wedn3sday

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by wedn3sday 3y ago
Im curious what the approved method is for muslims in space? like, can you have a snack every 90 minutes?
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
The proximity to water cools the the panels which increases their efficiency, there's a lot of sq ft available, and the government already owns the land. It also decreases the amount of water lost to evaporation, and the amount of weed
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
In this case there's no eminent domain issues since the government already owns the land the canals sit in, which significantly reduces local governments abilities to stop the proposed projects. Additionally, since it will increase wat
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
I would absolutely love to take our internal Wiki and use this against it.
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Ironically, weather the guy did his job or not has absolutely no material affect on the discussion of his termination! He could have been the absolute best or worst employee in the history of the world, and the way twitter/elon handled
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
>> He has a right to determine whether he wants his technology to be used directly for offensive war efforts. Perhaps this is laudable if true, however I havent seen this actually used in any justification for not allowing the use of
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Yes he's looking for a payday, i.e. the day you get paid for the work you did. He's not looking for extra special bonus dollars, but the dollars he's contractually obligated to get paid for the work he performed while employe
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Only somewhat more seductive, because for a while there Elon was actually involved in some very cool new technology development before he totally went off the rails, so there's still some latent "hey isnt he the guy that landed a
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
This whole thing has made me incredibly happy to see that somewhere, someone out there on the internet is pwning people for stupid vulnerabilities and posting about it on a site that looks like this one. I admit the flashing ACAB really did
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Many things remind me of scenes from the Cryptonomicon, especially things that rhyme with "torpedo."
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
So, do we throw this guy off the cliff too?
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Im saddened to hear that my community garden and local library dont provide any value to society, must be why I like spending time there so much.
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
From what I remember from some old all-hands slides, in the R&D groups (so not facilities, not administration etc) there was a pretty even breakdown of 1/3 PhD, 1/3 MSc, 1/3 BS, and like 2% with no degree.
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
I worked at LLNL for a little over 6 years, and recently took a job at a "real" software company. Other peoples comments here are completely valid so Im not going to rehash them all, but they all seem to be focusing on the positiv
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
> "... drive enough revenue ..." Pretty clear where your values are here. Personally I quite like a system that's explicitly not being designed to drive revenue, and would like to interact with other people that also want
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
I agree this is a pretty glaring issue, I disagree that its a deal breaker for me.
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Im amused to see that this is almost exactly the same idea I came up with for the ChatGPT-sucks-at-facts problem.
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
"Explain X (an acronym) in the context of Y" has become by go-to use case for chatgpt, super good and cuts through a lot of the nonsense you run into when trying to pose the question to google.
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
I agree its a big assumption to assume that electricity prices will stay the same, my assumption is that electricity price increases will significantly outpace inflation.
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Can confirm. I work for a company that spends >$10MM on google cloud compute every year, and it's a common internal joke that "talk to google support" means "get fucked." Their support is outrageously bad.
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Former LLNL employee here, they hire a LOT of foreign nationals. Several people that I worked with there were Canadian.
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
I read The Rootkit Arsenal[0] while I was taking my first assembly language course and operating systems class. The author did an amazing job of making the material interesting, approachable, and as clear as machine code hex can ever really
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
If there's one thing we should learn from gold rushes, its that you dont make it rich panning for gold, you make it rich selling gold panning gear.
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
> The economics of solar/wind/battery are ... Its always been my impression that the only practical use of hydrogen is as a pseudo battery to buffer energy from renewable sources. No need for expensive/dangerous transmissi
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
I discovered these giant stupid wallpapers not to long ago when I was cleaning up my partners computer. They were taking up something like 20% of the total disc space on the machine, and there's absolutely no way to get rid of them. Ve
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
On the flip side, every time I hear about some right wing nut getting deplatformed by paypal, I think to myself, "hey their service isnt as bad as I thought." Virtue signaling might bring them more business then they lose by tossi
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Ya, this is pretty much how I felt about the whole Ivermectin thing. Who am I to tell someone not to take horse de-wormer, when I also advocate for the freedom to take psychedelics? If someone _really_ wants to make sure they dont have hors
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
I suspect that 95% of their business will be from dodgy porn sites, or "we build the wall" type right wing scams.
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Yes. However much I support the ideals behind any given movement, I strongly believe that after you cross a critical threshold, let us call it the "setting things on fire line" you should stop being able to get paid through the ba
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by wedn3sday 4y ago
Personally, I like a currency I can walk into a shop and buy a sandwich with.

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