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by niwtsol 1y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I'd love to learn more about micro-architectures and instruction sets - would you have any recommendations for books or sources that would be a good starting place?
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by niwtsol 1y ago
Kind of related, but there is a concept of polyphasic sleep - where you sleep for small increments throughout the day (like 30 minutes every 3 hours). I did it for a bit at a startup thinking we were "hacking sleep" and "gett
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by niwtsol 1y ago
Thank you for this detailed explanation. Given the above, I find it absolutely wild that the closest survivor of Hiroshima was only 170m away (granted he was in a concrete basement). In my head, I always pictured a large area completely obl
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by niwtsol 1y ago
AWS is a great example of the opposite, started around ~2006, it was originally deemed an "internal project" so they did not break it out. It was also really really tiny compared to retail revenue (amazon.com). They didn't ac
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by niwtsol 1y ago
I think this assumption is incorrect "Most cars are useful for 100,000 miles so the vehicle should be able to deliver for about 416 days." There are several reports of the older version waymo cars lasting >200k miles, that woul
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by niwtsol 1y ago
This is a really interesting take I had not heard before. Any further reading or additional concepts you mind sharing on this idea?
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by niwtsol 1y ago
What is the limiting factor against mass production? Is it energy related, chemical properties, money or something else?
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by niwtsol 1y ago
I read doyle's Super System back in the day and used that as the basis for my poker strategy from high school to mid-twenties. In talking to some friends who play competitively, they say SS is just super out dated and you would get eat
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by niwtsol 1y ago
Do you have a link to a blog or writeup regarding the inter-links not working? Hard to find it without getting lost in "Troubleshoot your starlink device" SEO hell.
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by niwtsol 1y ago
I moved my prime account to be on a family plan. Their systems sent me, IDK, 15 messages telling me my prime benefits were going away and to sign up. Either they completely do not cross validate that I had moved to another prime subscriptio
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by niwtsol 1y ago
I just started a company in May to address exactly this! There is so much cyber security tech, but we just felt that no one has really focused on that aging group of users who are historically not technical and very susceptible to phishing
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by niwtsol 1y ago
The email says accounts will start locking Sept 10th and it was sent Sept 8th - so a 48 hour urgency window or an account would be locked is urgency IMO
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by niwtsol 1y ago
Lol - to find your one comment in this thread wayyy down at the bottom was delightful. That demo you reference from techcrunch disrupt ( start of this video - https://youtu.be/Nrb3LN7X1Pg ) - that is a great demo. I'm c
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by niwtsol 1y ago
That was an interesting read, seemed like an overwhelming amount of data for why they should move off cockroach. All of my db work has been read heavy and I’ve never had a need for super fast multi-region writes. Is a multi-region write arc
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by niwtsol 2y ago
Here is a list of approved programs for JWST - https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-progra... You can filter by cycle & purpose - I think you want GO 4 then look at Exoplanet Atmospheres and H
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by niwtsol 2y ago
Yeah, I love this — pure Python with cron or periodic tasks (e.g., Django) works great. Celery task for parallelization, and if you pipe logs/alerts into a Slack channel, you can actually get really far without needing a "proper&q
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by niwtsol 2y ago
We dealt with some patent trolls back in the 2010-2020 era, for those who have not experienced it, it is absurd. In our case, the patent "troll" was an LLC w/ ~5 members - 2 lawyers, 1 person who owned the original patent, a
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by niwtsol 2y ago
I found this very interesting on how the coronagraph referenced in the above article actually works - https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2023/03/24/how-webbs-coronagraph...
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by niwtsol 2y ago
This is fantastic advice. At the first startup I worked at, we had several issues with our MySQL dbs & ETL jobs (MyISAM table locks, slow updates, no replication) - I spent a few days just reading the relevant sections of "High Per
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by niwtsol 2y ago
The Falcon 9 is a SpaceX rocket
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by niwtsol 2y ago
The PUNCH mission features four 140-pound small satellites, each about 1-by-2-by-3 feet in size. Or The PUNCH mission features four 63.5 kg small satellites, each about 0.3048 m × 0.6096 m × 0.9144 m in size. https://blogs.nasa.g
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by niwtsol 2y ago
To answer three of your questions: - It is passively cooled rather than using an expendable coolant- "SPHEREx relies on an entirely passive cooling system — no electricity or coolants are used, simplifying the spacecraft’s design and o
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by niwtsol 2y ago
Both voyagers have golden records on them - a copper disk that is gold-plated that has a bunch of images and messages from earth. Carl Sagan was the lead on picking what was on the disk. It shows some basic math, phoots, and has recordings
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by niwtsol 2y ago
If you have a judge system, and Mistral performs well on other tests, wouldn't you want to include it so if it scores the highest by your judges ranking it would select the most accurate result? Or are you saying that mistral's im
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by niwtsol 2y ago
I came to share the news as well, I see there are some other multi-taskers here!
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by niwtsol 2y ago
It looks like CGC - one of the big card graders - has touted their ability to grade some very early Pokemon The Card Game playing cards (even alpha test cards printed in very low numbers). Here is their grading scale on their site https:&#
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by niwtsol 2y ago
Is anyone aware of a site that shows various builds or off the shelf systems (new and old) and how they handle various models? Like I’d love to see the above vs a Mac Studio 198gb vs an old m1 studio vs other models. I don’t have $6000, but
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by niwtsol 2y ago
This is my use case as well - large .csv's, scratch pad, pasting some bug error message in a cleaner format - Sublime is perfect for that IMO.
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by niwtsol 2y ago
I'm surprised no one has pointed out this seems like a classic example of innovator's dilemma - in the day's of HD's it took years for new technology to come around and upset existing companies. In this information age,
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by niwtsol 2y ago
I don't think it is simply the "planets are so far away" that allows this to be visible from everywhere on earth. Stars are very far away compared to planets, and that distance makes them only visible from certain hemispheres

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