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by qayxc 5y ago
There aren't 42k Starlink satellites in orbit. It's about 1,500 active satellites versus 600 + ~50 spares - quite comparable.
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by qayxc 5y ago
"The consequences for SpaceX if we can not get enough reliable Raptors made is that we then can’t fly Starship, which means we then can’t fly Starlink Satellite V2 (Falcon has neither the volume nor the mass to orbit needed for satelli
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by qayxc 5y ago
There is no way in hell a huge ICBM would get international overflight rights. The logistics of such system would be hell, too - Concorde only had limited routes due to noise. A rocket of Starship's size is another thing entirely. You&
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by qayxc 5y ago
> 1. bigger and much more capable interplanetary probes The limitation there is capable RTGs, not launch vehicles. > 2. a much cheaper Webb telescope Webb couldn't have fit into a Starship fairing either. > 3. build a base on
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by qayxc 5y ago
While I don't agree that reuse will bring the price down further, I can 100% get behind the other points. Even the argument that demand isn't there because launch costs are high doesn't hold - the bigger the sat, the more ex
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by qayxc 5y ago
The acronym itself doesn't really matter (Standard Portable Intermediate Representation), but the article points out what it is: an intermediate representation. It even spells out how it works: Shader API -> IR API [this is where SP
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by qayxc 5y ago
We're heading in the right direction: https://youtu.be/sVyRkl5qNb8
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by qayxc 5y ago
Do you remember IRC? It had similar issues. Past discussions are invaluable for providing context. The worst thing that can happen to a (technical) discussion is new people repeating points that have been resolved already while the discussi
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by qayxc 5y ago
Where did you get the $10M figure for GPT-3? That sounds awfully cheap considering the cost of compute alone: one estimate was $4.6M for a single training run [0], while other sources [1] put it at $12M per run. I highly doubt that OpenAI n
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by qayxc 5y ago
I like the manual solution better: it includes thought process without negative impact on readability or performance. This makes it easier to match the code against the specification, something a random (and in this case even wrong) magic n
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by qayxc 5y ago
Now that would be something I'd be seriously impressed with. It would make maintaining, bug fixing, and auditing complex software systems so much easier. It'd be a true game changer.
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by qayxc 5y ago
> always-online mobile payment systems (eg. alipay/wechat) are quite successful in asia. I don't live in Asia. > you do realize that even though the credit card doesn't require internet access, the terminal itself does
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by qayxc 5y ago
> Source? https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf Chapter 3.1.4 Commitment Transactions: Ascribing Blame Penalties for contract violations can only be enforced "if one is able to ascribe blame for broa
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by qayxc 5y ago
Sure there's cost associated with handling cash, just like there's cost associated with crypto currency and BTC in particular. Just imagine how long the line in your gas station would be clogged up for if you had to wait for a BT
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by qayxc 5y ago
I know people who pay their coffee in cash, leave a tip and don't even own a credit card. No need to keep a tab open and no need to pay any additional fees ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by qayxc 5y ago
> 1. Said friends do not know who each other are. Security by obscurity is a poor choice. > The shards they hold can only be used by the recipient via hardware they have physical access to. Sounds like multiple points of failure right
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by qayxc 5y ago
> "constantly" in this case means "once every 2 weeks" No. Constantly means exactly that - revoked transactions for either party cannot be checked otherwise. I didn't even include the need to be online all the ti
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by qayxc 5y ago
And people living in oppressive regimes have access to free network infrastructure? That's news to me.
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by qayxc 5y ago
> Schemes like that are not easily possible with physical assets or fiat currency. Of course they are. It's called last will and testament. You can easily set this up, choose a lawyer to hold it and your friends don't even need
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by qayxc 5y ago
Lightning is only safe if you constantly monitor the blockchain, otherwise your transactions aren't safe (as in double spending is still possible). Opening and closing Lightning channels is an operation that requires a transaction on
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by qayxc 5y ago
> Btw, I dare you go back to a 1980s programming environment and tell me that the programming paradigm shifts are just hype Been there, done that. I did consulting for a huge company a few years back. They ran their entire business on IB
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by qayxc 5y ago
> But what happens if he just places the dish there? That's exactly what he tried a few months back. It didn't work (no connection was possible IIRC). The service was basically geo-fenced back then and still might be.
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by qayxc 5y ago
That'd be interesting to know. I'd think that the involved parties would rather not take the "official" route, because that could force them to disclose business practices that might be questionable. It looks as if stayi
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by qayxc 5y ago
That won't work because the systems aren't trained on proofs and proper theorem provers don't work that way either.
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by qayxc 5y ago
This scepticism shouldn't surprise you. Not being sceptical is just an indicator that you've not been in the field for long enough. 30 years ago, the end of programming was prophesised, because 5th generation languages (5GL) and v
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by qayxc 5y ago
> Is this a naive fantasy on my part, or actually possible? Possible, yes, desirable, no. The issue I have with all these end-to-end models is that they're a massive regression. Practitioners fought tooth and nails to get programmer
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by qayxc 5y ago
Must be caching issue - it shows "System Wide Outage" for me.
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by qayxc 5y ago
It's a bit funny, the ToS state that players suspected of cheating get their account terminated and must pay back any wins within 90 days. Problem is, the company is based in Germany and I don't see any way they could possibly enf
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by qayxc 5y ago
> Do you see any viable solution how to end yearly 5% rent increase in Munich? Don't live and work in Munich?
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by qayxc 5y ago
Depends entirely on the metric used. Cyclomatic complexity would put if/else behind polymorphism while using lines of code and depth of inheritance would favour the if/else way. That's the crux with software - there's no

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