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by chipsa 2y ago
The economic problem isn't nearly as insurmountable as postulated: A GBI interceptor is ~$70M. A Sentinel ICBM is ~$140M. An NGI interceptor is ~$100M. So already, we see that the interceptors are cheaper than an ICBM (though admittedl
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by chipsa 2y ago
More RAM, so less movement of the weights around to generate a token. Most of the speed limit on a LLM is bandwidth of getting the weights around. To a great extent, your token speed is approximately your (model size)/(effective bandwi
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by chipsa 2y ago
My wife drives a i3 Rex, which is a plugin hybrid. We’ve taken it on a 6 hour road trip before. It was doable, though I’ll admit it wasn’t the best hybrid for a road trip.
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by chipsa 2y ago
Your drone has a friend to tag the survivors.
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by chipsa 2y ago
The air handling is exactly the same between the various 737 versions. The difference is that the engines are different. The CFM Leap is designed to shear the bolts on the fan if it goes sufficiently unbalanced, and incidentally the shock o
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by chipsa 2y ago
Most electric circuits are not rated for continuous load at rated power. The US nominal 15A circuit can only supply 12A continuous. Thus heaters of all types and EV charging being limited to about 1.5kW.
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by chipsa 2y ago
Most places in the US don’t have alleys. The problem isn’t the alleys, it’s the trash cans. Most modern US cities have cans that can be lifted by the truck, and then emptied. NYC, on the other hand, insists on just leaving everything in fli
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by chipsa 2y ago
It is generally considered unwise, and depending on age or other circumstances, illegal to ride without a bike helmet, in large part because most places you will meet a car, and if you don’t, wiping out at 15mph is still going to be hard on
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by chipsa 2y ago
You don’t have an expectation of privacy for the outside of your mail, because people can see the outside. The inside of the mail you do have an expectation of privacy, because someone can’t just see the inside of your mail. Unless it’s sme
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by chipsa 2y ago
If you never want to get captains to be willing to sail to your ports again… also, manifests can be wrong, or insufficiently descriptive. Manifest may accurately say a container is full of machine parts. But neglect to mention the machine t
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by chipsa 2y ago
Drives which support doing this in hardware have a block just for storing the key. Because it’s not often rewritten, it doesn’t need to go in the pool of blocks that can get remapped.
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by chipsa 2y ago
There’s also the option of “If-None-Match”, to make the request conditional. The point is being conditional, not how.
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by chipsa 2y ago
How does NTP work? GPS is stratum 0. Starlink could be effectively stratum 1.
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by chipsa 2y ago
I use Lutron Caseta switches for my smart switches.
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by chipsa 2y ago
> Merkle hash every entry with its predecessors; normalize entries so they can be consistently hashed and searched; store everything in an append-only log; Isn’t this how crypto coins work under the hood? There’s no actual encryption in
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by chipsa 2y ago
Did the stealing occur in your home town? Do you show up in people search tools?
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by chipsa 2y ago
Most tests like this are IQ tests, and studying has little impact on IQ test scores, except perhaps showing where you over think things or take too much time. It might get you from 12% to 35%, but won’t get you from 12% to 70%.
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by chipsa 2y ago
Surprisingly, the best funded schools are not the ones that are in good places to live. Baltimore city public schools were $22k/student. Howard county was $20k for the same time.
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by chipsa 2y ago
Density does not affect the speed of sound of a gas. Temperature and molar mass does. So increasing the pressure of a given composition of gas won’t change anything, assuming you can bring the temp back down. Helium is obviously a different
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by chipsa 2y ago
I went in to a hospital at just after midnight, and had my gall bladder out by noon. No, the surgeon wasn’t called in early, but the radiologist who diagnosed the gall bladder was.
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by chipsa 2y ago
4 legs have no additional redundancy over 3. One leg failing will still result in the booster tipping over. They do push the maximum angle of tipping before your CG is no longer supported out farther though.
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by chipsa 2y ago
The government has totally said “destroy the thing that we said was legal to manufacture, purchase, and own when it was manufactured.” That was the entire point of the bump stock ban, which attempted to reclassify an item that they had pre
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by chipsa 2y ago
Probably the required accuracy. VOR is on the order of a degree for accuracy. DME is around 0.1nm. So if you’re 50nm from the VOR, then you may have a position fix error of 0.87nm across the radial, if I did my math right.
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by chipsa 2y ago
The one car that I sold because it died on me was due to transmission failure. I’m also at 8, and do not expect either of my current cars to ever have a transmission failure.
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by chipsa 3y ago
The Volt is a series/parallel hybrid. It has situations where the motor is directly connected to the wheels. The BMW i3 does has a series only set up, but that’s probably because it also has a BEV only version.
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by chipsa 3y ago
https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/emerging-technologies/jet... Looks more like Max10 sized. It looks like there is a small door behind the wing, which matches the location of the back end of the cabin. There’s no
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by chipsa 3y ago
The small size is actually the point? One of the big problems with the Superferry was the places the ferry went, didn't want to have a bunch of people showing up at once cheaply for... NIMBY reasons.
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by chipsa 3y ago
PhotoDNA is officially non-invertible, because it’s used for CSAM, and if you can invert it, then anyone having the hashes also has CSAM.
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by chipsa 3y ago
General rule of thumb: if it's been banned, it's useless for the signatories. Ex: chemical weapons, but also biological weapons, land mines, and cluster munitions. Note that land mines and cluster munitions are still actively bein
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by chipsa 3y ago
The 12v battery performs the very significant safety feature of allowing the HV battery to be disconnected when the car isn’t ready to move. You’d need to have a converter in the HV battery to avoid that down side, and then you have a new d

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