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by delichon 9mo ago
Surveillance of publicly funded activity is due diligence.
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by delichon 9mo ago
Even if I had the skills to confirm the code is secure, how could I know that this is the code running on my phone, without also having the skills to build and deploy it from source?
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by delichon 9mo ago
I use the Cryptomator app for this, it works as advertised. I keep ~60 GiB of personal files in there that would be an easy button to steal my identity and savings. I'm just hoping it doesn't include an NSA back door.
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by delichon 9mo ago
Illinois has not joined the WHO, just this particular network. The US stopped paying dues to WHO when they left. There are no dues for joining this particular network. So there's the silver lining of being able to pick and choose the W
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by delichon 9mo ago
> The obvious problem: you cannot reliably detect firearms from geometry alone. The obvious problem with this argument is that in just the medium term, world-model style AI will get good at this task, but having big brother pre-approve e
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by delichon 9mo ago
> A targeted boycott starting on Sunday and lasting the entire month of February could move markets, he says, which would, in turn, affect the CEOs who have the ear of President Donald Trump. This is the issue that brought Trump to power
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by delichon 9mo ago
Battery backup for 24/7 operation would roughly double the CapEx for power. Maybe that's still cheaper than space? Land scarcity alone, not to mention social resistance or ecological costs, will tend to favor scaling in space for
578.
by delichon 9mo ago
Mostly intermittency. In space it can be 24/7.
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by delichon 9mo ago
Their 2020 patent on a satellite chassis optimized for heat dissipation: https://x.com/seti_park/status/2015114363531866448 They claim 12.6 watts/kg. A fully reusable Starship is expected to orbit 100 to 150
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Convicted ex-Google engineer faces up to 175 year sentence for AI tech theft(reuters.com)
2 points by delichon 9mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 9mo ago
NIMBY for data centers is opportunity for SpaceX. When they saturate the demand for communication, data processing demand will be ramping up with no apparent ceiling. The merger between SpaceX and xAI positions them to benefit both from the
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by delichon 9mo ago
I prepared for a new patient appointment with a medical specialist last week by role playing the conversation with a chatbot. The bot turned out to be much more responsive, inquisitive and helpful. The doctor was passive, making no suggesti
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by delichon 9mo ago
My grandfather was born in the 1890s. He watched the first moon landing with us. He had tears in his eyes and said "when I was a boy I carried flint and steel to start a fire".
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by delichon 9mo ago
Sometimes you have to give it up, sometimes not, which is why it's a heuristic and not a firm rule.
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by delichon 9mo ago
Part of the Miranda warning is "anything you say can and will be used against you." I think of the "will be" part as a lie, because they're usually not that diligent or competent even when they're that maliciou
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by delichon 9mo ago
Food is ultraprocessed to make it cheaper, more palatable, or both. So while the definitions are orthogonal the goals align.
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by delichon 9mo ago
I imagine that it is rare for companies to not preferentially reference content on their own sites. Does anyone know of one? The opposite would be newsworthy. If you have an expectation that Google is somehow neutral with respect to search
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SpaceX's Heat Dissipating Chassis Patent(twitter.com)
1 points by delichon 9mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 9mo ago
The nice thing about that is that you don't have to ask how you can help, you can just help. I knew a guy who would go to a grieving household and clean their shoes.
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House Sellers Needn't Disclose Basement Floor Swastika and Nazi Eagle Tiles(reason.com)
2 points by delichon 9mo ago|1 comments
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by delichon 9mo ago
So they have a chart of music that they approve of that people like, as opposed to music that people like.
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by delichon 10mo ago
As a residential customer Starlink gave me the unlimited slow speed with a free mini for $60/year, as a tease to promote the full speed at $300/year. But it does everything I need it to, so I'm not incentivized to upgrade. I
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by delichon 10mo ago
Tobi Lutke very explicitly did not pass off the work as his own. He attributed it to Claude. Does the fact that he didn't know about and include all of Claude's sources make it plagiarism? Would he have had the same obligation if
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by delichon 10mo ago
The plagiarism of open source accusation is interesting. If you didn't know you are using open source code, is it plagiarism not to acknowledge it? What if you have enough knowledge of how LLMs work that you should have known? Does it
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by delichon 10mo ago
If you are aware of what you are and find that it needs improvement, a good technique is to fabricate the responses as those of the person you want to become. Fake-it-until-you-become-it is imperfect but an improvement on I'm-an-asshol
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by delichon 10mo ago
The writer was a federal prosecutor for twenty-one years. This will be the government's argument in federal court.
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by delichon 10mo ago
None will tow my 30' fifth wheel very far.
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by delichon 10mo ago
Can you fit an 8'x4' sheet of plywood in it? My pickup truck wants to know. But it doesn't have to worry, because my other main use for it is as a large gas powered wheel barrow for carrying yard waste, and the little enclos
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by delichon 10mo ago
It was recently boosted by a youtuber, but the reporting on it goes back to 2013. https://www.fox9.com/news/fox-9-investigating-fraud-uncoveri...
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by delichon 10mo ago
Doctorow sees Trump's tariffs as an opportunity but the Supreme Court may quash them in the next week. Polymarket is at 74% on that. https://polymarket.com/event/will-the-supreme-court-rule-in-...

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