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by ericd 2y ago
If I understood correctly, that was private funding, and he was just taking credit for a business/private investment deal?
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by ericd 2y ago
Guessing SMRs are a ways off, any thoughts on the container-sized microreactors that would stand in for large diesel gens? My impression is that they’re still in the design phase, and the supply chain for the 20% U-235 HALEU fuel is in its
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by ericd 2y ago
That’s just SV, though, you would’ve paid <1/3 that elsewhere.
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by ericd 2y ago
That was for two chargers, not one. And normal outlets give plenty of range overnight, it’s just a luxury to be able to charge faster when you want.
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by ericd 2y ago
Interesting, we got that charging speed off of a normal US 1.5kw outlet (120v, 12 amps). Don’t most European standard outlets put out more than that?
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by ericd 2y ago
I think this underestimates how popular TikTok is with 20/30 year olds.
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by ericd 2y ago
I’d assume the concern is more swaying public opinion, sowing division to make us incapable of unified political effort, or even to destabilize us, things like that, not so much infiltrating networks - they already manufacture much of that
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by ericd 2y ago
Fair. I think that was for HLS rather than the launch systems, but I guess if it’s already been disbursed, it’s probably all commingled. But that still means it’s not just taxpayer money, it’s mostly theirs. They’ve been raising equity roun
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by ericd 2y ago
They're blowing up their own money, unless you still count it as being the taxpayer's after the government pays them for launch services.
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by ericd 2y ago
We need a high per-ton carbon tax, with all revenue dividended out per-capita to offset the inflation. This would eliminate the green premium on a great number of clean alternatives and avoid the problems of the government picking where to
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by ericd 2y ago
Thanks, they also mentioned that they moved the upper flaps to reduce heating on them during reentry.
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by ericd 2y ago
I also saw mention somewhere that this is V2 of Starship upper stage? Somewhat longer, and I’m sure a bunch of other changes to enable mass simulator deployment.
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by ericd 2y ago
Just being able to rank domains (and nuke the ones that are usually spam) is enough to make it worth $10/mo for me. This is a tool you’re using constantly, so even small time savings per use adds up to a lot.
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by ericd 2y ago
I normally really like this blog, but what’s all this noise about? They’ve done the hard part of lining their entire foundation up, now all they have to do is build the applications on top, and let others do so as well. In the meantime, the
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by ericd 2y ago
For #2, most proposals I’ve seen aim to put domestic products on a level playing field with products from countries without an equivalent tax with a “border adjustment”, a sort of tariff that’s based on the carbon intensity of the product (
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by ericd 2y ago
The thread is about ads in language model results. Do you think OpenAI is going to resist putting ads into their results for the next few years? I hope they do, but I wouldn’t say it’s a given. You definitely won’t get (intentionally inject
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by ericd 2y ago
Well, I work on this stuff, but I’m mostly sharing this to spread awareness that you don’t need a multimillion dollar rack of nvidia gpu machines to do inference with surprisingly powerful models these days. Not that long ago, you’d need a
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by ericd 2y ago
Have you used one of the larger qwen2.5's? I've found the quality to be pretty good. In this case, I wouldn't say it's cheaper, the machine I'm talking about clocks in around $5k. But it's not going to start in
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by ericd 2y ago
Just a reminder that you can run a fairly capable model like qwen2.5:72b locally on an 128 gig M4 Max Macbook Pro.
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by ericd 2y ago
Re tire dust, you can avoid living near major roads, and running a hepa filter anywhere you spend significant time. Our old apartment’s balcony used to get a coating of black dust on everything within a week of wiping things down, since we
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by ericd 2y ago
Boiled wool is pretty water resistant, that’s usually what wool coats are made of.
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by ericd 2y ago
Yep, polyester was the first thing to go. It’s a crappy fabric for all sorts of other reasons anyway.
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by ericd 2y ago
Just regular soap and water with a brush seem to work fine, no need to scrub hard, generally.
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by ericd 2y ago
If it wasn’t that, wouldn’t it have been a lightning strike, or something else? Fundamentally, the problem is that the houses were in an area that has become incredibly flammable. It’s not all PG&E’s fault.
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by ericd 2y ago
I don't think anyone is denying the existence of Greybeards, it's more that the field has exploded so much in the meantime that the probability of a random 30 year old being in it is much higher than the probability of a random 50
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by ericd 2y ago
Yeah, my understanding is that that was one of the most impactful things Jobs did, aggressively clean house and recruit/promote a good leadership team. And they trimmed the product offerings, killed off the clone program, and a bunch o
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by ericd 2y ago
Thanks! That would probably help our WAF/wife acceptance factor a good bit… Here’s hoping our device battery level detection is better than that of the sibling commenter.
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by ericd 2y ago
Good advice, except that I’d try whenever possible to get AA/AAA devices rather than button cells. Not only do the button cell devices burn through batteries, causing a maintenance headache if you have a non-trivial number of devices,
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by ericd 2y ago
Well, similar to how Montessori (and now most public schools, it seems) deal in manipulatives first, and then switch to abstract later, I think the same makes sense for money. And I actually have been going back to cash more often, and I sp
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by ericd 2y ago
Yeah, same here on most counts, even going down to 3 ACH on the blower door test made CO2 levels pretty high, now they’re barely above outdoor.

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