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by manholio 4y ago
This might be the most nonsensical proposal I have read in a while. Because why should we build things on the ground and deliver the finished products in orbit, when we can push an entire industrial chain into orbit and furnish it with th
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by manholio 4y ago
> 24hr sunlight That means you either need to sync the satellite with the Earth's rotation (Sun synchronous orbit), so you will deliver power at the exact time the corresponding Earth region has full sunlight (and thus, a surplus),
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by manholio 4y ago
For a given mass of solar panels, the space version is perhaps 50% more efficient, due to the fact they operate in space. Putting them there, in the most optimistic scenario, will cost perhaps 100x versus the ground level version. Currently
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by manholio 4y ago
But why not pay them? Perhaps you cannot pay market wages without a being a competitive capitalist enterprise, but surely there is a point where access to subsidized labor allows you to break even, paying them, say $3 or $5 an hour. And per
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by manholio 4y ago
In other times it was said that a woman takes away a job a man might to, or a black man the job a white. You may want to google the "lump of labor fallacy".
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by manholio 4y ago
> remove the unsafe part from C/C++ bit by bit. You cannot do that without breaking backward compatibility. If you maintain compatibility, what results is a sprawling meta-language with a large learning burden that has the theoretic
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by manholio 4y ago
Surely "nails in the coffin of C/C++" does not imply an all out effort to rewrite all this existing and working software from scratch. The beast will die in the same sense Fortran or Cobol are dead: an outdated language that
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by manholio 4y ago
What a wonderful excuse for a government to pay another 1 billion dollars on crapware to their cronies, who will outsource it to some incompetent software sweatshop on the other side of the world. We can barely get governments to use open s
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by manholio 4y ago
They won't legislate AI away, just training them on copyrighted works without attribution and license. As it should be. Countries that don't do that will be just as successful in the world marketplace as are countries that don&#x2
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by manholio 4y ago
> That somehow international legislation will converge on the strictest possible interpretation of intellectual property, and those models will become illegal by the mere fact they were trained on copyrighted material. That's the on
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by manholio 4y ago
When you are already in a deep hole, it's a good idea to stop digging. How much time did it took you to understand all this? What chances does a beginner has to understand these subtle differences and learn the particular way your code
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by manholio 4y ago
Just another nail in the long overdue C/C++ coffin. If not even these experts can get it right, under the best development conditions, public review and highest stakes, on a relatively small component with the most strict specification
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by manholio 4y ago
I think any legal theory that must equate people with machines to prove its point is dead in any real court. Laws are made by people for people, to protect people's interests, so the analogy is just about as effective as requiring a hu
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by manholio 4y ago
> AI are on the "infringing" rather than the "inventive" side of things Does it really matter? Once you embed copyrighted works into your learning dataset, any model you ship and any "creation" of that model
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by manholio 4y ago
Depending on how you acquired the work, copyright most certainly does care.
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by manholio 4y ago
> Except some, who always ask for "Senior Rust Developer" which I'd guess is still a limited supply market. I've seen a role advertised for 750k/month. It makes sens: those who move fastest get to milk the crypto
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by manholio 4y ago
It makes sense because the latter is by definition a form of virtue signaling while the former is just presumed to be. Virtue signaling involves intent, so a person pointing out something is, say, misogynistic might do it because they are r
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by manholio 4y ago
> his code probably shows up in one or more repos copy-pasted with improper LGPL attribution. Can Copilot prove that and link to the source LGPL code whenever it reproduces more than half a line of code from such a source? Because withou
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by manholio 4y ago
In other words, it's just another AI gimmick that randomly cuts and pastes human generated content that seems to fit the context, without any regards to making sense in a cohesive political framework: >Modern machine learning system
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by manholio 4y ago
He's quite full of himself (the show was called "Seinfeld" after all, before hardly anyone recognized that name), but I think that's part of the comedic persona, that's his routine, a snob successful man. A thing I
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by manholio 4y ago
It's a specific meaning relating to the size of male genitalia after immersion in low temperature water. "There's significant shrinkage, my friend".
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by manholio 4y ago
Also works for "how many emojis iphone" but strangely not other platforms like Windows or Android.
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by manholio 4y ago
It doesn't matter it's illegal, it can happen and people get away with it, and the fact that it can happen has deep reaching chilling effects even when it does not. Look at the case of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the Maltese journalis
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by manholio 4y ago
I blame responsible disclosure. If your wide open infrastructure and customer data is not fair game for anyone who wants to host warez and bankrupt you, then the risk of security vulnerabilities is just another low priority business risk, w
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by manholio 4y ago
> I would doubt Knuth would publish garbage Rather, Knuth could publish some mediocre paper that would be instantly accepted by all the top journals, widely read, discussed and cited instead of more salient works on similar topics. That&
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by manholio 4y ago
There is some talk about virtual energy providers that could agregate a large number of home users, receive an availability fee and only physically discharge during emergencies; that could work out economically and allow owners a positive r
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by manholio 4y ago
> at basically no cost for the EV owner? Only if you have a battery with unlimited charge cycles. This doesn't seem possible with current technology - and even if it were, manufacturers would still optimize for higher density and re
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by manholio 4y ago
This is never going to happen. As a car owner, you are in a market competing with large providers of grid scale storage, that have large purchasing power, control over the battery chemistry and finer specifications of their hardware which i
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by manholio 4y ago
Both are probably true, some people get homeless due to addiction, and lack of a home keeps them relapsing, while also creating a social environment where other types of homeless persons - the mentally or physically disabled, elders, evacue
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by manholio 4y ago
> needle exchanges... end up turning their neighborhood into the newest drug slum. How do you suppose that happened? Do you think there was a severely addicted population that could not get their fix due to concerns of transmittable dise

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