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by wrs 5mo ago
The next thing they do after showing you the sheet is to roll a ball around the stretched part to demonstrate an orbit. Explaining how that analogy works starts to take more math than the actual field you’re trying to explain!
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by wrs 5mo ago
There was a brief period before that where some airports had pay phones with text terminals and modems built in, so you could dial up your corporate email or CompuServe. I swear I did not dream this.
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by wrs 5mo ago
The worst thing about this is not really that somebody might have had AI help writing a story, but that an editor thought they could get any kind of useful information from asking an AI whether the story was written by AI. If there's
154.
by wrs 5mo ago
>A recent Met police trial of Palantir’s AI to monitor staff behaviour... To be fair, the Met should get a little credit for applying Palantir to themselves first.
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by wrs 5mo ago
The hypothetical was that the US "bans" bitcoin, presumably meaning it becomes illegal for US financial institutions (or US-dependent ones, which is nearly all of them) to convert bitcoin to dollars. Somebody else might give you d
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by wrs 5mo ago
It's supported and influenced by the USA in the sense that if you can't ever turn it into dollars it becomes much less interesting.
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by wrs 5mo ago
I’m not sure quite what this is trying to say. My laptop is already a personal cluster — it has 16 cores, lots of storage, a fast network, I run VMs on it. It’s been the case for a long time that you can run bursty jobs in the cloud if you
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by wrs 5mo ago
What they’ve done here isn’t safe either, and doesn’t have the consistent translation of rust2c.
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by wrs 5mo ago
You’re confusing the issue here by saying it’s not your fault, it’s your lab partner’s. We’re talking about why your lab partner did something wrong. You can assign blame for the wrong thing separately. The citation is part of the substanc
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by wrs 5mo ago
"Bad", like, you literally just made them up? I hope that would have been a problem.
161.
by wrs 5mo ago
A "mistake" would be a typo in a real citation. A hallucinated citation is evidence of just plain laziness and negligence, which taints the entire submission.
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by wrs 5mo ago
So Intercom has increasing market share, and they're increasing investment in it, but it is henceforth to be considered "baggage" and a past to be destroyed? Is this Innovator's Dilemma or Osborne Effect? Either way I&#x
163.
by wrs 5mo ago
The theory behind Medicare Advantage is that it would cost the government less than traditional Medicare because the private insurer would be more efficient. Guess what happened.
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by wrs 5mo ago
I understand the skepticism, but it's really just a simple application of negative feedback. There's a 200W-ish variable power supply, a thermocouple right at the tip, and a software PID controller. So it's no mystery why it
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by wrs 5mo ago
Hmm, I don’t see this much anymore. I typically start a project in plan mode and tell Claude to do some research to bring me 2-3 alternatives. Then we talk about the pros and cons before deciding on the libraries, etc. On the other hand, if
166.
by wrs 5mo ago
The new breed of irons with temperature measurement built into the tip (invented by JBC, cloned by Geeboon and similar) is amazing. The tip heats to exactly the temp you want in 3 seconds, then cools down to avoid damage when you put it bac
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by wrs 5mo ago
This is explained in some detail in the docs. There is a safe layer, a mostly safe layer, and an unsafe layer. Some clunkiness is needed for safe-yet-parallel work that they couldn’t easily fit into the Rust Send/Sync model.
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by wrs 5mo ago
The people who want to put data centers in orbit must be either much smarter than me, or much dumber than me, because I just don't get how that makes any technical or economic sense. Of course, it's possible nobody actually want
169.
by wrs 5mo ago
My first impression was that the text style is dismayingly like either an AI wrote most of it or (to be charitable) the author’s writing has been heavily influenced by the current generation of LLM output. So the image style goes perfectly
170.
by wrs 5mo ago
"war.gov" -- give me a break. Are they going to try to executive-order a .war TLD to replace .mil next?
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by wrs 5mo ago
Point taken, but I think to most ML folks, PyTorch basically is the stdlib.
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by wrs 5mo ago
Also that you have to rewrite the entire standard library, because the kernel knows how to suspend kernel threads on syscalls, but not green threads. (Go and Java already had to do this anyway, of course.)
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by wrs 5mo ago
It’s an established thing in CAD programs (since a time before there were any personal computers) to move the cursor for you sometimes. I seem to recall this is one of the points of contention between KiCad and Wayland at the moment.
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by wrs 5mo ago
It was and is a perfectly good term, but people started using it without regard for its definition. I don't know why people wouldn't misuse a "better" term the same way.
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by wrs 5mo ago
That idea of a simultaneous small claims day is brilliant. I hope somebody is vibecoding that site up right now.
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by wrs 5mo ago
Why couldn’t they just stick the suitcase in a Waymo and send it to him ?
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by wrs 5mo ago
Not simply by reading every word ever written by a conscious being and learning to reproduce them with high probability. At least, that’s certainly not how I got here.
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by wrs 6mo ago
Of course, Palantir's sudden jump in stock price since November 2024 could also be explained by entirely different factors that have nothing to do with engineering.
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by wrs 6mo ago
On the other hand, the status page is blaming the authentication system, which one would think is not a frontier-class problem.
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by wrs 6mo ago
> For the amount you’re charging, you could have hired a human translator. Citation needed.

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