kadoban

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by kadoban 3mo ago
It could only ever increase by the surface area of the satellite lens things. It'll be a rounding error compared to the surface area of Earth (or compared to the effect of greenhouse gasses over the time period you're setting up t
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by kadoban 3mo ago
Is it ever, ever going to be cheaper or easier or more effective than just launching a missile? Seems...unlikely just on the face of it.
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by kadoban 3mo ago
That would be fairly nonsense. There's _very_ few orbits that can stick over a particular place, and it's only places on the equator. We'd be giving up 99+% of useful orbits.
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by kadoban 3mo ago
Thanks! Nice findings. Is the output, that others can use, the research and findings, or is there a tool or something that came out of this that I can plug in to one of the common harnesses? I guess that brief note in the twit is that it&#x
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by kadoban 4mo ago
It could still be the UI for this, if they wanted to, and they just implement the guts behind it with that in mind. It's not everything, but the UI is still something you can ~skip.
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by kadoban 4mo ago
> Is it really false? Even your own analogy for it is buying a lottery ticket. Does buying a lottery ticket "lead to success"? Only if your picture of what that looks like focuses on only the winners.
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by kadoban 4mo ago
Is that true? I don't know of really any medicine that has side effects 25 years down the line. Would we even know? We don't test new meds that long before release. Isn't it more because meds are cheaper to test on animals an
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by kadoban 4mo ago
Thanks for the info, I'll track down that interview. That is an interesting strategy that I didn't consider.
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by kadoban 4mo ago
It was an honest question.
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by kadoban 4mo ago
I assume you're talking about "slow and expensive" like sending tens of thousand of troops to occupy at _least_ the ~entire shore around the narrow part of the Strait, indefinitely? Yeah, shocking there's no political wi
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by kadoban 4mo ago
Not OP but one thing you can do is boil or lightly-pan-fry (don't use any spices, or at least check that they're dog-safe, _do not_ use garlic) chicken thigh or chicken breast, cut it into small cubes and freeze it in sandwhich ba
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by kadoban 4mo ago
I haven't done this model yet, but comfyui will definitely support it and I've found it a nice interface once you get used to it. Copy/paste a workflow to start with if you're lost.
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by kadoban 4mo ago
AI is actually useful, in the strict sense. It can do things. If you consider its eventual effects good or bad for humanity is fair either way, but it's still different from NFTs or the "metaverse" nonsense. It's a categ
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by kadoban 4mo ago
If Iran was in more pain than the USA, they wouldn't be getting $300 billion, sanctions relief and ongoing fees for the Strait. That's how wars work. They're getting favorable terms because the USA can't win this war as
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by kadoban 4mo ago
Stupid question: does the computer or whatever the monitor is hooked up to need to know to do something special to then show those colors, or it's just normal rgb color levels and in a less-good-color-space monitor those would have bee
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by kadoban 4mo ago
What does sorting have to do with violating p != np? The common bound on sorting is you can't do better than O(n lg n) worst-case, but that is strictly only for comparison sorts anyway.
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by kadoban 4mo ago
Really? Why not. From the benchmarks at least it's a pretty decent small model.
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by kadoban 4mo ago
I mean, Qwen 3.6 kicks ass. I don't know who these people are, but if their first outing is "not quite as good as Qwen 3.6", that's not a bad start by any means. 30B vs 35B isn't nothing either. If it ends up just b
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by kadoban 4mo ago
What tool do you use to drive things for you, out of curiosity?
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by kadoban 4mo ago
If prison solved a society's problems, the USA would be a utopia.
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by kadoban 5mo ago
I think the point is that that phrasing has been used by rocket companies to mean a whole range of different amounts of fuel load, it's not very precise wording in practice.
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by kadoban 5mo ago
Curl has more eyes on it, and has had more tools thrown at it, and is better tested (and developed?) than 99% of software, it's very much not the norm. I wouldn't be surprised if that has something to do with it, if there is any k
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by kadoban 5mo ago
"A small amount of heat or a catalyst". Well, that sounds unstable. So any random contamination and you have a runaway reaction.
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by kadoban 5mo ago
> I handed it over to DeepSeek v4 Flash in Pi to skim through for any risky business Doesn't prompt injection make that a rather flimsy investigation?
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by kadoban 5mo ago
> This second shield helps protect the steel in chloride containing environments up to an ultra high potential of 1700 mV. Uh, dumb question, how is 1.7 volts "ultra high potential" ? Is that even enough to do electrolysis like
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by kadoban 5mo ago
Nice! I have a real soft spot in my heart for Rockbox, glad to see it still having some life. The interface and performance are just so well thought out and refined. Plus it contains the earliest published code I ever wrote: https:/&#
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by kadoban 6mo ago
As I understand it, debit cards do have some fraud protection too, but even if it's the same (I don't think it is), it's a way different power dynamic if you're begging for a bank to give you money back (debit card) vs j
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by kadoban 6mo ago
Tbh, fraud for credit cards is covered by the bank, so I typically just don't care. I just check my statements for anything that looks off.
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by kadoban 6mo ago
Hm, fair, thanks. Wonder why they even got involved then. Bizarre.
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by kadoban 6mo ago
Typically the engineer who's reviewing PRs and fixing bugs is not the one with the "refund" button access. Someone with that access should certainly have jumped on the whole thing though.

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