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by fsloth 2y ago
It's also very hard to compare pharaonic Egypt to a modern society since most people were agricultural labourers. You did have not that many people (lets say 3M which was a lot by ancient standards), and of the elite who actually could
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by fsloth 2y ago
Exactly. What makes the capabilities of the current civilization different is a combination of things, some of which are unique this time around. The major differentiators are 1. Global scale monoculture in knowledge (take engineers from
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by fsloth 2y ago
I agree humans as individuals regadless where they came from or when they lived have always been equally precious in potential, and all traditions are valuable, but it’s simply false narrative to claim modern technology & capital would
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by fsloth 2y ago
It sounds like he's talking to investors and not to general public. In my experience in corporate america you communicate efficiency by proclaiming a checklist of things to do - plausible, but not necessarily accurate things - and then
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by fsloth 2y ago
> Technology has been around for hundreds of thousands of years Vernacular methods of doing things have been around - without science or rapid innovation. Key point in time was invention of printing press combined with lutheran zeal to r
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by fsloth 2y ago
I think most realtime production uses something similar to Disney BRDF when they refer to PBR. https://media.disneyanimation.com/uploads/production/publica... I don't think there is a standard as such that wo
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by fsloth 2y ago
I feel quite the opposite. I’m not a native english speaker, but working at US subsidiary I must produces reports in english etc - and having an LLM proofread my texts for me is great. LLM:s are new modality to computing. If you need it, th
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by fsloth 2y ago
”Many” competitors? I thought that in this vehicle category (large&affordable) Space X was the only competitor?
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by fsloth 2y ago
” relatively unusual.” Hindenburg was anything but usual IMO so fits the picture. There is a type of person who needs to re-invent themselves over and over.
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by fsloth 2y ago
There was never harm in positive publicity - even though I think the ”new space” operators targets commercial payloads foremost. Blue origin would not become Boeing but a logistical service provider, something like Maersk, chugging in the b
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by fsloth 2y ago
Audience? You mean all the space clients like Nasa, DoD and zillions of new space satellite vendors like IceEye etc? The public stream is nice to have but not critical. I personally felt it was obvious when the countdown was reset. IMHO the
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by fsloth 2y ago
Finland rich? Not as such. Small and homogenous definetly (pop 5.6M). US is rich. Vastly richer than Finland. PPP GDP for US in 2023 was 73k $ and for Finland 64k $. The systems are quite different. But it’s not about total wealth as such.
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by fsloth 2y ago
"DEI programs are meant to correct for generations of injustice and to push for equity)" I guess that what went wrong with them. Rather than generate systems to treat _evereyone_ equally the systems attempted very hard to 1. categ
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by fsloth 2y ago
In Finland, "homeless" actually means "homeless". We don't mean "people suffering mental illness and substance abuse issues". So that's the background for the article. I recently visited NYC and under
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by fsloth 2y ago
Speaking as a Finn. It's foremost NOT about mental&substance issues treatment but general financial aid to anyone in need. I think this phraze from the article summarizes it well. "The Finnish experience demonstrates the effec
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by fsloth 2y ago
“Walt Disney” by Neal Gabler. The man was reinventing himself through his life. Disney is sort nowadays stereotypical corporate americana but by god, it actually was started by the whims, passion, skill & vision of Walt. A must read imo
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by fsloth 2y ago
” And nothing will happen” I myself would not call special forces boarding the ship ’nothing’. Let’s see what happens next.
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by fsloth 2y ago
”what are we going to do?” The response to this event would probably be a good template for a standard policy each time infrastructure is damaged. Special forces boarded the suspect ship and now it’s held. What happens next is interesting.
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by fsloth 2y ago
”Perhaps there needs to be a blockade in the Baltic.” Yes. Controlling Kattegat traffic should be feasible which should give policy makers a fair range of options.
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by fsloth 2y ago
Finnish special forces boarded the ship. The ”hold my beer” moment in dealing with Russia using a language they understand and listen to.
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by fsloth 2y ago
The important evidence is fully public. It’s the funky see-saw the ship did over the cable. Plus missing an anchor afaik. Russian public is not party to this discussion. They have no influence. All messaging - things said and unsaid - is to
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by fsloth 2y ago
How do you use Scala as an embedded scripting language?
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by fsloth 2y ago
Previous incidents only few months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42172565 . Baltic is quite small and these sort of incidents have not been common. So it’s likely these are not isolated incidents but part of same
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by fsloth 2y ago
If it’s used as a game ui, games typically render everything at 60fps - so the energy cost from ui layer would be neglible. Afaik nobody is forcing to rerender the ui layer if nothing changes, though. Just render it to a texture and compose
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by fsloth 2y ago
What would the game be like? There are many ways to get as-built buildings at scale from existing datasets. For example there are cesium tiles. OSM data contains footprint polygons with height which means extrusion is trivial. To explore kn
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by fsloth 2y ago
”External computation susbtrate” is a useful idea if it leads to falsifiable theories. As a ”theory of everything” it sucks because it’s clearly not motivated by any specific maths or observations, but by the human need to map nature into s
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by fsloth 2y ago
Yes! But now you get a specific pop sci book _in any subject you want to learn about_ and _you can ask the book about comparisons_ (e.g. how were Roman and Parthian legal systems similar?). This at leas gives you a bunch of keywords to go s
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by fsloth 2y ago
I guess - yes from business&liability sense? ”This service you are now paying for 100$? We can sell it to you for 5$ but with the caveat _we give no guarantees if it works or is it fit for purpose_ - click here to accept”.
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by fsloth 2y ago
"App usability and performance typically benefit greatly from using the native platform they’re running on" I know this has always been the design dogma but is there any research to back this up? It's a _plausible_ dogma of c
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by fsloth 2y ago
Wouldn’t pure data based definition scheme enable all of the above in any case? If the underlying model is tree, then any graph based configuration data could be used to build it. I mean underneath it could be implemented using the api as i

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