mlindner

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by mlindner 3y ago
> extremely obnoxious technologies that degrade humanity as a whole What's your angle here? Jet aircraft aren't going away in the era we're heading into. We're just going to move to sustainably produced fuels from eit
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by mlindner 3y ago
So you're arguing that Boom doesn't have access to existing knowledge? Or that they can't hire in talent?
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by mlindner 3y ago
Lack of an industrial base and native experience in doing so. Once one company does it, the experience gained can spread to other companies via employees moving around and forming suppliers for those same companies. For India it also has th
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by mlindner 3y ago
Java is forever stuck in my head as a bad language because it's UI library performance were so bad. I grew up being annoyed with anything written in Java because of its poor performance on Mac OS X. Notable was the persistent UI lag wi
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by mlindner 3y ago
Mars vehicle is still coming, it wasn't supposed to be here yet.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Elon is plenty of things but racist is not something he's been shown to be. That's a weird stereotype that people are lumping him into because of his other views.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Grok is a word in common parlance. So there's no way they could succeed in any suit. That's why the Groq team picked a modification of the word.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Curious why you're so dismissive of something that's pretty important?
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by mlindner 3y ago
If it's better than any other open source LLM does that even matter? (I say "if" because I don't know.)
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by mlindner 3y ago
Well the worst case is a cascade of collisions if everyone gives up trying to avoid debris. But it'd only leave low earth orbit unusable, othernorbits would be still usable.
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by mlindner 3y ago
No they're not. There are no people living adjacent to the launch pad.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Well technically it's not an explosion.
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by mlindner 3y ago
> That the HN audience struggles to see the point of a properly-integrated systems offering isn't an indictment of that offering. It definitely shows who it's actually an indictment of though.
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by mlindner 3y ago
You're mixing written versus spoken language. Russian people largely cannot understand any Ukrainian when spoken. Polish people on the other hand can make out bits of Ukrainian.
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by mlindner 3y ago
It's not about the money. It's about risk vs reward. Musk absolutely killed himself over getting Tesla where it is (it kind of shows in his mental state of late) having that all ripped away because a guy with 9 shares complained a
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by mlindner 3y ago
> Also Musk's publicly stated goal is to use his fortune to go to Mars. Not himself though... society in general.
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by mlindner 3y ago
> The software should probably force text to be aligned on whole real pixels, even if that detracts a little from the realism. I think that'd be difficult given that pixels are effectively "non-rectangular" given the warpi
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by mlindner 3y ago
There's never been promises to not expand NATO, let alone any signed agreements.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Calling Europe “client states” of the US is quite the silly hot take... There's no abrogation of foreign policy to the US.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Almost all of Europe’s fossil fuels came from Russia whereas China is not even the largest trade partner of the US. Also energy dependence is much harder to get off of than production dependence.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Ukrainian is a completely different language than Russian... In fact it shares more similarity with Polish and Bulgarian than it does with Russian. Here’s a good video to help clarify things for you. https://www.youtube.com/
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by mlindner 3y ago
Ukrainian isn’t a dialect continuum with Russian. That’s a myth commonly pushed by Russia and Russian nationalists. It’s a separate language with roots diverging from a rather early point with different history. It actually shares more simi
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by mlindner 3y ago
If they cause a rapid decompression they incapacitate themselves and won't be able to use the cockpit. Also how do you cause a rapid decompression without a gun of some kind?
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by mlindner 3y ago
These sorts of what I like to call "reverse monopolies" are all over the place in US industry now. So many companies dumped out pieces of themselves to a single company that then supplies for all of them, removing the ability of t
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by mlindner 3y ago
Hydrazine is certainly on some satellites, but by numbers of satellites launched and by mass of satellites launched hydrazine is not on a minority of them. Most satellites being launched by mass and number are now Starlink satellites which
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by mlindner 3y ago
Not really what I was saying. I'm talking about being obstructionist for the sake of being obstructionist, primarily focused around appeals to nature and digging for reasons that can be used as an excuse to justify the appeal to nature
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by mlindner 3y ago
Indeed. Problems are things to be solved, not a reason to put up blockers preventing things from happening. Kessler syndrome is even greatly misunderstood because of movies like Gravity. People think of it as one satellite getting kicked ov
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by mlindner 3y ago
> But don’t satellites have toxic components? That depends on how you define "toxic". If you mean toxic fuels, most do not. However the idea is just terribly impracticable. Heat shields are heavy and more than that you would ne
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by mlindner 3y ago
The number sounds wrong. Most meteorites are made of conductive material. And I've never heard of small meteors not burning up. The energy still has to go somewhere.
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by mlindner 3y ago
The study in question HAS NOT been peer reviewed. https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09329 Edit: And I'll add arxiv doesn't really vet the content beyond minimal moderation. If it sounds scientific then you can get o

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