gravescale

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by gravescale 2y ago
From your first paragraph, i was sure the video was going to be: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R4226lBJ_qI
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by gravescale 2y ago
You can already live in a tiny cabin and never go outside in any major city of your choice (or even outside a city, but you might need to provide your own cabin). You can even choose to pay the vast proportion of your salary to pay for the
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by gravescale 2y ago
Indeed, when opening a hatch and allowing scalding ultra-high-pressure sulphuric acid into the habitat is an option, dissent will be fairly easily handled!
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by gravescale 2y ago
> Sit around and write software? It'd be a pretty extreme way to make web developers think about latency of their bloated websites, sorry "immersive app experiences", but it might actually be the one that works.
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by gravescale 2y ago
No, the idea is that historically-normal interest rates around the 5-10% mark won't be conducive to free VC cash being sprayed around for start-ups to wank themselves silly over "piv-iterating" endlessly over spamming complet
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by gravescale 2y ago
Like people who post "here's what ChatGPTx said" instead of their own answer. Quite literally, what is the point? However, I don't think it's really bad for the technical industries long term. It probably does mean
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by gravescale 2y ago
> We just let it generate the code and everything seemed to work Everyone using C++20 compilers: side-glancing monkey.
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by gravescale 2y ago
Beaming the power to Earth is probably not going to work very well because of the diffraction limits involved. Also Venus and Earth orbit at different speeds, so in best case you have to beam the power "only" about 40 million km,
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by gravescale 2y ago
Relatedly the wristbands used at for example, Taylor Swift concerts use 38kHz IR floodlighting for the control signal. Recently HN'd: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492515
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by gravescale 2y ago
You mean so you don't accidentally hire idealists who won't be on board with your shenanigans?
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by gravescale 2y ago
I never understood that move. If you're evil, you can be evil just fine even when "don't be evil" is your motto. If you're not, then there's nothing wrong with it.
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by gravescale 2y ago
Awesome. Reminds me of the time that an expensive Spectrum Digital XDS200 probe didn't work on Linux, and then bricked while I was doing the firmware upgrade it said it wanted. SD said the only thing I could do would be return it to th
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by gravescale 2y ago
I honestly believe that a pair or noise cancelling headphones and an eye mask would have statistically noticable effects on outcomes. The bright, noisy environment of a hospital makes good, natural sleep basically impossible and that is bru
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by gravescale 2y ago
I think it's just as simple as when you're already poor, having children doesn't fundamentally change things. Children don't actually cost that much when you have nothing much to give them anyway, and quickly turn into f
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by gravescale 2y ago
What has been holding you back so far? It seems strange to me that so many normally quite pro-privacy, pro-FOSS, Google-sceptical people are still using Chrome to this point.
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by gravescale 2y ago
Robot soldiers don't look like humans for the same reasons that bulldozers don't look like Shaq holding a shovel. Robots that would win the Ukraine war would look like a barrage of drones or missiles (either stealthy or in overwhe
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by gravescale 2y ago
Finally some news that makes me think the Firefox has a glimmer of hope left.
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by gravescale 2y ago
Why is there's always an Akin's law? > 38. Capabilities drive requirements, regardless of what the systems engineering textbooks say. https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
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by gravescale 2y ago
The Ancient Aliens discovered the same laws of engineering: 5. (Miller's Law) Three points determine a curve. 6. (Mar's Law) Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker. https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.ed
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by gravescale 2y ago
Indeed. Even a pretty mediocre modern microcontroller is capable of incredible feats of computation and speed, doubly so if you glue it to an FPGA, even a cheapo one. The fact that each is probably a few mm across and costs almost nothing j
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by gravescale 2y ago
I mean it's better then "Ask HN: how to grind leetcode to get a FAANG job with TC over $400k, I want a million in the bank by age 25 latest?".
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by gravescale 2y ago
You just need more Productivity Modules in those assemblers and a better inserter/belt topology.
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by gravescale 2y ago
When you're doing it in front of the Guinness Book of Records observer, it does need to work within 'n' attempts (they had a cube jam on the first go). I get nervous at a demo in front of Important Stakeholders even though th
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by gravescale 2y ago
Also Surface Detail where a large portion of the plot involves a virtual war to solve a disagreement.
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by gravescale 2y ago
I think it becomes intrusive into the storytelling when it becomes a constant chain of "and then yet another, even crazier thing happened to this one character". Especially when the character started as an everyman. It's a pr
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by gravescale 2y ago
If there was any actual willingness to do any kind of governance what you can do here is actually investigate what happened, don't take the "service providers" at their word and then, if they're not doing their jobs, thr
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by gravescale 2y ago
New, old asphalt goes up to around 0.25 in some cases apparently: https://eng.auburn.edu/research/centers/ncat/newsroom/2016-f...
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by gravescale 2y ago
You'd be dark too if you were made out of the smashed insides of two crash victims mushed together! Though it probably doesn't feel very dark in sunlight with no atmosphere above you. Like standing in a very exposed, lumpy, dust
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by gravescale 2y ago
You'd think spacenews.com could get that right: was it really in their title before?
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by gravescale 2y ago
This is really the key. Grinding something you don't actually enjoy or find useful is pretty deathly, even if you get actively paid for it. "Low level", as others have said, is a very, very broad field and if you have an gene

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