Tommstein

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NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars(phys.org)
407 points by Tommstein 3y ago|141 comments
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Reminds me of seeing Putin bragging a few months ago about how Russia has more nukes than the US/NATO/whatever. Well yes, you better hope so, because if shit hits the fan, you have to take on basically the entire free world by you
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Do the trajectories between fixed locations change very often?
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by Tommstein 3y ago
chat.lmsys.org has a zillion models you can use.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Gotta imagine Boeing is giving some pretty massive discounts on them at this point.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Yup, I too use Phind sometimes, and it's amazing. Plus if I want to chat with approximately any model known to man, there's chat.lmsys.org and labs.perplexity.ai. Microsoft thoroughly shit the bed by taking a narrow opportunity to
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Considering all the open models that already exist and are yet to be created before all the rulings and appeals are done, that toothpaste ain't going back in the tube.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Too late, they blew their one shot. Ain't no one who tried it when it was new and hyped and was told that they couldn't use it since they weren't using Edge setting reminders to go back occasionally and check whether Microsof
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by Tommstein 3y ago
I remember going to check it out, and them refusing to let me try it unless I used Edge and/or a Bing account (don't remember exactly and don't care). And that's how they blew their one shot to get me and hordes of other
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by Tommstein 3y ago
It's unlikely that any of them are Ukrainian.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> The military forces of Russia are not paper tigers. If there's anything that their gloriously failed sneak attack on Ukraine has shown us, it's that yes, yes they are. Imagine if the most advanced weaponry they were facing wa
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> USA is a large closed economy. China is a large open economy. I’m simplifying, . . . . Yes, "simplifying" to the point of getting it completely backwards.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> This cannot be repeated enough. It’s harmful to almost everyone to allow sideloading on iPhone. Power without the knowledge to use it responsibly results in actual real world harm. This may sound paternalistic but it’s what it is. I’m
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Yeah, because once you're exposed to food that's actually tasty, who the hell wants to eat vegetables.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> Veggies are great. Tasty . . . . You will find that that is . . . not a universally held opinion. Otherwise everyone would stuff their faces with them.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> Ok? What's so bad about speaking Russian? English isn't my first language, I have no attachment to it. If Russian had become the lingua franca of the world I'd have learned that instead. whoosh
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> I just don't have faith in US political and cultural stability anymore, and as such I don't have faith that the constitution will be upheld . . . . You can have faith or lack thereof in whatever you want, but I would like you
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> To counter this polemic comment with a more serious one: the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq after the 9/11 attacks was a central watershed moment in history that lead to a massive shift in the public opinion concerning the US mi
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Then you will be pleased to learn that the US military takes an oath to the Constitution, not to whoever happens to be the current President. Exactly because the dangers of assholes assuming the Presidency isn't some kind of genius ins
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by Tommstein 3y ago
"10 out of 10 dictators disapprove of the free world improving their defense capabilities!"
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by Tommstein 3y ago
The industry also made a huge mistake by making earlier hybrids butt ugly to the point of being laughable. These things matter.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Yep, that and the calendar app are the ones I use. I've been experimenting with Aves as a replacement for the gallery app, but not sure what I think about it yet.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Since they didn't specify, perhaps they meant using perceptual hashing (because yes, modifying an image to have a different cryptographic hash is indeed trivial).
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> It's a Chinese company, so I would hazard a guess it has to do with the China-West Cold War. The one where we don't allow Chinese companies to sell phones in the rest of the world? > To what end are we waging this Cold War
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by Tommstein 3y ago
For me it was the experiments where identical triplets got different ancestry results, even though any full siblings in the world including non-identical ones have identical ancestry.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Whether the review was trolling or a genuine display of being a moron (and in a world where people whined to change "master"/"whitelist"/"blacklist"/etc. for invented bullshit racial reasons, I c
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by Tommstein 3y ago
From another comment: https://web.archive.org/web/20240112193755/https://www.amazo...
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by Tommstein 3y ago
None, unless they also get credit when it's used to save lives from the assorted assholes of the world.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Same here. A few years ago I rented a local Tesla on Turo for a day trip that was several hours away, but since I just needed to drop it off "whenever" (by the next morning), I could find somewhere to charge it at my leisure. Then
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by Tommstein 3y ago
At least they called you. I traveled a lot this last fall and pretty much always reserved a hybrid with Avis because I was going to drive long distances. What I actually got at the counter most of the time was "let me see if we have an

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