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by modeless 7mo ago
Not everyone. But it's enough for rural areas, which are the most expensive and least practical to serve with wires.
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by modeless 7mo ago
You have it exactly backwards. It is far less complex and expensive and resource intensive to build Starlink than to run a new copper or fiber line with associated telecom equipment on both sides to every rural residence in the US, let alon
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by modeless 7mo ago
How many of these are there? https://trisolarchaos.com/
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by modeless 7mo ago
> Life like that is no longer possible Completely false. In fact it wasn't easier back in the day. It was much harder. People back then just had hard lives.
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by modeless 7mo ago
The lifestyle you describe is very cheap and you can certainly afford it, if you wanted. There are plenty of rural small towns you could choose from. Why not do it if it's what you think you want?
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by modeless 7mo ago
Did you read the first sentence? > In this piece, two researchers from PLA-affiliated National University of Defense Technology argue that
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by modeless 7mo ago
Why is Chinese army propaganda on this site? It's not news that the PLA will oppose technology that gives the US military an advantage.
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by modeless 7mo ago
If you want to control the software that runs on your phone, you can. You have to choose with your wallet, and buy a phone that gives you that freedom, such as the Pixel. Buying a locked down iPhone and then complaining about it is ineffect
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by modeless 7mo ago
Yes. I believe a small percentage of Apple users do this. Unfortunately that doesn't prevent Apple from reading your messages from the backups of the vast majority of people you correspond with.
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by modeless 7mo ago
You're thinking of Apple. WhatsApp backups are not stored by Meta. Apple is the company that breaks their "end-to-end" encryption by backing up the encryption keys to their own servers.
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by modeless 7mo ago
We should welcome more precise law enforcement. Imperfect enforcement is too easy for law enforcement officers to turn into selective enforcement. By choosing who to go after, law enforcement gets the unearned power to change the law howeve
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by modeless 7mo ago
The tradeoff might not be something unpleasant. For example, it might be that the immune system uses a lot more energy in this state, which would be bad for survival in the wild with limited resources but probably harmless or even beneficia
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by modeless 7mo ago
Star Trek TNG was an interesting utopia. I want more of that. (Not more Star Trek, more utopia sci-fi).
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by modeless 7mo ago
> From those 5 characters you can determine the city, the state, and the country False. Many zip codes include more than one city, and some even cross multiple states. And you can't always tell the difference between codes from diff
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by modeless 7mo ago
A world where AIs use APIs instead of UIs to do everything is a world where us humans will soon be helpless, as we'll have to ask the AIs to do everything for us and will have limited ability to observe and understand their work. I pre
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by modeless 7mo ago
What does "Liquid Retina" mean? Is it 120 Hz or not? Hate these meaningless marketing names.
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by modeless 8mo ago
Happy to see general readership agrees with my opinion of The Verge.
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by modeless 8mo ago
90 day non-degraded uptime of Github Actions is 98.8% if the official numbers can be believed
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OpenAI teases GPT-5.4: "sooner than you Think."(twitter.com)
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by modeless 8mo ago
IMO STT -> LLM -> TTS is a dead end. The future is end-to-end. I played with this two years ago and even made a demo you can install locally on a gaming GPU: https://github.com/jdarpinian/chirpy , but concluded th
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by modeless 8mo ago
Android has this feature, even on phones where it barely makes sense
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by modeless 8mo ago
Starlink has already demonstrated the capability to do laser communication with a maneuvering spacecraft in a very different orbit from the constellation, during the Polaris Dawn mission. And Starlink has way more than enough downlink capac
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by modeless 8mo ago
Your solution to politicians being out of touch with reality is to let them remain in office longer?
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by modeless 8mo ago
I think they did a search-and-replace to turn em dashes into semicolons in an attempt to hide the AI. Weird usage of semicolons.
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by modeless 8mo ago
Google Maps' main advantage at launch was smooth panning and zooming. Hard to remember now but MapQuest didn't have that.
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by modeless 8mo ago
Whoa, you're right! When did they add that? Why would they bury it like that? Nobody will ever find it there. It should be the main satellite view the way it is on the web.
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by modeless 8mo ago
A heads up display doesn't need a 3D rendering of the environment around it because the environment is already visible through the screen. The 3D rendering is so you can see what to expect before you get there. If you don't unde
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by modeless 8mo ago
No, you can't. Google Earth VR is indeed awesome (I am biased because I was involved in its creation), however there is no seamless integration between Street View and satellite view, and no free camera motion or even stereo rendering
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by modeless 8mo ago
Google Earth and Google Maps 3D satellite view on desktop web have essentially the same rendering of Street View, which hasn't materially changed in 10 years or more and does not have the features I described. Google Maps on mobile nev
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by modeless 8mo ago
The difference is that it's useful for navigating the real world. You could have way better directions displays that show directions in context instead of just schematically. It would make the petabytes of imagery that has already been

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