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by ufmace 4mo ago
One of the reasons is, you don't get really good data on how something works until you start running clinical trials for it. It's all very time-consuming - having to plan how the trial is going to work, getting approval for it, fi
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by ufmace 4mo ago
I think there are 2 good and important points that make me re-think things some: First is technological advancement. It seems solar and wind and the supporting technologies, including battery storage and grid firming, are advancing very fas
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by ufmace 4mo ago
I would be delighted if they could get it smart enough to stop putting flights other people have booked to come see me onto my calendar and suggest that I leave on time to get to their home city to catch the flight! It's been doing tha
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by ufmace 4mo ago
I wonder if there's a class of people who managed to get CS degrees but really aren't that good. To them, it might feel more like either you remember the perfect and optimal but complex solution you were taught in a class, or you
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by ufmace 4mo ago
The circle outlining one seems interesting to me. I definitely didn't read the algorithm ahead of time, and I'm probably not as smart as a revolutionary genius computer scientist, but I thought of 2 basic algorithms in a few minut
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by ufmace 4mo ago
I wonder if it would be possible for a business to exist that was like super double ultra premium T1 diabetes support. Maybe it's really expensive and not many people can afford it, at least at first, but it'd be like you can call
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by ufmace 5mo ago
I think it's a few things: They're already highly confident that if they have sufficient control over the booster trajectory they can execute the chopstick catch, so they don't particularly need to demonstrate that part more.
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by ufmace 5mo ago
That's pretty much what I came into this thread to say. The thing I'd add is, DynamoDB is pretty nice if you understand how it's meant to be used - a relatively dumb key-value store with good persistence and table-size scalin
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by ufmace 5mo ago
What is it that you want to install on ChromeOS that you are unable to? All of the usual Linux and open-source stuff works fine on the built-in Linux environment on it. Possibly even a little better than MacOS in some cases, since you don&#
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by ufmace 5mo ago
Looks like they're UK based. I don't know, but apparently tariffs etc are factored into the shipping fees shown on their site. If you're not sure if you want to go Linux yet, it's probably best to try a live USB stick of
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by ufmace 5mo ago
> Onedrive stole your files and deleted them? Now Onedrive is enabled/disabled on first setup. That's the one that really shocked me, and I haven't even experienced it for myself. I'm not normally that prone to excess
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by ufmace 5mo ago
Seems unlikely to me. I always thought the only engine that could actually accomplish transition was capitalism. We will transition at a time and to an extent that renewables are actually cheaper and better, no sooner and no later. Governme
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by ufmace 5mo ago
You seem to be copy-pasting this around this thread a lot, what's the deal with that? I would agree that electric is the future, but even if all that works as advertised and we keep making more progress, it's still going to take d
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by ufmace 5mo ago
I believe that it's a physical plant thing. We have spent over a hundred years building hydrocarbon-based energy infrastructure. Much of that is still out there. Wind and solar have made a ton of progress in the last 15 years or so, bu
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by ufmace 6mo ago
Importantly IMO is the extra phishing protection that the UX is really nice if and only if the url matches what's expected. If you end up on a fake url somehow, it's a nice speed bump that it doesn't let you auto-fill to make
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by ufmace 6mo ago
I don't think that means anything as the author of the article almost certainly has no clue about anything but what the Government there told him. They're just quoting general knowledge and speculation by other equally-uninformed
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by ufmace 6mo ago
The interesting thing to me is, it seems likely that whichever individual or small group actually is Satoshi must have planted at least a few misdirection false flags like that at some point. But how in the world would you ever tell which o
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by ufmace 6mo ago
It did make me think - if he seems nervous under this questioning, it could be because he's actually Satoshi. Or it could also be because he's thinking something like, oh god, if this jerkoff convinces a bunch of people I'm a
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by ufmace 6mo ago
I think they've been heading that way for a while, and it's only getting clearer. I've been thinking, and said before, 90s Microsoft was far from perfect, but they at least seemed to care a lot about the quality of Windows. 2
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by ufmace 6mo ago
Why should they? It's not the right time for that yet. Letting the price stay high despite renewable prices being lower means it's tremendously profitable to build new renewable sources, so there's lots of incentive for it to
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by ufmace 6mo ago
It's worth keeping in mind that the only practical "saving" for the OP will result in not doing the job at all, since this client most likely doesn't actually have the money and never will. It should be, oh, short-term r
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by ufmace 6mo ago
I would think if you're a developing country looking to build some domestic semiconductor manufacturing expertise, it'd probably be best to start with something on the easier side. Something with closer to well-known and standard
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by ufmace 7mo ago
> You can upgrade Windows from 1.0 through 11 without Microsoft saying "nah, this is impossible" Have you tried that lately? It was probably true for Windows 10, but not 11. There is no supported path to install 11 if you don&#
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by ufmace 7mo ago
Do you know how we are "pushing American companies to go in the opposite direction"? Genuine question. The only thing I know of is repealing the tax credits. Personally, I think EVs are neat, but I also think the industry has grow
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by ufmace 7mo ago
Thanks, I actually didn't realize that my basically stock Linux install already did this
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by ufmace 7mo ago
I can't help but think, 90s Microsoft was far from perfect, but they at least seemed to care a lot about the quality of Windows. 2020s Microsoft seems to see Windows as something they can leverage to get themselves in front of whatever
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by ufmace 7mo ago
I used to argue in favor of Windows with basically the same argument. But honestly, using Windows nowadays seems to require even more hacking than Linux. Particularly if you don't have the newest hardware made to Microsoft's stand
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by ufmace 7mo ago
I think this is a "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good thing". It's technically possible to get around, but adding more speed bumps in the way of scammers tends to drastically reduce the number of people who g
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by ufmace 7mo ago
I thought they were reasonably interesting as well, though not quite the same vibe as the original. Maybe it's that whole sense of wonder thing. When you have no idea why this thing was built and sent here, it's easy to imagine it
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by ufmace 7mo ago
> nothing actually passes the Turing test Says who? I had already found this study, published almost a year ago, saying that they do: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674 There doesn't seem to be a super-rigorous d

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