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by mr_toad 11mo ago
Same way we’ve always done it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Contro...
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
> even at that height, you are in shadow every 90 minutes. There are orbits that stay in permanent sunlight, even in LEO.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
Some of the proposals are much much bigger than this. Five GW, and 16 square kilometres. It’s amusing that the article points out how large the radiators will have to be, when the proposals already include building giant radiators. Or tha
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
The only real advantage is 24/7 power without having to use batteries (or some other power supply at night or when cloudy). The way solar prices are going the problem of suppling power when the sun isn’t visible is a real bottleneck.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
The X-37 is tiny, it’s only 5 tonnes itself. But one of the uses is probably to bring back smaller satellites to determine how long term exposure in space has affected them.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
You’re lucky. For people without cars anything other than curbside recycling is usually a nightmare. Ironically.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
“Analysis of a recent event” I presume they mean a Coronal Mass Ejection.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
Most people these days are using http and don’t need to touch sockets. (Except for the people implementing http of course).
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
They could go all dark mirror and inject ads directly into the responses.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
The T in TPU stands for tensor, which in this context is just a fancy matrix. These days both are optimised for matrix algebra, i.e. general ML workloads, not just LLMs. If LLMs become unfashionable they’ll still be good for other ML tasks
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
What if they impose their own restrictions on people further down the line?
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
Several media companies have sued OpenAI already. So far, none have been successful.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
If a human reads code, and then reproduces said code, that can be a copyright violation. But you can read the code, learn from it, and produce something totally different. The middle ground, where you read code, and produce something simi
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
Fair use doesn’t need a license, so it doesn’t matter what you put in the license. Generally speaking licenses give rights (they literally grant license ). They can’t take rights away, only the legislature can do that.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
> However, gains made from trading assets, including property, were taxed, and that caught crypto investors as the dominant reason for buying crypto assets is to later sell make a gain, rather than holding them as a long term asset like
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
Some people do put off buying cellphones and laptops when they know a new model will come out every year.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
I’m not aware of any organisation or individual that has actual plans (backed with actual investment) for terraforming anything. This is a straw man argument.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
> where Sam represents the physical part of existence and Frodo represents the mental/psychological part. English classism in a nutshell.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
Presumably a spherical ball of air would be able to transfer heat more quickly (from the hot to the cold side) than the same volume spread out as a very thin hollow layer.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
Perhaps not the best example, da Vinci was prolific, and you can easily pick up something of his for under $3k.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
They’re using a crude linear model to identify AI output, which is not that much different from that which the AI safety industry is peddling, or the people that sell solutions to identify AI output. You can’t reliably predict the output of
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
We’re going to look back and realise that the destruction wrought by global warming was far worse in every way than at Chernobyl.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
There are lots of ideas, like using a reverse cyclotron (a particle decelerator) to drive a turbine, or harnessing the photo-electric effect (essentially solar panels, but for x-rays). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire
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British laser weapon downs drones off coast of Scotland(ukdefencejournal.org.uk)
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
> but I don't think the current abstractions and ways of bridging the FP and Procedural world are good enough I find that both Python and Javascript allow you to use functional code when appropriate, without forcing you to use it wh
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
But people start by hacking away with one-off installs written for their specific environments, get it to the point where it’s useful to others, and then expect others to install all the tools and dependencies needed to install it. Quick st
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
I’d rather them take longer to encode and take up half as much storage. The encoding time is barely noticeable, a full device is a headache.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
> But I'm making the point that its not malicious compliance. It’s totally technically feasible to have a non-blocking opt-in box. But sites effectively make a legally mandated opt-in dialog into an opt-out dialog by making it block
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
The number of regulations is not as important as the quality of those regulations. Shame we can’t regulate the quality of regulations.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
A jitter is like a lawyer on retainer. Law enforcement is more like the OS that segfaults you when you fail to follow the lawyers advice.

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