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by dweekly 11mo ago
Technically correct...and yet let's not kid ourselves that even with a nice radio and a pair of Bose A30's, it can be hard to tease out exactly what's being said when in a congested airspace.
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by dweekly 11mo ago
As a commercial pilot, your response is a little glib and kind of ignores the meaningful advances that have been made with D-ATIS, ADS-B In, CPDLC, DUATS, XM weather, etc. Voice is absolutely not perfect, analog FM audio often comes throu
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by dweekly 1y ago
I am so glad to hear your child got the care they needed. I've found that people often forget to call their state senator or assemblyperson. It has consistently amazed me how quickly a large company that's sitting on their butts a
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by dweekly 1y ago
Meta has been rolling out PQC: https://engineering.fb.com/2024/05/22/security/post-quantum-... And Apple: https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/ Cloudflare started rolli
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by dweekly 1y ago
The same argument could reasonably be used to explain why no YouTube influencer would ever get more than 1,000 subscribers - if everyone can upload videos that anyone can watch, nobody will really be famous because fame will become very eve
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by dweekly 1y ago
Website: https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/ Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-are-leaking-the-world...
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Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf](satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu)
555 points by dweekly 1y ago|138 comments
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by dweekly 1y ago
Genuinely curious: what could the Mars rover possibly capture about this object that other instruments cannot? Is it our highest resolution imagery in the vicinity of Mars?
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by dweekly 1y ago
So a social network that's 100% your friends doing silly AI things? I feel like this is the ultimate extension of "it feels like my feed is just the artificial version of what's happening my friends and doesn't really te
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by dweekly 1y ago
I'm working to build a tool for macOS and Windows desktops to help non-technical users figure out what's wrong with their home internet and how to fix it. https://www.networkweather.com/ It's literally just m
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by dweekly 1y ago
Your "crazy" proposition is exactly the reality at many companies: the work computer is increasingly isolated from the Internet. At my last employer their game plan for employees was to move the whole web to a whitelist approach -
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by dweekly 1y ago
Face recognition is uninuitively good. Google Photos was able to pick out faces from my baby photos pretty easily.
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by dweekly 1y ago
I was curious about what adoption looked like so I scanned the top 100 websites for HTTPS & SVCB records. Looks like only about 9% are actually returning HTTPS records; and none of these use non-standard ports or ECH (which mystifyingly
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by dweekly 1y ago
I don't think most folks think very hard about where most wealth comes from but imagine it just sort of exists in a fixed quantity or is pulled from the ground like coal or diamonds - there's a fixed amount of it, and if there are
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by dweekly 1y ago
Mentioned in the article text, but not the title, is the fact that blue collar work typically does not require a college degree. You can start getting paid immediately after high school. Contrasted with a possible alternate path of four to
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by dweekly 1y ago
> "anything beyond writing a simple function always leads to useless junk." A strong statement like this was a reasonable take six months ago, perhaps. But with Claude Opus 4.1, o3-codex/gpt5, and Gemini Pro 2.5 this state
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by dweekly 1y ago
Dumb (?) question but how is Google's approach here different than Mixture of Experts? Where instead of training different experts to have different model weights you just count on temperature to provide diversity of thought. How much
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by dweekly 1y ago
"I'm sorry but that wasn't a very interesting question you just asked. I'll spare you the credit and have a cheaper model answer that for you for free. Come back when you have something actually challenging."
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by dweekly 1y ago
It will be interesting to see when this inverts - when it becomes scary to use an application that has only had humans review it and declare it safe and secure.
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by dweekly 1y ago
Fascinating and (to me) unintuitive result that these cards don't seem bandwidth constrained at PCI 4x16; the update to PCI 5x16 doesn't seem like it has any measurable impact on performance, allowing a PCI 5x8 configuration tha
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by dweekly 1y ago
I'm not sure your complaint is actually that A* is bad, it's that the heuristic function is unfair (to the player, by giving the mob data they shouldn't have). A more sophisticated game could use a more interesting function l
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by dweekly 1y ago
AssemblyAI's Universal ASR has got really impressive WER compared to Google Cloud Voice or Nova. I'm looking forward to their rolling out Slam-1's textual prompting, which will let you use plain English to describe the domain
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by dweekly 1y ago
An approach I don't see discussed here is having different agents using different models critique architecture and test coverage and author tests to vet the other model's work, including reviewing commits. Certainly no replacement
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by dweekly 1y ago
You're right, but the less intuitive part is that the stack makes the air rise much more quickly; the exit velocity is higher the taller the stack.
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by dweekly 1y ago
Everything follows a cycle. Client/server, flat/skeuomorphic, compiled/interpreted, cloud/colo, colorful/minimalist, microservices/monolithic, standards-driven/vendor-driven, open/proprietary, CPU&#x2
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by dweekly 1y ago
Those are good reasons to have a smart watch with cellular capabilities. They are not good reasons to have a phone at school. In terms of QOL: there is a meaningful body of research about the impact of giving a teenage girl access to a phon
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by dweekly 2y ago
The pedant in me is curious if we would have to call it something different than geolocation. :)
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by dweekly 2y ago
It's a little depressing to have reinvented the modem only 10,000 times less efficient. At the point that two AIs discover that they are talking to each other, wouldn't it almost certainly be true that both could access the Intern
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by dweekly 2y ago
I've found "I presented this project to partners in Risk, Cyber, Compliance, and Legal and received no objection." is quite effective. People in a large company want to know you're working with the right set of people an
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by dweekly 2y ago
He's been clear for decades that an overall barometer of market health is the ratio of the stock market's total value to GDP. This metric is called "The Buffett Indicator". It's at a ratio today that dwarfs the dot-

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