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by pedrocr 5y ago
And then dark energy is more than 2x that. Apparently we only have a good explanation for 5% of the total (normal matter we can see).
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by pedrocr 5y ago
I drive a Tesla and don't use the self-steering feature exactly because of this. What I do instead is enable the warnings from the same software like the ones you describe. That is actually a large gain. I'm already paying attenti
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Was the Communicator ever really influential? I was in a Nokia dominated market at the time and pagers and then blackberrys seemed to be what actually drove that side of the market. The Communicator was seen as a curiosity.
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by pedrocr 5y ago
There's also the HondaJet with the engines mounted on pylons above the wings: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_HA-420_HondaJet
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Having gone through that on the supply side it was a manufactured crisis. When news organizations were still waiting for the first COVID19 cases to happen in their country they would run fluff stories from other places. A very common one wa
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by pedrocr 5y ago
I'm in Portugal where they're also recent. Everyone is trying to avoid the losses to other species although as usual people mostly care about honey bees. That doesn't make these "murder hornets".
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by pedrocr 5y ago
I've been killing 20-30 a day in front of our bee hives for a few weeks now. They don't even attack me when I'm doing that, the bees are the only risk. These kinds of alarmist articles are always a bit amusing. We've bee
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Are you sure? I got the link from this page: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#SPM which besides being already up is called "AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis". It also says the
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by pedrocr 5y ago
I'm trying to find the Summary For Policymakers, which in the last report was a really good summary. I've found the link here: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6..
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Is 16k really a limited vocabulary? The only reference I found online had that as the amount of vocabulary for the highest levels of language proficiency.
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by pedrocr 5y ago
I'm always amazed at the amazing reviews SQLite gets, particularly in a thread about PostgreSQL. I get the angle of SQLite competing with fopen(). If what you need is a file format you can do a lot worse than SQLite. But I've work
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Adaptive cruise control doesn't steer the car. That plus "Lane Keep Assist" is mostly what Tesla "Autopilot" does. "FSD" does a bit more right now but not nearly as much as has been promised.
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Reducing the inputs so drastically and then using a neural network is a weird choice. Time series forecasting usually uses a lot more data before is starts using fancy methods like neural networks. I suspect their granularity is small enoug
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Great writeup. For someone so meticulous it's surprising that Gb/Tb is used where GB/TB is meant. Reading the X1 Nano review seems like that is consistent.
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by pedrocr 5y ago
For an arcade can't you get away with mounting the screen vertically by hiding the rest of it in the cabinet?
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by pedrocr 5y ago
This is clearly an extreme case, and quite impressive. I was commenting on the general case of developing on a phone screen. 2300x1080 phone screens are now on ~200$ phones, while getting more than 1920x1080 on a 14'' laptop is di
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by pedrocr 5y ago
It's gotten to the ridiculous state where common phones will very often have more screen resolution than 14'' laptops. So as long as you have a way to comfortably stand close enough you won't be lacking for pixels. Eye s
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by pedrocr 5y ago
My version of the tool doesn't even create original code as it doesn't have access to it. If the difference between the two uses is how much verbatim, obviously infringing code, gets created, then Copilot has much bigger issues. T
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by pedrocr 5y ago
What asshole thing would I exactly be doing? The scenario I described isn't a weird hypothetical to exercise the law as code. It would be a genuinely useful use of the Microsoft copyrights if that was allowed, just like Copilot is a ge
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by pedrocr 5y ago
So I just need to decompile Oracle's database and a few other commercial products as well and I'm good? Is Microsoft legal happy if I do Windows+Office+OpenSourceCorpus? I'd take that statement as well. Or even if they just d
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Given this fair use argument that the work is probably transformative enough here's what I'll be doing next. I'll take the Windows and Office source code, run it through a decompiler and then train a neural network on that ou
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by pedrocr 5y ago
According to the article these are lithium-ion. Everyone is tweaking the chemistries within that space. LFP already has most of those advantages but lower density. We're in for some fast paced improvement over the next 10 years.
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by pedrocr 5y ago
>It’s true that people eat more calories today than they did in the 1960s and 70s, but the diﬀerence is quite small. Sources have a surprisingly hard time agreeing on just how much more we eat than our grandparents did, but all of them
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Lets just presume you somehow sell that idea to the review board. How do you actually recruit for such a study? Who are these people that are willing to enter a lottery to receive the vaccine or placebo and won't just pop on over to th
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by pedrocr 5y ago
You're saying we should have kept giving placebos to a bunch of people after the trial has calculated 90%+ protection for a widespread infectious disease? Would any review board actually clear such a study?
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by pedrocr 5y ago
The data looks exactly like that. The graph is an xkcd rendition of the graph in the FDA report: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/th...
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by pedrocr 5y ago
The recent Pfizer phase 3 data was like that: https://xkcd.com/2400/
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One Month of Libera Chat(libera.chat)
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by pedrocr 5y ago
I really like it for my use case but just assume it's not secure at all. I change the default Ubuntu install to not run the daemon as root (a major flaw in my view) and then just assume that network is as insecure as any other. It&#x27
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by pedrocr 5y ago
An extremely low bar, it was incredibly poor software. The Teams migration was great compared to that, even for messaging. For VC and file collaboration Teams seems good in absolute, for messaging it seems good only relative to that. Messag

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