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by e_y_ 2y ago
"Engineers are more likely to be terrorists" is different from "terrorists are more likely to be engineers". You can imagine that engineering is a useful skill for terrorism and thus terrorist organizations might spend e
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by e_y_ 2y ago
CNN quoted someone from Google saying it was a fake (old account that just changed its handle today). IMHO there ought to be restrictions and transparency on channel name changes because it gets abused all the time.
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by e_y_ 2y ago
The guy's face has been plastered over the news for several days and there's a $60,000 reward. Getting a tip from a fast food worker is very plausible. More plausible in my opinion than the FBI having some kind of agreement with M
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by e_y_ 2y ago
The robot arm isn't running off a battery and most of them are large enough that board size isn't a constraint, so why add the complexity of custom silicon if it isn't needed? Using off-the-shelf FPGAs also makes repairs easi
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by e_y_ 2y ago
I think adding labels to the product is only useful to a certain extent. There's a few things that stand out, like if a product has 70% DV sodium that's usually a bad sign, or "cheese product" tells you that it's no
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by e_y_ 2y ago
That's probably where there's a big advantage to being a company like Nvidia, which has both the proprietary chip design knowledge/data and the resources/money and AI/LLM expertise to work on something specialized l
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by e_y_ 2y ago
1. Before the pandemic, farebox recovery was 73%, one of the highest in the country. Electrified, it probably would have gone even higher since at least some people avoided the train because it was too crowded at rush hour. Unfortunately it
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by e_y_ 2y ago
According to rumor the AEM-7s were fried during testing due to a misconfiguration.
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by e_y_ 2y ago
In fact it was looked into by Caltrain's predecessor, the Southern Pacific railroad https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDI19210907.2.17 Stockton Independent, September 1921 > Electrification of Lines to Be Looked Into
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by e_y_ 2y ago
Possibly there's some novelty factor to riding the new trains. My 70-something year old aunt, visiting from another continent, wanted to ride the new trains (and they weren't even fully converted yet, it was day 2 of the soft laun
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by e_y_ 2y ago
As I understand it, they don't own every stock. Right now VTI has about 3700 stocks out of the ~4300 on US publicly traded markets (excluding OTC). But it's more representative than the S&P 500 and similar.
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by e_y_ 2y ago
I would agree that bytecode is different from machine code, but "efficient execution by a software interpreter" seems like a bad delineation considering that some virtual machines treat bytecode as simply an intermediate represent
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by e_y_ 2y ago
Not quite haunted but I've had people report that my website hosted on a .quest domain is blocked on their work computer. My best guess is that their filter thinks it's gaming related (it's not) or maybe they just block all &
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by e_y_ 2y ago
My uninformed guess is that aside from the obvious glaring user base size problem, the API is too locked down to build unique, interesting apps and too different/incompatible to port existing ones like VR games.
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by e_y_ 2y ago
I learned from Scott Manley's latest video that buoy is pronounced "boy" in British English (boo-ee in American)
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by e_y_ 2y ago
The turnaround time for Shuttle was 2-3 months, while building a brand new rocket takes like 1-2 years. Although for the cost of Shuttle, we could have built a whole bunch of expendable rockets, pipelined with a regular launch cadence, and
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by e_y_ 2y ago
(Not an engineer either) My understanding is that it's been done before on smaller scales but having a giant piston in the tank requires a good seal, railings to keep it straight, and overall way too much mass and rigidity. Consider th
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by e_y_ 2y ago
A system (whole) that can survive the failure of (some of the) individual parts. Up to a limit.
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by e_y_ 2y ago
We're not doing that while driving, though. If we're talking purely about going off memory, there's no reason why machines couldn't build up a similar catalog (which could be used by every self driving AI once learned).
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by e_y_ 2y ago
That very much depends on the game. Multiplayer games are at the highest risk of becoming unplayable. Most single player game should in theory survive the death of the developer/publisher as long as Steam is around. Some single player
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by e_y_ 2y ago
Citation? Humans are not constantly moving their heads to the degree that chickens do, and I find it doubtful that the micro movements from our head (which our eyes have to adjust for with the vestibulo-ocular reflex so things aren't b
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by e_y_ 2y ago
This is not a No True Scotsman fallacy ... and if you argue otherwise, you're falling for the No True Scotsman fallacy. Just kidding. But more seriously, the original claim was deeply flawed so it makes sense to challenge the criteria
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by e_y_ 2y ago
At my company, DB migrations on startup was a flag that was enabled for local development and disabled for production deploys. Some teams had it enabled for staging/pre-production deploys, and a few teams had it turned on for productio
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by e_y_ 2y ago
I thought Uber just let drivers ("independent contractors") deal with the vehicle maintenance and cleaning up when someone pukes in the back. Do they even have their own depots?
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by e_y_ 2y ago
LLM's general knowledge is trained on data that's months old (or longer). Alex Morgan only announced her retirement a few days ago, so in order for the AI to know about it, someone would need to pick out recent, relevant articles
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by e_y_ 2y ago
The amount of money and budget that a company has can vary wildly. Just because your company uses SSO doesn't mean you're a Fortune 500. Of course this mostly means that if your required feature set falls into the "Contact us
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by e_y_ 2y ago
I think they even robocall stores with something similar to Assistant to check if they're open on holidays, which is definitely something that would be difficult for a smaller or community-run database to accomplish at scale
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by e_y_ 2y ago
We should be doing both, for different reasons. Ban data brokers because they allow anyone with a credit card to stalk people, more or less legally. Fix the SSN identity system because even if you ban data broker businesses, dark web broker
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by e_y_ 2y ago
Maybe the old days when you needed multiple maps folded up on paper instead of one zoomable super map containing the entire world. Also "Google Map" sounds like a map of Google.
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by e_y_ 2y ago
In the press conference, they said the collision risk can be avoided by undocking the Starliner and then letting it float away to a safe distance before starting up the thrusters.

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