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by davedx 1y ago
> That makeshift tower, which we built on our own dime to prove what was possible, helped intercept nearly 1,000 pounds of marijuana and led to dozens of drug trafficking arrests—ultimately earning us a pilot program with Customs and Bor
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by davedx 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45053741 > The most likely situation is a power law curve where the vast majority of users don't use it much at all and the top 10% of users account for 90% of the usage. That&#x
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by davedx 1y ago
It was a grant (free money). Then the terms were (mostly) unilaterally changed to be an equity investment. Right?
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by davedx 1y ago
The US already has DARPA that does semiconductor research, particularly where it intersects the military.
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by davedx 1y ago
Yeah he could have explained that more, maybe he's assuming familiarity with other public-private ventures around the world? If I was explaining it I would say "a huge equity stake gives you a lot of votes and influence over the c
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by davedx 1y ago
> systemically putting short term gains ahead of long term research That's more the stock market than the US government though. You could argue the US government tries to play a long game, and often the way the US plays that game is
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by davedx 1y ago
No, we outsourced it for the same reason we outsource anything else: because someone else, somewhere else, is doing it for cheaper. It has nothing to do with the profitability of the manufacturing company and everything to do with the cos
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by davedx 1y ago
I saw that study, it was indeed about pilots . When do you ever expect a pilot to immediately start driving big revenue increases? The whole thing is a strawman
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by davedx 1y ago
Sounds like this could cause some awful heisenbugs if the instruction was ever reached?
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by davedx 1y ago
Really cool! I wonder what Duo Lingo are using behind the scenes. I've been busy with the Chinese and Japanese courses, and one thing I quickly noticed is how there are two different 'grades' of practising drawing hanzi/
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by davedx 1y ago
I think another interesting feature would be if you could change the number base to 16 or some other base, I'm really curious if the pattern would change.
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by davedx 1y ago
Text files are too basic, I'm a spreadsheet TODO fella
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by davedx 1y ago
But they’re ASICs so any big architecture changes will be painful for them right?
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by davedx 1y ago
Depends on its atmosphere, if it has one
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by davedx 1y ago
I have grown increasingly to think that interstellar travel will be done by acceleration/decceleration superstructures; moon sized railgun loops like particle accelerators except for spacecraft. Some form of Von Neumann machinery will
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by davedx 1y ago
Does Ferrari turn a profit on the F1? I support them and it’s been a while since they’ve had any big wins?
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by davedx 1y ago
They were discussing human augmentation back at the dawn of computing. Read “The Dream Machine”
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Even the Third Reich appreciated the value of scientific research and engineering.
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by davedx 1y ago
The entire financial sector, for one thing
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by davedx 1y ago
Are all these Claude Code articles adverts for people building wrappers around Claude Code? I'm starting to get quite sceptical about how good it actually is
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by davedx 1y ago
I first read Neuromancer in 1998 while I was at university, something like 6 months before I got my first mobile phone. My 2nd year group project was building a lounge/session discovery application for our University’s VR meeting softw
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by davedx 1y ago
I don’t love these nice objective reports about Grok where we give them the benefit of the doubt and find their malicious hatred “surprising”. Let’s try and be a little less naive about what xAI and Grok are designed to be, shall we? They’r
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by davedx 1y ago
> It actually makes European businesses worth off by continuing to make its regulatory environment so complex only massive companies like big tech or Europe's legacy players have the resources to comply. The DMA (that this article i
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by davedx 1y ago
> I think there is a good chance this behavior is unintended! That's incredibly generous of you, considering "The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect" is still in the prompt desp
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by davedx 1y ago
How much will it pollute compared to other technologies? That’s the question to ask. Thermal plants like coal and nuclear need cooling water, the output of which ends up in the sea too
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by davedx 1y ago
I did some reading about this yesterday: * this is a record for the time a turbine has been under the sea without any maintenance, which proves its commercial viability * because it generates powers during high/low tide, and because th
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by davedx 1y ago
“No known solution” is categorically false [1]. Economics is the issue 1. Generate hydrogen or other synthetic hydrocarbon fuels from electricity; flow batteries, saltwater batteries, and a myriad other chemistries; compressed air; hydro, e
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The Netherlands has “erected” multiple HVDC links
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If you download it first, you can at least eyeball what's been downloaded to check it doesn't start by installing a bitcoin miner
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by davedx 1y ago
World of Warcraft had this in Booty Bay. There was a hilarious achievement where you first got your reputation to max with the Booty Bay guards by killing the nearby pirates, then the other half was to kill the guards until the Bloodsail Bu

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