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by porphyra 3y ago
Say what you want about the death penalty, but it is hard to feel sympathy for a person who, by approving dangerous pharmaceuticals after accepting bribes, > caused the deaths of over 800 people in Panama from cough syrup that contained
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by porphyra 3y ago
> Robotics hasn't yet had its GPT moment, but we think it’s close. Hmm Tesla is using end to end GPT-style model for FSD V12. It actually works surprisingly well. For actual robotics, Electric Sheep is doing something similar for th
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by porphyra 3y ago
Taichi is very similar to isometric exercise. Basically in a lot of moves you are pushing against yourself while moving slowly in circles. Isometric exercise, which is when you are exerting force but not moving, has been shown to be great a
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by porphyra 3y ago
I don't think the notch is inherently dumb. It's a great use of the space in the macOS menu bar that is otherwise usually wasted. Moreover, having a good webcam is very important to a lot of Macbook users who would not be able to
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by porphyra 3y ago
Does Stockfish really use a Leela-inspired NN? I thought the NNUE was independently developed and completely different (it's a very tiny network that runs on the CPU).
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by porphyra 3y ago
I always thought that robotics devices like Roombas ought to add some mouse sensors on the bottom for odometry. It seems like it would be a lot more reliable than wheel odometry while being super cheap. Mouse sensors are frequently used in
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by porphyra 3y ago
A pity that shady companies are ruining the solar industry with predatory loans when actually the solar panels are cheaper than ever and it's a great idea to install solar to help accelerate the world's transition to sustainable e
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by porphyra 3y ago
What if you are on a plane and door blows out but the only other passenger on the plane happens to be a Boeing exec by sheer coincidence?
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by porphyra 3y ago
It is pretty exciting that various companies are making compute for deep learning. I was starting to get worried that the TPUs were lagging behind Nvidia. More diversity in hardware is always nice. Meanwhile I am still waiting for Tesla Doj
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by porphyra 3y ago
There's also the knook that combines the Knight and the Rook, which was hilariously invented as a meme on /r/anarchychess: https://anarchychess.fandom.com/wiki/Knook
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by porphyra 3y ago
Vans are a lot better for both transporting people (more spacious compared to SUVs) and goods (easier loading and protected from the weather compared to pickups), plus of course having vastly better visibility. It always seems odd how truck
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by porphyra 3y ago
Children keep getting killed by their own parents' SUVs though...
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by porphyra 3y ago
How do we catch the criminals, or prove liability during a crash, then?
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by porphyra 3y ago
Over 10 years ago, in 2011, there was a DARPA shredder challenge: https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/02/all-your-shreds-are-belong... I wonder how much the state of the art in reassembling shredded documents has
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by porphyra 3y ago
Why do you want to use cash though? NFC tap to pay or QR code-based mobile payments, which is what everyone in China uses, are so much better. No need to carry around a heavy and bloated wallet full of physical coins, no need to touch dirty
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by porphyra 3y ago
Yes exactly, it's so annoying to have to make sure if the server actually heard what I said. And often near the end of a meal we would be waiting for a dish that never came and be unsure whether the kitchen is just taking a long time,
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by porphyra 3y ago
I admire the sentiment but surveillance cameras are everywhere. It's not just Teslas.
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by porphyra 3y ago
They did take action. The whole labeling team was fired. https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/tesl...
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by porphyra 3y ago
Norway uses a different charging connector. On the other hand, the event in Chicago was clearly a freak event and in no way reflects the normal operation of Tesla charging infrastructure in cold weather (elsewhere in North America, where it
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by porphyra 3y ago
Does the coating get ruined if you unplug and plug back in stuff such as the HDMI cable and power cord?
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by porphyra 3y ago
That is completely unlikely. As ximeng says, it's an archaic word for a special weapon, but also: * Most of the other letters on the ball work well in English but would not work well for Chinese words with pinyin * Children do not lear
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by porphyra 3y ago
Too bad Roger Cicala stopped writing.
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by porphyra 3y ago
Chromatic aberration happens because of dispersion --- the fact that the refractive index changes with wavelength. By combining materials with different properties (e.g. low dispersion, or high refractive index), you can cancel out the aber
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by porphyra 3y ago
The fragility of fluorite was one a reason why Nikon gear was chosen for the International Space Station iirc.
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by porphyra 3y ago
I used to have a FD 500mm f/4.5 which is nice but not as well corrected as modern glass. I got it for $750 which, too, is a bargain. > as long as you don't mind manual focus Given that the primary use case of large aperture tel
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by porphyra 3y ago
Well, reasonable compared to other electric cars I guess. But yes, a $50k car, even though it's the average cost of a new vehicle in the US, is still quite expensive and out of reach of most people.
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by porphyra 3y ago
Because the cars are actually quite good for the most part despite what you read on the news. They are incredibly safe, reasonably priced, and efficient.
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by porphyra 3y ago
Yeah but from a consumer perspective the svelte NACS connector is vastly more pleasant to use than the bulky CCS one.
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by porphyra 3y ago
Proposition 1A says: * San Francisco–San Jose: 30 minutes; this would require about 100 mph (160 km/h) on average * San Jose–Los Angeles: 2 hours, 10 minutes; this would require about 200 mph (320 km/h) on average Which is rather
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by porphyra 3y ago
The nuance about "Elon making Hyperloop just to oppose high speed rail" is that he isn't intrinsically opposed to high speed rail itself. He's just opposed to the fact that California high speed rail is way more expensiv

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