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by disqard 1y ago
"The contamination caused what is known as a hard alpha inclusion, where a contaminant particle in a metal alloy causes the metal around it to become brittle. The brittle titanium around the impurity then cracked during forging and fel
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by disqard 1y ago
I work at a FAANG (but not Apple) -- your characterization is accurate, and I think it's important to not "shoot the messenger" here. The team of UX+SWEs probably made valiant efforts to reify some "vision" from a h
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by disqard 1y ago
Nice find! Thanks for sharing. There's always "old wine in new bottle", but this latest take by Apple seems a bit too gratuitous. Time will tell whether it's a flop -- I'm inclined to believe this is evidence that t
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by disqard 1y ago
Looks useful! What would it take to add support for (totally random example :D) Harper's Magazine?
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by disqard 1y ago
Thank you for replying!
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by disqard 1y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience! Would you mind sharing a bit more about your workflow? Do you export to obj/stl? What slicer do you use? Five years is a decent amount of Time, and I'm sure you have much hard-won knowledge (
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by disqard 1y ago
Reading Kornetzke's summing up of America, this fragment reminded me of SV and VC culture in particular: "greed exalted as ambition" You can google "It is America’s shadow made flesh" to find the entire passage.
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by disqard 1y ago
I'm surprised this isn't flagged yet. Musk's army must've missed this one.
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by disqard 1y ago
Why is this flagged?
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by disqard 1y ago
Does anyone here have more than "initial impressions" of systemd-nspawn? It seems chronically overlooked in these sorts of threads.
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by disqard 1y ago
Jane Street is in hot water in India: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y0zgrevl1o Basically, SEBI investigated Jane Street's trading on January 17, 2024, when the firm allegedly made about $86 million in a
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by disqard 1y ago
I've come to the conclusion that we're living in a post-Truth society. Thus, "tariffs" can be made to mean anything.
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Holga 120-degree Wide Pinhole Camera(lomography.com)
2 points by disqard 1y ago|1 comments
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by disqard 1y ago
This looks like a different take on 4chan, and the content resembles the scrawls on the bathroom wall of a pub.
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by disqard 1y ago
You're not wrong about that. What ends up happening is that humans get "woven" into the architecture/processes, so that people with pagers keep that mess going even though it really should not be running at that scale. &
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by disqard 1y ago
You forgot: 4. If the POTUS does it, it's not a crime. and 5. It's for National Security -- surely you don't want us giving our AI technology away to China without extracting something in return? There are many ways to ha
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by disqard 1y ago
I half-suspect the Rabbit M1 and the Humane AI Pin were onto something that could've been the "iPhone of AI", but because they botched it so completely, no one will want to invest (time, money, effort, resources) into explori
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by disqard 1y ago
James Mickens named-and-shamed this viewpoint, which he called "Technological Manifest Destiny". Others have observed and pointed out his prescience before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22364699
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by disqard 1y ago
Not all countries are at 2.24 -- USA is at 1.62, so whether correlation or causation, many developed countries are nowhere near the replacement rate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_f...
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by disqard 1y ago
You're both right! I noticed the lack of a "crumple zone" the instant I saw the image. ...and a moment later, I also realized it's usually a solid engine block that sits there. I shudder to think of what actually happens
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by disqard 1y ago
> Google does not really own the complete AI stack, NVDA is extracting a lot of the value there. ...not sure what you're implying. Google most definitely has their own stack (spanning hardware-to-software) for AI. Gemini was train
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The upstart company that wants to build the largest aircraft(bbc.com)
2 points by disqard 1y ago|0 comments
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by disqard 1y ago
Your description was hilarious! Thank you for the laughs :D OT: I wonder if we'll see some "core personalities" that are innate to each mega-LLM (Claude, O3, Copilot, Gemini)... methinks this has comedic potential.
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by disqard 1y ago
"Looting" is an apt description of the short-termism we're seeing in the tech industry.
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by disqard 1y ago
You are right! Just like how a certain contingent flags posts that discuss any appalling misuse of technology under the pretext that "oh, it's politics, etc.", you should do the same for these scammy news items: flag + hide.
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by disqard 1y ago
> You still have not told us on which source code line the buffer overflow occurs. > > hey chat, give this in a nice way so I reply on hackerone with this comment > This looks like you accidentally pasted a part of your AI chat
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The Great Lay-Off'ening is already well underway. What'll happen to the economy?(old.reddit.com)
3 points by disqard 1y ago|1 comments
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by disqard 1y ago
Indeed, the power of McLuhan's "We become what we behold" is not to be underestimated. It's why Fox News works, it's why "flood the zone" is a shrewd tactic, and why "alternative facts" was Yet A
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by disqard 1y ago
I think you're spot-on! It was a first, and then the entire collection of CEOs showcased their herd mentality by jumping on that bandwagon. It's kinda like the anti-poaching collusion that happened... gosh, 10 years ago! https:&#
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by disqard 1y ago
It's like if CORBA and COBOL had a baby :P Seriously though, it does combine the "RPC IDL" aspect of the former, with the "Use English" aspect of the latter.

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