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entropicgravity
3y ago
If you use the center of the smaller rotating circle rather than where it touches the larger circle then it all works out. Hindsight is 20/20.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
Finally let the dog out on its death bed.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
And so we come full circle. Using a DC battery to power an inherently AC induction process. These are not your mother's home appliances.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
I use Linux Mint for a similar host set up. Its worth it to move away from virtualBox to the open source versions as I did recently, KVM etc. There are quite a few paper cuts in setting it up the first time. I recall it took about five hour
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entropicgravity
3y ago
Ah, that's my problem with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
This is a good strategy for the pre-EV era but in the EV era 'vehicles' can and will be much smaller than what most people think of as a car today. This is because EV technology scales much better than ICE vehicles for cities. A
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entropicgravity
3y ago
Yes I was surprised they didn't mention the Northern Telecom part in the article.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
So far it seems that AI just as likely to make stuff up as it is to provide solid reliable knowledge. As long as that remains the case AI isn't going to make much progress because there's too much to lose when you can't be su
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entropicgravity
3y ago
Aren't the boomers supposed to be selling up and moving into condos downtown now?
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entropicgravity
3y ago
Looks like yet another attempt at regulatory capture.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
My question to Musk would be,"Is there one, cheap, device that could be deployed widely on roads that could improve self driving cars enough to push the technology into viability by a substantial margin?".
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entropicgravity
3y ago
It's you, who has significantly deteriorated lately. Sincerely, ChatGPT
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entropicgravity
3y ago
Abstraction if necessary but not necessarily abstraction.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
Let this be a lesson to those on the boards of tech companies. It's not necessarily horrible to chose a new CEO that has an MBA degree but also be sure that he has an engineering degree. An MBA only CEO in tech is almost always a poor
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entropicgravity
3y ago
Climate change has to main components, temperature and CO2, which are related by the relationship burning fossil fuels creates CO2 which increases the world's average temperature. This much has been known for over one hundred years. Ov
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entropicgravity
3y ago
The self checkout at Costco is almost flawless and convenient. The one flaw I've found is, don't scan the twelve pack of 1 litre apple juice bricks (assuming you can even lift it) and then try to heft it onto the tray (like every
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entropicgravity
3y ago
And then there's Indonesia which has 200m people. Though to be fair Indonesia is prioritizing scooters more than cars (as is India).
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entropicgravity
3y ago
If you're a gigacorp you might have reasons to go with a customized version of MySQL otherwise pick Postgres.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
The purpose of life is to hydrogenate carbon, said a minimalist.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
Starship will be able to do about the same but with more passengers and spending a small percentage of the trip in the atmosphere.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
It will be expensive for this group to compete unless they can get access to SpaceX launch rockets, particularly the Starship.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
It's a knotA(door)able for me.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
No
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entropicgravity
3y ago
If you're susceptible to having plaque build up on your teeth you might want to read this BBC article from last July [1]. I've used the technique they describe with an Oral B middle of the line electric tooth brush (lots of other
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entropicgravity
3y ago
He just needs to trade in his KIA for a Tesla and he'll be fine.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
Mother Mary came to me speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
Spectacular all the way around!
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entropicgravity
3y ago
Otherwise we'd be like fish out of water.
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entropicgravity
3y ago
Better yet, detect the AI (by its frenetic speed) and then feed it a bunch of false data.
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entropicgravity
4y ago
There is a distinction between human tribes that lived in permanent locations and human tribes that were nomadic. Over the 300k years that this article cites its likely that the majority of human tribes were nomadic because as the resources
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