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by fastball 2y ago
Actually, in my imagined best scenario, we would develop better means of producing energy that make a solar farm in the middle of the desert less attractive, causing working there to become less lucrative and encouraging people to find new
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by fastball 2y ago
I definitely recommend reading Lars Doucet's treatment[1] of this subject. You can skip to section 5 if you want the most direct answer to your question, but the whole thing is worth reading. The short answer is that there are many way
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by fastball 2y ago
A constellation of low (relative) cost telescopes can definitely compete with a huge terrestrial telescope. Genuinely doubt it will take us a decade to get one. Someone just needs to take a page from SpaceX's Starlink playbook and mass
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by fastball 2y ago
That is because most of our telescopes in 2025 are ground-based, not because they're better at it. And we're not very far from having many telescopes in space at all. Every year the cost of payload to orbit is getting cheaper. Blu
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by fastball 2y ago
For truly novel UIs with high dynamism it is probably a good decision. For anything else it is almost certainly more work for the dev and more resource-intensive for the system. One thing I haven't seen anyone else mention is that a ga
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by fastball 2y ago
Environment and dependency management in JS-land is even worse. Similar problems with runtime version management (need to use nvm for sanity, using built-in OS package managers seems to consistently result in tears). More package managers a
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by fastball 2y ago
Telescopes in space are much better for saving us from catastrophic meteor strikes.
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by fastball 2y ago
> so many people How many people get "things that make life worth living" from the Paranal Observatory every year?
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by fastball 2y ago
Luckily we can stick telescopes in space (partially enabled by those constellations), where the sky is even darker and clearer.
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by fastball 2y ago
Energy for the many is more important than astronomy for the few. Hopefully in the future we have more robust energy production (this is a great example of why green energy proponents need to support nuclear – it has far fewer externalities
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by fastball 2y ago
It's not "destroyed". If a dire need for dark skies arises, you can always... turn the lights off.
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by fastball 2y ago
Yes, it is linked[1] in the first sentence of the article. [1] https://sidhion.com/blog/28h_days/
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by fastball 2y ago
I'm not the OP, but I've considered doing this (have personally tried tri-phasic sleep in the past as an alternative) so I'm assuming the motivation might be the same: I just don't have a 24hr circadian rhythm. I'd
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by fastball 2y ago
If you understand what it is doing, you could do it yourself, surely?
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by fastball 2y ago
If you don't understand what the generic is doing, there might be edge-cases you don't appreciate. I think Typescript types are fairly non-essential so it doesn't really matter, but for more important business logic it defini
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by fastball 2y ago
Finally, Universal Paperclips for the brainrot era.
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by fastball 2y ago
It's not a lack of emotional energy, it is the guardrails you point out. All of the SotA models are heavily fine-tuned to be botlike , and even then they are fooling people. If you had an LLM fine-tuned with RLHF to deliberately confu
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by fastball 2y ago
That's not the original Turing test either. The original imitation game as proposed by Turing involves reading a text transcript of a human and a computer and having the evaluator determine which is which. The evaluator does not intera
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by fastball 2y ago
Reminds me of vasalgel for male birth control.
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by fastball 2y ago
Interesting that the catch-abort on the last flight was caused by a damaged sensor on the tower. Just shows the complexities over trying to launch and immediately catch a rocket from the same structure.
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by fastball 2y ago
I move around a lot and travel light, upgrading the small screen isn't really an option. I definitely agree there are probably countless ways I could further optimize my system, but switching to a more feature-rich shell app is a clear
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by fastball 2y ago
I meant in a context with a random ID and a timestamp. If you need to retrieve rows by time/order, you use the timestamp. If you need a row by ID, you use the ID. The use-cases where you actually need to know which row was inserted fir
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by fastball 2y ago
I work on a laptop with a small scren most of the time. I am constantly going in and out of the shell. iTerm2 has a quake mode that allows me to seamlessly pull this up on top with a keypress. It significantly reduces the lag of switching t
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by fastball 2y ago
Also if you have a nanosecond timestamp, do you actually need a monotonically increasing row ID? What for?
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by fastball 2y ago
I like the highly configurable quake mode in iTerm2.
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by fastball 2y ago
What is the serious downside of open internet centric review?
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by fastball 2y ago
SpaceX is mass-producing the engines, mass-producing the heat shield tiles, the fuel is cheap, the structure is stainless steel (cheap), payload capacity is huge, and full rapid re-usability seems well under way. There is no way Starship wi
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by fastball 2y ago
What makes a country communist?
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by fastball 2y ago
No True Scotsman
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by fastball 2y ago
That just sounds like a remix of "real communism has never been tried". Lots of things are possible in theory, but in practice a big part of why anyone would describe a certain country as "communist" is due to that count

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