mr_toad

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by mr_toad 11mo ago
> because universal standards are never good enough for Apple JPEG is almost as outdated as SMS.
512.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
A web server isn’t a storage solution. And a storage solution like S3 isn’t a delivery network. If you use the wrong tool expect problems.
513.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
In theory. Good luck rolling your own version of S3.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
Shut down everything? Including S3? There goes all your data.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
Is there any significant AI investment outside the US? (I know of a few companies, but they’re tiny tiny minnows compared to the big AI companies listed in the US).
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
SharePoint has been a dog’s breakfast since forever.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
> Come to think of it, every predator tastes terrible. Tuna tastes delicious. But you may be right about mammals.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
For thousands of years after domestication there were only a handful of dog breeds; hounds, sheepdogs etc, which were bred for their utility rather than appearance. It’s only in the last couple of hundred years that dog breeds have explode
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
> 30k+ raccoons life there, according to estimates. Along with 200k+ of the most violent species on the planet: humans.
520.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
Dogs can easily become feral too, feral dogs will often attack humans, and given the opportunity have been known to eat people.
521.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
Dogs are genetically the same species: Canis familiaris, a type of grey wolf. They can breed with wolves, and other closely related canines.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
One of the hallmarks of domestication is retaining pre-adolescent behaviour in adulthood, for example dogs barking.
523.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
Housings on indicators that reflect so much sunlight you can’t see that they’re on.
524.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
There’s something to be said for a standardised design with replaceable parts.
525.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
A IC car’s heating system normally taps into the engine’s cooling system, so that heat is mostly free. In a pinch you can actually turn the heater on full to help cool the radiator.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
I doubt you could ship one. The cores need specialised port facilities to even get them into the subs.
527.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
> Similarly, it is easy to imagine a swarm of small underwater drones detecting, tracking and trailing nuclear submarines. Those are called torpedoes.
528.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
There’s a handful of commonly used CAs, but the full list of CAs is very long.
529.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
This all seems like a re-hash of the top-down vs bottom-up arguments from before the 90’s (which were never resolved either).
530.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
> If they want to sell servers, why don't they just buy Dell or HP? They want to sell HPC servers, not general purpose servers.
531.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
Letting Snowflake run off with half the data warehouse market does make it look like Oracle was asleep at the wheel.
532.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
The market as a whole always recovers. But individual companies, or even entire industries can vanish without a trace. So betting on the entire market is a fairly safe bet, long-term. Betting on OpenAI is much more risky.
533.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
Maybe they think that the AGI will buy stuff itself and they won’t need paying customers.
534.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
> Why did nobody use it before the Raptor? It’s not the best choice for an high-budget high-performance expendable multi-stage rocket. Using kerolox/SRBs in the first stage and hydrolox in the second stage gives better overall perf
535.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
It’s not a linear effect. Once you have enough money to afford family planning it’s more like a level shift.
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
Billions of tonnes of matter ejected at millions of kph. It’s shame we can’t harness that energy.
537.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
From what I’ve read that could be bad, because prior flares can clear a path (through the solar wind) for later flares to move faster and hit harder.
538.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
No sun ‘til next week :-(
539.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
If anyone’s ever in Barcelona I recommend checking out the history museum, which is literally built on top of some Roman and medieval ruins. You can descend into the basement to see the excavated remains of the foundations of Roman buildin
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by mr_toad 11mo ago
I don't think there's any more room for not considering underestimating the importance of beginning to start the process-of mulling over the conceptualisation of starting to worry. And the time to do it is … very soon.

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