slt2021

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by slt2021 1y ago
the solution to old battery is $15 replacement battery, not the $1500 replacement iPhone. which I am doing exactly, but still new iOS version make my phone slower and slower and I cannot even opt out of updates. because some apps are forcin
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by slt2021 1y ago
I am totally fine if I stop getting software updates. In general I prefer not to update software either, because every new version brings only bloat
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by slt2021 1y ago
these performance hungry "improvements" are forcefully introduced to legitimately slow down older devices and force the device refresh across the user base. I have been using 8 year old iPhone just fine, but features like these ov
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by slt2021 1y ago
most likely you will be targeted with ads based on what you give to the model. if you ask chatgpt about electric cars, expect a wave of ads coming at you from EV automakers from all channels: socials, media, email, mail, etc - trying to clo
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by slt2021 1y ago
sorry to be this person, but can anyone TLDR this for me?
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by slt2021 1y ago
each nVidia GPU has a certain Compute Capability ( https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus ). Depending on the model and age of your GPU, it will have a certain capability that will be the hard ceiling for what you can program
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by slt2021 1y ago
the cost can be managed by taxing bad plastic and providing incentives to good sustainable plastic, just like BEVs vs ICE
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by slt2021 1y ago
Programming languages are created by humans and the training dataset is complete enough to train LLMs with good results. Most importantly, natural language is the native domain of the programming code. Whereas in biology, the natural domain
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by slt2021 1y ago
Fantastic article by Rachel Thomas! This is basically another argument that deep learning works only as a [generative] information retrieval - i.e a stochastic parrot, due to the fact that the training data is a very lossy representation o
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by slt2021 1y ago
No need to buy compound and trigger authorities. Thermite is just metal oxide powder and aluminum powder that can be made at home, just add magnesium from matches to ignite and thats it.
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by slt2021 1y ago
B-2 is not stealth, its just low visibility in radio to the ground based radars. It is very visible from the top, esp to aerial recon that use other signals in addition to radar signature
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by slt2021 1y ago
asymmetric warfare can is open now. Any US adversary must be building sleeper cells in the continental US armed with drones from walmart/bestbuy ready to drop a grenade that will burn big and expensive planes/submarines/aircr
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by slt2021 1y ago
London Paris Berlin and USA. Russia has 6000 warheads, so each western city and each silo and bunker can be targeted with more than one warhead
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by slt2021 1y ago
No, Pakistan won because Indian generals are absolutely incompetent. They sent the planes for suicide mission without suppressing enemy air defense. Indians planes flew too close to the border without suppressing AD. Pakistani planes flew f
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by slt2021 1y ago
Nvidia has chip for IoT purposes (jetson) thats being used by lockheed and other mil majors in their products
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by slt2021 1y ago
these bombers were fueled to the gills for the fire mission and armed with cruise missiles. kinda risky to be anywhere around them due to secondary explosion risk
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by slt2021 1y ago
US stopped sharing intel not because USA loves Russia. only done to maintain plausable deniability that USA is not an active party of a conflict
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by slt2021 1y ago
Vietnamese are not mad at the USA because they have won the war.
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by slt2021 1y ago
loss of awacs can be compensated with satellite and drones. its no big deal. but if all aerial refueling fleet is damaged, like KC-135 Stratotankers then it will be over very quickly. or blowing up Navy's ice cream supply depots and it
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by slt2021 1y ago
next frontier step is nano-nukes: nuclear device the size of a cell-phone and be carried by a drone from walmart
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by slt2021 1y ago
its much easier to buy them in the USA, like guns, bullets, grenades. to damage an airplane you dont need much: just a mix of molotov cocktail, and aluminum and metal shavings a-la Walter White in order to penetrate and ignite the fuel tank
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by slt2021 1y ago
russia has dead hand system, any attack on putin will trigger the dead hand. most importantly USA doesn't want putin dead, because his next successor could be smarter and more brutal
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by slt2021 1y ago
nvidia chip and yolo model and you get autonomous drone
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by slt2021 1y ago
+ world history (antics, medieval, modern) and something useful and hands-on: pottery / sewing / carpentry / gardening/horticulture / basic farming. curious kid will learn everything she needs with internet/cha
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by slt2021 1y ago
programming can be picked up any time, rather invest time into building curiosity and basic fundamental sciences: math, physics, and micro/biology. these three fields underpin all advanced sciences
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by slt2021 1y ago
if you ever feel the need to send progressive JSON - just zip it and don't bother solving fake problem at the wrong abstraction layer
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by slt2021 1y ago
they also made a browser game to showcase their DST, where you can inject faults and see how tigerbeetle recovers https://sim.tigerbeetle.com/
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by slt2021 1y ago
>> intuitive YAML-based workflow definition. in my opinion, there is very little intuitive in a mix of yaml + templating engine, sql, python, and custom DSL logic
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by slt2021 1y ago
this is actually pretty bad deal for russia. with xAI. US based company will get access to the messaging of all russians/ukrainians/Iranians (with soldiers being very well represented), with the ability to run NLP and identify inf
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by slt2021 1y ago
telegram is big in Russia, Ukraine, Iran. could be used for spying purposes, if xAI can analyze telegram chats and identify texts of interest to the next-get USA military industrial complex (SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, etc)

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