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by oskarkk 2y ago
https://sscspace.com/esrange/ > Esrange, owned and operated by Swedish Space Corporation (...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Space_Corporation > Company type: Government-owned So, Es
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Because estimating the world population wasn't the point of the paper, and extrapolating their results for the whole world wouldn't be very good science. But discussing something that the paper authors didn't discuss makes a
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by oskarkk 2y ago
> With remote islands somewhere in the oceans, the last zoom level isn't very effective since the map will essentially only show the island you're supposed to identify In some cases with these tiny islands, I see essentially ju
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by oskarkk 2y ago
I think that harmful effects of radiation in places like that matter mostly in the context of life expectancy and the well-being of individual organisms (that may be unlucky to e.g. ingest some particularly radiating matter and quickly die)
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Musk didn't "buy" Tesla, he was its first investor, at a time when the company had only 3 employees, and he was chairman of the board since then (and he's its biggest shareholder to this day). Anyway, he was always invol
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by oskarkk 2y ago
I think that numbers relying on self-identification from census can also be far from the actual genetic makeup of the American population. But after some searching I couldn't find any comprehensive study that tried to trace today'
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by oskarkk 2y ago
It seems that Lip-Bu Tan resigned on his own, because he disagreed with the direction of the board and Gelsinger. Given that they fired Gelsinger and hired Lip-Bu Tan, it seems that they now think his direction may be better for Intel. htt
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by oskarkk 2y ago
> Did that happen? If not, did he say why he was mistaken? If not, then is this guy not overconfident and incapable of revising his own priors? The author thinks that it's about to happen, so it's too early to expect any revisi
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Why Steam? I get that Microsoft/Google/Apple are also competing in web space, so it would be bad for Firefox to give fees to its competitors, but as far as I know Steam purchases also have fees like 30%. The features and marketing
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by oskarkk 2y ago
> You didn't call them names, engage in ad hominem Well, the author wrote: > Teammate App CEO, Sean Banayan, who has the reading comprehension and IT knowledge of a toddler So it wasn't very nice, but deserved imo.
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Yes, and that API is needed for drivers written in Rust. So it's not like core parts of the kernel are being now written in Rust, it's still just specific Rust drivers.
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Here are some Linus's thoughts on why security hardening efforts should never break the program: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/356
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by oskarkk 2y ago
> While xAI's model isn't a substantial leap beyond Deepseek R1, it utilizes 100 times more compute. I'm not sure if it's close to 100x more. xAI had 100K Nvidia H100s, while this is what SemiAnalysis writes about Dee
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Do you have any sources for that? When I searched "DeepSeek crypto mining" the first result was your comment, the other results were just about the wide tech market selloff after DeepSeek appeared (that also affected crypto). As f
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by oskarkk 2y ago
On "Wall of Receipts" on the DOGE website there's a switch with "total contract value" and "savings" options. I guess that the purpose of the second option is to exclude money that has already been paid fo
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by oskarkk 2y ago
While I agree that AI talking like that is totally unacceptable, isn't that example of Grok's stupidity at the end kinda useless as an example? Mixing text with images and logic is one thing that (all?) current image generation mo
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Blue Origin was founded before SpaceX (in 2000). SpaceX launched their first small orbital rocket successfully in 2008, and is launching Falcon 9 since 2010. At that time Musk had no significant power and he was less wealthy than Bezos (and
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by oskarkk 2y ago
They're successfully launching rockets since 2008 (when they successfully launched small Falcon 1), and started earning big money with Falcon 9 that's flying since 2010. Their biggest customer is NASA, as SpaceX has done over a ha
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Of course, but SpaceX was able to go to 1 orbital rocket launch with 1000 employees in less than 5 years. ULA also has a new rocket. New Glenn is bigger than Falcon 9 or Vulcan, but it certainly could have been developed and built with less
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by oskarkk 2y ago
If Blue Origin will not get contracts they can sue, in much the same way as SpaceX sued many years ago to be able to compete for national security launches against the old monopoly of ULA.
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by oskarkk 2y ago
They don't have much revenue. They're selling some engines to ULA, they have some government contracts and quite big commercial contracts for launches that haven't happened yet, so Bezos is surely still pumping money to pay f
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by oskarkk 2y ago
SpaceX has 13000 employees and has launched more than 100 orbital rockets into space last year (and they're also manufacturing thousands of satellites and doing other things). They were able to launch 20 rockets in a year having 5000 e
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Also, 7 usually has a straight line in technical lettering, but in Gorton is curved in a specific way.
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by oskarkk 2y ago
And here are the Hector's posts on Mastodon, now deleted: https://archive.is/uLiWX https://archive.is/rESxe "Behold, a Linux maintainer openly admitting to attempting to sabotage the entire Rust f
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by oskarkk 2y ago
> which means that mail in cities tends to subsidize rural services Do USPS or other mail services in the US have pricing that depends on location? In Poland where I live (much smaller, more uniformly populated and not federal country),
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by oskarkk 2y ago
> I think Musk (probably using his Saudi admirers yet again) wants to buy OpenAI because he needs a working chatbot right now. But I think Musk does have a working chatbot right now? Haven't used it so I won't speak from experi
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Thank god the Europeans have never killed anyone.
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by oskarkk 2y ago
If they object, they can just not use it. As the article says, the petition for abolishing or reducing the fees of a license needed for Starlink was signed by 70% of the islands' population. I think that the main entity that is objecti
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by oskarkk 2y ago
> realistically, context suggests 5120 bit per seconds, which is rather slow. How? "5 MBPS" must mean 5 Mb/s (megabits/s) or 5 MB/s (megabytes/s), and for internet speeds megabits are much more common, so it
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by oskarkk 2y ago
> All his talk about getting to Mars to "maintain the light of consciousness" (...) is actually BS While I hate Elon's politics, I love space exploration, and I believe his motivation with SpaceX is sincere. From the start

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