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by mapt 2y ago
You're neglecting the cost of actually living in a similar dwelling. What would renting an identical house in the same neighborhood cost you?
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by mapt 2y ago
What about the grunting? Gonna need a consult with Pornhub on training that one. Ultimately though, with the help of AI and some volunteers in the demoscene, we should be able to compress tennis audio down to a few kilobytes per hour.
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by mapt 2y ago
The fact that we use the term "Settling" and "Settlers" is kind of grotesque. These places are occupied, by Palestinians, who have to be ethnically cleansed (with varying degrees of violence) in order to establish new I
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by mapt 2y ago
The work that has been going on for the past month is systematically destroying every known air defense asset of the Syrian government (and securing a key mountain peak with newly entrenched ground troops) in order to have a permanent air c
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by mapt 2y ago
> And it's certainly not authoritarian. Israel has full powers of protest, free speech, and in fact it's generally the press that have the strongest voice not the government. Israel maintained a prerogative from early in the wa
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by mapt 2y ago
What we're doing here to get higher SNR, generally, is growing the CMOS sensors larger and larger. The limitation is ultimately either depth of field or IC manufacturing issues. A hypothetical meter-wide sensor could be manufactured t
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by mapt 2y ago
It may not be enjoyable, but for about a century, railroad schemes were often as much about entrepreneurial fundraising, land rights, and corruption as about actually delivering infrastructure - it's thematically correct. Colm Meaney d
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by mapt 2y ago
Military contractors have been producing teaser videos on the subject for maybe fifteen years now.
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by mapt 2y ago
Correction: To attain 1% of 5kg of water, I need 50g of starch. In 500g of pasta, there's no way in hell I'm losing fully 10% of the weight of the pasta. If I cut the water to pasta ratio by 80%, I would still need to lose 2% of
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by mapt 2y ago
I played with pipes for a minute to manage an RSS ecosystem, but didn't build anything that I kept around. The site seems to be down. Let's say we all build wonderful apps on this, and then you run out of money or legal liability
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by mapt 2y ago
In a restaurant that makes pasta as a focus you don't "boil it quite often", you boil it constantly. Many gallons of boiling water takes forever to come up to temperature, and once it's there the pot can be thermally in
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by mapt 2y ago
First, temperature dynamics and being able to reliably determine doneness by time. Boiling water is nature's thermal measuring stick, and if your water is dropping to 150 it's a Problem. This is especially the case if you like to
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by mapt 2y ago
The size and shape alone says either rocketry or a piece of a jet turbine. And lacking any obvious plane crashes nearby... M-V (Japan) Epsilon (Japan) Athena (US) Rokot (USSR) Soyuz-U (USSR) Soyuz-FG (Russia) Simorgh (Iran) ... many more T
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by mapt 2y ago
Yes, I think that was the incident in question, thanks.
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by mapt 2y ago
The secret is that restaurants which make traditional cacio e pepe are using pasta water to emulsify the sauce. But it's not the same pasta water you're using at home! Only a tiny amount of starch is coming off of the 500g of past
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by mapt 2y ago
That is the idea being marketed by the companies, yes. But AI does not come with glands, with brainstem instincts, with a limited physical strength, with childhood morality tales, with the ability to feel pain or empathy, with the desire fo
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by mapt 2y ago
At one point, a streamer on Youtube asked his audience something like "Spam F's in chat [to signal that you like this thing I just did]" Hundreds of users got banned by Youtube for spamming. But they didn't get banned fr
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by mapt 2y ago
Remind me why we don't do big vending machines for retail like Japan does?
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by mapt 2y ago
The seasoned advice from experts is that AGI could very easily END humanity as a whole. But they need to pay their mortgage right now, and uhh... if we don't do it our competitors will. We're basically betting our species'
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by mapt 2y ago
I don't think it should really matter how they explain it, legally.
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by mapt 2y ago
With the proliferation of nonstandard RGB Bayer Matrices in consumer devices, sub-pixel anything seems dicey until we have an effective device awareness/translation layer. I'm thinking we might make it to 8K screens before that le
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by mapt 2y ago
There are cruise missiles powered by ramjets that go significantly supersonic, but for the most part ballistic missiles are easier to use, longer range, and harder to intercept. The prospect of anti-air systems effective enough to pose bal
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by mapt 2y ago
That depends on whether you trust the Houthis or the US Navy's sheepish apology for shooting at two F-18s (one missed), which will almost certainly have career consequences for somebody.
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by mapt 2y ago
Yes, I understand that. Now. If you're not embedded in finance, though? To the rest of us? This sounds like a perverse arrangement of Ponzi-like hallucinated wealth appreciation, with losses either being socialized (by what mechanis
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by mapt 2y ago
In a democracy, you would do something like tax this real estate, heavily, for the benefit of the people living in this locale. Hand it back out to these locals ("biological human voters") as free services, goods, or cash as you
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by mapt 2y ago
This confuses me. You have your model, you have your tokens. If the tokens are bit-for-bit-identical, where does the non-determinism come in? If the tokens are only roughly-the-same-thing-to-a-human, sure I guess, but convergence on roughl
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by mapt 2y ago
Any sentiment expressed by the party which has dedicated itself to unrestricted corporate rights in this direction is an insincere attempt to pander to a current culture war front they are fighting that week; In this case, likely something
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by mapt 2y ago
To be blunt: It doesn't. The modern political binary was originally constructed in the ashes of the French Revolution, as the ruling royalty, nobility and aristocracy recoiled in horror at the threat that masses of angry poor people no
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by mapt 2y ago
A break even business sitting on high value property is just as valuable closed as it is open, and it appreciates in value the more restrictions are piled on development of scarce local real estate. The mental health theory aside, this may
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by mapt 2y ago
You mean every other plot involving brain computer interfaces since the 1950's? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)

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