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by nynx 5y ago
Very interesting. The last paragraph is unfortunate though: > And if it works, and if it’s fast, and if it’s useful? Who knows. I’d like if Apple or Facebook paid me a lot of money for this library in order to make things fast (think bei
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by nynx 5y ago
I think the AirTag stuff will eventually be limited to localized areas where the tags are wirelessly powered.
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by nynx 5y ago
That’s a fair statement. Point taken
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by nynx 5y ago
I don’t think this is necessarily true. The large investment required to set up a fab does benefit them in certain ways. It reduces competition. If the machines were 50 million instead of 150 million, I’m sure they’d like that. If the machi
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by nynx 5y ago
We dearly need a semiconductor fabrication technique that doesn’t involve 150 million dollar machines and campuses the size of cities.
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by nynx 5y ago
Actually, I bet this would be possible if the bots had a tiny magnetically actuated suction piston. You’d have to figure out how to create electromagnetic force in the z-direction independently from the x-y force though. Not sure if that’s
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by nynx 5y ago
There’d have to be some way to temporary bond components to the bots. Regular pick n’ place machines use suction.
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by nynx 5y ago
Webassembly has 64-bit locals and instructions.
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by nynx 5y ago
This gives me _A Deepness in the Sky_ vibes: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/255
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by nynx 5y ago
@dang will sometimes boost a post later on.
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by nynx 5y ago
I assume it’s pronounced like Cthulhu, but with an ‘ix’ sound at the end instead of ‘u’.
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by nynx 5y ago
No, I’m not trying to shut down the ‘conversation’. I’m just saying, you should try to figure out if you actually have a good reason for feeling that way.
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by nynx 5y ago
Uh, yes. Trans women are women. You’re just transphobic.
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by nynx 5y ago
Right now, I don’t see how a general purpose computer could last 50 years. The article refers to it being modular, but you’d have to replace so many parts… would it still be the same computer?
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by nynx 5y ago
I’m curious what the actual estimates of the likelihood of a self-replicating RNA stand coming together randomly are. There’s a lot of volume and time on earth where these random reactions could’ve happened.
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by nynx 5y ago
Maybe you misunderstood. Rust is already used widely in certain industries and quickly growing in many others. It’s not a question of if rust will succeed at this point. It already has. It’s soon to be allowed in upstream Linux kernel drive
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by nynx 5y ago
Almost every sentence in this comment is wrong. 1. The compiler has been speeding up a lot, it’s about as fast as C++ on large projects. 2. The borrow checker makes Rust usable by beginners. Imagine writing complex pointer code without it.
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by nynx 5y ago
I’m in a multidisciplinary engineering major called engineering science.
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by nynx 5y ago
This is fantastic progress. There’s two directions of attack that are necessary to get brain emulation. First, scanning ability needs to advance enough to scan an entire brain with various stains at the decananometer voxel level. Second, we
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by nynx 5y ago
Clearly the end goal for this research is figuring out why the fungi can block radiation and taking advantage of that for better radiation shielding. We’re not going to be flying around in spaceships coated in fungi.
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by nynx 5y ago
As people are saying, the read/write endurance doesn't seem like enough to replace DRAM, but this would be a _fantastic_ replacement for flash (and the long-term data endurance seeems awesome).
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by nynx 5y ago
It’s pretty easy to say and quite memorable in my opinion. Are you aware of the Norse roots of the name?
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by nynx 5y ago
Computers (even phones) have a enough spare computing power and bandwidth that a true, cooperative mesh network is probably possible now: Data routed through a mesh of local networks created by each device to taps which can route across lon
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by nynx 5y ago
They’d be accessible inside of asteroids. There appear to be some asteroids that are spinning too fast for their size, implying they have an unexpectedly massive core, but there is still no conclusive proof the quark nuggets exist.
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by nynx 5y ago
The physics is quite complicated and I certainly don’t understand it fully.
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by nynx 5y ago
There’s an interesting theory that antimatter from the early universe is effectively condensed into ‘quark nuggets’, extremely dense colorsuperconducting blobs at the center of massive bodies like planets, stars, and asteroids. They can eff
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by nynx 5y ago
Software and interactions should not be patentable.
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by nynx 5y ago
I hope we can eventually have self-contained machines that can synthesize many different types of medications. By certifying the machines or testing them thoroughly, you can lessen the worry that people will synthesize the drugs wrong. I th
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Aspirational Neuroscience(aspirationalneuroscience.org)
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by nynx 5y ago
It’s a shame Merkle and Freitas never made their nanotech dream happen. There are some hints that a Canadian company called CBN Nanotechnologies is working with them (they bought all of Merkle and Freitas’ patents), but who knows.

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