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by choilive 2y ago
Severe obesity can take off 10+ years off your life. I would say thats a pretty serious side effect. Heart disease, diabetes, liver diseases, kidney diseases, gallbladder diseases, pancreas diseases, cancer, sleep issues, fertility issues,
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by choilive 2y ago
And whats the problem with that? Our entire world is built upon conveniences. We don't grow or hunt our own food, or travel cross country with our own two feet, or countless other things. Its not that I can't do those things. I do
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by choilive 2y ago
The very serious long term side effects of obesity definitely seem worse than of glp-1 agonists, although time will tell.
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by choilive 2y ago
Only one way to know for sure on the long term effects.. However, we do know the long term side effects of obesity - and it is quite costly, by some estimates $200B+/year in the US alone. Not as bad as smoking ($300B+/yr), but ent
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by choilive 2y ago
Langchain is frequently crapped on here on HN. Do some searching and you'll see it's pretty much a universal sentiment that langchain is terrible and you shouldn't use it.
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by choilive 2y ago
This is targeted for enterprise/cloud/hyperscale customers and density is often a big deal in those applications. I know that 61.44TB SSD have been selling very well exactly for this reason.
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by choilive 2y ago
The specific camera model doesn't seem very important its probably whatever they had on hand - presumably you could just replace it with a camera with an electronic shutter and as long as it has the same remote shutter port you could t
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by choilive 2y ago
Once they are taken to court and all their crap gets subpoena'd I think we might find that reasonable precautions were not taken. Its possible that this update was never properly QA'd and was just rushed out the door. If thats the
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by choilive 2y ago
Thats for the average person - whats the cost to replace the average astronaut? I've seen estimates that it costs $15M just to train 1 astronaut, and the pool of qualified candidates is likely extremely small. I would figure a guess of
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by choilive 2y ago
I think you underestimate the engineering complexity a bit of these rovers :)
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by choilive 2y ago
Not entirely on NASA, Congress slashed their budget causing a -$500M hole, with future years budget not looking to fare much better so they had to make some tough decisions. Sounds like other missions in the same program are going to pick u
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by choilive 2y ago
I think it implies that at least some of the "hard" steps in the great filter - particularly around single celled organisms are probably very easy. An increasing body of evidence points to the idea that immediately after the condi
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by choilive 2y ago
No not much experience there since multiplayer editing has never really been a part of my personal workflow (mostly a lot of screensharing), but I can definitely see that being useful for people that use it regularly.
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by choilive 2y ago
Its killer feature seems to be speed. Otherwise I dont see much of a reason to use it over VS Code.
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by choilive 2y ago
Ground based solar has a capacity factor of about ~25% depending on location, while a space based installation would have nearly a 100% capacity factor. So to generate the same amount of energy per year you need about 4x as many panels on t
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by choilive 2y ago
I actually don't think space based solar to beam it back to Earth will ever really be practical short of a space-elevator style tether to transmit the electricity down. But some of the pros would be as follows. * Capable of 100% capaci
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by choilive 2y ago
I think claiming that it is an ecological disaster is catastrophizing at best and certainly subjective. The ecological impacts involved in coal mining, oil drilling et al., are much worse than installing some solar panels that can easily be
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by choilive 2y ago
Luckily about 50% of the Earth is lit up by the sun at any moment and energy storage capabilities are advancing much faster than fusion's capabilities are. Distribution and storage are way more tractable problems than fusion. If you wa
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by choilive 2y ago
Being pedantic, but most heat is considered "waste" heat - aka it is high entropy energy, which is much harder to convert into the more useful forms of energy (mechanical, electrical, etc.)
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by choilive 2y ago
We already have a zero maintenance fusion power plant that will last billions of years and that outputs millions of times more energy per second than humanity uses in a year. We already have technology that can take the electromagnetic wave
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by choilive 2y ago
I typo'd the number - it was 14.8M. But per the article it came from a company called Canalys.
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by choilive 2y ago
2.1M/14.8M = 14.2% marketshare. Marketshare is the percentage of new shipments, which is the way its always been measured for this space and others (such as smartphones), the author got it right.
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by choilive 2y ago
This seems to be a universal sentiment.. we took a short look at langchain and determined it was doing really trivial string manipulation/string templating stuff but inside really rigid and unnecessary abstractions. It was all stuff th
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by choilive 2y ago
Output degrades at about ~1% a year. EOL for a solar panel is typically about 30 years. It will still generate power but if it is a commercial operation then it will likely be in consideration for replacement. I imagine there would be a lar
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by choilive 2y ago
The run of the mill engineer is indeed quite underpaid, but thats mostly because there is a mountain of gruntwork required to develop a modern chipset even with all of the automation tools out there. The engineers architecting the next gene
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by choilive 2y ago
The short answer is: Yes. The most best and most talented chip designers (think the top 0.01%+) - especially if you put together the right team of them - are orders of magnitude better. Would you have 1 Magnus Carlsen or 100 average chess p
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by choilive 2y ago
Grocery store I used to work called it "facing", and it does make the store look neat and organized, but we were never instructed to make it look like they are about to fall off which seems strange to me.
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by choilive 2y ago
Why would I go to Starbucks when I can go to a local shop where the coffee is much better for 20-30% less?
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by choilive 2y ago
> He has an extremely dark side that impedes him and everyone around him, regardless of the extraordinary success he experienced. I think people have a hard time separating out the good work someone has done vs the bad. We humans are imp
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by choilive 2y ago
That was the most shocking part of the entire article! Unfortunate this vuln existed but clearly engineers there have enough teeth to get stuff done.

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