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Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle(cnbc.com)
55 points by camkego 2y ago|111 comments
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by camkego 2y ago
https://archive.ph/Wtu0a
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by camkego 2y ago
For a little context, Amazon has one or more “community banana stands” For more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Banana_Stand
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by camkego 2y ago
The article says "The vast majority of blast exposure for Navy SEALs comes from firing their own weapons, not from enemy action." Is it possible damage can be modeled with something like: total_damage = incident_count * Impulse -
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Magnitsky case: How Switzerland failed to investigate Russian millions(swissinfo.ch)
3 points by camkego 2y ago|0 comments
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by camkego 2y ago
Too bad the source code from the blog post cannot be accessed. It returns “forbidden permission”
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by camkego 2y ago
It seems he was the best in the world at broad Linux Wi-Fi driver development. That’s quite a valuable accomplishment. Thanks, Larry Finger.
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by camkego 2y ago
I find this fascinating. But I’m really curious about whether this self pollination is causing problems with vanilla’s robustness due to a lack of cross pollination.
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by camkego 2y ago
From the Readme: “ To limit the use of ChatTTS, we added a small amount of high-frequency noise during the training of the 40,000-hour model, and compressed the audio quality as much as possible using MP3 format, to prevent malicious actors
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by camkego 2y ago
There are quite a few different environments for online IDEs and code editors, these days. Try googling some of these: “aws cloud9” “vscode web” “GitHub codespaces” That’s really just a small sample of some of the online editing/coding
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by camkego 2y ago
You’ll have to form your own conclusions, but the history of the Māori tribes is often presented as an example of this. Their history is often presented as an example of pacifists vs aggressors.
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by camkego 2y ago
It is very easy to underestimate the affect of covariates in observational studies. That’s why randomized control trials are kind of the gold standard for understanding causative relationships. This was an observational study.
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by camkego 2y ago
It’s possible to repackage Chromium with a couple people. It’s not possible to build a browser from the ground up with a couple people.
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by camkego 2y ago
Great article! One nit. I think statistical randomness seems to be conflated with pseudo-random number generators here. (PRNGs) The wiki definition of statistical randomness is: "A numeric sequence is said to be statistically random wh
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by camkego 2y ago
Could someone familiar with Verus comment on the power and expressiveness of Verus vs. Lean4 I understand Verus is an SMT based verification tool, and Lean is both an interactive prover and SMT based tool. But my understanding in the area o
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by camkego 2y ago
The last PDF page is a play on the Paul Masson and Orson Welles wine commercials of the time. https://youtu.be/5C6EwLTAvHc The 1978 commercial says “ We will sell no wine before it’s time” The PDF business plan says “ We wi
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by camkego 2y ago
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE),[1] also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate",[2] is a phrase that the
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How to fix America's aviation system (2023)(wbur.org)
131 points by camkego 2y ago|141 comments
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by camkego 2y ago
The article says: "near misses are [...] up 25% in the past decade" For example, there was almost a collision between Southwest and Jetblue Thursday morning at Reagan Airport. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04&#x2F
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by camkego 3y ago
I have been buying 5gal water jugs from a local Seattle company until recently, with the articles on all the microplastics shedding from the bottles into the water inside. I did buy no-plastics Aarke glass/steel carbon filter pitcher f
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by camkego 3y ago
I’ve honestly wondered about this since those two 737 Max crashes. How on the earth did they design in a non-redundant single point of failure, such as the single angle of attack sensor as in the 737 max? (if this type of component is typic
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by camkego 3y ago
Thank you for writing the article on the various models. But, I think your HN-comment parent is spot on regarding vertical models vs general purpose. It would be awesome to see an article about when to try to use general-purpose models vs v
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by camkego 3y ago
The title to article ..."secret keys"... had me thinking that this vuln might be a path to extracting the private keys from the secure enclave. I'm not sure, but after a bit more reading, it sounds like private-keys or symmet
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by camkego 3y ago
A Meta developer responded to an issue of mine on Hermit, and said: "Just to let you know we're not actively working on Hermit in the team..." https://github.com/facebookexperimental/hermit/issues&#x
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EFF: Tell Congress: We Can't Afford More Bad Patents(act.eff.org)
140 points by camkego 3y ago|59 comments
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by camkego 3y ago
If you are concerned about glycemic index, try boiling them for 30 mins. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/sweet-potato-glycemic-i...
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by camkego 3y ago
These services have existed for many years. ie https://carbuyersadvantage.com/faq/ But it takes a leap of faith for me to think my interests are best served with this type of service.
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by camkego 3y ago
I tried some numbers for writing to hard drives (it seems like SSDs are hard drives are not super far-apart on energy per byte written) And it seems like writing to HDDs is between $.15 to $.56 per TB depending on write speed and watts&#x2F
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by camkego 3y ago
Pedantic warning here. In fast and loose day-to-day common English language "exponentially more" means "fast growth" or "a whole lot". But that usage is meaningless! Why?, technically, you can't have expon
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by camkego 3y ago
I’m no business theorist, but won’t Intel need to split into two companies for the best chance at success in both foundry services and CPU sales?

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