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by trhway 1y ago
The earlier Starships were just manually welded steel. Is still so? If any failed weld can lead to a catastrophe like this, how would you guarantee the quality of each weld without going into nuclear power plant construction level of costs?
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by trhway 1y ago
>Saturn V did in a single launch with 1969 technology, for up to 0.8% US GDP per year. Today that would be $200B/year, pure spent. Where is Space X today is making, ie. it has a revenue, $15B/year. >Perhaps web development i
843.
by trhway 1y ago
> However, I still don't get the rationale of building a rocket with such a large payload Operations cost. They are sublinear on payload/size. At least this is what Space X/Musk seem to go for.
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by trhway 1y ago
Yes, on 0.25x speed it is visible that a large leak quickly sprung up, like something burst, about where the top of the methane tank and exploded.
845.
by trhway 1y ago
On the way to benefit all humanity MS helped Sam back then, and now MS will get to wake up to the real Sam :) https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat... “OpenAI executives have considered accusing
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by trhway 1y ago
i don't think anybody is having data labelers as employees.
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by trhway 1y ago
>Specifically, results are replicated wherever you want to build on something someone has done. yes, you want to test your Alzheimer treatment, and you measure the amyloid in the patients before the treatment, and you don't find it
848.
by trhway 1y ago
Something is very wrong and corrupt if a large field of science, an army of scientists spending billions of dollars, is ruled by one easily repeatable study/experiment, and yet nobody cares to repeat it.
849.
by trhway 1y ago
Meta buys 900 AI employees here at less than $20M/head. Pretty cheap these days. Any IP the company has is a bonus.
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by trhway 1y ago
Working with Mozilla code in 1999 and seeing NSPR (Netscape Portable Runtime) I thought back then - that would soon bring the golden age that Java OS was intended to yet had failed for the performance among the other reasons. Somehow it did
851.
by trhway 1y ago
>IF they are a manager, then they are managing people. Not really. For example for L1, a visa for managers and executives, managing people isn't a hard requirement, instead it may be "employee’s ability to manage an essential f
852.
by trhway 1y ago
>as management is an expense, but software engineers are not. is manager of AI agents (especially when they become more productive and capable than people) going to be a manager or software engineer?
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by trhway 1y ago
>mainly about Firefox. just couple hours ago loaded new Rasp Pi 5, and between Chromium and FF I of course chose FF (first time i built it, ie. Mozilla, back then in 99, and i really don't like Chrome and the ilk). The FF didn'
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by trhway 1y ago
i'd think the local acidity (build up of lactic acid resulting from glucose over-consumption by the cancer cells) would take a bit to build back up once glucose ups after the night.
855.
by trhway 1y ago
>some other variable that incidentally varies by time of day. glucose level? low in the morning, and cancer likes glucose (among other effects of low glucose a cancer site would probably have lower local acidity, and the high local acidi
856.
by trhway 1y ago
without reworking of the code all these checks of the executor and queue state and queue manipulations have to be under a mutex, and that is just a few lines.
857.
by trhway 1y ago
Except for example the millions of stock market casual participants.
858.
by trhway 1y ago
Yes, that is tremendously important aspect here - the US tech would look better on paper - higher paper profits due lower paper expenses - while getting increased cash flow stress due to decreased deductability of the salaries which are am
859.
by trhway 1y ago
What i like about US is that compare to other countries (like for example Russia where i'm originally from) there is almost no lying and cheating here. Instead there is a respect of the law and an army of talented creative accountants
860.
by trhway 1y ago
>Thus Ukraine proved, that civilian equipment can destroy nuclear deterrence. yes, that is the point i've been making for a while - those cheap automated systems, the drones being the first examples of it, is the new MAD/equali
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by trhway 1y ago
quad - no. Plane type - very doable.
862.
by trhway 1y ago
Man, with all the respect to Sweden, you're in your own [very high] class.
863.
by trhway 1y ago
It is understandable pure-logic thinking until you're the one to be made battlefield-relevant. And if you look at Russia your logic does fail on that example - no amount of human losses affect Russia's behavior in the current war
864.
by trhway 1y ago
>drones smart enough to dodge bullets well, there will be similarly smart "predator"/defense drones. The humans will have no chances on such a battlefield populated by thousands drones per square kilometer fighting each o
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by trhway 1y ago
There wouldn't be any pin in it. Drones - automated weapons in the wide sense - will be the new MAD/equalizer weapon accessible to smaller countries who have no chances of getting into the nuclear club. Without such a weapon in th
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by trhway 1y ago
it is "c" divided by the age of Universe for pretty obvious reasons. Now we just have to precisely determine the age of the Universe :)
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by trhway 1y ago
>but that the rate of expansion itself is increasing over time. Take for example galaxies running from us at "c". They happen to be exactly at 13.7B light years - coincidence? I don't think it is a coincidence, and some si
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by trhway 1y ago
Read on about PLTR in recent days - all these government layoffs (including by DOGE well connected to PLTR) with the money redirected toward the Grand Unification Project using PLTR Foundry (with AI) platform.
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by trhway 1y ago
AI has been also consuming Dilbert as part of its training...
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by trhway 1y ago
Napkin. Batteries are $100 per KWH (say prismatic, 5000 cycles). So at $0.1 per KWH - say diff between high demand rate and the low demand - it takes only 3 years (1000 cycles) to break even. Practically a gold rush just a bit worse than cr

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