jakeinspace

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by jakeinspace 10mo ago
Blind people tend to have less spatial intelligence though, like significantly more. Not very nice to say like that, and of course they often develop heightened intelligence in other areas, but we do consider human-level spatial reasoning a
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by jakeinspace 10mo ago
Because we live in a society, and all of us suffer if the average worker and citizen falls significantly in their competence and understanding of the world.
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by jakeinspace 11mo ago
A federal guarantee of debt is a subsidy, one with horrendous potential downside. A CEO really shouldn't be so flippant, though I think he knows what he's saying.
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
28kW of dissipation is pretty solid, though obviously is irrelevant during a short burst with hundreds of watts of heat generated. I guess the frame itself act as the fallback heatsink for storing excess heat in these scenarios? Because by
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
3000 hp? Not sure if that's measured at the "crank" or the dynamo, but that's over 2MW, probably pushing 2.5MW of power draw from the batteries assuming a motor efficiency of 90% and some other losses. Apparently that&#x
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
A sanctuary city means not having local police cooperate with federal immigration officials. There is no constitutional requirement for local police departments to do so.
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
Restorative justice makes a lot of sense to me in a society that has weak or no centralized power. Social hierarchy sure, but not an absolute monarch. Once you have a strong government with a monopoly on violence (police), then you can atte
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
This Oracle surge and revenue predictions really feels like jumping the shark. I mean, it's Oracle.... I've never felt confident enough to bet against a company, but a short position on Oracle may well be too tempting for me.
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
Neither of those things are considered protected speech, and you can be imprisoned for conspiracy to commit kidnapping/murder even if neither actually occur.
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
At one point, many people would have said that quantum field randomness is non-mathe
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
My experience with cheap modern microwave failures has been the door sensor failing, which for safety ofc prevents the magnetron from running. I had one fail in about 2 months, thankfully fixable with a $10 sensor and 15 minute of work. Sam
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
1. Buy Twitter 2. Remove moderation, promote far right accounts, retweet some yourself 3. Allow Nazi speech to fester 4. Train LLM on said Nazi speech 5. Deploy Nazi-sympathizing LLM, increase engagement with Nazi content 6. Go to step 4
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
Engineering has for a long time had these sorts of issues, mainly with weapons manufacturing. I honestly have more sympathy for a 20th century mechanical engineer choosing to go work for a defence contractor than a 21st century software eng
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
The "no true racist" fallacy, I see.
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
Maybe we should've made CS majors read a book or 2 after all. Maybe that wouldn't have helped, perhaps all it takes is $200k/year for people to stop caring about anything outside their immediate best interest.
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
If you work for one of his companies, please find work elsewhere.
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
Besides screen readers, using a single descriptive noun as the link text might help for maintainability in some situations. First, it reduces the chances of a given link accidentally getting copied to another section by an unscrupulous main
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
Agreed, she's pumping out too many videos I think. Perhaps she's succumbed a bit to the temptation of cashing in on a reputation, ironically one built on taking down grifters.
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
Coping with the meaningless splendor of the universe is daunting, but I will do my best!
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
I won't touch level 8/9 nothings, other than to say I don't think they're coherent. But I am of the metaphysical camp that thinks there will be at least some small ground truth which physical law or object which cannot b
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
If it's deemed after the fact to be an illegal order which should have been ignored, I believe they can still face charges of some sort, no?
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
All the best victories are partially the relief of not failing
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
I can't imagine how rewarding it would be to push this fix and, after many hours, get confirmation of success. I'd be chasing that high the rest of my career.
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
You know the general populous hates big tech far more than big-time artists, right? The profession is moving in the direction of lawyers and investment bankers in terms of public trust.
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by jakeinspace 1y ago
You can just switch trains in Tokyo and continue on to Fukuoka on the Nozomi Shinkansen. That's another 1000km. 8 hours travel time, with a 10 minute layover is quite nice, I've taken most of that ride (Aomori to Hiroshima). That
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
This dude will probably die of a heart attack on the toilet some day, and there will be loyalists claiming it to be a brilliant, final masterstroke.
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
What?
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
You can say that about Wall Street too, or even the oil industry. Lots of smaller players doing smaller mundane things. Logically I know that there are plenty of smaller players doing more neutral or just mundane capitalist things, without
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Frankly, I have absolute disdain for YC and the entire silicon valley investor class. So many people have shown their true colors as no better than the robber barons. I'm glad I made the decision to leave the US years ago, but yeah, th
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
This might be the most blatantly corrupt thing I've ever scene a sitting president do. Might as well have Elon hand him a cartoonish bag with a dollar sign on it at this point.

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