nojvek

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by nojvek 3y ago
Very well deserved. The more we understand how RNA/DNA are able to build proteins, which then assemble into cell parts, into cells into rest of biology, the more we control our future. I wish I’m alive to see the day when we have cheap
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by nojvek 3y ago
Lyft/Uber/DoorDash and a host of others have useful notifications when you have a delivery but abuse trust to send a ton of marketing spam. Apple should make a version of - Allow notifications for 1 hour. Like how they have allow
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by nojvek 3y ago
Captchas - esp pure audio or visual captchas are so easy to break with the latest image models. I understand Google doing crazy mouse and activity tracking throughout the internet to determine whether you are a human or not. But I chuckle a
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by nojvek 3y ago
Housing is obscenely expensive for young couples in most major metros. Most places don’t pay well enough to afford daycare. Women want careers too. Few countries have comprehensive parental leave. Can’t complain about less kids and have po
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by nojvek 3y ago
Had an electric skateboard. Fell off due to wheels slipping in rain. Injured wrists. Took a good 5 years, but not fully back. Skateboard: $700. Hospital bill $6000 - it blew past the deductible. I’m alive but electric scooters are much bett
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by nojvek 3y ago
Transportation is the backbone of global economy. Planes, ships, cars, trucks, food delivery - it would be a humongous impact. GPS is pure magic from the perspective of someone a few centuries ago.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Reminds me of 1984. Google is the Ministry of Privacy. Minister of Privacy: “Let us gather to celebrate a trillion dollars of profit in one quarter. Our goal is to harness the world’s data and exploit it. Surveillance is Privacy” — Minister
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by nojvek 3y ago
I’m glad EU exists and gives shit to US Big Tech companies. There’s a range of good and bad but we should celebrate the push and pull forces. I like Apple now has USB-C, or Tech companies now have to have download portals of all user data,
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by nojvek 3y ago
This is so much more impressive than the Apple demo. I’m sure some people are Apple are freaking out. Meta has a 10X more affordable product on the market. They are all in on spatial computing and AI. The future is exciting indeed. I’m read
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by nojvek 3y ago
No mutually assured destruction back then. WW1 was a pretty inefficient war, WW2 got better weapons and communication infra, but modern war fare is seriously destructive. Intercontinental missiles fired from stealth submarines with nuclear
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by nojvek 3y ago
If AI can truly reason and build complex applications - I.e it has mastered composition and causality, then AI would have a full mental map of how commercial and residential buildings work. How every pipe fitting links to each other. In tha
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by nojvek 3y ago
We will have countries against each other fighting for their borders but world war is v unlikely in our lifetime. We love our cheap goods, cheap-ish energy and ability to change presidents and prime ministers. Yes China, North Korea and Rus
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by nojvek 3y ago
That sweeet seeet GPU money for Nvidia and OpenAI employees. And I guess a huge chunk of that is Azure GPUs which probably cost MS a lot less. Cloud providers have margins >50%.
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by nojvek 3y ago
That’s a beautiful law if it can be enforced well.
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by nojvek 3y ago
> As I’ve tried to point out in my reporting over the years, scalpers and Ticketmaster are engaged in a neverending game of cat-and-mouse, but the more difficult Ticketmaster ostensibly makes it to buy tickets, the easier it is for dedic
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by nojvek 3y ago
Same H2O molecules, different levels of other molecules mixed in with it. It is possible to recycle urine into drinkable water. That’s what they do in international space station where water is very precious. https://www.nasa.gov
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by nojvek 3y ago
It depends on your definition of creating new water. When we extract crude oil from ground, hydrogen is made as byproduct. Similar with other industrial processes. That hydrogen released in atmosphere burns with oxygen to make water. So one
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by nojvek 3y ago
Insurance and solar is a real issue. If you put solar on roof, then insurance does not cover roof damage incase of hurricane. Also with solar subsidies come the scams. Most people are skeptical of solar in Florida. Florida is no longer a pu
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by nojvek 3y ago
I wonder what the future of governance holds in the next 50 to 100 years. On one hand technology will amplify surveillance powers in the hands of few, and explode misinformation/propaganda. On the other hand internet and AI compute cos
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by nojvek 3y ago
Tesla has good ideas, but stupid execution. Comma.ai has driver monitoring, GM cars have driver monitoring, Hyundai/Toyotas and probably many others yell at you if the hands are not on the steering wheel. Tesla pure vision based autopi
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by nojvek 3y ago
SQL file format is very well documented. In some universities it is an assignment to directly read and write sqllite files from disk and understand the paged and blocks structure. You don’t need sql for any of it. https://www.sql
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by nojvek 3y ago
I don’t think your analogy would not be true for Tesla. My underlying theory is that software is how we map what is happening in the real world and represent a model of it in computer(s). Great Software engineers have this amazing ability t
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by nojvek 3y ago
Phones have tb of space? IPhones start with 128GB of space and charges a hefty premium for storage. I would deffo not want a game to consume 40G of space
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by nojvek 3y ago
Playing Evil’s advocate for google Google has abandoned a ton of projects, and this repo kind of looks abandoned. It’s likely google loses interest in it like they have a deserved reputation. Google has no obligation to pay anyone other th
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by nojvek 3y ago
> Perhaps we could retaliate and send something back, but probably the odds are bad. Only took 60 years from first flight to man on the moon. 300 years is plenty long time. Suppose we crack true general artificial intelligence, nuclear f
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by nojvek 3y ago
Gasoline has gravimetric density ~45MJ/kg and volumetric density ~35MJ/L. Costs about $3.80 / gallon avg or roughly $1/L. You can store it in a cool dry place inside a metal/plastic container for decades. Cheap, lig
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by nojvek 3y ago
I saw in person. It wasn’t in the city city though, was in one of the suburban malls.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Correct. I believe forms of “ma” and “pa”/“ba” are almost universal for mother and father.
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by nojvek 3y ago
There is truth in that Europe isn’t buying directly from Russia. However plenty are buying from countries are buying refined oil products from India (and possibly others) where the source is Russian crude oil. https://www.aljazee
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by nojvek 3y ago
Have to be on the US for the visa to be valid. They can go for holidays for a short period.

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