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by gumby 5d ago
14 years, really, if you don’t count the roadster (which I think it is correct not to do).
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by gumby 5d ago
This is why they are pushing into services. Now the devices are (profitable) channels for upselling. Cook was willing to do some of this, but the new guy seems more interested in this. Unfortunately it degrades a major value prop of using
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by gumby 5d ago
It’s because they’d prefer you interacted with CarPlay with voice rather than looking away from the road. An admirable objective, but given how “well” siri has worked in the past, an unrealistic one. We’ll see if 27 is a significant improv
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by gumby 6d ago
More short names fit in your fovea than long names so for the most common operations they are the easiest to read. It’s the same reason the most common words in human languages are the shortest (and programming languages are for humans to u
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China's Electric Aviation Advantage Is a Transport System, Not a Prototype(cleantechnica.com)
8 points by gumby 7d ago|0 comments
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AI Error Nearly Triggered U.S. Intercept of Chinese Ship(gcaptain.com)
7 points by gumby 8d ago|3 comments
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by gumby 8d ago
I submitted this because, despite the headline, the system basically worked: a decision review cancelled the mission despite the automation saying go ahead.
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by gumby 8d ago
> The problem with replacing the world reserve currency with something else is that nobody can agree on what that something else should be. It isn’t a decision made by some sort of vote, or done overnight. It’s an emergent phenomenon. S
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by gumby 8d ago
McMaster’s paper catalogs were phenomenal, with an organization that quickly surfaced the part you wanted and often taught you taxonomy if you were looking for something unusual to you. A true masterpiece and they clearly carried their phi
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Reckless Expansion Plans Blow Past European Airports Carbon Limits(cleantechnica.com)
2 points by gumby 9d ago|0 comments
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The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind(gcaptain.com)
188 points by gumby 9d ago|131 comments
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by gumby 10d ago
Through hikers are used to an extreme version of this: tearing the pages out and burning them as you go. I am more of a random-access tease but weight is weight.
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by gumby 10d ago
Yes, I remember seeing those double editions come out and thinking they were too large! I bought the volumes as they came out so luckily didn’t have to deal with that problem. Some, like dickens, just write too long (though he had an excus
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by gumby 11d ago
From the Reuters article: > Australia and the European Union signed a free trade agreement in March after eight years of negotiations, removing tariffs on almost all goods and potentially easing EU access to Australian critical mineral
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by gumby 11d ago
> appears to be relatively good at problems where finding the initial answer is difficult, but verifying whether a candidate answer is correct is easy. The opposite can happen too, as Knuth’s recent experience showed. The system sugges
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by gumby 11d ago
Shrinking the battery is still a win as the vehicles can become smaller, or a same size one can have more storage. Also it reduces weight, which is significant. Finally, higher density batteries make it easier to electrify other application
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by gumby 13d ago
> How can this happen to a modern fintech…? It’s a modern fintech that’s most likely to be vulnerable. Banks tend to have a long history (either themselves or with the infrastructure they buy) of security, from physical to electronic. I
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by gumby 13d ago
You are forgetting 8” floppies. IBM used only the soft sector ones (one hole punched close to the spindle to mark sector 0) but there were also hard sector ones (a ring of 32 holes close to the spindle hole). There was a lot of experimenta
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by gumby 14d ago
Unfortunately it emits methane and a lot of other toxic chemicals, as well as not providing a permeable surface for rainfall. Whether you meant the attitude product or were jocularly using it a relevant metaphor for AI decanters both your c
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What happens when quantum mechanics and relativity meet?(arstechnica.com)
4 points by gumby 14d ago|0 comments
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by gumby 14d ago
> 'Keeping Americans safe' is not on their agenda. If it were, they wouldn't be sticking America's hand into Middle Eastern quagmires... Even though I agree with you that the US shouldn’t have been executing the forei
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Genome Duplication Is an Evolutionary Gamble(quantamagazine.org)
5 points by gumby 15d ago|0 comments
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by gumby 16d ago
Apple has clearly done things that make it impossible for them to comply with such requests by not keeping certain data in the first place and/or doing work locally (in the customer’s device) to which it doesn’t have access. This is e
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Perhaps the universe isn't accelerating (and thus we don't need dark matter)(academic.oup.com)
3 points by gumby 16d ago|1 comments
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by gumby 16d ago
It’s turdles all the way down.
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by gumby 16d ago
Something that it isn’t.
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by gumby 16d ago
I was in Germany in those days and I sure remember the CDU and other more-right wingers using this argument, and convincingly. I’m sure there’s some long and worthy essay on the topic in the archives of die Zeit . Of course it was long a
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by gumby 16d ago
Good question (I thought I implicitly mentioned it but I guess I didn’t). Does it matter that we’re talking about “recording” within the envelope of typical human capability? I think that distinction does matter and the summary as describ
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Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)(spinoff.nasa.gov)
378 points by gumby 16d ago|71 comments
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by gumby 16d ago
Don’t give them ideas!

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