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Space debris, probably not coming to a backyard near you(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
3 points by toss1 10mo ago|1 comments
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by toss1 10mo ago
Yes, and about twice I've seen this done really right, wherein they post signs of the synchronization speed (e.g., "Lights Timed for 35mph"). I just get in sync with one light and adjust speed and it feels almost magic to
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by toss1 10mo ago
Um, noise mitigation is still an issue at existing gas plants (e.g., [0-3]) and often only partially dealt with by local regulations, and this group are claiming their engine is substantially different, supersonic vs subsonic, and crossing
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by toss1 10mo ago
A SciFi book I read decades ago where the premise was that aging had been broken, had insights that still stick with me. The character of a young woman 28 years old who pretended to be 105 to seem more interesting to people. That when peopl
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by toss1 10mo ago
I also notice they don't mention the noise profile of these plants. Putting a stationary engine like that will make an insane amount of noise, and even enclosed will change the soundscape for miles around, affecting everything from hum
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by toss1 10mo ago
Yup, check my home neighborhood and it is good coverage, but checked a rural area I know has houses around a lake (not just tiny fishing shacks, full-sized 200+m^2 houses) with addresses and electrical and telecom/internet service, but
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by toss1 11mo ago
IOW, the short version is there are too many cops and they have too much time on their hands. The old saying still stands: "Idle hands are the devil's playthings"
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by toss1 11mo ago
True, they are less intrusive than double-parked cars, and maybe vs some bikes, but that does not mean it is still not corporations trying to take private profit from using a public space. The videos of those particular bots show them takin
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by toss1 11mo ago
iirc, Pompeii was a pyroclastic flow [0], a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter with speeds between 100-700 km/hr and temperatures up to 1000°C. So, probably something like that, but a lot bigger, faster, and arriving f
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by toss1 11mo ago
Well, the amount of compute is certainly finite in this era. 250 million GPUs in a year is a big number, but clearly insufficient even for current demand from LLM companies, who are also buying up all available memory chips increasing gen
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by toss1 11mo ago
OK, now do that in reality, not just in theory. 86 billion neurons, 100 trillion connections, and each connection modulated by dozens of different neurotransmitters and action potential levels and uncounted timing sequences (and that's
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by toss1 11mo ago
>>golden middle ground Exactly! You want the surgeon who took the time to study deeply, then went into practice doing as many surgeries as possible, but then also taking the time to review/debrief/analyze the process and res
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by toss1 11mo ago
Way to deliberately miss the point. The point in this thread is that Waymo's control system evidently has zero ability to interact with or appropriately consider humans, only the physical objects it treats as inanimate. Beyond ignorin
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by toss1 11mo ago
Yup. Not exactly a move "for the good of the world". Also consider: Warehouses of small, high-value items that are fungible and untraceable. That will create multiple huge targets for a big heist. And they'd best have good ey
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'No US Citizens': Meet the IT Firms Discriminating Against Americans(freebeacon.com)
4 points by toss1 11mo ago|1 comments
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Authorities investigating Waymo over failure to stop for school buses(thestreet.com)
26 points by toss1 11mo ago|19 comments
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by toss1 11mo ago
Yes, real parts CAN be 3D printed and even used successfully. The printing is the easy part. The extensive testing and validation that it will actually work as intended and in your situation is the hard part. Skip that hard part, especi
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A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat(bbc.com)
250 points by toss1 11mo ago|208 comments
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Zillow Cuts Feature to Help Home Buyers Assess Climate Risks; It Reduced Sales(motherjones.com)
2 points by toss1 11mo ago|0 comments
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by toss1 11mo ago
Moore's Law has been reversed. Instead of doubling transistors or capacity every 18 months, it is halved. This is some kind of fundamentally different era for the tech industry, but ...
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by toss1 11mo ago
Yup. And even more outrageous is the power grid upgrades they are demanding. If they need the power grid upgraded to handle the load for their data centers, they should pay 100% of the cost for EVERY part of every upgrade needed for the w
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by toss1 11mo ago
Yes, that is one solution, but history has shown it is very hard to effectively police it, as there are a million ways to get around it. The SEC enforcement of Insider Trading laws is also simultaneously both ineffective and created high-pr
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by toss1 11mo ago
>> if there's no pulses the charge pump with "go flat" after about a second and drop the solenoid out. >> Do the same thing. If a sensor at the edge of the LIDAR's scan misses a scan, kill the beam. Sounds li
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by toss1 11mo ago
Now this actually sounds like a good use-case for LLM/'AI'-enhanced browsers. Everyone has different triggers and YUK! levels and it would take an insane amount of time & effort to encode all that, and setup on each diff
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Russian Porsche owners' cars immobilised across country(dailymail.co.uk)
11 points by toss1 11mo ago|0 comments
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by toss1 11mo ago
You know what? This is indeed where courage, tenacity, and risk-taking make a difference. But what makes the difference in whether or not we hear about it is pure luck and survivor bias. If their luck was just right that with all that push
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by toss1 11mo ago
Yes >>the spending implies expectation of dramatically increased capabilities, soon. Even more than that, the spending is a death-race in expectation of: 1) a team reaching runaway superintelligence, 2) that it will be winner-take-all
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by toss1 11mo ago
So, the Greediest Person In The World [0] also cheats subcontractors and workers out of their pay, and poaches employees — who would have guessed? [0] a far more accurate way to describe those who hoard wealth without helping the people or
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by toss1 11mo ago
>> Also profoundly grateful for vaccines. Yup Sadly, I've seen many online arguments resembling "humanity survived millennia without vaccines, why do we need them now?", obviously entirely ignorant of the consistently e
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by toss1 11mo ago
Thanks for the updated info!

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