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by mr_toad 10mo ago
The tunnels are just for ease of maintenance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Power_Tunnels
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
The Himalayan mountains are new kids on the block. The Appalachian ranges pre-date life on land, they pre-date the evolution of vertebrates.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> West-- as usual-- is pursuing quarterly profits and forgetting to look up. The companies building out vast data centers for AI aren’t looking to make profits for several years (if ever), and are catching a lot of flak for it. The shar
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_antibody_therapy These are not your parents cancer treatments.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> fixing the enzyme that fixes the wrong copy paste mechanism. Or making the enzyme get more efficient and powerful If we had the tools to easily do that we’d practically be gods.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
Call me an old fashion capitalist but I have a certain respect for businesses still willing to engage in a simple exchange of money for goods and services.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
Lots of small islands have similar status, for example The Cayman Islands, Bermuda & Puerto Rico.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> I don't understand the question. There must have been a cloud of gas big and dense enough to provide the mass for the solar system. Once that exists gravity does the rest, right? Very large clouds of gas can exist with gravitation
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> Yacc is called Bison And when they named ‘Yet Another Compiler Compiler’ something tells me they weren’t being deadly serious.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> What I'd really like is a TV with DisplayPort. Issues with HDCP support maybe?
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
Fasces or fascist?
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
Apple has a p/e of 38, Nvidia is 46, Microsoft is 34. S&P has historically averaged around 20, so on that metric Apple and Nvidia are more similar than different.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> My friend's Fitbit works way better than my Apple watch. I went through three FitBits. After the third failed just outside warranty I got an Apple watch, which has outlasted all three FitBits.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> Shares of Apple Inc. were battered earlier this year as the iPhone maker faced repeated complaints about its lack of an artificial intelligence strategy. Everyone’s shares were battered earlier this year, and it had nothing to do with
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
You’ve never seen the movie Poltergeist?
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
My daughter understood what the Chrome icon was for before she could even spell ‘Chrome’.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> I actually also have a dedicated Copilot button on my new Lenovo laptop powered-by-Windows-11. And, guess what, it does exactly nothing! A physical button? So it’s like a mechanical placebo? If you have AI FOMO you can keep pressing
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
Coreweave’s price has been sliding since June. Odd for a bubble to behave like this.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
Ad machinam. “To the machine”.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> Groq may be undervalued but not for supply chain reasons. Groq isn’t listed is it? Hard to know what its valuation might look like.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
Nvidia could have invested elsewhere, but they’re doubling down on AI. Their shares have been tanking for a month, even after a very good earnings report, so perhaps the market seeks a little more diversity?
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> 'luckily' the syntax for references is so clunky that nobody does anything complicated enough that it really matters. That made me laugh. Unlike actually working with Perl references, which made me want to cry.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
The frenetic pace of data center construction in the US means that nuclear is not a short-term option. No way are they going to wait a decade or more for generation to come on line. It’s going to be solar, batteries, and gas (turbines, an
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> Wrt invading Taiwan, I don't think there is any way China can get TSMC intact. There are so many trade and manufacturing links between China and Taiwan that an outright war would be economically disastrous for both countries.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> What they don't have is the ability to actually build the chips. China has fabs. Most are older nodes and are used to manufacture chips used in cars and consumer electronics. They have companies that design chips (manufactured by
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
Barcelona has 1.6 million vs Londons 8+ million. Also Barcelonas street layout was mostly designed in one go, whereas London’s street plan just kind of congealed over the centuries. Also Barcelona has terrible air pollution.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
That’s always been my favorite proposal. WebScript is short and to the point.
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Most tools are dangerous in the hands of the inept or the careless. Don’t run with scissors.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
I remember when everything had a have the word ‘digital’ in it. And I’m old enough to remember when ‘multimedia’ was a buzzword that was crammed into anywhere it would fit.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
Launching into polar orbit takes about an extra 5-10% delta-v, depending on the latitude you launch from. It isn’t going to cost 6x as much.

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