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by qayxc 3y ago
I think there's a major misunderstanding on what "precision" and controlled de-orbit means here. Precision doesn't mean a targeted landing. It simply means aiming for a certain latitude by adjusting the orbit accordingly
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by qayxc 3y ago
I haven't poked into the source code, but usually a QoS event is fired, e.g. "deadline missed". What happens exactly in that case is very application specific.
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by qayxc 3y ago
As far as my very limited understanding goes, the transputer reference is simply referring to a highly parallel message-passing system based on message queues, not actual hardware implementations. As for lack of preemption, that's expl
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by qayxc 3y ago
> Actually the person you replied to somewhat incorrectly. They're not targeted re-entries because the on-board propulsion of Starlink is too low to precisely control the re-entry location. SpaceX says otherwise, see [1] SpaceX
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by qayxc 3y ago
Only directly after deployment, though.
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by qayxc 3y ago
If the seeing is good it's actually possible to spot up hundred satellites with the unaided eye. Due to light pollution, it's unlikely to spot one in most places, though. The ISS at least should be easily visible due to its size,
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by qayxc 3y ago
> Which also makes me wonder how many of the shooting stars I've seen recently are just old starlinks burning up. Probably close to none. The lifetime of the satellites is about 5 years give or take. According to this page [1], a to
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by qayxc 3y ago
Wrong context. There's nothing sad or "technologically behind" in supporting industrial tech that has lifetimes of several decades. Why would you want to discard a perfectly working highspeed train? Because that's what t
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by qayxc 3y ago
Funny how everyone always leaves out the part where in the original experiment, said frog's brain was removed before putting it in the pot :)
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by qayxc 3y ago
And if actual history and real biology are anything to go by, you'd end up with a zoo of civilisations (and remnants thereof) that don't resemble humanity in the slightest and might as well be aliens.
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by qayxc 3y ago
Not really. Unless you assume a couple of things: indestructible, perfect technology and methods to either suspend or prolong lifespans to geological time scales. Even system hopping would have at the very least the requirement of a basical
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by qayxc 3y ago
You mean this [1]? Yeah, the author went through some extraordinary mental gymnastics (i.e. keeping exponential energy consumption growth steady over centuries) to get his calculations to line up. It's almost grotesque how our species
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by qayxc 3y ago
No. This is how you generate attention. The proposed dimensions are equivalent to several centuries(!) of the global solar panel production, just to get to such coverage. It's just as ridiculous and removed from reality as the claim th
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by qayxc 3y ago
The current gen is the RTX 6000 Ada - the RTX A6000 is Ampere, i.e. previous gen. Confusing naming scheme, I know.
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by qayxc 3y ago
What really surprised me was the 285W TGP. That's mighty impressive considering that the previous generation equivalent (the RTX A6000) used 300W at less than 60% the (theoretical) performance.
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by qayxc 3y ago
Yes that is possible. Fully holomorphic encryption schemes allow functions to be evaluated on encrypted data without deciphering the data at any point, for example. The problem is that these techniques are very slow, which limits their prac
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by qayxc 3y ago
The compression ratio depends on the entropy of the image more than anything else. Chroma subsampling isn't the reason for low bitrates - by your own logic, grayscale would be smaller since it's effectively removing any chroma inf
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by qayxc 3y ago
That doesn't make sense, though, as the charts refer to electricity generation, not primary energy.
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by qayxc 3y ago
Sources please. The trade was pretty even between Germany and France as well as between the Czech Republic and Germany [1] The significant imports came from Denmark. [1] https://energy-charts.info/charts/import_export&#
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by qayxc 3y ago
Please explain how the winter temps affect electricity use. Heating only accounts for 4% of household heating sources in Germany [1]. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1189752/household-heatin...
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by qayxc 3y ago
Wait? Bezos works ? I mean, apparently he works out a lot, but he's not CEO anymore. His main worries these days seem to revolve around his ridiculously large mega-yacht having to dock in container harbours due to its size and such...
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by qayxc 3y ago
Interesting. Back when I was in uni, the university offered a 6 week prep course that would recap/teach the basics that were expected in the first semester. So enrolled students could choose to take that course to brush up on or learn
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by qayxc 3y ago
Trying to get funding and exposure by jumping on the AI bandwagon doesn't seem weird to me. Much like during the peak of the dot-com bubble, companies and orgs are shifting towards generative AI, whether it's related to their core
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by qayxc 3y ago
The Date object would like to have a chat with you ;)
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by qayxc 3y ago
Glimpsing at the source code - yes, definitely. For example, the code imports "copyArray", a 9LoC function that does exactly the same as the built-in Array.slice() would do. Same goes for other imported helpers like "arrayEac
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by qayxc 3y ago
Interesting question. I guess that's one of the upcoming challenges for the entire legal system when it comes to AI. One fundamental problem with such approach would of course be money. The AI would need to have a means of paying the f
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by qayxc 3y ago
In the example I linked, the VanJS state cannot contain an element reference. This would lead to unexpected results. So you have to be careful with state management, regardless of whether it's automated or not. There are similar pitfal
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by qayxc 3y ago
LLMs don't do that unprompted, though. So prompting an AI to invent something and then file for a patent for the invention is comparable to using a template for the patent application. They don't have that kind of agency (yet).
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by qayxc 3y ago
Technically, every element that's not in the shadow DOM is a global. But yes, there's plenty of ways to implement this and an argument to had for most of them.
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by qayxc 3y ago
Sure thing. But it's also one of those things that comes back to bite you when you least expect it: https://vanjs.org/advanced#why-not-dom-valued-states

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