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by jakeinspace 2y ago
I don’t even understand what the term "tech sector" really means. It seems to be exclusively companies that sell or provide a software (platform) as their main product, plus chip/electronics manufacturers, but excludes defens
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Well, as the aphorism goes, the best defense is a good offense. Of course Microsoft and Google have security projects which aim to disrupt organized hacking groups, but maybe they need to go further? Like using honey pots to back-feed zero-
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
It's a silly sort of comparison. Is reaching the programming competence necessary to hold an average software engineering job easier than attaining a PhD in mathematics? Yes, 100%. Is becoming a well-regarded software engineer by build
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Not sure what they can do, he’s worth ten times what all those groups are together, so I doubt he’ll have an issue with legal costs.
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
It would only "blow up" on reentry, don’t think there’s much risk of an actual pressure vessel rupture or hypergolic explosion. So no space debris at least, just littering the ocean.
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
I doubt there’s more than 10 countries on earth with majorities supporting Israel in this conflict, and they’re all in Europe or North America.
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Yes, you would burn up because after the chute slows you down just a little bit, you’ll quickly smash into the atmosphere at a fairly steep angle. One way you might be able to avoid burning up is by firing a rocket downwards to slow your fa
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
With a really big parachute, you could I suppose. Although it would need to survive getting peppered with high velocity debris, and have a way of opening up without sufficient air drag.
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
QEMU isn’t cycle-accurate, but would be a good start (and probably good enough). Just run some benchmarks and whatnot there, and use a tracing tool like Cannoli to capture instructions. If you need real instructions (without an emulator lik
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Won’t even pretend to have read the article, but I’ll recommend the last book to really make me existentially happy and which helped me out of a bout of depression: The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem. If you liked Gödel, Escher, Bach then I susp
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
I think they’re replying to the claimed upper bound of n^3. I’m not actually sure what that means.
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
Well, would he still be alive if he’d published similar quantities of info on Russia? That’s a pretty simple explanation, he thought his chances of survival were better with Western leaks.
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
What do you think people come to this site for?
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
This is true, but at this scale, aren’t we looking at a moderate portion of the visible universe? This is hundreds of thousands or millions of galaxies appearing with some strong correlation, I believe. There are only a few trillion galaxie
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
The similarity to Johansson feels more like a cover for the actual complaints I’ve seen, which are that the voice is far too breathy and flirtatious. It made the demo videos, with somewhat dorky men being complimented on their dress and wha
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by jakeinspace 2y ago
kWh, not per hour
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by jakeinspace 3y ago
Given that video is 7.5 hours start to finish, and Parker is moving at several hundred thousand mph relative to that vortex, is it on the order of the diameter of the sun?
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by jakeinspace 3y ago
Morality-washing was always going to be one of the first uses of AI, in hiring and in policing and in war (or ethnic cleansing).
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by jakeinspace 3y ago
No chance, it would be a very politically expensive pardon for no real benefit
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by jakeinspace 3y ago
I think you’re underestimating by many orders of magnitude. 1960 might be a closer date.
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by jakeinspace 3y ago
Military/police power that doesn’t depend on actual humans following orders does sound like a scarily stable system. Can’t exactly carry out an insurrection if all humans are outgunned 100 to 1. At least today, the threat of a coup or
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by jakeinspace 3y ago
Looking back at HN F-35 posts is interesting. Up until the Russian invasion of Ukraine, almost all press coverage and popular opinion was that this aircraft is an expensive boondoggle which can’t dogfight. I think that since Ukraine, the ne
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by jakeinspace 3y ago
What you’re suggesting sounds like an ICBM effectively. Launching one, even if it’s a falcon 9 launch vehicle, anyway close to a nuclear power is not reasonable.
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Cognition and Memory After Covid-19 in a Large Community Sample(nejm.org)
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by jakeinspace 3y ago
I’m guessing that most of Ferrari’s market value comes from the brand compared to future revenue or IP. Apple is just not that elite of a brand, I don’t see how selling million-dollar vehicles would significantly change their brand (assumin
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by jakeinspace 3y ago
In general, smaller organisms tend to consume more calories or resources per mass of body weight than larger ones. One reason, for mammals especially, is that maintaining homeostasis means scaling energy input with surface area, since that’
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I think a model that is historically 100% accurate demographically, while also reflecting current or maybe even slight optimism about demographic balance when giving results not bound to a particular historical period, would be acceptable t
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by jakeinspace 3y ago
In the case of Disney, how much of the frustration comes from the fact that their entire success was built on “borrowing” European folk tales? So that now when they lazily remake those same stories with non-white casting, it causes an uproa
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by jakeinspace 3y ago
But the point is that we’ll have 15-24 hours, not 8 minutes.
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by jakeinspace 3y ago
Ha, apparently I’m the uneducated one. I’d assumed it was an anglicisme that happened to work nicely, but it came to English from Middle French. However, the modern tech-related usage certainly first showed up in English, and then was upstr

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