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by vl 10mo ago
EC2 and S3 moat comes from extreme economies of scale. Only Google and Microsoft can compete. You would never be able to achieve S3 profitability because you are not going to get same hardware deals, same peering agreements, same data cente
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by vl 11mo ago
With network of cameras large enough you can trivially profile and identify all cars without license plates.
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by vl 11mo ago
What is even more interesting why attack Azure? It's not possible to extort anything from Microsoft, so what's the rationale?
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by vl 1y ago
In most tools there is no need to cut-n-paste, just click small edit icon next to the prompt, edit and resubmit. Boom, old answer is discarded, new answer is generated.
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by vl 1y ago
Nonsense. You can use US prescription at online Canadian pharmacy and legally ship to US. This is how a lot of people save on drugs.
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by vl 1y ago
Of course you can buy medicine abroad and legally bring 90 day doses. More over, you can order and ship medicine, including ozempic and zepbound, using American prescription from Canadian online pharmacies. For some drugs it’s quite cheaper
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by vl 1y ago
I configured my furnace to always recirculate air in the house even when burner itself is off - helps to avoid rooms with stale air and evens temperature through the house.
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by vl 1y ago
There are other brands that make quality quiet fans. My Vornado runs 24x7 and on minimal setting is inaudible, on second setting is very quiet. And it costs way less than a Dyson! I have two units in the house, and when I ordered second uni
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by vl 1y ago
I don’t get who uses Nest or other non-first party thermostats anymore: All modern furnaces/ACs/heat pumps require their own smart thermostat to work optimally. So if you install Bryant furnace, you end up with Bryant smart thermo
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by vl 1y ago
It used to be that there was no official TypeScript protobuf generator from Google and third-party generators sucked. Using protobufs from web browser or in nodejs was painful. Couple years ago Connect released very good generator for TypeS
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by vl 1y ago
In modern crypto it’s solved by using random nonce to star with and by using (encrypted) hash of data at the end. Random nonce gives you different cypher text for same inputs, hash tells you if you actually decrypted what was intended.
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by vl 1y ago
I just structure my time Monday-Wed-Fri meetings, Tue-Thu no meetings coding. Yes, sometimes non-urgent things have to wait a day.
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by vl 1y ago
I wonder how much does it cost per full color letter-size print? How often do you need to clean nozzles (and how much ink is spent)? I have Epson EcoTank, which is great since I can refill it from the ink bottles (even non-Epson), but since
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by vl 1y ago
Reality is that we don’t know how much of a trope this statement is. I think we would get all this technology without going to the moon or Space Shuttle program. GPS, for example, was developed for military applications initially.
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by vl 1y ago
Of course there is this thing is that while they were coasting faster technology was developed and another ship arrived way before them, with better computers, engines, everything.
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by vl 1y ago
Re: orbital assembly. L1 point is bad in every respect. If most materials come from Moon, then the best assembly point is low Moon orbit (as benefit you get a boot to your launch speed to escape Earth gravity), if most material comes from E
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by vl 1y ago
My point is more narrow: if you have magical "direct fusion" technology (which is used in the main engines, as presentation says), you don't need regular toroidal nuclear fusion reactors, just use multiple redundant "dir
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by vl 1y ago
This is false example - these windmills are actively maintained and repaired, how are you going to replace massive gears or bearings in space? Are you going to bring spare parts with you?
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by vl 1y ago
And also it requires extraordinary navigation precision. These launches are going to be spread in time, which means that they don't happen from the same place (all celestial bodies move relative to each other). Which in turn means that
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by vl 1y ago
Cool concept, but some things are just strange: Power provided by toroidal nuclear fusion reactors in the outer shell of the living module, but why do you need such reactors if your primary propulsion is provided by Helium 3 - Deuterium Dir
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by vl 1y ago
So far the only known technology to bring embryos to life is through alive female host, so you still need healthy, and on top of that, willing population to use embryos.
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by vl 1y ago
Wow, great find. It's funny that for such massive presentation with so many calculations there is such a simple error. Maybe they wanted to accelerate at 0.01g?
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by vl 1y ago
If you can scan, why transmit at all? Just put the scan in simulation.
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by vl 1y ago
The drive in this design is not yet invented Helium 3 - Deuterium Direct Fusion Drive. In your design how is it going to catch up to pellets if it's decelerating? I.e. pellets need to be pre-decelerated for this. Which raises the quest
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by vl 1y ago
Indirect require section in go.mod file is essentially a lockfile. Once decision is made by tool, it's codified for future builds.
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by vl 1y ago
How Macs compare to RTXs for this? I.e. what numbers can be expected from Mac mini/Mac Studio with 64/128/256/512GB of unified memory?
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by vl 1y ago
I work on established project with medium-size codebase, copying to chat and back is just not practical. This is why Claude Code rocks - it quite often finds relevant parts itself.
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by vl 1y ago
I use Claude Code with Opus, and article recommends Gemini 2.5 Pro. I want to try it as well, but I don't know a tool which would make experience compatible to Claude Code. Would it make sense to use with Cursor? Do they try to limit c
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by vl 1y ago
It's ultrathink one word, not ultra-think . (See below). I use Claude Code with Opus, and had same experience - was pushing it hard to implement complex test, and it gave me an empty test function with test plan inside in a comment
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by vl 1y ago
How in the world general contractor can train tradesmen? Contractor organizes and manages, every particular tradesman is better in their respective field than contractor.

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