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by shagie 1y ago
(Not a Tesla owner... so going based on what I recall reading) Tesla originally had radar sensors in their earlier hardware models. This sensor not included in later hardware models and later software disabled the sensor inputs. https:&#x
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by shagie 1y ago
It was based on “how long would it take to fill the tanks of a Saturn V?” … with the additional “let’s pretend we can 1:1 swap methane and kerosene.”
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by shagie 1y ago
If I recall correctly... my very first post on Reddit was doing calculations for a (practically immortal) person eating beans and storing the flatus for a trip to the moon (searching shows that this is a not-infrequent request). It was onl
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by shagie 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth#Pressure_a... 90% of the atmosphere is below 16 km. 16 km * (12" / Earth diameter) :: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=16+km+*+%2812%22+%2
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by shagie 1y ago
> Also, the books have a quaint 1940s (NOT 1950s as people usually say it) atmosphere ... The next day’s hearings were entirely different. Hari Seldon and Gaal Dornick were alone with the Commission. They were seated at a table tog
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by shagie 1y ago
Long ago... Think Geek T-shirt: "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" https://web.archive.org/web/20081204045017/http://www.thinkg...
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by shagie 1y ago
IIRC, it started out as a reimagining of Space Cadet by Heinlein but instead of the young it was with the old. After the first book, he then goes to explore all the questions that it brought up. The question of identity (to me) seems like
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by shagie 1y ago
It's a philosophy text with a lot of ideas masquerading as a work of fiction. The closest analogy to it that I can think of is the Symposium... which is a philosophy work that uses a plot and stories to express the ideas. Incidenta
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by shagie 1y ago
The larger context... “Can you read? And by that I don’t just mean interpreting Logotype…” “No one uses that any more,” said Quin. “You’re talking about the symbols on your underwear that tell you not to use bleach. That sort of t
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by shagie 1y ago
For ChatGPT, they're under legal obligation not to delete chats for a period of time. https://openai.com/index/response-to-nyt-data-demands/ (yes, that's written 100% from OpenAI's perspective) In
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by shagie 1y ago
> in the other case the machine is designed to draw it out of you. I take issue with the "is designed to" phrase. That implies an intentionality upon OpenAI (and others) to create something that acts as a therapist or confidan
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by shagie 1y ago
I'm unaware of any stars in the 1000 Msun range. Wikipedia puts 291 Msun of R136a1 at the largest. After that, 195 M of R136a2 is the next. A star at 100 Msun would be in the most massive stars known. https://en.wikipedia
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by shagie 1y ago
It's possible... but it's not as much of an impulse buy. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124180/Rail_Route/ is pretty niche (and is in my library) ... and its $25, which is a fair bit less than
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by shagie 1y ago
At $30, I've got a lot of expectations. At $40, I've got a lot more. Neither of those price points are the impulse buy for "it might be a nice game that I could waste a few hours on." It's competing with things l
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by shagie 1y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/ - see the sidebar. If the sub has an inactive or no mod, its as simple as making a post.
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by shagie 1y ago
Reddit has problems with moderation being too easy and too difficult. It is very easy to ban someone. Making the ban permanent and combining this with the moderator blocking the person (so they can't send messages), there's no
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by shagie 1y ago
Its changing. Bellular News : Gamers Are Dying out(*) https://youtu.be/_80DVbedWiI https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ign-launches-gaming-trends-pla... > The prominence of mobile among younger players probab
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by shagie 1y ago
I would say "spoilers" ... but it's the title of the story. The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fermi_Paradox_Is_Our_Busin... https://www.tor.com/2
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by shagie 1y ago
I suspect the Model M was dishwasher safe (if you popped off the keycaps so they don't get lost - put them in a separate dishwasher bag). ... and there's a fair bit of material out there of people trying some variation of it.
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by shagie 1y ago
I bought my first Jetbrains license when they had an end of the world clearance sale. https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2012/12/20/jetbrains-end-of-... ... and haven't let it expire since.
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by shagie 1y ago
It's a bit harder to acquire a profitable company that isn't publicly traded and wasn't VC funded ( Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25466304 ).
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by shagie 1y ago
Rational numbers where the denominator is a multiple of the prime factors of the base have an exact fractional representation in that base. 1/3 doesn't have an exact representation in base 10 or base 2. 1/5th does have an ex
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by shagie 1y ago
https://0.30000000000000004.com/#rust
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by shagie 1y ago
shagie@MacM1 ~ % docker run -it openjdk:latest jshell Unable to find image 'openjdk:latest' locally latest: Pulling from library/openjdk ... Status: Downloaded newer image for openjdk:latest Oct 01,
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by shagie 1y ago
But the traffic is coming from country D rather than country B. There's no way for the company to know that the person and their interactions is subject to the laws of B rather than D.
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by shagie 1y ago
One of my early "this is neat " programs was a genetic algorithm in Pascal. You entered a bunch of digits and it "evolved" the same sequence of digits. It started out with 10 random numbers. Their fitness (lower was
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by shagie 1y ago
https://people.com/apple-no-villain-clause-for-iphones-onscr... Is it specifically an iPhone? Is the Apple logo visible in any screen? Or is it something like https://www.theearlhayspress.com (Adam Savage&#x
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by shagie 1y ago
They keep expanding in places where it doesn't snow. They've got testing facilities in Detroit ( https://mcity.umich.edu/what-we-do/mcity-test-facility/ ) ... but I want to see it work while it is snowin
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by shagie 1y ago
> The only way abuse of both visas can stop is if they are not tied to an employer, allowing free movement of labor. https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary... Changing or Leaving Your H-1
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by shagie 1y ago
Ahh... the required "guest" account with no password on it. In SGI tech support (East team '96, Unix team '97 - my Indigo was dewi.csd.sgi.com), it was the way we copied files around (the Troops had just come out) and al

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