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by tbabb 8y ago
Same. I don't know if they're trying to mine bitcoin on my browser or what, but it inspired me to block JS entirely for all of nautil.us.
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by tbabb 8y ago
Beautiful!
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by tbabb 8y ago
Would love to see these without the frame interpolation (which totally chokes on all the particulate matter).
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by tbabb 8y ago
Many good tips, but IMO the "...or else!" style threats are poor leadership. Examples: "All you contractors better shape up or you'll be fired on monday!" or "managers will be insta-fired if they enforce chain-
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by tbabb 9y ago
It'd probably just make you look like you have darker eyes.
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by tbabb 9y ago
Between middle and high school, I went to summer camp, where there was a ropes course. I remember how scary it was to jump from the 60 foot platform, even knowing that the zipline harness would catch me. It was an experience of being very s
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by tbabb 9y ago
If I were them, I would do both with the same stone: Customers get terrestrial repeaters with their satellite antennas, and provide service to the local neighborhood. If you are in the vicinity of someone with a roof box, you connect to&#x2
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by tbabb 9y ago
Not only that, but apparently he was able to change Eve's account details without having to enter a password. If instead Netflix had prompted him before allowing him to change the credit card, it would not have worked, because he would
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by tbabb 9y ago
I'd say that Kalman filters are perfect for this-- they optimally blend estimates from multiple sources, including a model of the system dynamics (where you think you're going to be next based on where you were before, i.e. "
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by tbabb 9y ago
SpaceX currently has test satellites in orbit.
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by tbabb 9y ago
> The optical/radar combo can’t see stationary objects well when the car is going more than 30 MPH That seems pretty damning.
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by tbabb 9y ago
Wow, that video is pretty damning. (a) Even though the driver was getting a warning to put his hands on the wheel, the car should NOT continue driving forward and piloting itself at all with no driver response and insufficient certainty to
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by tbabb 9y ago
Space is just about the worst place to put a datacenter. Price to orbit is thousands of dollars per kilo. Maintainability is zilch. And you have lots of cosmic rays flinging charged particles into your sensitive memory banks, flipping rando
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by tbabb 9y ago
Here's one way I could see this killing Comcast, even in major cities: As a homeowner, you by a small box which lives under the eave of your roof. The box has high-bandwidth, low-latency satellite uplink to SpaceX which gives you your
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by tbabb 9y ago
Looks like it's playing. Reminds me of dolphin air rings[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT-fctr32pE
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by tbabb 9y ago
One could argue from inspection that, when it comes to security, Equifax's talent is scarcely better than random schmoes, yes. But it's not just about preventing the hiring of "random schmoes". It's about legally fo
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by tbabb 9y ago
Somehow I doubt you would apply that argument to designing bridges, or medical practice, or airline piloting, or bus driving, or law, or any of a zillion other professions where credentials are normal and essential to safety and liability.
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by tbabb 9y ago
I've been saying for years that software engineering needs to be elevated to the same standards held by other engineering fields; like civil, mechanical, biomedical, and so on: If an engineer or a firm is negligent and people die and&#
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by tbabb 9y ago
IIRC IR is ITAR controlled and not available above abysmal resolution. I am curious if this limitation applies to self-driving cars, too. If so, then it's really time to do what was done for GPS and declassify it for use by the general
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by tbabb 9y ago
IIRC, high-resolution thermal infrared cameras are ITAR controlled-- which means they are not available for consumer applications above an abysmal resolution (something like 320x280). Public safety like this seems like a great impetus to do
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by tbabb 9y ago
See also: When you are drunk, it is not like you are fully lucid but unable to control your body or your mouth. Your mind/personality itself actually changes. And of course you cannot will yourself to become drunk. It is pretty trivial
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by tbabb 9y ago
We know all the matter that the brain is made out of, and we know what interactions are possible with that matter, because we've done extensive experiments with particle accelerators. If there were something that affected baryonic matt
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by tbabb 9y ago
Do you understand the difference between knowledge and critical thinking?
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by tbabb 9y ago
Education is not indoctrination. Education teaches critical thinking, science, history, numerical literacy, and the general skill and toolset to differentiate fact from falsehood, rhetoric, and manipulation-- regardless of where it is comin
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by tbabb 9y ago
They should still be spending that on cars.
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by tbabb 9y ago
They should probably be spending that money on building cars. I doubt that "more money" would make much of a dent on what Elon's motivations really are.
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by tbabb 9y ago
The era of verifiability-- when photographic and video evidence could plausibly be trusted-- is over. Photos have been dubious since photoshop, but still required expertise and artistry to use. Fake moving pictures required considerably mor
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by tbabb 9y ago
The very real possibility of 98% of life on Earth dying? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
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by tbabb 9y ago
Most likely scenarios, in my mind: - An American military exercise or other secretive government maneuver, but the reporting chain of command got screwed up (suggested by all the "who ordered that?" chatter mentioned in the articl
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by tbabb 9y ago
The question is: how does the number for a steel structure compare to that of a steel one?

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