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721.
by chii 1y ago
> the lack of atmosphere density would result in substantial cooling challenges. heat exchange(s) such that the human settlement(s) are warmed by this "waste" heat? Mars is cold, and likely need to have many pipes to generate h
722.
by chii 1y ago
> Because testing if it works can be done by none programmers like testing whether a building is structurally sound can just be done by the inhabitants!
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by chii 1y ago
It's a feedback loop - smoking was advertised as being cool way back when, which led to movie characters smoking to appear cool, which then reinforces the advertising. When there was a push to regulate smoking in advertising, it cut th
724.
by chii 1y ago
which is why i made the claim that hardware "problem" will be solved in the near future (i don't consider it solved right now, because even the apple hardware is too expensive and insufficient imho), but the more difficult pr
725.
by chii 1y ago
> CS graduate won't be doing tasks that they learnt to do in their degrees how is that different from the previous decade(s)? How often do you invert a redblack tree in your daily programming/engineering job? A CS degree is a d
726.
by chii 1y ago
i dont have the hardware to run or try them, but from the huggingfaces discussion forums, gpt-oss seems to be pretty hard censored. I would not consider it as being a viable self-hosted LLM except for the very narrowest of domains (like cod
727.
by chii 1y ago
> my only job is to identify places where the current spec and the intended functionality differ and create a new spec to mitigate. and to be able to do this efficiently or even "correctly", you'd need to have had mountain
728.
by chii 1y ago
perhaps sand is easier to heat to higher temps, and also it's less thermally conductive, so you'd lose less heat in storage for the same sized container.
729.
by chii 1y ago
> They need to be significantly better to shift consumer habits. i am hoping that a device local model would eventually be possible (may be a beefy home setup, and then an app that connects to your home on mobile devices for use on the
730.
by chii 1y ago
> pressure would start to lessen as the water is pulled in all directions? the pressure would never lessen, just increase slower. The gravity at the center is zero, but the mass above you is not exerting just gravity force (which gets ca
731.
by chii 1y ago
If the biometric scanner stops you from shooting a target that someone else other than you determined?
732.
by chii 1y ago
> You also democratize defense. not really - defense is harder than offence. Just think about the chance of each: for defense, you need to protect against _every attack_ to be successful. For offence, you only need to succeed once to be
733.
by chii 1y ago
This reminds me of this nice video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLNyHd2w10 basically, the state space of the game can produce some intuition on why certain games are hard, and is demonstrated as a clustering of variou
734.
by chii 1y ago
being conned into buying gift cards means the weak link isn't with the security of the phone, but with the person's brain. Making the device so locked down that no such con could exist also means there's no way to use the pho
735.
by chii 1y ago
they are, and they're correct in that comparison. except that the laws for the pool don't require a branded fence or anything, it's just a height and gate-lock requirement. Google is telling you to buy their particular brand
736.
by chii 1y ago
deleting all app store apps is too high a barrier, because there may not be a replacement that could be sideloaded.
737.
by chii 1y ago
how do we currently deal with tampered video evidence today, before the advent of ai generated videos? Why cant same methods be used for an ai generated video?
738.
by chii 1y ago
This is true for all capital equipment - whether it's a GPU, a bore drill, or an earth mover. You want to make use of it at as close to 100% as possible.
739.
by chii 1y ago
i find the premise to be an invalid one personally - why is the property that a works from an AI model must be identified/identifiable?
740.
by chii 1y ago
why should this argument work, but not the same argument for using a combine harvester which also cheapens the work of a farmer?
741.
by chii 1y ago
china has shown a model that looks good to the increasingly authoritarian gov'ts in the west. And as netizens, we need to be fighting back while there's still power vested in us. Cannot wait until the hammer falls (or the curtain
742.
by chii 1y ago
> Eventually all context is lost, busywork is amplified why not fire everyone in between the top-most manager and the actual "worker" doing the work, as the report could be generated with the correct level of summary?
743.
by chii 1y ago
> But people benefit from piracy the benefit is private. Nobody would publicly claim they support piracy, because it's too politically incorrect. So the PR machine doesn't have a hard job at all convincing law makers of a non-t
744.
by chii 1y ago
> A lot of people who voted right wing are looking for reasons to re-evaluate their decisions i dont believe this to be the case. If they have such a reason, then surely they would've already examined it much earlier and came to a c
745.
by chii 1y ago
> Oil money should be funding renewables not while there's still oil to be extracted. Rigs (esp. offshore ones) take a lot of initial investment, and takes several decades to fully pay out. It's not hard to imagine that those i
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747.
by chii 1y ago
This is the solution. It's like napster and torrenting. People dont care about the tech behind it - they care about the outcome. It's just that the majority of normies dont even know it is possible (and didnt think an alternative
748.
by chii 1y ago
It's the mobile hardware drivers (such as for the modems and 5g etc) that likely roadblocks - these hardware manufacturers probably have some sort of OEM agreements, and so cannot opensource these drivers for all devices. I would wish
749.
by chii 1y ago
> People install games from Steam or the Epic Store on their computers without Microsoft preventing that microsoft wishes they could have the level of platform control that google/apple on mobiles have. It's pure luck that the
750.
by chii 1y ago
Of course i care that i lose money. I dont care that google loses money.

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