darksaints

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by darksaints 8d ago
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, because I've noticed a trend in my own life that has happened countless times: I have a tendency to look at problems that others in different fields have found difficult to solve, and th
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by darksaints 9d ago
Delivery at an exact time is of course a constraint, but I’ve never seen any sort of constraint on the exact fuel usage. This isn’t anything like aviation where excess fuel has to be dumped in order to land safely. If you don’t use the fuel
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by darksaints 9d ago
As both a sailor and a wingsail designer, I've followed this space for a long time. I've gotta say this is just one of the thousands of trial PR announcements for different companies which develop something and think it's gon
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by darksaints 11d ago
Okay, so it doesn't output text, that much is understood. What are the inputs like? I'm assuming maybe a text input? maybe an AST definition? Really hard to tell how this works at all from the demos, especially since we can't
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by darksaints 11d ago
I'd love to see a democratic presidential candidate who vows to openly exploit all of the illegal powers that Trump did, but in a way that hurts republicans and red states, and vow to continue doing it until constitutional amendments a
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by darksaints 11d ago
relevant username lol. I tend to agree though...establishment democrats are a major problem for americans who want to be free of the problems that trump brought to us. Their only complaint about him seems to be that he's on the wrong t
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by darksaints 11d ago
Also a weightlifter (masters olympic weightlifting, nationally ranked). TRT and steroids are actually the opposite. Once you go off of them, your body starts to revert, muscle mass is lost, and often by more than you started with (because t
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by darksaints 11d ago
When a coup fails, that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
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by darksaints 11d ago
I'm pretty confident in asserting that no industry in the history of industry has ever gone from birth to full regulatory capture faster than the AI industry has.
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by darksaints 17d ago
I think keeping models around for a defined period of time is fine, but fracturing your model offerings like that (keeping around multiple versions of the same model) is very hard to do economically. The economics of the AI ecosystem are do
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by darksaints 17d ago
Based on what passes for “engagement” and “content” on their platforms, I’d estimate that a majority of their users are exactly that.
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by darksaints 18d ago
$295 one time permanent license with free upgrades and can be migrated between different computers? I don't have a single reason to do any form of video editing, let alone professional video editing, but that kind of pricing model make
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by darksaints 22d ago
Yeah this was my experience too. I have an undergrad business degree, but got nerd sniped by an optimization problem, found a solution with constraint programming, and ended up going down a 15 year operations research rabbit hole with it. M
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by darksaints 26d ago
With hiring from management consulting companies coming in a close second place.
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by darksaints 2mo ago
Canned sardines have been a staple of my diet since I was in the womb. I can’t wait for this trend to die off, it has been so difficult to find them lately. I mean I understand all of the reasons for it, and I can at least appreciate that s
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by darksaints 2mo ago
I hold out hope for (human) work to coalesce on creating a stable/secure microkernel (SeL4 anybody???) and getting it mature enough to build an OS on. Once that is done, then you build out the absolutely massive collection of userspa
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by darksaints 2mo ago
Mach's problem wasn't that it had slow IPC, but rather that in terms of microkernels, Mach was pretty damn big. There are some very fast microkernels out there, like the L4 family, which negate the IPC overhead of microkernels by
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by darksaints 2mo ago
The snark artist in me would say that Linux is a kernel plus tens of millions of lines of code that absolutely should not be in the kernel but are.
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by darksaints 3mo ago
As someone who worked on logistics optimization algorithms for Amazon, I’ll just say that the one thing Amazon did best was have clueless upper management continuously make poor strategic decisions that continuously nullified all of their i
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by darksaints 3mo ago
> At one time, the stock market was closed at night and yet market indices often changed dramatically, even without a single share being traded. A hundred years ago, the Dow might close one day at 243 and open the following morning at 22
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by darksaints 3mo ago
One of the things about fiction is that it gets almost everything wrong. It isn’t just guns. It’s professions like spies and snipers, cars, boats, planes, programming/hacking, radios, technology, etc. And those are just the areas that
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by darksaints 3mo ago
The president of the European Commission is practically an inconsequential figurehead because of how the EU is structured. The president of the United States is the most powerful person in the US because of how the US is structured. It migh
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by darksaints 3mo ago
Voter ID laws would not be a problem if said IDs were free. They’re not, and nobody that ever proposes such laws ever proposes a way to make IDs free, because they aren’t actually caring about election integrity, they only care about the pr
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by darksaints 4mo ago
I develop some deep learning models. They don't compete with Anthropic, nor are they language models. They mostly enable mathematical optimization systems to approximate actual the actual physics of radio propagation models with a frac
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by darksaints 4mo ago
Yes yes, all fine and good. I love SQL, think it is incredible how relevant it still is as a high level language, and think it should be the basis of almost every data storage and retrieval system out there. And I love that the foundation i
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by darksaints 5mo ago
Definitely not an expert here, but I was always under the impression that dolphins can only be trained in captivity. If they aren't reliant on you for food, they have no need to perform for you.
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by darksaints 5mo ago
You have to get the lidar down to the scan range, which they do with drones. The effective scan range of that particular lidar model is 1.5 to 15 meters. Compare that to 1000+m for aerial lidar. That means that they had to get the scanners
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by darksaints 5mo ago
Yes exactly. I'll add that most shipwreck discoveries haven't actually been discovered by archeologists, they've been discovered either by amateur divers by accident, or by treasure hunters, who by default only seek after spe
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by darksaints 5mo ago
I've actually had this conversation before with an archeologist with some naval archeology experience. Shipwreck hunting is ridiculously expensive. The resources required to exhaustively explore 100 sqm of space is probably 1000x of th
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by darksaints 5mo ago
They have to put on a show to hide the fact that the corruption is coming from the top.

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