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by wongarsu 9mo ago
For Teams-like chat I really like Zulip. Which also integrates with Jitsi for video conferencing If you are hosting webinars there's also bigbluebutton
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
And maybe it's obvious, but the largest thing that makes water so useful is that on our planet it's usually liquid but has easy to reach boiling and freezing points. Most notably a boiling point that is easily withstood by most me
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
You can tell it's just financial engineering because in the entire press release xAI is only mentioned in the first two sentences. Everything after that is Elon talking about space data centers to distract from the actual topic. Which
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Note how Musk cleverly doesn't claim that not doing maintenance drives down costs. Nothing in there is a lie, but any substance is at best implied. Yes, 1,000,000 tons/year * 100kW/ton is 100GW. Yes, there would be no mainten
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Moving electricity long distance is a lot easier than moving coolant long distances, which puts a soft limit on the reasonable size of the solar array of these satellites. But as long as you stay below that and pick a reasonable orbit it&#x
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
You operate them like Microsoft's submerged data center project: you don't do maintenance, whatever fails fails. You start with enough redundancy in critical components like power and networking and accept that compute resources w
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Musk has a history of having one of his more successful companies buying one of his less successful companies. xAI bought X, and Tesla bought SolarCity
908.
by wongarsu 9mo ago
I imagine those are surmountable challenges. Boeing somehow manages. But more likely that merger would consist of SpaceX acquiring Tesla and taking it private
909.
by wongarsu 9mo ago
They must have linked the wrong press release /s. I would have expected a press release about SpaceX acquiring xAI to talk about why they did that. Or at least mention xAI beyond the first paragraph. This is just Elon talking about spa
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Investing money in the stock market doesn't meaningfully improve the economy. Unless by economy we mean the stock market of course. Sure, if you have run out of better investment options and still have money left over that's a dec
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Of course they can. Not investing in your own economy and infrastructure just because outcomes aren't guaranteed would be the insane policy
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
For anything smaller than AAA, C# is just generally much more pleasant to work in than C++. That's Unity's edge. And Godot is the "new" kid on the block I'd agree that between Unreal and Godot, Unity doesn't lo
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
From the headline I expected some kinds of new communication satellites. But instead this is "just" a marketplace where government entities can purchase services. The satellites were already in orbit and already "EU sovereign
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
> It is realistic to imagine that one printed page stuck on a lamppost could cause the car to reliably crash. Realistic, yes. But that'd still be a symptom of architectural issues in the software. Conceptually the priorities of a ca
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Phones are required, insering a SIM isn't. Your work and home probably have wifi, and services meant to be used on the go are commonly built with offline use in mind. Especially those you actually need in society A burner phone left at
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Like city planners after WWII
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
And even if doesn't, writing five online shops to send you a written offer takes a couple minutes and results in the same or lower prices Procurement for such small items can be quick and sane. It's the larger items where rules ti
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
WhatsApp could exfiltrate messages at the ends. But I assume the trick lies in the word "default". Didn't Skype also default to end-to-end encryption, unless there was a server flag that disabled it for that specific user (I
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
I'm basically developing on Linux despite running windows. I just set the terminal emulator to open wsl by default, and have VSCode connect to the WSL instance. This also gives you the "native docker" the author mentions, jus
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
According to British style guides an en-dash would be correct in that usage, and the difference between an en-dash (–) and a hyphen (-) is pretty small. Seems perfectly defensible to me unless you are publishing a book or academic journal
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
I agree with everything you say. But wow, does that comment sound like AI. Probably Grok? Not saying you are AI, you might just be a heavy user who picked up the same patterns
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
The first nazi concentration camp was founded in 1933, gas chambers and systematic killing were only added in 1941 when the "final solution" was implemented. Those last four years are the most well-known period, but for the majori
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
If I tell it to implement something it will sometimes declare their work done before it's done. But if I give Claude Code a verifiable goal like making the unit tests pass it will work tirelessly until that goal is achieved. I don&#x27
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
> Claiming you've not examined your own mental machinery is... concerning The example was carefully chosen. I can introspect how I calculate 356*532. But I can't introspect how I calculate 14+17 or 1+3. I can deliberate the que
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
> Sorry I pressed downvote and cannot revert my press... Next to the timestamp of the comment there is an "undown" link that reverts the vote. Or an "unvote" link if you upvoted
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Is there any evidence that the US executive branches and three letter agencies care about the physical location of the data center? Never mind the dependency on AWS, which is a US company I doubt datacenter location matters for anything bey
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Which should be expected, since the same is true for humans. The "adding numbers digit by digit with carry" works well on paper, but it's not an effective method for doing math in your head, and is certainly not how I calcula
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
I haven't looked at the code, but I suspect that those flakes have hit another snowflake and are now considered "fallen" snow. And for fallen snow there's probably an optimization that only x% of particles are updated ev
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
If you're really concerned about that you could go to a local bar and call from there. Make sure you have the attention of the bartender while making the call. Easy alibi, the bartender won't forget something like that
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
It's easier to deport people for lying on their immigration form than for having been a member of a terrorist organization

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