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by kurthr 2y ago
If "everyone is arguing that they are already 10x" since GPT4 18mo ago, why aren't they 100x with _o1 and 3.5 Sonnet? Maybe it's bs and they've been spending actual hours getting maybe 2x more productive for the las
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by kurthr 2y ago
To me one of the biggest changes was LPs and then CDs to flash drives for portable data storage (now just cloud). With an LP you can actually see the grooves and how the stylus rides in it. You can hear the vibrations, if you listen closely
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by kurthr 2y ago
PCBs and antennas in general are cheaper than glass. I think that's why this is considered special. Also note that they can do UWB and all sorts of other things. It's not like these glass antennas are using a substrate that alread
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by kurthr 2y ago
That depends. For ITO it can be quite transparent (80-90%), if you do a good job of matching the index of refraction (otherwise you get weird yellowish reflections and blue transmission). For the nanotubes and metal mesh, it looks fairly ne
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by kurthr 2y ago
The touch screen on your laptop/phone are definitely made with "transparent' conductors. These range from ITO and Silver Nanotubes on LCDs to patterned aluminum mesh (Samsung's OCTA is On Cell Touch AMOLED) and semi-tran
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by kurthr 2y ago
Ok, so this is the final commercial design. It's inside the window. You can see the electrodes on the small glass sheet (100cm x 25cm?). There are 8 coax connections to 8 patch antennas. They don't cover the entire window and sinc
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by kurthr 2y ago
I don't see how you can differentiate between humans and corporations. They are both fundamentally the same. They are born... and oh wait, yeah. But still under the 14th ammendment's equal protection clause the Supreme court deter
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by kurthr 2y ago
I'm all for more innocuous cell antennas. I'm just not convinced in this case. Just looking at the picture it seems neither innocuous nor particularly transparent even thought it's on glass. Maybe they can make the connection
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by kurthr 2y ago
Less adtech and crypto? Fewer gamified dating apps? I can think of a lot of negative/zero sum things that have next to no return or longer term advantage than monopoly seeking or greater foolism. They already got plenty of investment w
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by kurthr 2y ago
With the goal of spreading radioactive fallout over Poland, Germany, France, and Italy? https://realchernobyl.com/en/map-of-pollution I mean, it's not like the worlds most diabolical intelligence service would hav
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Observation of resilient propagation in free-space electromagnetic "smoke rings"(pubs.aip.org)
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by kurthr 2y ago
Put it on a physical drive in a safe deposit box.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Interesting that you skip right past the part that I mentioned about lead oxide fumes. "During the soldering process in the form of lead filler metals, lead oxide fumes are formed and excessive exposure to lead oxide fumes can
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by kurthr 2y ago
That's the thing, everyone can be right here. You don't want to regularly yell "fascist, racist, pimp, rapist" or the power of those words disappears. At the same time, if you refuse to use the words when they apply, the
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by kurthr 2y ago
I meant to say depth of field, not field of view.
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by kurthr 2y ago
In my experience were really bad at figuring out when something more than about 5 years out is going to happen so 10-20 years is much worse than a coin flip. That's partially because we don't know what second and third order probl
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by kurthr 2y ago
Well, like I said I'm no doctor, but I don't know that I'd use quora to make medical decisions. Here's an environmental safety article from MIT. It mentions lead oxide fumes from soldering. What do I know other than the
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by kurthr 2y ago
Yeah you can get an old Bauch&Lomb for under $200. Probably need an LED illuminator ring for $10 too. They have great field of view (cm) at decent/variable magnification (20-100x) and response time is instant, whereas your phone&#x
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by kurthr 2y ago
Yeah, I don't think there's a better than 50% chance of it happening before 2048, but I think there's a better than 0.001% chance that it does. Yes, as a ring, the set of integers is closed under addition and 2049 is past the
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by kurthr 2y ago
I would not bet against you, but I suspect any advances will be made very quickly and that could happen any time in the next 25 years. Even at 0.001% risk is far too much to take. I'd certainly make the $0.02 bet for those odds.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Well, not so much anymore. It's capped at $35/mo if you're on Medicare or ACA and most other sources. https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-detail... I'd also mention that most of th
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by kurthr 2y ago
I'm no doctor, but if you've only done a few hours of this and you're 20+ it's probably no big deal. However, you are breathing lead vapor and it's not good for you (if you're at 100s of hours and 12yo that&#x2
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by kurthr 2y ago
I think for simple through-hole stuff, this should be fine. However, so much stuff now requires SMT reflow and a hot air wand (and likely a binocular microscope) that except for home builds and power electronics, I rarely use an actual iron
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by kurthr 2y ago
Ok, so Kissinger and Churchill. Thanks for the clarification. I'm sure you're aware of the Indo-Soviet cooperation treaty of '71. Those sneaky anglophones strike again. I'm surprised you've been fooled by their clev
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by kurthr 2y ago
Hmmm, interesting that you give agency for 75 years of history to those in China, but not in India. Are you claiming there is some racial superiority of the Han over Hindu? Couldn't you also argue that the rise of debt based mercantili
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by kurthr 2y ago
The other good charging time/place is your car/bike when commuting. If you have a 20min commute each direction you can get most of the way charged and make it through the night!
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by kurthr 2y ago
Ads (with untrusted javascript and links) considered harmful.
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by kurthr 2y ago
I'd expect it to be MAC hardware embedded on the DRAM die (or in the case of stacked HBM, possibly on the substrate die). To quote from an old article about such acceleration which sees 19x improvements over DRAM + GPU: Since MAC
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by kurthr 2y ago
Even at very high rates of e0.50/kWh and a big low efficiency EV of 160Wh/km, you're looking at ~12km/euro or 8eruo/100km. An efficient car is 5l/100km and good petrol prices are ~e1.6/l or 8euro/100k
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by kurthr 2y ago
Agreed, but the US Civil war wasn't started over mean tweets or nasty letters. There were armies and battlefields. The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States wasn't threatening individual lives, but simply said that some states

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