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Just park the starship as the sun shield. Or two starship, or an origami starship that unfolds for more surface area, your own personal sun umbrella made from a starship. | 2024-10-14T00:02:39 |
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It can be simultaneously true that (1) most answers on online Q&A platforms are not novel, and (2) that LLMs reduce the proportional novelty of answers. | 2024-10-14T00:01:58 |
What does this mean for the Kessler syndrome? Does reusable rockets speed up our potential for lock-in or slow it down? | 2024-10-14T00:01:56 |
> <i>I will gladly eat crow but none of these capabilities that exist on paper have actually been demonstrated that are necessary to meet these goals.</i><p>Literally every expert said that about landing the first stage of Falcon 9.<p>Then they said it about reusing it more than 10 times.<p>Then they said it about h... | 2024-10-14T00:01:23 |
I get what you’re saying but I shared it because the motives are the same. Why does Tibetan language matter at all? This BDRC article about digital representation of the language is tied back to that motivation. And the language is under threat due to Sinicization (the program of brainwashing Tibet so it looks like the... | 2024-10-14T00:01:06 |
Induced Demand needs to DIE as a concept. It is a GOOD thing - if you build any infrastructure and people change their behavior because of it, that means your city wasn't meeting the needs of the people. The whole point of a city is all the things people can do in them - if you just want to stay you get out of t... | 2024-10-14T00:01:02 |
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> <i>not exactly the government spending / misaligned incentive argument</i><p>It sort of is. The folks selling specialised design services for optimising the third sigma of weight savings absolutely don't want NASA to use off-the-shelf components. | 2024-10-14T00:00:49 |
Would this get the “Elon musk is not very bright because I don’t like his politics” crowd to finally STFU? Rhetorical question, of course not. | 2024-10-14T00:00:41 |
You mean you are presented with fifteen purchase dialogs the moment you enter a server? | 2024-10-14T00:00:38 |
What problems with TeX is Typst fixing?<p>I ask because most issues I got using LaTeX tend to be the result of LaTeX additions, very rarely are they issues from TeX itself.<p>Heck I even took to using TeX macros at some point because while they can be an amazing footgun they're also a lot simpler. | 2024-10-14T00:00:16 |
Minecraft Bedrock Edition is Microsoft's freemium children's game where you buy "mods" and "skins" using minecoins and you can visit a number of pre-approved pay-to-win servers or pay Microsoft to host a "server" for you and like 8 other people as long as you obey the microsoft g... | 2024-10-14T00:00:12 |
General inflation, competent techs are retiring/nearing retiring age, and the fact that new units seem to be more complicated internally/harder to work on (i.e. expensive) are probably why. | 2024-10-14T00:00:12 |
I think that is only part of it. Musk gave an interview where he talked about how the woke medical establishment trans'd one of his kids. They falsely told him to do the transition or his child's death was a near certainty. European countries are now restricting this "treatment" for children. The US... | 2024-10-14T00:00:07 |
And even for trivial questions, there is a lot out there that the doc developers ignored or hid.<p>For me, the current state of affairs is the difficulty of aiming search engines to the right answer. The answer might be out there, but figuring out HOW t oask the questions, which are the right keywords, etc - basically ... | 2024-10-14T00:00:05 |
There's a Lowes across the street from 1 Rocket Rd in Hawthorne.<p>I doubt any Lowes parts made it to space, but you <i>know</i> some went into test articles | 2024-10-13T23:59:39 |
Fraud means a deception for the purpose of financial gain, so I think as long as they're not selling these while giving the impression that this is autonomous behavior, it's not fraud.<p>In any case, from the article,<p>"Another robot — or the human voicing it — told an attendee in a stilted impression o... | 2024-10-13T23:59:32 |
The 1996 book "The Millionaire Next Door" covered this a bit.<p>Lots of contrast between doctors and similar who spent all their income on expensive houses, cars, club memberships etc and people who owned blue collar businesses who bought in similar/more income but lived modestly.<p><a href="https:/... | 2024-10-13T23:59:31 |
Nope. Git should not mess with line endings, the remote repository not matching the code in your local clone can bite you when you least expect it. On Windows, one should disable the autocrlf misfeature (git config --global core.autocrlf false) and configure their text editor to default to LF. | 2024-10-13T23:59:26 |
> Russia/USSR tried multiple times and didn't succeed.<p>Pedant mode: the USSR did land softly on Mars, but the lander got caught in a dust storm and was not able to transmit back the data ( <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_3" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org... | 2024-10-13T23:59:24 |
Indeed. Very strange to hear a break-the-world suggestion from a person leading a company famous for <i>never</i> breaking the world.<p>I'm kind of confused by this whole post.<p>I do understand the desire for simplification (let's ignore the argument of whether this is one), but... | 2024-10-13T23:59:19 |
A flight to Mars is currently going to require 10 tanker flights just to get enough fuel into orbit for 1 Starship trip. Containing liquid fuel for long in orbit will not be easy.<p>This likely means they are targeting 10 flights in a day at least. They've mentioned 1000 trips to Mars during one transit window, w... | 2024-10-13T23:59:17 |
We have teleoperated robotic arms for surgery. We do not have practical humanoid robots and have never had practical, productized teleoperated humanoid robots. | 2024-10-13T23:59:17 |
He did so so much more than writing their checks.
But what am I doing here, who am I seriously talking to? | 2024-10-13T23:58:29 |
Why is SpaceX choosing to land the booster on the Mechazilla arms instead of performing a soft ground landing like the Falcon 9 booster? | 2024-10-13T23:58:28 |
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Getting a taxi was a pretty unpleasant experience before Uber. Are they still evil, sure. But taxis were worse. | 2024-10-13T23:58:24 |
Then why did you write:<p>> if they can afford to pay Anduril to hire those people, they can more easily afford to hire the same people themselves.<p>They can't afford to hire the same people because they can't (as in, they legally cannot) pay the salaries those people are going to demand. | 2024-10-13T23:58:21 |
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> Even if an established protocol (HTTP, SMTP, CSV, FTP) technically requires CRLF as a line ending, do not comply. Send only NL.<p>Insane. First i think it was a April 1st joke, but is not.<p>Let's break everything because YES. | 2024-10-13T23:57:53 |
Incidentally, SQL's recursive queries completely solve the cycle problem by essentially keeping track of the results as a database, which then allows it to prune search results that have already been seen. That's what you get when using UNION in a recursive query, but don't use UNION ALL, as that turns ... | 2024-10-13T23:57:51 |
Even with reshoring, it's not as though China would just shrug and give up Tibet, and a military confrontation with them over Tibet would be profoundly unpopular in any reasonably foreseeable political landscape. There is no underlying racial animus to drive focus on the issue, as there is with conflicts in the Mi... | 2024-10-13T23:57:45 |
People don't realize that Ozempic is already a third generation GLP drug, Mounjaro is a 4th, and the try generation drugs are already in wide scale clinical trials.<p>We do in fact know a lot about how these drugs affect people by now, and as you point out, we have well over a decade of data on them. | 2024-10-13T23:57:38 |
Because HRV is the most reliable after parasympathetic activation in a nutshell. You can look it up for a better explanation. | 2024-10-13T23:57:38 |
This event's focal point was the Cybercab and the Robovan. Optimus being live in front of an audience was a bonus. | 2024-10-13T23:57:27 |
Because this article is nationalist lies released on a dramatic TV show for Spain's "national day", not real science. Sorry! For some reason, people are still fighting to claim <i>more</i> credit for the guy who was condemned at the time for immoral behavior. Nationalists gonna nationalist, I guess.<p>Sp... | 2024-10-13T23:57:25 |
Software development is contracted on a longer timescale, often weeks or months, compared to ridesharing where the outputs are expected within minutes. Software developers can often choose when to work on a day-to-day basis, but their next project will only materialize if the demand is there. | 2024-10-13T23:57:16 |
Around the board, including at X.<p>“Never been done before – xAI did in 19 days what everyone else needs one year to accomplish.”<p>He’s a twat? What are your credentials? | 2024-10-13T23:57:11 |
> <i>we need to be realistic about these numbers</i><p>We need to be realistic about timelines. Specifically, the timelines promulgated by Musk versus SpaceX. (Not an easy task, I know, in part because the latter is more sparing with such predictions.) But we should also be clear eyed about emerging capabilities.<p>... | 2024-10-13T23:57:04 |
Planned obsolescence but in a good way. | 2024-10-13T23:56:14 |
To my knowledge, you're right, but in reverse order. I believe the driving force is time, rather than mass overhead, but certainly both play a large part. | 2024-10-13T23:55:56 |
Well, in order to have _any_ children calling out, at least one of them would have to have a phone. One great reason for not banning phones is to increase the chances that at least one student has one. | 2024-10-13T23:55:56 |
That is a question of whether they're allowed to hire people, not whether they can afford to. | 2024-10-13T23:55:55 |
I can't tell if this is a good thing. It seems like maybe a good thing that you can shut off plants that historically couldn't be shut off. But it seems like a bad thing since it means these plants will likely stay in service longer. Is there a tipping point in the foreseeable future where these plants are un... | 2024-10-13T23:55:48 |
I feel like LeCun does the same interview and the same presentation over and over. He’s obsessed with the cat analogy and the notion that JEPA will succeed transformer based ‘traditional’ LLM architecture. Maybe that is true but I feel like he has too absolute a view on these topics. Sometimes I feel like I am listenin... | 2024-10-13T23:55:32 |
Charging a callout fee ( charge for tradesman to just come to job site) solves this problem. Any diagnosis time is also charged. | 2024-10-13T23:55:31 |
Amazingly enough, the drugs do address the root of the problem. Snacking / junk food is less appealing on them. | 2024-10-13T23:55:27 |
Have to wait for them to discover girls, or boys... | 2024-10-13T23:55:17 |
WP Engine mentions this specifically in their lawsuit. | 2024-10-13T23:54:53 |
Oh please let this be true | 2024-10-13T23:54:27 |
Let's take Laxen and Perry's F83 implementation as an example.<p>F83 implements an assembler, a memory hex dumper, an interpreter, a sort of bytecode compiler, a <i>decompiler</i>, a screen editor (which could jump to the definition of any function and jump back and forth between source and documentation, and... | 2024-10-13T23:54:23 |
To counter the other commenter’s harshness (I can be harsh myself): keep at it. I wish I had started as early as you. Eagerly take advice from proven competent people and experiment with wild abandon and don’t fear mistakes. | 2024-10-13T23:54:21 |
Past month I setup ssh accounts to access a remote server using Laravel. The guys doing the programming absolutely hate the console, but it turns out VS Code can work through ssh connections just fine. Not sure if it can also debug, but editing was seamless. I wonder if it uses sftp or escape codes. | 2024-10-13T23:54:20 |
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Which would need to be encoded in at least two bytes at which point, why not just use CRLF? | 2024-10-13T23:54:01 |
Prior launch landed 0.5cm away from the target location. This is equivalent to landing a 25 story building right on the foundation.<p>Absolutely impressive accuracy and precision. | 2024-10-13T23:53:33 |
Homeless due to not having roommates like college students.. Too bad that he though he was in a higher caste of profession... | 2024-10-13T23:53:01 |
The same applies to old Chinese, and in fact most ancient languages. Latin and Greek were originally written in scriptio continua, meaning no punctuation or spacing:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_... | 2024-10-13T23:53:01 |
FWIW, I actually find CRLF handy in a database export I work in --- it exports cells with multiple lines by using LF for the linebreaks --- I open it in a text editor, replace all LFs w/ \\ (so as to get a single line for each data record and to cause the linebreaks to happen in LaTeX), and it's ready for fur... | 2024-10-13T23:52:58 |
Can we say that Technical vs. Non-Technical in this space isn't so much about formal credentials, as it is about putting in a lot of time to learn about many relevant things, hands-on and probably exploratory?<p>The person whose only degree is Art school dropout, but who's logged many hours coding personal pr... | 2024-10-13T23:52:55 |
Generally having fewer than four wheels reduces stability while not offering compensating substantial advantages (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-wheeler#Configurations" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-wheeler#Configurations</a>). And more than fou... | 2024-10-13T23:52:52 |
One answer might be "infrastructure". Infrastructure in space will become big if space becomes big (beyond launching telecom, observation and science - which are small for now, compared to their launch potential.) SpaceX will need infrastructure itself - like refueling, landing stuff in exotic places, cargo d... | 2024-10-13T23:52:47 |
The main website lists lots of games that are built on Minetest / Luanti. [1] Does anyone have opinions on which of them are the most fun to play?<p>[1] <a href="https://content.minetest.net/packages/?type=game" rel="nofollow">https://content.minetest.net/packages/?type=game... | 2024-10-13T23:52:29 |
It seems the problem with this "debate" is that intelligence is very clearly not a scalar value - where you can look at a number line and put a dot where cats are, where humans are, where AIs are, etc.<p>So, people just talk past each other, with everyone using a different method on how a complex trait like &... | 2024-10-13T23:52:26 |
Wait until I break the news about 90% of the tools in the Linux world. | 2024-10-13T23:52:22 |
There are not that many, less than a 100 with apoapsis inside of the Earth orbit.<p>Rendering can be adjusted for better visibility, but 4 inner planets swept the interior volume pretty thoroughly during earlier times of Solar System. | 2024-10-13T23:52:18 |
All of the conversations they are having with real humans? If it's as big as chat gpt why can't it just consume its own information which is at least half from a human?<p>Seems like the humans using it can be also training and effectively paying for the right to do so? I would guess this could be easily gamif... | 2024-10-13T23:52:13 |
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Depth-first backtracking is trivial to implement, and it's trivial to blend into the language. Breadth-first backtracking is much harder to implement, and I'm not sure that it's trivial to build into a language (though this may be a lack of imagination).<p>Icon had both, but depth-first backtracking was... | 2024-10-13T23:52:11 |
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-----<p>does this mean you trust complete randoms just as much?<p>-----<p>Personally i trust the consensus, not necessarily one random person.<p>I have the same problem as the guy above, at this point i assume doctors are almost always wrong if the problem isn't something really common for specific enough | 2024-10-13T23:51:54 |
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I agree space is cool. But why do you think the "space is cool" mantra is more important than ensuring that for the 8 billion humans that call this planet home—we have somewhere sustainable and safe to live?<p>Your asteroid mining for profit is arguably meaningless if we have no ozone layer. | 2024-10-13T23:51:41 |
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IDK if WordPress plugins respect SEMVER, but shouldn't this auto-update thingy update only patch versions, or minor versions at most? Idk, breaking changes like these is definitely not something you want your CMS to do overnight when you won't notice until you receive complaints that your site is broken | 2024-10-13T23:51:11 |
If my math is right, the cost of even 1 limb greatly exceeds 700USD. | 2024-10-13T23:51:06 |
Name is awful but game itself looks awesome. Can any speak to how “good” it is, especially server play? | 2024-10-13T23:50:56 |
Where I live , there is a "call out fee". that prevents tradesmen from not being paid for time costs driving to job investigations .... The customer also pays for the needed diagnosis time too. So I do not see a reason why not do small jobs. | 2024-10-13T23:50:43 |
Even Notepad.exe supports LF only text files now. | 2024-10-13T23:50:40 |
LF only? Huh.<p>In its original terms for printing terminals, carriage return might be ambiguous. It could means either "just send the print head to column zero" or "print head to 0 and advance the line by one". The latter is what typewriters do for the Return key.<p>But LF always meant Line Feed, m... | 2024-10-13T23:50:35 |
I believe social safety nets and long term savings, in part, shoulder some of the blame. For most of history, there was no state or pension to rely on for medical care, goods, and services in your late age. You had to have children if you wanted to be supported at all and not die in poverty at 65. Now, people think it&... | 2024-10-13T23:50:23 |
Just looked at some Reddit links posted and what the account has said over time and it is just _specifically_ this.<p>Over 4 months old. The same thing posted, over, and over. Even alleging xAI "knows" about Musk's "secrets". | 2024-10-13T23:50:11 |
They do contribute, that’s a lie.<p>Also, the wordpress trademark policy _explicitly_ listed what they were saying as OK until it was updated last week when they refused to pay his protection racket. | 2024-10-13T23:50:08 |
exactly, gnu/linux: the one you can actually adapt to your needs | 2024-10-13T23:50:07 |
A broken clock is correct twice a day. Don't attribute something that you can to intelligence what can be explained by chance. | 2024-10-13T23:50:06 |
older video but doesn't require downloading and compiling
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfvo-Ujb_qk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfvo-Ujb_qk</a>
Also if you are worried, here is a good video talking about it
<a href="https://www.youtube.com... | 2024-10-13T23:50:05 |
The ones for other celestial bodies are also planned to return to Earth... Being inside one as it does the belly flop will be quite the experience. | 2024-10-13T23:49:58 |
Original with typically dry chessbrah humour during the massacre:<p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=XAlcDWQ6iTM" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=XAlcDWQ6iTM</a> | 2024-10-13T23:49:45 |
Scrapling is a high-performance, intelligent web scraping library for Python that automatically adapts to website changes while significantly outperforming popular alternatives. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, Scrapling provides powerful features while maintaining simplicity. | 2024-10-13T23:49:42 |
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ASIMO never made it off stage, and Honda never prioritized shipping it. We definitely never saw ASIMO milling around a crowded event and serving drinks and handing out gift bags.<p>It was never remote controllable by unskilled operators.<p>It doesn't take a whole lot of imagination to come up with scenarios where ... | 2024-10-13T23:49:40 |
Tens of pages, sure.<p>But hundreds? Thousands?<p>Do they not have the concepts of headers? Sections? Chapters?<p>Both in non-fiction and fiction, there are a lot More means of content separation than just paragraphs. | 2024-10-13T23:49:36 |
There is only one (modern) written Tibetan script. | 2024-10-13T23:49:30 |
Absolutely false.
Trump got 74M votes in last election in 2020. US population was 330 millions.
Today US population is ~340M.
I seriously doubt that more than 170M people support a convicted felon for president.
I bet that he will get less than 170M votes in less than a month.
Do you want to take the other side of the ... | 2024-10-13T23:49:27 |
I love that proponents of nuclear power conveniently forget that this is a thing. Nuclear waste, nobody wants it and it lasts effectively forever. | 2024-10-13T23:49:13 |
"<i>Secure</i> Tortious Interference" | 2024-10-13T23:49:03 |
Companies don't, as a rule, do this in software either. They make projects open source or contribute to open source projects because it's good <i>for them</i>. This is just as true in other industries. This is how every industry standard and protocol or similar works. It is beneficial to the participating com... | 2024-10-13T23:49:01 |
Wow, when you put it like that I realised there must be a market for this kind of thing, given that cost and speed of operation are incremental changes that will plausibly improve over the midterm.<p>So you'll have upper-middle class people own a robot and whenever they want a task done they order it from basicall... | 2024-10-13T23:49:00 |
> You just visit another server and it downloads and sets up all of the server's mods.<p>That's how mods work in Minecraft bedrock | 2024-10-13T23:48:59 |
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