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Inauguration of mainland Europe's first satellite launch complex(sscspace.com)
31 points by jcfrei 4y ago|8 comments
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by jcfrei 4y ago
There's another very simple test you can put ChatGPT through: Ask it to multiply some small numbers which it will most likely get right. Then ask it to multiply some large numbers and it will most likely be wrong by an order of magnitu
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by jcfrei 4y ago
Pretty unlikely that we would be able to find a complete DNA of a single species of dinosaur. More likely we would have to patch it together and while we're at it might as well modify it allow them to survive under current conditions.
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by jcfrei 4y ago
Most of the aerodynamic drag is created by the long trailer, the front matters comparably little.
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by jcfrei 4y ago
Company close to where I live has also been selling semis with a 1MW battery pack for a while: https://www.designwerk.com/en/high-cab/
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by jcfrei 4y ago
Most companies are to some extent financed with debt. When interest rates go up and loans need to be rolled over they will pay a higher interest rate. The result is a deleveraging (companies taking on less debt) but also reducing expenses (
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by jcfrei 4y ago
Main point of concern seems to be that online advertising is still growing 10-20% YoY but Google revenue only grew 10% for search ads and 3.8% for youtube. So their share of ad spending is declining.
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by jcfrei 4y ago
Everything you said is correct, just wanna add that with inflation at around 8% you'll still be losing purchasing power with said money market funds.
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Covid Can Shrink the Brain as Much as a Decade of Aging, Study Finds(bloomberg.com)
18 points by jcfrei 4y ago|3 comments
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by jcfrei 4y ago
Heard from colleagues working in academia that their profs were absolutely strict about the layout, the way graphs look, the colors which needed to be used, etc. All so reviewers could decode who's actually behind a paper.
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by jcfrei 4y ago
Is there any way for these probes to communicate with earth during their journey?
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by jcfrei 4y ago
I went from Windows -> Linux -> Windows with a Linux VM. Honestly Linux is just too much of a hassle to get it working right directly on the hardware - I always had issues with either drivers, sound, multiple monitors, etc. And while
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Thriller but every lyric is an animated AI generated image(youtube.com)
3 points by jcfrei 4y ago|1 comments
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by jcfrei 4y ago
Good point though I would argue you can still see the same dynamics on a subreddit level.
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by jcfrei 4y ago
The social platform where young people spent most of their time kept changing in the past - I think it went something like this: Netlog > Facebook > Instagram > TikTok. There have been lots of other social networks that have been p
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by jcfrei 4y ago
The rise and fall of all social networks is inevitable. Like many things they follow this dynamic where they go out of fashion when too many use it. Currently everybody is moving to TikTok and there's lots of good content there. But th
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by jcfrei 4y ago
They refer to it as Brown noise: https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/World_Wide_Recorder_Concer...
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by jcfrei 4y ago
I know this isn't very professional but Trey Parker and Matt Stone co-opted the term Brown Noise back in 2000 in the South Park episode "World Wide Recorder Concert". Maybe Brownian Noise would be a better and more accurate d
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by jcfrei 4y ago
After his term as German chancellor was up (1998-2005), Gerhard Schröder became chairman of several gas companies that were (majority) owned by the Russian state (Nord Stream AG, Rosneft, Gazprom). There was nothing covert about the Kremlin
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by jcfrei 4y ago
If I remember correctly the iPhone Pro models allow you to enable macro mode in the settings while the non-pro don't. Using different camera apps doesn't help. I've done a hands-on comparison between a Pro and non-Pro model,
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by jcfrei 4y ago
What bugs me most about Pro vs non-Pro models is that they don't enable you to take macro shots on the non-Pro models. Even my old Samsung s8 could do those - yet on lots of newer phones (iphone and android) macro shots are for some re
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The chips are down: Russia scrambles for high-tech parts(politico.eu)
5 points by jcfrei 4y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 4y ago
Absolutely now way that the "votes that come from importing wealthy people [...]" are going to be enough to get politicians elected - not enough wealthy people in the world. The real risk is the continued rise of populism which wi
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by jcfrei 4y ago
If the majority of validators adhere to OFAC regulations then your chance of getting a transaction approved that violates OFAC drops. Anybody can be a validator but if the majority of validators choose to adhere to these rules then that&#x2
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Heinz Taps State-of-the-Art AI to Design Its Next Ad Campaign(adweek.com)
1 points by jcfrei 4y ago|0 comments
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Cellular recovery after prolonged warm ischaemia of the whole body(nature.com)
1 points by jcfrei 4y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 4y ago
Is this a serious concern? That there will be some kind of civilization in 10000 years that: 1) has lost all records of current generations 2) doesn't know about nuclear waste disposal sites and radioactivity 3) is still advanced enoug
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by jcfrei 4y ago
On a related note: recently bought an iphone and specifically bought the standard one and not the pro. now I've noticed that macro shots are a lot lower quality than on (older) iphone pros or even my old samsung s8. does anybody know w
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by jcfrei 4y ago
Play Services is probably the worlds most expansive data collection and user tracking tool. Tying core OS APIs into it is just evil.
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by jcfrei 4y ago
The German parties advocating a Nuclear exit did so because the Germans wanted them to do so. Nuclear power really wasn't (probably still isn't) popular in Germany.

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