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by dotnet00 2y ago
Yeah, I do take it with a grain of salt since it's a very convenient propaganda story, and it'd be a stretch to say that he formed his political platform just 2 years before actually being elected.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It brings to mind the story of how when Boris Yeltsin was visiting the US, he took an impromptu detour to a random American supermarket to try to catch them off guard, only to be blown away that Americans really did have supermarkets everyw
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It's refreshing to see a rare openly optimistic article about the world here first thing in the morning. I also like to occasionally appreciate how someone from even just the recent past would see our current world as one full of manma
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by dotnet00 2y ago
If you scroll down, the very first step they describe is for collecting datasets of existing translations. They aren't translating even unknown human languages, let alone completely alien ones.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The issue is that human language is visibly a tier above just "culturally defined communication". Lots of mammals have some sort of learned 'language' in that they associate sounds or actions with certain meanings, cats
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Don't you actually need manual translations to feed into the model first for that? AFAIK LLMs are not sci-fi-esque magic universal translators.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
It is interesting to wonder if they'd call us gods in a good way though. Perhaps they might see it as 'playing god' instead. HN being a techie crowd tends to skew this a bit, but it's worth remembering that genetic engin
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by dotnet00 2y ago
At the same level, it's worth considering the effect on society. Western society (and increasingly global society) has grown a lot more accommodating for certain disabilities because it is understood that the condition was not the pers
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by dotnet00 2y ago
>I think I'm not following, or else failing to see the relevance to this comment. This is essentially what the GP was getting at: these advancements can/will lead to anatomically "correct" humans failing to compete. I
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Re-read my comment, I haven't said anything about the future. My point was just that it seems weird to talk about it as if it has already happened. It might happen in the future, but it's worth considering that a powerful prosthet
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Most, even in the presented example of the olympics aren't having to compete against those on steroids though?
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Haha I guess that might technically fit.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Which implants and prosthetics currently exist that are such that a median person would want them and as a result would become super-human?
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I was expecting this sort of comment, but everyone lives in their own world with their own culture and perspective, especially given the large immigrant populations in the West. Yet, the vast majority of people get by not being offended ove
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by dotnet00 2y ago
You say that as if this has happened before ("many kinds of these inventions always start as..."), but what conditions have actually had this happen? I can't think of anything that started as something to help bring people up
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Her condition is a genetic disorder, which is a kind of disease. The deaf 'community' consists of many kinds of deafness, some are not diseases, others are. Some of those diseases cannot be cured, others are trivial to cure. In th
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The 'neuropathy' part is meant to imply that the issue isn't with the hearing mechanism itself, but rather with the part that allows the mechanism to communicate with the brain. In this case, the expression of a specific gene
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by dotnet00 2y ago
In terms of leading edge, we're talking all AMD CPUs, all of the high end NVIDIA GPUs, all of Apple's M-series chips and iPhone chips, Qualcomm's fastest/most efficient mobile chipsets and more. Lagging edge chips from C
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Well, in the context of a tech giant like MS, there are the bigger fish of privacy, security and e-waste. Eg how many otherwise perfectly good computers are about to be thrown out as junk in the next few years because MS refuses to loosen W
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Maybe with CNC firmware the controller doesn't have a way of knowing, but Klipper (one of the more popular 3d printer firmwares on printers comparable to Bambus) always looks ahead. Eg if you had two commands to move in a straight line
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Reminds me of how I couldn't even innocently search for information about reproduction in plants in a country with an overly broad internet filter, because the results would have the word "sex" in them at some point. So I had
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by dotnet00 2y ago
This doesn't sound right, plenty of printers print as fast as Bambus and faster, yet arcs are not a go-to for them (Voron, RatRig, Annex communities all seem totally indifferent to that feature). The value of arcs is in reducing gcode
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The clearances don't tend to be all that big since most good part cooling ducts surround the nozzle. That said, many higher end hobbyist printers have the ability to physically tilt the bed/gantry, which would allow for true non-p
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Putting it on Falcon 9 would not be ideal since then you're back to having a single point of failure in terms of preventing crewed launches by the US. Plus, considering that they don't exactly like SpaceX, while being half of what
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The Samsung tablets at least still retain the SD card slot, so you can focus more on the desired amount of RAM and not worry too much about the built-in storage size.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
That's a very good point, I could've sworn Tory Bruno had said that the line had been retooled and all the remaining cores were in storage, but the closest tweet to that seems to be referring to having the engines in storage.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Plus, the production lines for Atlas V have already been retooled with those for Vulcan, so even if they did have the engines, they couldn't make the rockets. IIRC ULA did have a license to manufacture their own domestic RD-180s (or wa
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by dotnet00 2y ago
SpaceX was able to accomplish it because they were actually trying. They quickly became the company to go to if you entered aerospace primarily to work yourself hard doing R&D, so they got all the best young aerospace engineers who just
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The diversity argument does ring slightly hollow when iirc Boeing has only made two Starliners and it only has enough rockets for the 6 missions in the contract. Basically they're set up to have one capsule in refurb while the other is
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by dotnet00 2y ago
SpaceX may be by far the most prominent of the new space companies, but many smaller companies, especially Rocketlab are also punching above their weight relative to the old guard. The issue was that all the incentives for Boeing were to st

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