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by ddalex 5y ago
Likely snatching enemy satellites in a single orbit (i.e. launch, snatch sattelite, land, all in the same orbit) before enemy can even detect that the shuttle is up there.
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by ddalex 5y ago
Oh I haven't have heard about Cruise up until now. Will follow them, thank you
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by ddalex 5y ago
I feel that for there are three requirements for a NN-based AGI, inspired by biology: a). an internal feedback loop that evaluates a possible output without actuating it, and self-modifies the parameters if the possible output is not what i
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by ddalex 5y ago
My understanding is that most off the money went into designing and extensively testing one off components that work reliable in extreme environments. Engineers are expensive
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by ddalex 5y ago
Kepler had 4 wheels, with 2 failing
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by ddalex 5y ago
The earth's shadow never reaches L2 anyhow - it's only penumbra at that distance since the angular size of the earth is smaller then the angular size of the Sun
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by ddalex 5y ago
> has far more skin in the game So do the other participants in traffic around him.
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by ddalex 5y ago
As a Romanian having lived under the Ceausescus, I can assure everybody here that she was borderline illiterate, and everybody knew that, she didn't fool anybody.
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by ddalex 5y ago
why do you say that? sounds like he was braked-checked by the tesla of course, in a large sense, the one that hits from behind is at fault, but brake-checking is problematic
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by ddalex 5y ago
Black and white photo of my grandma is a bit different from a color photo of somebodys else grandma
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by ddalex 5y ago
How doomed are we (humanity) on climate change right now?
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by ddalex 5y ago
Ok what's the first best thing on the internet?
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by ddalex 5y ago
SpaceX wasn't a thing when the project constraints were defined.
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by ddalex 5y ago
firefox said that they will move to V3 as an effort to maximize browser compatibility
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by ddalex 5y ago
> these kinds of restrictions actually start working. This - it didn't use to be true because most computer users were literate enough to bypass simple restrictions, and if a platform was restricted, others were available. With the
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by ddalex 5y ago
> Alexander and the Greeks my next band name
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by ddalex 5y ago
> a market leader with 2 billions users 2 billion of low-value users; FB users are accounted at $150 a head; out of 2 billion users it's account for, only ~100 million would part with a $1 / month to use the application - less
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by ddalex 5y ago
The problem is that Whatsapp is a very non-US-oriented app - its is very popular in EU and Asia/Africa/Latin America, but none of my US friends use it other than to reach us outside of the US. Since it's not US-focused, the U
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by ddalex 5y ago
Pretty much, yes; however this would flag up as a flaky integration test, prompted you to fix if you have a hard rule about no flakyness in tests
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by ddalex 5y ago
> hastily-wrapped-up gigantic one All of Neal Stephenson's books are hastily-wrapped, like he just got out the point he wanted to make and cannot be bothered to finish the book
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by ddalex 5y ago
sure, because they are measuring progress towards completion, rather then the ability to fly i.e. if a finished plane weights 10,000 lbs all put together, then a in-construction plane currently at 1000 lbs is clearly further along towards c
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by ddalex 5y ago
Life... uh... life finds a way
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by ddalex 5y ago
Can't speak for other companies, but this is covered in basic training at Google - if you're not authorized to speak on behalf of the company, you must make it clear when your writings may be mistaken or constructed to represent t
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by ddalex 5y ago
Googler here, not speaking on the behalf of the company, my opinions are my own People do absolutely NOT get fired over incidents. Making mistakes is human. An incident will prompt a review of the systems and safeguards in place to prevent
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by ddalex 5y ago
~3/4 out of Firefox users have their analytics disabled if you're invisible your vote doesn't count anywhere ....
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Zillow’s Zeal to Outbid for Homes Backfires in Flipping Fumble(bloomberg.com)
18 points by ddalex 5y ago|12 comments
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by ddalex 5y ago
we don't record phase, there is no way to recover the phase from a single signal what we do we make sure that all receivers are synchronized, i.e take samples at the exact same time then you can correlate the signal received between di
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by ddalex 5y ago
Almost like Erlang was designed by a telecom company ....
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by ddalex 5y ago
Stallman was ALMOST right. The fight is not about which programs the user can run, but who controls the user data
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by ddalex 5y ago
> I've been saddened that Google keeps the Spam filtration feature locked to the Pixel devices. It is a KILLER FEATURE. Why would anybody share killer features with competition ?

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