phkahler

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by phkahler 5d ago
My favorite is to sell the building(s) to their private real estate company and lease back. Then IPO the company and keep the rent coming on a 25 year lease.
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by phkahler 5d ago
>> Maybe they find a buyer in a doctor, maybe they don't, but PE provides them an exit that keeps the practice operating in the community. If the practice is to continue, there must still be practitioners working there. Id prefer
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by phkahler 5d ago
First weight. Then resolution. I think SoTA for CRTs peaked at early HD resolution 720. One might be able to modulate the beam faster now. Size. And safety - anyone starting up production now would have to solve the safety issues from scrat
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by phkahler 6d ago
>> What's the main blocker (other than the current inflated cost) for using HBM instead of DRAM as the primary memory for consumer electronics? HBM is meant to be integrated into the same package as the CPU, so no more DIMM socke
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by phkahler 8d ago
Is it a visual search, or do they make a copy of all your data?
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by phkahler 9d ago
>> What can one actually do with Servo today? You can run CAD in it: https://solvespace.com/webver.pl
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by phkahler 10d ago
>> Flock insists its cameras do not perform face recognition. Probably technically true. But since the cameras detect people that makes it easier for their backend system to do face recognition.
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by phkahler 10d ago
There are quite a few people who murder despite the risk of incarceration. I hate to think how many people would kill if it were not illegal. Think about that. Then tell me its not a deterrent.
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by phkahler 11d ago
Are these stepper motors or torque/force commanded?
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by phkahler 18d ago
Would be even better to have a judge declare that they already are illegal.
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by phkahler 18d ago
Ask LG who has agreed to their wiretapping. They can't tell you if some guest in front of a TV has agreed or not. How can that be concent?
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by phkahler 18d ago
IANAL but without concent I think LG is comitting a crime here. The owner who ostensibly agreed to obtain concent through the ToS might be breaking their agreement, but wouldn't that be a separate issue? ToS and other click licenses ha
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by phkahler 21d ago
China destroyed a sat with a laser years ago. Not disabled - destroyed. It created a bunch of debris.
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by phkahler 21d ago
>> Somehow I doubt that after a war with China, satellites would be high on the priority list of things that need rebuilding. If GPS goes down, most of our communications will go down. A lot of other stuff falls from there. I suspect
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by phkahler 21d ago
>> People have to do that. Companies can train people too.
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by phkahler 21d ago
Knuth wrote TAOCP.
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by phkahler 23d ago
>> Eventually the system eats itself. Can it please finish itself before it eats the table, chairs, and dishes?
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by phkahler 29d ago
>> Similar formulas exist for moments, to compute the inertia matrix for a rigid body. Fun fact. The inertia for any rigid body can be represented by 4 point masses forming a tetrahedron. If you diagonalize the inertia matrix, the coo
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by phkahler 29d ago
Better still, you calculate the signed volume of the the tetrahedron formed by the triangle and the origin (4th vertex).
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by phkahler 1mo ago
Higher bit-depth 10,12,16, float.
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by phkahler 1mo ago
Yeah like why is Blackstone named and not the actual company? Clickbait.
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by phkahler 1mo ago
@yassa How long did this take?
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by phkahler 1mo ago
>> The yuan will never become a reserve currency as long as China maintain tight currency controls around importing and exporting it. It's very difficult to (legally) send CNY out or China. Did you read the article? It seems that
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by phkahler 2mo ago
I dont think its exponential innovation. Rapid incremental innovation is happening very fast with some occasional bigger bumps.
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by phkahler 2mo ago
The separation is not total but its more than used to exist.
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by phkahler 2mo ago
Right? "The government" as a whole can't have it both ways. Eliminate older navigation systems because GPS is everywhere, AND run around jamming GPS.
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by phkahler 2mo ago
An entire generation of programmers was created in the 1980s from typing code from magazines. OTOH the only way to run it was to first type it in. Today people have too many options to be bothered I suppose.
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by phkahler 2mo ago
Does FreeCAD use triangle meshes? CAD is usually NURBS surfaces, which require similar algorithms but on curved surfaces.
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by phkahler 2mo ago
>> This is the second ChatGPT shared conversation I've seen today that is truly fascinating. We recently had some bugs fixed in the geometry kernel of solvespace. Not much conversation, but the analysis from the AI was amazing:
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by phkahler 2mo ago
the quality gap between an average hire and top talent ̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶i̶r̶e̶c̶t̶o̶r̶ ̶l̶e̶v̶e̶l̶ ̶ is night and day. Fixed that for ya.

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