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by jandrese 1y ago
I think this is a completely valid thing to do when you have Sam Altman going on the daily shows and describing it as a genius in your pocket and how it's smarter than any human alive. Deflating hype bubbles is an important service.
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No names is not the biggest problem. You just have to come up with a name. The problem is when things have multiple names, or even worse when people disagree on what names are appropriate for something. The world rarely allows you to nea
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In theory, but since this attack has to happen at the time of pairing and leaves evidence--the key you are trying to pair doesn't work afterward--I don't think this is a realistic concern.
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The crazy thing is India has ample population to avoid this problem. It's not some isolated tribe or small island community. The reasons have to be social/political.
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I remember when YouTube first appeared and my thought was "This is a really nice service. It's going to be a shame in a couple of years when it runs out of VC money and shuts down." I also remember when they went through and
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by jandrese 1y ago
There are quite a number of authors, comedians, artists, and the like on Bluesky. A few examples: Bill Corbett: https://bsky.app/profile/billcorbett.bsky.social John Scalzi: https://bsky.app/profile&#x
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I've never found a TOTP site that didn't also have a "click to show the code" option. It's usually in small print at the bottom, but it's there.
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Even if the sun explodes you're probably better off staying in the solar system and picking through the remnants than trying to make the trip out to another solar system.
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We don't have anywhere near the engine technology to make it anywhere worth going to in 400 years. That's orders of magnitude more difficult. Anywhere that might sustain life is no closer than a couple thousand years away if we d
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Sure, individual weirdos can do that for a few years. But you're talking about literally millennia of travel. Hundreds of generations of people living their entire life on the bus never getting to the destination before they die. Tr
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The fundamental problem with Ark ships. They're just much harder to build versions of fully self-sufficient orbital colonies. Not only do you need to install the enormous thrusters, but you have to be able to operate without any inpu
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Yeah, the limitation that it can't be just dumped into anything that expects a C array is a large one. You need to structure your code around the access primitives this project implements.
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A fun exercise is to calculate how much mass in rocket fuel you would need to accelerate at 25G for two weeks. Or even to accelerate at 1G for a year. Even if you assume a ridiculously high ISP like 1 million seconds (our current best eng
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I purposely excluded the oceans and caves when I said that, but we've overbuilt nuclear weapons to such an absurd degree that we can render the land highly irradiated and inhospitable.
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It would still require a stupendous amount of delta-v to slow down enough to be captured by the gravity well of the place you are trying to land though. Also, the Dark Forest theory is based on the same game theory principles that said the
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If it's malign there's really nothing we can do about it. A technology that can traverse the distance between solar systems is so far outside of our technology that it might as well be magic, and our current level of technology i
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This title appears to be misleading, or at the very least confusing.
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One possible payload would be a fast deploy cellular base station that can loiter over disaster areas to provide connectivity. Backhaul would be via satellite like Starlink or if you have multiple aircraft you can route between them to a p
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HN goes to some lengths to de-emphasize the usernames, leaving them small and medium grey against a light grey background. It's not easy to track usernames here. Some other forums put far more emphasis on them, even letting users uplo
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I would like to see the opposite race. One where contestants are all given a specific battery at the start of the day and have to optimize its use on their e-bike to make the fastest time on the circuit.
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The other problem is that the equipment to turn corn into ethanol isn't free, either to buy or to maintain. It's not economical to leave it idle during poor yield years.
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Well, if you want a worry for your retirement just think of all of the medical equipment with embedded 32 bit code that will definitely not be updated in time.
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> A better way would have been to charge a small subscription fee - like $2/month or something. The fee filters out 99% of the trolls out there Have you seen who has the blue checkmarks on Twitter/X now? I'll give you a h
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From what I understand it was more that they found a sympathetic ear in the management suite at Mastercard and Visa. They've been wanting to do this for some time but needed political cover.
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> Or monetize via another way—ads, subscriptions, credits That don't use Visa/Mastercard? The bans aren't coming from the platforms but from the payment processors.
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I think there is a strong case that experienced developers can not be replaced by AI anytime soon. Where the danger lies is for junior developers fresh out of college. How are they supposed to become experienced developers if an AI can do
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> In 1827, Niépce traveled to England to visit his brother. While there, with the assistance of English botanist Francis Bauer, he presented a paper on his new invention to the Royal Society. His findings were rejected, however, because
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The difference is size and cost. Missiles are large and expensive so ships can carry only a handful of them, and anti-missile defenses are designed based on that assumption. Drones defeat anti-missile defenses by coming in huge swarms tha
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It got really bad when the BBS got all fancy and colorful with the ANSI graphics. Every character displayed might require 6 or 7 bytes down the wire to change the foreground and background color so your 2400 baud modem acted like a 300 ba
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Interesting to think that aircraft rendered armor obsolete so ships stopped having appreciable armor. But if your threat is swarms of small drones then armor becomes a viable defense. Especially since the quantity of the drones is what ma

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