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by mlsu 4y ago
As it turns out, every part of humanity is subject to the law of physics. If you churn some water with a bit of soap in it, a lot of large bubbles will form on top. Just wait a few seconds, and those bubbles that are too large will divide i
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by mlsu 4y ago
The gaping hole in this write-up goes something like: "In order to prevent a bug like this from happening in the future, we have stepped up our review process for external dependencies. In addition, we are conducting audits around code
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by mlsu 4y ago
Why? The result for the end consumer is identical whether they have their PII leaked from "an external library" vs a vendor's own home-baked solution. It's not really a different kind of mistake, it's exactly the sa
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by mlsu 4y ago
Duchamp, quoted on why he wrote what he wrote on fountain : > Mutt comes from Mott Works, the name of a large sanitary equipment manufacturer. But Mott was too close so I altered it to Mutt, after the daily cartoon strip "Mutt and
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by mlsu 4y ago
I mean, the data has to come from somewhere. Look at something like [ Luncheon on the Grass ]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_D%C3%A9jeuner_sur_l%27herbe ) This painting was revolutionary. When it was first exhibited i
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by mlsu 4y ago
Precisely. Latency on LAN is very good, especially for a non realtime game like Cities.
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by mlsu 4y ago
Robotics is a double whammy, you have compute problems but you also have actuation. Getting robots to move quickly is easy; getting them to move quickly to exactly where you want them, or with exactly as much force... that is much, much mor
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by mlsu 4y ago
Someone came over and asked what I was using the PC in the living room for. I told him -- it's the Cities Skylines Mainframe! If you have a spare desktop lying around, it really helps to do the simulation "in the cloud."
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by mlsu 4y ago
This is an artifact of the battery supply crunch. If you're going to make a car battery right now, you should put it into something high end with a huge margin, that will help your brand make a big splash with the wealthiest buyer. I h
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by mlsu 4y ago
I'd call myself the Big Money Company, and then make a billion dollars. What I wouldn't do is call myself the Teeny Tiny Non Money No Money Here Company, and then make a billion dollars, and then while making my second billion dol
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by mlsu 4y ago
With nearly any of our social ills, the answer is housing. - The people taking care of children at daycare make pennies; most of the revenue goes to a landlord. It's very expensive because you can't just move the daycare 1.5 hours
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by mlsu 4y ago
This is total speculation on my part, but it seems like there would be a strong evolutionary pressure, at a group level, to select for a mixture of night owls and early risers. The "night owls" stay up to watch for predators to ke
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by mlsu 4y ago
This morning, I brushed and flossed, which makes me a Plaque Removal Engineer. I then used my skills as a Room Tidyness Engineer to make the bed. After that, I engineered the harness onto my dog and took her on a walk: Canine Fitness Engine
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by mlsu 4y ago
Just looking at the rendering of the flight data -- did nobody post footage on social media from inside the plane during that dive, or the subsequent climb? That looks like a roller coaster of a flight, if I have the scale correct.
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by mlsu 4y ago
If you thought tech debt was bad with human programmers...
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by mlsu 4y ago
For those unfamiliar with surfboard construction: A surfboard is made from a foam core, with a stiff polyurethane coated fiberglass wrapped around the foam. This is what makes surfboards lightweight but fairly strong. To make a surfboard, y
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by mlsu 4y ago
No reason to prevent people from putting solar on their roofs if they wish. I'm talking about tax rebates and credits given to people who put solar on their roofs. I'm sure these are good investments: they're subsidized!
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by mlsu 4y ago
Putting solar panels on roofs may have made sense when PV was expensive and the component cost was a big multiple. But now? Far better to just stick a bunch of them in the desert where they can be inexpensively installed and maintained -- p
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by mlsu 4y ago
I was heavily involved in a robotics project in college, it was my entry into software (and, the most fun I've ever had writing software!). I really miss it. Reading this made me jealous of these guys, they look like they are having a
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by mlsu 4y ago
I have the same obsession, I think. Do you know of any place that sells high quality printed maps or charts, with (for lack of a better word) "engineering" data? I'm particularly interested in energy, transit, or natural reso
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by mlsu 4y ago
This one is very cool. Steps are: - Generate seed of LLM output token t0 - Use the seed to mark output tokens into "red" and "green" list - For token t1, only sample from "green" list when producing the next to
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by mlsu 4y ago
I never played FEAR, but ended up reading basically this whole page when it was posted here a while ago: https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/goap.html Really interesting stuff. It appears chronologically dated at this
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by mlsu 4y ago
This is the sad reality. Doctors, hospitals, and healthcare admin. staff consume the fat of healthcare market failure. But nobody wants to blame them -- they like their doctor; being a doctor is hard, so if you are a doctor you deserve a Fe
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by mlsu 4y ago
In theory, you can: - Open Microsoft Paint - Make a blank 400 x 400 image - Select a pixel and input an R,G,B value - Repeat the last two steps To reproduce a copyrighted work. I'm sure people have done this with e.g. pixel art images
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by mlsu 4y ago
This is frequently done when you have a (very hot) boiler in a power plant or chemical process nearby. A natural gas turbine can't generate electricity very efficiently on even 212f steam, so instead of building some gigantic turbine t
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by mlsu 4y ago
The entire United States has something like 3 seconds of energy storage, total. Just getting that to an hour means a three order of magnitude change in the amount of connected grid storage. Good luck finding that much pumped hydro! The ea
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by mlsu 4y ago
Well, I heard that there was a Nigerian royal with a long-lost inheritance -- all he needed was for SBF to have access to the FTX bank account and the funds could have been wired postehaste!
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by mlsu 4y ago
If you say that periods where people move a lot are "mobile" periods, and periods where people stay put a lot are not "mobile" periods, than this is one of the least mobile periods in our modern history, despite what y
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by mlsu 4y ago
So I understand this. But "used by a few nerds" isn't what most defi/cryptocurrency purports to be. We are talking about web3 -- a paradigm shift for the entire internet. The equivalent to JS for the interactive web,
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by mlsu 4y ago
I think what gets me is that nobody ends up actually doing this. The biggest and most productive entities on web3 that have the most users are the ones that everyone has heard of: crypto exchanges, or in other words, permissioned, centraliz

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