power grid via instantaneously switching 1000's of units
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
There's a few companies out there that provide these "expert networks." GLG or AlphaSights Not necessarily tutors, but I run into the same issue in Product Management. I need to do customer research, but the process of findi
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
Sandhill cranes are omnivorous and have the nickname "ribeye of the sky." I've never tried myself as I no longer live in the US, but I've heard they are very good.
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
>The US government has put a lot of effort into isolating China from the Phillippines. Let's not forget that some of China's isolation is self inflicted. China's nine dash line map, claiming 90% of the South China Sea, on
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
Using vernacular from the industrial automation industry, how is this different from a historian? A sensor is physically wired to an input on a PLC which collects data, the historian software communicates with the PLC/DCS and saves ins
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
To jam, presumably you need to know precisely where the receivers are.
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
>They are a more accurate version of an IMU to use for dead reckoning. They will still drift over time. A magnetometer is a completely different device than an IMU. A sensitive enough magnetometer coupled with accurate magnetic maps can
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by c_o_n_v_e_x 2y ago
All magnetic compasses are magnetometers, but not all magnetometers are compasses. Some magnetometers output absolute magnetic field strength (scalar) while vector magnetometers output heading and strength of a field.

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