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by qayxc 5y ago
Iron is cheap nowadays. It's the upkeep that kills you. This "1 server" is equivalent to at least two part-time admins to ensure smooth operations. No biggie if said server just hosts a static website, big deal if runs missio
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by qayxc 5y ago
Smart contracts are perhaps the most oversold part of the whole block chain concept. What works for digital products (service contracts, financial transactions, data delivery) cannot always be mapped to the physical world. There are some in
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by qayxc 5y ago
Am I understanding you correctly here: so a company that sells hardware, which they sell at a profit, has the right to exploit the works of others because it runs on their hardware? That's a very strange point of view. So you would be
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by qayxc 5y ago
> So, how does blockchain help? Easy: the malicious actor has zero chance of arguing that port authority XY messed up the paperwork or that the documentation said it was 1 brick all along. Sure, there is the oracle problem, but that&#x27
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by qayxc 5y ago
IBM has their "TradeLens" [0] (ironically unreachable at the time of posting) product [1], which was developed for Maersk and seems to have been adopted by a few global logistics providers. [0] https://www.tradelens.com
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by qayxc 5y ago
While I share the sentiment that the term "AI" is applied way too broadly these days, there is a point to be made that it's somewhat difficult to draw a clear line anyway. Back in the early 20th century, chess was considered
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by qayxc 5y ago
> look into various kinds of tree based ML models like random forests or boosted trees... Those are the expert systems that have fallen out of favour over a decade ago, so thanks, but no thanks. > many ML models today are either full
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by qayxc 5y ago
> Especially diagnostics. I don't think so. Maybe I'm just too old, but I remember vividly that the same was said about expert systems back in the late 90s and early 2000s. 20 years later and no one is even considering expert s
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by qayxc 5y ago
Nothing a good search engine and proper requirements can fix. In theory it should work like this: I) "User should be able to do X" <- requirement II) "X can be achieved by performing steps A, B, and C" <- descripti
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by qayxc 5y ago
If by "neat" you mean "inefficient", then yes.
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by qayxc 5y ago
This has been prophesised before (last in the early 2000s) and didn't come to pass. I wouldn't expect that to change given this technology either. There's a market that would benefit greatly from this, though: marketing and t
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by qayxc 5y ago
Does Poser work with photos and videos as inputs? If not, there's your answer.
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by qayxc 5y ago
> Cash is a solution to the problem of portable assets. Barely. The portability usually ends at country borders. > Bitcoin is a problem in search of a solution. Don't you mean "a solution in search of a problem?" Nice F
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by qayxc 5y ago
> No, this isn’t normal at all. Hm. Significant delays and missed timelines aren't normal you say? Let's see (aerospace only): • all SpaceX projects so far (USA) • Virgin Galactic's space tourism plans (USA) • Boeing'
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by qayxc 5y ago
That's to be expected - press releases focus on super-optimistic specs and timelines. After reality kicks in and unforeseen issues arise (remember 2020? me neither), plans need to be adjusted. The scale model was initially expected to
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by qayxc 5y ago
> - Noise means you can't do US domestic The companies working on supersonic jets are in process of lobbying hard to get FAA approval for exemptions from noise regulations. [1] > - Concorde didn't have the range for Pacific
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by qayxc 5y ago
Hypotheticals aside, there are very real and practical reasons for wanting to protect firmware and prevent tampering; and none of them are nefarious in nature. One such reason is simply compliance: if a device is only capable of safe operat
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by qayxc 5y ago
Mark my words: Hyrum's Law will strike in full force and introduce a whole new world of pain once more and more software development will be done (or helped-) by machine learning. What happened here is a perfect example of what an opti
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by qayxc 5y ago
The missions are part of the Discovery Program and are intended to be "small" (by NASA standards) missions. They basically selected hardware that uses flight-proven sensors and instruments derived from existing and flown hardware
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by qayxc 5y ago
The winds on Venus' surface are actually pretty tame ("light breeze", 1 Beaufort, 0.5 to 1 m/s) [1]. Problem is, that even this very slight wind packs a considerable punch at 92 bars of pressure and is comparable to a ca
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by qayxc 5y ago
Because unlike Earth, Venus receives a whole bunch of solar radiation on one hemisphere for months on end. This drives a substantial temperature differential that causes strong winds. Since a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus, it
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by qayxc 5y ago
This only applies to parties with significant resources. The same way that locking your front door or being home or parking in a guarded parking lot will be efficient in deterring opportunist thieves and even most regular thieves. Absolute
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by qayxc 5y ago
The sad (scary?) part is that one of the two is forever silent.
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by qayxc 5y ago
Not to mention languages that can be compiled to C.
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by qayxc 5y ago
Ah, I see. I was thinking more about the neurological side, which seems to suggest that similar mechanisms apply in addiction and withdrawal between nicotine, heroin and cocaine. (see for example [1]) As far as sociological consequences go,
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by qayxc 5y ago
> It is also demonstration how much performance we have left behind as we have adopted laptops as the mainstream computing platform/ I don't know. Desktops simply tend to have a much longer lifespan and so far every new laptop
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by qayxc 5y ago
> It’s very hard to estimate the true power consumption of laptops since they are all primarily fed from the battery not the charger. That's news to me. I try to keep up to date with laptops, and all the reviewers have pretty accura
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by qayxc 5y ago
> don't even get me started on the "it's harder than quitting heroin" nonsense) Out of curiosity: did you try both to know that for fact?
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by qayxc 5y ago
Indeed. Would be a different story if it wasn't for the money involved. Heck, if you qualified for the 2021 Australian Open, you'd get 77,750 USD just for showing up [1]. I'd argue that getting a year's worth of pay is w
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by qayxc 5y ago
It isn't worth collecting. This is Earth orbit, not the ocean or some strip of land. The debris zooms around the planet on all kinds of trajectories and it's immensely difficult to match velocity and direction in order to capture

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