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by flowerthoughts 7mo ago
Appendix 1 extracted with Claude: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/139mTTtNsdanE9SEpmYaB... To sort, click the Table 1 icon and select Create filter view.
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by flowerthoughts 7mo ago
Wouldn't uncrewed aircraft, and (hypersonic) missiles merge technologies and become the same at some point? Why are we engineering the two separately? Are missiles by definition exploding themselves rather than releasing payloads? (I&#
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by flowerthoughts 7mo ago
When I moved from Sweden to Ireland and realized the Swedish central address registry makes moving fantastically easy, I started dreaming of a central registry where consumers and producers could meet. I can give my supplier access to exact
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by flowerthoughts 7mo ago
I enjoy most of the "AI" posts on HN nowadays. I was really fed up with the MCP/Anthropic PR machine of a year ago, after just a month of that. There's much more actual content today, though I guess we also see less of s
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by flowerthoughts 7mo ago
Old compilers tended to make it a compile-time switch which backends were included, probably because backends were "huge", so they were left out. (The insn lookup table in GCC took ages to generate and compile.) And of course all
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by flowerthoughts 7mo ago
Sections 5.4 and 5.5 are the interesting ones. 5.4: Energy consumption going down because of parallelism over multiple cores seems odd. What were those cores doing before? Better utilization causing some spinlocks to be used less or somethi
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by flowerthoughts 7mo ago
I've used the analogy of a circular saw before ("it's not really sawing, because you can't feel the wood...") It's easy to just slab on a Skil saw, cut through the beam and it'll be somewhat straight. But
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by flowerthoughts 7mo ago
I saw a similar issue on r/PrivatEkonomi (Swedish.) Two doomerism post with subject somewhat adapted to the forum at hand. The two users were young accounts with private comment history. Someone is definitely on a propaganda tour tryin
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by flowerthoughts 7mo ago
That's odd. File Sytem API seems mostly available in Firefox since 111. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...
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by flowerthoughts 8mo ago
> The idea is, since data has a ~1/20 chance of having a p < 0.05 Are you saying p is uniformly distributed over any data set? That doesn't jive with my limited understanding of entropy. What's this based on?
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by flowerthoughts 8mo ago
> the problem is that people from OpenAI/Antrhopic are saying things like superintelligence in 3 years An even bigger problem is that people listen to them even after they say rationally implausible things. When even Yann LeCunn is
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by flowerthoughts 8mo ago
> We are going to spray expensive stuff in an extremely fine and precise line. Then we're going to shoot a laser at each droplet. < Why?! > To make a better laser. < Yes, of course you are. > 100,000 times per second. &l
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by flowerthoughts 8mo ago
Not to mention the ones that have peaks in invisible parts of the spectrum.
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by flowerthoughts 8mo ago
I really love that their notification email includes applicable price change for my specific servers. The worst counter example of this was Mercedes sending me an email saying "the terms and conditions have been updated, please read th
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by flowerthoughts 8mo ago
I joined CS education in 2000. There were jobs everywhere. Classmates were leaving after a few months, or working part-time. And this was in Sweden. It was not only creating jobs, but reinventing the IT field, creating lots more opportuniti
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by flowerthoughts 8mo ago
Just tried Opus 4.6. I think they've patched this particular one, but changing it to > I want to repair my car. The workshop is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? > Recognized straightforward practical dilemma Simple practic
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by flowerthoughts 8mo ago
Well, the gardener isn't going to cut down your roses to the ground as they are about to go into bloom because s/he mistook it for the weed they were just working on.
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by flowerthoughts 8mo ago
I don't know, but it could be long term vs short term capital injection.
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by flowerthoughts 8mo ago
> And not having to buy land and water to power/cool it. It's interesting that you bring that up as a benfit. If waterless cooling (i.e. closed cooling system) works in space, wouldn't it work even better on Earth?
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by flowerthoughts 8mo ago
Yeah, and their customers have repeatedly asked them to stop doing that. For instance https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/2327 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/
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by flowerthoughts 8mo ago
Just as the US is proving that giving power to federations will make states powerless, Draghi finds it the perfect time to suggest a federation. We all knew this would eventually be the proposed path. The EU politicians and staffers obvious
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by flowerthoughts 8mo ago
> Markets are not happy right now either We are in a large futures expiration week. There's always extra volatility around there. https://www.investing.com/futures-expiration-calendar/
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by flowerthoughts 9mo ago
I remember back in the day, the days of chisel and hammer. I could feel the stone, and the impact of the hammer vibrating into my hand. It was pleasant, and I could feel that every hit really meant something to shape the future of the stone
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by flowerthoughts 9mo ago
Those are rookie numbers. This guy [1] (in Swedish) was digitizing a municipal archive. 25 years later, the IT department (allegedly) accidentally deleted his entire work. With no backup. Translated: > For at least 25 years, work was und
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by flowerthoughts 9mo ago
Given that Sweden manufactures submarines since long ago, I'm surprised second-strike capability was even a question. Agreed that finding a target that doesn't blow back in our own face would be an issue. Though you don't rea
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by flowerthoughts 9mo ago
You also need to build the infrastructure to take on 1,000 tons of gold. I doubt that's done in a month. IIRC, London has the biggest storage after NYC, so that's probably where it'll end up in the interrim. Eventually, I&#x2
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by flowerthoughts 9mo ago
> This doesn’t mean that the authors of that paper are bad people! > We should distinguish the person from the deed. We all know good people who do bad things > They were just in situations where it was easier to do the bad thing t
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by flowerthoughts 9mo ago
GP said s/he didn't understand why anyone would want these in-betweens. I gave an explanation as to why. Based on what you're saying, it seems the divide arises from some drivers classifying these features as physical comfort
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by flowerthoughts 9mo ago
As a technologist, I like lane-keep assist because it feels fundamentally more right that my car by default follows the road than keeps going with the turn radius I had previously input. Cruise control with minimum distance helps me keep a
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by flowerthoughts 9mo ago
You know, it's my bad. I use the Modern for HN Chrome extension, and it apparently hid the entire text there. Lesson learned. Extension uninstalled. Sorry for the noise.

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