mabbo

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by mabbo 3y ago
Games will be as large as they can be until it starts causing people not to buy the game. Before that point, no one will care. And as someone who just got 1.5Gbps internet installed, my tolerance for file size is continually increasing.
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by mabbo 3y ago
This delightful article presents a fun reason why the L/100km unit is better: https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/
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by mabbo 3y ago
I'm not proposing something, I'm describing it. This is what SpaceX is doing , and it's quite successful. And you can look all the way back to their little hopper version of the Falcon 9 and see that this strategy has been t
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by mabbo 3y ago
People want to see 100% success in all things. But that isn't very economical. Compare the SLS to Starship. SLS has had a 100% success rate. One launch, one success. But it costs $2B per launch (and climbing) and has taken 12 years to
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by mabbo 3y ago
It was spinning around in circles. Rockets don't recover from that. Anyone who thought the rocket might stay in the launch envelope is crazy.
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by mabbo 3y ago
As others have said, scheduling no-fly zones on multiple locations (Starship will crash land near Hawaii), but also things like "we only have so much super chilled liquid oxygen and it's going to be boiling off". Tim Dodd&#x2
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by mabbo 4y ago
I am indeed in Canada. I wonder what it would cost to import a car from the US. I'd happily do a road trip to Seattle to get an Ioniq 5 right now.
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by mabbo 4y ago
A bit off topic, but how are you liking the Ioniq 5? I'm on a "2 year waiting list" with my local dealer for an Ioniq 5. It has 200 people on the list, and he got 8 years in the last year. Still a "2 year waiting list&qu
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by mabbo 4y ago
That's a graph of `x/2 - floor(x/2)`. The question is about `e^(x/2 - floor(x/2))`.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Falcon 9 had "second stage reusability" the same way that Tesla has full self-driving. That was the plan , but then it turned out to be really hard. But at least with SpaceX, they simply gave up and said they were focusing effort
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by mabbo 4y ago
The part that seems to be unexpectedly really hard is getting to and successful at ignition of stage 2. Relativity Space recently had a failure with their Terran 1 launcher on its first and only test fight because stage 2 failed to correctl
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by mabbo 4y ago
It's almost an orbital test. It's so close that in theory they could accidentally make it an orbital test if they fired the engines for a tiny bit extra.
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by mabbo 4y ago
> world's most awesome waterfall, for a long time Apparently it was more of a big ramp and rapids. And it was maybe as short as only one (wildly incredible) year. > This flood would have descended a relatively gentle ramp into th
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by mabbo 4y ago
I don't think it's entirely unreasonable. It's the largest we have any evidence of ever existing, and it's also stupendously large- where and how could a larger lake have existed? Just because we don't know everyth
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by mabbo 4y ago
Valve benefits from having lots of people give honest reviews and marking reviews helpful. But now I'm not going to participate at all, for fear of losing access to all of my games. I'm sure many others will do the same. I wonder
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by mabbo 4y ago
They need a few algorithmic improvements first, imho. GPT4 is noticeably slower than GPT3.5 and apparently costs a lot more to use, implying some serious compute costs. They could train it with more data in the hopes of getting another big
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by mabbo 4y ago
In response to various people asking "why aren't they also trying..." (starship hover landing on water, booster catch by the tower, etc), remember that the plan has to be approved by the FAA. The more complex the test, the mo
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by mabbo 4y ago
True, but remember he only gave falcon heavy a 50/50 shot of getting high enough before exploding to not damage the launch site on its first launch. Musk is incredibly optimistic about schedules, and pessimistic about launches.
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by mabbo 4y ago
`nmap` was so much fun when I first played with it back in 2004 or so as a 17 year old. I remember reading my own IP address, then wondering "I wonder what the neighbours are like?". So I scanned a range of similar IPs. One of the
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by mabbo 4y ago
qntm is a wonderfully weird and terrifying author and I highly recommend all of their writing.
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by mabbo 4y ago
While I love all these stories of turning your friends and loved ones into chat bots so you can talk to them forever, my brain immediately took a much darker turn because of course it did. How many emails, text messages, hangouts/gchat
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by mabbo 4y ago
This is the kind of thing that has Google terrified, and rightly so. Nobody needs a chatbot to pass exams. But what percentage of your Google searches are to answer some obscure question? This thing can answer most basic questions about qua
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by mabbo 4y ago
Imagine if you were an employee at this company with access to these keys. They're so disorganized, you could have stolen tens or millions of dollars in crypto and even right now after auditors have gone through everything, still no on
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by mabbo 4y ago
https://drbvitamins.com/products/doctor-s-best-high-absorpti... That's the good stuff. Constantly hard to find in Canada. Edit: also this is literally the first time anyone has ever provided me with any idea if wh
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by mabbo 4y ago
Diagnosed at 24 with sleep apnea. I tried a bunch of things. What worked for me was regular cardio exercise and daily doses of high absorption magnesium. The magnesium is absolutely unproven pseudoscience nonsense that can't possibly w
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by mabbo 4y ago
These are not the moves of a company that is confident in itself and its product. Reminds me of Amazon banning the sale of Chromecast devices because they compete with FireTV.
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by mabbo 4y ago
It got 50% right with a general model. That same model can do a pretty good job at a thousand other skills. Imagine what it can do if it's trained for exactly this purpose.
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by mabbo 4y ago
The bigger deal is avoiding inheritance taxes. In France at the time (and maybe now?) there was no inheritance tax between spouses, but there is otherwise. The theory is that the father sees that his wife is dead and knows he only has so ma
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by mabbo 4y ago
Would she? After the mother's death, she keeps going about her life as usual, goes by her original name, does all the normal things she did before. On official documents she lists her mother's name but around friends or neighbours
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by mabbo 4y ago
Seems a simple plan to address a competitor. Buy it. Invest nothing major into it. Wait for the economy to take a downturn and shut it down because it isn't profitable.

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