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by shepardrtc 2y ago
I know they're working on ways to recycle the urine into water. Can you add a display of water levels and somehow show when it transfers between the two?
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
If this is the case then the paper is easily dismissed, correct? How is it being published if the flaws are immediate, obvious, and completely destructive to the idea being presented? I'm legitimately asking - I've published pap
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
Well his idea was that the laws of physics actually change depending on the distance from the galactic center. Far enough out, information can be transferred faster than the speed of light. Too close and life stops working. Which honestl
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
I did that for my previous job and I loved it. Had plenty of time to get over my nerves and then build something cool. And then brag about my choices in writing.
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
How do you determine the number of shards to use?
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
There's a difference between the battery in a gas car and the lithium batteries in EVs. Lead-acid batteries are not inherently flammable, and they won't burn underwater. Lithium-ion, on the other hand, reacts with water to produ
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
They're going to have to waterproof them like they do with Jeep 4xe's. Well, excuse me, they SHOULD waterproof them. But I don't think someone will like the extra cost.
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
When you communicate, you're sending energy - whether it's sound waves or radio waves or whatever. Energy can't travel faster than c through spacetime. Now if you manipulate spacetime, such as a wormhole or whatever, then t
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
I wonder if there were any nice dinners had by the administration and Red Hat sales.
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
Does anyone know how this would enable remote sensing technologies, as the article says?
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
Do the cars actually listen for the honks?
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
> "therefore I am right about everything ever" I'm sure scientists have to deal with people jumping on them about their model being wrong, but this part is clearly exaggeration.
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
Where does she say she's following a hunch? She was very certain when she said that.
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
That seems like an exaggeration.
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
From the article: > That the three methods disagree “is not telling us about fundamental physics,” Freedman said. “That’s telling us there’s some systematic [error] in one or more of the distance methods.” Freedman is saying that the mod
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
> so it now seems more likely that our model of the universe is wrong. Whenever a scientist says that it's not possible that the model is wrong, then I just roll my eyes. Of course models can be wrong - and isn't that exciting
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
> I very much doubt cats understand the concept of death and can "grieve," Cats are very loving animals that can bond deeply to others. They just show it in different ways. Of course they can grieve.
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
The Dark Forest theory is fear-mongering anyway. If there's a civilization out there that wants to conquer others, it just has to send a probe to every star out there. Sufficiently advanced automation would allow this to happen witho
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
Well don't forget that Earth had it's reset button smashed 66 million years ago. Let's say another world started out at the same as we did but never encountered such a cataclysm. Even if they took an additional 65 million y
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
I built an algorithmic trading platform in Python and used Cython to speed up the hotspots. No regrets.
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
LlamaIndex can ingest directories if you want to do bulk.
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
Here's the example: "Can you give me a real-life example of three events, A, B, C, where A and B are correlated, B and C are correlated, but A and C are uncorrelated." Claude 3.5 gets it correct for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
A few years ago I had severe sleep issues caused by anxiety disorder. Instead of getting proper medication, I used marijuana, phenibut, and eventually benzos (prescribed by a doctor) to sleep every night. I was only on the benzos for a co
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
A few years ago I used marijuana every night to go to sleep. It really, really screwed my sleep up. I started taking sleeping pills and got hooked on those. Very bad experience. Don't use any of that stuff, period. Even if the marij
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
> I find this type of thing scary as an outsider looking in. How a company so large has such immature engineering continues to astonish me. It's management that doesn't want to risk their positions by doing the very difficult b
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
gpt-4o gets it right on the first try for me. Just ran it and tested it.
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
> I struggle to find what could be so sensitive that an assassination is ever an option It's a warning to future whistleblowers.
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
This is a little different, he literally said to his friend, "I ain't scared but if anything happens to me it's not suicide."
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
> If someone tells you that your line of research is uninteresting, just do the research anyway. My graduate advisor said that to me and put me on some other stuff he wanted to work on. It really took the wind out of my sails, and I nev
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by shepardrtc 2y ago
Saw a presentation by them at this week's Open Source Summit. Seems like a lot of the major contributors to Redis have moved over to this project. And it seems like AWS is a major supporter of it. I suspect their Elasticache Redis w

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