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by petilon 4y ago
After stepping down as CEO, he should sell the company (even if it means accepting a heavy loss), then delete his Twitter account, then hire an image consultant to try and repair the damage done to his personal brand. To see how far he has
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by petilon 4y ago
Elon Musk has done a lot of nasty things after taking over Twitter. He has acted basically like a conquerer taking over an evil country, then publicizing all the evil things that have been happening in the country: publicly deriding enginee
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by petilon 4y ago
User Interface that is easy to imagine as a physical object is easier to figure out. It doesn't matter if the user is familiar with the physical object being emulated on the screen. Because laws of physics are still applicable even if
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by petilon 4y ago
The idea of using nuclear fusion as a source of energy dates back to the 1920s and 1930s, when Rutherford first began exploring the possibility. By the 1950s and 1960s significant progress was made in understanding the complex scientific pr
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by petilon 4y ago
Because we are not there in terms of Physics! They generated 1.5x the energy input through laser, but 0.0067x the energy consumed from the wall plug. That means we need more Physics, not just engineering!
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by petilon 4y ago
> Has anybody even been claiming it's anything other than that? They have certainly left the impression among many in the general public that we are close to commercializing this. Here's an example: https://www.cbs
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by petilon 4y ago
Great video from David Pogue on the National Ignition Facility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rI5-wASmzQ If you watch the video it looks like it was shot earlier this year, but it is 10 years old. And yet, the video ment
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by petilon 4y ago
Right... look at some of the reactions: "In terms of the physics, we are basically there, and the rest of it, at some level, is just engineering ," he said. [1] https://www.cbs58.com/news/wisconsin-reacts-to-
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by petilon 4y ago
In the press conference they mentioned that modern lasers have "20% wall plug efficiency". That means fusion has to generate 5x more energy than this experiment did, for you to get more energy out than you put in.
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by petilon 4y ago
In nuclear fusion, mass is converted into energy according to the famous equation E = mc^2, where E is energy, m is mass, and c is the speed of light.
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by petilon 4y ago
When you consider that they laser they used consumed 300 megajoules from the wall plug, in order to send 1.8 megajoules to the target, the fact that they got 2.5 megajoules out looks puny in comparison. Even newer lasers only have 20% wall
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by petilon 4y ago
This is what I captured from the press conference: 300 megajoules was used to generate the laser (this is also captured in [1]). They also mentioned that newer lasers have 20% wall plug efficiency. If so, they need to improve the energy out
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by petilon 4y ago
This article quotes Jensen Harris... the guy responsible for Windows 8 UI, which was a disaster.
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by petilon 4y ago
Even a robot with a fake gun is better than no robot. If the shooter is distracted by the robot then the police have a better chance to take him out. In addition to fake gun the robot should have a camera too, so that police can see him.
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by petilon 4y ago
All you need is something to grab the shooter's attention. If he is distracted by the robot then human officers have a better opportunity to take him down.
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by petilon 4y ago
One word --> Uvalde. A remote-controlled robot equipped with a gun is needed in this type of situation. The gun will be operated by a human, remotely.
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What Elon Musk Is Doing to Twitter Is What He Did at Tesla and SpaceX(nytimes.com)
7 points by petilon 4y ago|3 comments
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by petilon 4y ago
I assumed many developers would prefer Windows because you can now run real Linux inside Windows. If your server code is going to run on Linux it helps to also have Linux on your laptop.
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by petilon 4y ago
A while ago my site was linked from HN, and nearly all visits were from HN. Here are the OS stats of HN readers I collected: iOS 36% Mac 23% Android 20% Windows 17% Linux 4% The Mac vs. Windows stats was a shocker f
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Amazon makes a new push into health care(economist.com)
1 points by petilon 4y ago|1 comments
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by petilon 4y ago
You would have to split vertically then horizontally. If you only split horizontally each business will continue to monopolize their segments.
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by petilon 4y ago
But each of those three businesses would be monopolies. Better to clone the company. Each clone inherits all IP then goes separate ways.
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by petilon 4y ago
He tried to exercise his "agency" to get out of the binding offer and that didn't work, did it?
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by petilon 4y ago
He didn't really want the yacht; he was forced to buy it. Now he's taking revenge on the people who work in the yacht. Publicly ridiculing the quality of their work and firing them if they defend their work.
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by petilon 4y ago
> Do you think more CEO from startup going to try to emulate Elon? If his strategy is successful, and 6 months from now he emerges with a Twitter 2.0 that everyone agrees is much better, then yes.
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by petilon 4y ago
You are absolutely right; web development is unnecessarily complex when you use frameworks such as React. But there are alternatives! Here's an example application built without heavy frameworks. It is very maintainable and easy to und
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by petilon 4y ago
Worth noting: the author of this articles does not believe React is functional: https://twitter.com/jrsinclair/status/1398780972506619907
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Key passages that highlight what Tesla is doing wrong: "The moment highlighted the difference between Tesla’s self-driving technology and “robotaxi” services being developed by companies like Waymo, owned by the same parent company as
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by petilon 4y ago
My guess is Elon Musk will sell Twitter at a loss within a year.
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by petilon 4y ago
If you want to build traditional forms: https://airforms.com

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