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by inasio 4y ago
When I was a kid I used to know 20-30 8 digit phone numbers by hard, not sure I miss those days
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by inasio 4y ago
I actually opened slashdot.org, first time in like 10 years, probably. Still there...
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by inasio 4y ago
Removing this, apologies, was in bad taste given the circumstances.
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by inasio 4y ago
The Starlink donations to Ukraine has probably been about showing Starlink capabilities to the military, now going after navy contracts?
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by inasio 4y ago
I enjoy logistics optimization games, these two I like a lot: Le Havre: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35677/le-havre Container: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/26990/container
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by inasio 4y ago
One of my favorite detective stories is Dead yellow women, by Dashiell Hammett. Includes a crazy chase through hidden tunnels in San Francisco's (early 1900s, opium dens, etc) Chinatown.
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by inasio 4y ago
There's a bit of drama in that there are unofficial reports of two systems in China with higher performance [0], the arXiv paper listed below talks about a 40 million core system with around double theoretical performance than Frontier
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by inasio 4y ago
Dramatically reads to me like one or more orders of magnitude, but it seems it reduced power consumption by 50% when compared to an Nvidia solution; in light of the headline it looks underwhelming.
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by inasio 4y ago
My favorite part of the new Top Gun movie was the first 10-15 minutes. It features a very nice looking plane with a cool skunk logo [0] [0] https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/a...
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by inasio 4y ago
Relevant: DARPA last year launched a program (competition) to build analog solvers that can solve (some) optimization problems [0]: [0]: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2021-10-04
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by inasio 4y ago
It used to be that resellers only had access to Cable lines, but some resellers are starting to offer Fiber [0], the problem being that the rates are super high [0] https://lightspeed.ca/personal/fibre-internet/
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by inasio 4y ago
For reference housing cooperatives in Vancouver used to have a fixed price service with Telus of ~20CAD for 15 mb/s symetrical, typical rates were at around 40-50 for similar services. This was great as many of the residents are retire
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by inasio 4y ago
Doesn't play outside the USA (at least not Canada)
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by inasio 4y ago
I remember reading the original paper [0] when it came out last year, and honestly I found it pretty weak compared to other google or deepmind papers, particularly the comparison to Simulated Annealing methods and the lack of data to enable
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by inasio 4y ago
I'd be surprised if they get 15 minutes, I've played with the DJI mini and barely get that (per battery), and this one looks bulkier and with worse aerodynamics. That said, you probably don't want a noisy drone just hovering
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by inasio 4y ago
I think that would objectively be bad for Trump, what's the point then of his Truth Social app, the whole SPAC crazy valuation. Getting the popcorn ready.
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by inasio 5y ago
It's also slated for removal (at least the upper viaduct), a very large park is meant to be built in its place (the architects that designed the High Line park in NYC were going to be designing the project, at least as of 3 years ago).
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by inasio 5y ago
And the amazing Nikola downhill self-propelled electric truck
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by inasio 5y ago
Here are more details from the source (Hindenburg research): https://hindenburgresearch.com/jj-purchasing/
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by inasio 5y ago
I remember that soon after 9/11 the tv show 24 started exploring "justified torture" scenarios, in retrospect I'm pretty sure it was not a coincidence.
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by inasio 5y ago
I think the point is that it's China vs west-aligned countries, as an individual country it's a huge percentage, but if 78% of your trade depends on dollars/wire transfers/etc that's going to dominate
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by inasio 5y ago
Also mentioned in the article is the demand on OneWeb to both guarantee non military usage of their constellation and for the British government to divest (OneWeb went bankrupt a few years ago and the British government rescued it, becoming
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by inasio 5y ago
My personal mantra is to use software/formats/etc that have been around at least as long as what you intend your content to last. Been there, been burned before...
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by inasio 5y ago
Definitely felt like bait, the word Cryptonomicon does not even show up in the (long) article even once. I was waiting for the reveal that his dad was Neal (worried when he said his dad was into Ayn Rand...), or that he himself was Neal.
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by inasio 5y ago
I suspect it could disrupt at least some form of earth transportation. The fuel costs are not that different than a transatlantic 787 flight, and it's likely simpler and with fewer moving parts. In similar style to Tesla's vertica
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by inasio 5y ago
There is no way the cost per trip (airline) is in the $1K - $10K range. The Boeing 787-8 has a fuel capacity of 33,500 gallons. I don't think an intercontinental flight costs significantly less than $1M
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by inasio 5y ago
My theory is that they aim to disrupt Earth travel (airlines). Elon pointed out that the reliability of Starship would exceed that of commercial airplanes, and the fuel costs are not that different than, say, a 747. Fewer moving parts than
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by inasio 5y ago
Undetectable sometimes means less than 200 or less than 50 viral copies per ml (depending on device sensitivity). In contrast the peak in the acute phase is 10^7 copies per ml (and settles to around 10^5 in the chronic phase), the probabili
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by inasio 5y ago
There's an area with great backcountry terrain for skiing and hiking not too far from Vancouver, it would make a great place to build their headquarters [0] (please don't...). This is what happens when students (UBC) get the chanc
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by inasio 5y ago
I remember doing side by side plots of conservative Hamiltonian trajectories doing a standard Euler method (maybe even RK45), vs a symplectic method (which will maintains energy conservation). The RK45 implementation had a very nice symmetr

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