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Geomagnetically Induced Currents (Wikipedia)(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by fsloth 2y ago|1 comments
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by fsloth 2y ago
The mechanism of GIC which is the main risk for terrestrial equipment in geomagnetic storms is quite interesting.
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by fsloth 2y ago
This. The lens is sort of the pointless gimmick they use to sell the actual value proposition.
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by fsloth 2y ago
No it's not specific at all in predicting technological progress, which was the point of my comment. Nobody knows what singularity would actually mean from the point of view of specific technological development.
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by fsloth 2y ago
AFAIK in wet science you need (or needed) to do tons of experimentations with liquids with specific molar compositions and temperatures splurging in and out of test tubes - basically just physically navigating a search space. I would view a
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by fsloth 2y ago
What’s better than upper atmosphere sulphur?
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by fsloth 2y ago
Popularized articles about C++ are very hit or miss. It’s partly because the language is so hit and miss in it’s non-design. The most glaring error in the iceberg IMO is the claim that shared_ptr is an antipattern. Shared_ptr is brilliant f
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by fsloth 2y ago
I slightly disagree. There are lot of problems that are not identified as “easy” before someone tries to solve them. Hence, “identifying” step is often required to find the low hanging fruits. One catefory for these types of issues is “Comp
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by fsloth 2y ago
Thank you!
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by fsloth 2y ago
Are you serious :D? The arbitrary syntax toenail clippings that is C++ should be handled by IDE & compiler, linters and static type checker. C++ syntax is not music or maths, it’s just more or less arbitrary gobbledygook. (I write C++ a
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by fsloth 2y ago
There are very good reasons for closed source projects in fact not to use public repositories but the very least org-internal forks/mirrors. In that case dependency management referring fixed public repositories is no-go. If there are
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by fsloth 2y ago
If you like SDF:s Womp is pretty nice for starting out. Tinkercad is another pretty good beginner “cad”.
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by fsloth 2y ago
So I’ve turned into an old man screaming at the sky. 2011 is not that long ago! Lot’s of production code from that time can be still considered fairly ”fresh”.
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by fsloth 2y ago
The snarky response would be that TypeScript and Go are not industrial strength languages :) C++, C, even Fortran run just fine after decades.
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by fsloth 2y ago
Ah, you mean specifically parallellizing a complex non-parallel system? Not designing a parallel system from scratch?
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by fsloth 2y ago
”Slightly cheaper”? What are the actual numbers we are talking about regarding yearly comp?
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by fsloth 2y ago
I agree, the skill inherent apparently in the US culture of using capital to scale things up compared to the rest of the west feels unappreciated. You give a US capitalist money, labour pool, and a goal, they will organize them to a system
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by fsloth 3y ago
AFAIK the idea of neanderthals as original bogeymen is closer to anthropological fanfic than a credible hypothesis, but would love to have an anthropologist/paleonthologist to chime in.
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by fsloth 3y ago
”Some might say this is being pedantic, but the quality of the image has a huge impact on the feel of a movie.” Hardly pedantic, the quality of the image is one of the key variables in cinema.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Yep. These are poor mans hacks since they lack ”root access” to the model. It’s super weird for parties outside of openai using chatgpt for anything research-like. Like starting from ”how do you control the experiment parameters”.
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by fsloth 3y ago
I don't think it's about the byte size, but the inherent complexity of the implementation. 1000 lines of C code is extremely simple by any standard. Whereas a sundry collection of Python and PyTorch libraries is anything but.
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by fsloth 3y ago
"humanity's willingness to risk even death in pursuit of something greater." I would rephraze this as 'humanity's capability to sustain a large range of psychological profiles and the capability to filter out from t
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by fsloth 3y ago
The historical narrative of Apollo program contains so many awesome aspects of leadership, teamwork, technological innovation, excellence in operations, that the more you read about it the astronaut's contributions tend to fall to the
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by fsloth 3y ago
For those with large screens to watch it on, Apollo 11 is a heartbreakingly beautiful documentary of the first moon landing using restored film material. While the software engineering aspects are left to the more obscure corners of the A
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by fsloth 3y ago
For All Mankind is so so drama but it becomes super good if you are familiar with the nuts and bolts space program, and all the seasons hold up from this aspect - as the timeline diverges the tech becomes a bit less grounded, but it's
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by fsloth 3y ago
Is there some plug’n’play vendor that would offer most of these out of the box (like Netlify etc)?
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by fsloth 3y ago
Thanks! I’ll check it out.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Thanks! I’ll check it out.
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by fsloth 3y ago
I transitioned recently to Mac on new job and I was surprised to find the most painful thing was not havig Notepad++ and was super amazed I did not find comparable software on Mac.
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by fsloth 3y ago
The vibram ”5 finger” watersport model is brilliant shoe for swimming in natural lakes summer & winter (works even for ice swimming) but running in such a shoe is not something I would consider.

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