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by ericd 4mo ago
Yeah, for me, Revolutions and The History of Rome are two of the best examples of "this is why knowing history is useful", and that history isn't actually boring - it's basically a highlight reel of some of the highest h
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by ericd 4mo ago
For anyone thinking about going that way, I highly recommend listening to the Revolutions podcast series starting here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1wVvwnrBP2cVQrFf06RoO9 It'll probably disabuse you of the id
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by ericd 4mo ago
If you’re writing software professionally, does the “can’t afford to pay for Claude code” they were talking about apply?
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by ericd 4mo ago
Then use the cheap/free plans?
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by ericd 4mo ago
Low paid humans have been pumping out low quality SEO slop full of misinformation for at least the last 15-20 years, it’s not much different. If anything, the quality is probably somewhat higher.
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by ericd 4mo ago
I think I'm already real? The main reasons for inflation, outside of computer components, are related to the fact that we're near the end of a long-term debt cycle. Look at demographics and monetary/fiscal policy. This is jus
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by ericd 4mo ago
You don't need a $200/mo plan, that's for people chewing through Opus tokens with multiple instances of Claude Code going in parallel. My impression is that most people just use the free ChatGPT tier, or $20/mo at most.
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by ericd 4mo ago
>The average person does not really benefit from recent AI tech Really? Most people I know seem to have found the chatbots tremendously helpful. It's much faster than researching via a bunch of google searches.
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by ericd 4mo ago
Download here https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro
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by ericd 5mo ago
Yep, skimming the cream of the world is the engine of US dominance. We generally got some of the most highly motivated people, because it takes a lot of work and determination to uproot your life. There used to be a bipartisan agreement tha
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by ericd 5mo ago
>Why are we on a another engine redesign? Just looking at it should tell you a lot about why: https://www.metal-am.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/08/... It’s cheaper and faster to make
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by ericd 5mo ago
Only correcting this because I’ve seen three people make the mistake now - it’s Eric, not Erich.
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by ericd 5mo ago
I take it this wasn't the half-wattage Max Q version with blower fan?
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by ericd 5mo ago
Yeah, but on the normal, longer timeline? The fuckery around indices was that Nasdaq changed their rules for it to include it much more quickly, but that was limited to Nasdaq, no?
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by ericd 5mo ago
Rein in the worst excesses, and you won't have the general population spreading these stories as a response to their own experiences with unions. Living in NYC and observing union workers was enough to fully convince me that union regs
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by ericd 5mo ago
I don't think it'd have much of an effect on the story, outside of background stuff like the Animatrix, it's just an interesting little fact about why the world is the way it is. Shooting and hitting things in slo mo is still
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by ericd 5mo ago
Assume he's referring to SpaceX's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terafab
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by ericd 5mo ago
Always felt like it would've made more sense if it was using part of the peoples' brains to do their computation, as super energy efficient computers.
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by ericd 5mo ago
Isn't xAI profitable after leasing out its DCs to Anthropic?
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by ericd 5mo ago
I think this only applies currently for the Nasdaq index, and the only Nasdaq index fund that comes to mind is QQQ. I think fewer people are currently being hit than are worried about it.
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by ericd 5mo ago
Right, sorry, I meant in the orbits they're considering for these - I think they're mainly considering sun-sync.
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by ericd 5mo ago
How big are panels? If you get 60 cell panels, about 68x45 inches/1.7m x 1.1m. Our home array is 60 of those, 24kw. Example of a spec sheet: https://signaturesolar.imagerelay.com/share/ffc69ee2265b4613... If you m
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by ericd 5mo ago
Does the fuel cost that much? Just doing some back of the napkin doesn't seem to bear that out. Looks like the fuel load is about $2M, and gets you 100 tons to orbit. I think an inference-optimized NVL72 GB300 rack costs around 3x that
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by ericd 5mo ago
In space, that solar panel is always in the sunlight. No clouds, no night time. Weirdly enough, earth is a more challenging environment in some ways for solar. You need to lay out >3x the number of panels on earth to get the same power p
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by ericd 5mo ago
Do you think the radiator will need to be bigger than the solar panels?
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by ericd 5mo ago
About 2.6x? Making a radiator >60% smaller is a pretty big diff.
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by ericd 5mo ago
ISS is not comparable, we don't have to keep GPUs in human-habitable temp ranges, and radiation speed goes way up with increased temps.
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by ericd 5mo ago
Tokyo has plenty of earthquakes, it's not a showstopper. NIMBYs, yeah, they came out in force when height limits were discussed in San Mateo. It was always pretty annoying how progressive SF Bay residents claim to be vs. how progressiv
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by ericd 5mo ago
They’re not necessarily at odds. Manhattan has something like 75x the population density per mile. You could rewild 4/5 of the the SF Bay Area while also building 10x the housing stock under that development pattern. Single family home
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by ericd 5mo ago
I totally agree that we need to be taking better care of each other, our system's a mess, but I wasn't planning on getting into a big discussion about that tonight from my phone. The point about 3090s was that reasonably good loca

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