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by neltnerb 3y ago
It seemed pretty clear that they did a prototype scale test and then the rest was computer modeling. I'm actually shocked they calibrated it to within 1dB of reality and am curious how they managed to prove that one. I agree about acad
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I don't care about any other company being "transparent" in this sense, I care how much what I am paying for will actually cost. It's a low bar, I guess, but the excuses as to why it's too hard are just so insulting
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Especially if it can be regenerated, then it's really a non-issue.
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Why then? Stealth can't be that good. Cost seems impossibly unlikely at a development stage, but are they somehow lower cost to manufacture? Seems unlikely. I am welcome to alternatives, but the announcement included: “Blended wing bod
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I am speaking tongue in cheek of course, if they weren't themselves protected at all it would not work out for them. They couldn't own the distribution system well enough to keep the cat in the bag. But I can see them being okay w
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by neltnerb 3y ago
> Military use involves completely different economics, but for related reasons the anticipated greater fuel efficiency is rarely a big deal for the military. I think this assumption is wrong, for airplanes. Higher fuel efficiency means
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by neltnerb 3y ago
> So, the correct question to ask is "what can we do as a reasonable trade-off to reduce the number of fires in the future without compromising the quality of life?". And the correct answer is "educate people on how to spo
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I mean, around now would be a fairly convenient time for giant companies to change their mind about copyright. After all, that creative commons drawing and GPL code are only protected because of copyright, correct?
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Sure, but I don't think there's any particularly obvious reason why Facebook would be the place for a topical group to set up shop. I think it is a bad place for a topical group because you cannot read the posts without logging
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by neltnerb 3y ago
It is illuminating to do a search for the word "consent" in the document, considering they say that they will not use things without it. Seems like it might be worth them including, IANAL. Otherwise can't they just change it
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I mean, I gave up on Facebook long ago to be honest, but this is a news aggregator website that is specifically about sharing links to articles of news or interest. Facebook... I mean... it wasn't pitched to be that? It was supposed to
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by neltnerb 3y ago
But sometimes legal has the trump card in terms of dictating company policy, and having confidential information laundered into the public domain via training on "customer content" seems like a very red line.
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Yeah, I saw some people posting screenshots of 10.2 and was thinking maybe it was just exaggeration for clicks, but 10.4 is horrifying. Customer Content as defined in 10.1: "10.1 Customer Content. You or your End Users may provide, upl
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by neltnerb 3y ago
> I think Cory is about half right about enshittification but there's also a huge dose of entitlement and apathy. If you expect corporations or government to just Do The Right Thing when it's not in the interest of those in pow
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Agreed, that's what makes the omission odd. Normally you'd expect them to list any candidate that they have any possible reason to think might be relevant, especially if they aren't entirely sure what is going on. Is that cle
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by neltnerb 3y ago
You might have twice as many overall openings for non-legacy students if you brought that into balance. Or you can complain that one subcategory of asian has a disparity from others and dig into it. That takes time and energy and publicity
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Oh, that's weird. They missed all the other noble metals besides silver too. No platinum, rhodium... those things have really really interesting orbital structures, I'm surprised they're worth leaving out of something so tric
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Now do the same thing for legacy admits versus non-legacy admits. Breaking it down by race as if it's a zero sum game is a distraction to get people fighting amongst themselves. What is the point in arguing about the relative fairness
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I don't want to caveat a bunch of stuff with "IANAL" but I am not. However, they have told me what I interpreted to mean that if someone improves it but uses it then they need to license the underlying patent. That just makes
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by neltnerb 3y ago
You can get a composition of matter patent ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_matter ) for something shockingly novel, and this might be. It's super hard to find anything that would qualify, but I'v
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Shocking... https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01516
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Amusingly, some friends asked me about it shortly after the original announcement. I'm not a superconductor person, but I am a materials person. My response was, basically, the biggest risk (after toxicity) "is that they got lucky
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I don't have any desire to carry water for this horrible concept but "Google is too important" is awfully abstract to run a campaign on. We're at the level where "does it break end-to-end encryption without anyone e
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by neltnerb 3y ago
At the end of their comment it notes that because it's a superconductor it would be thinner. Perhaps assume an aluminum cladding for strength? Depending on how strong of a superconductor it is perhaps it's only 1% superconductor a
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Oh boy, do I know... they say it's a city thing because the site is owned by the city or used for city construction or something. It's convoluted as you would expect. 311 and the state DOT disagree about who is responsible for no
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I have spent four years, typically ~2 months a year between first complaint and it actually getting acted upon, getting Somerville to cut overgrowth from its own construction site that completely block a sidewalk that is used by hundreds of
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by neltnerb 3y ago
I mean, it depends a lot on how ductile a final product is. High temperature superconducting "wire" took a long time to become realistic. If you somehow made a ductile and inexpensive wire out of it then it's going to be ever
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by neltnerb 3y ago
> gives incentive to the employees to demand actual wages instead of the bull shit system we have now. Ah good, revolutionary theory to support not tipping. Sorry to have to break this to you, but "incentive" for employees to f
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by neltnerb 3y ago
If a company has really good products that never have issues, who would ever know whether they have good customer service? I kid, sort of, but I've seen awfully expensive equipment in use for years before anyone really stress tests the
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by neltnerb 3y ago
Thank you for the comment! I truly wish you all the best, I've been a customer since you started. But not a VPN customer anymore. You might suggest your support team repeat what you said rather than an endless loop of submitting logs w

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