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by _Adam 1y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02564-0 The paper has more details. What's interesting to me is that the key innovation isn't the deformable mirror but rather the design of a wavefront sensor that
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by _Adam 2y ago
> But somewhere along the lines we're going to have think about the R&D of the big picture in non-hand-wavey ways. How?
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by _Adam 2y ago
The article feels like it was written by ChatGPT, and it doesn't explain anything about the "special reflectors" or the overall theory behind the optical design that enables shadowless lighting. https://infiniummed
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by _Adam 2y ago
>Outcome-oriented design involves orchestrating experience design with a greater focus on user goals and final outcomes, while strategically automating aspects of interaction and interface design. Dark patterns is another type of "o
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by _Adam 3y ago
Mine has proven equally reliable to a mechanical toilet, while providing considerably more comfort. This actually makes sense when you consider all the mechanical complexity in a typical toilet is getting replaced with a series of solenoids
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by _Adam 3y ago
There was a good Chinese Pod episode on this but I can't find it now. One of the things I recall was to express emphasis, make the tones really obvious (almost like a beginner might, consciously speaking them).
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by _Adam 3y ago
If your operation has reached the point where milliseconds matter..something likely has gone wrong. I'd be curious to see data on how other cognitive metrics change in absence of atmospheric nitrogen. Abstract reasoning / mental m
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by _Adam 3y ago
It'll be hard to make traditional motor windings out of this particular material because AFAIK it's a ceramic, but perhaps with thin films on flex PCBs it would be possible. I'm imagining a future where a superconducting laye
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by _Adam 3y ago
They've optimized the fitness function "cuteness^2 - propensity to bite". So even when they're tearing up my arm it's still so adorable.
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by _Adam 3y ago
The paper glosses over the technical design of the solar shield spacecraft. I'd like to understand how they will maintain their attitude given how huge they are. Would gyros be enough to counteract radiation pressure?
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by _Adam 3y ago
Another perspective if we consider AI akin to nuclear weapons (a simile many have made already): If the law-abiding cease development and malicious actors do not, the worst case may be that the resulting AI is non-aligned with humanity&#x27
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by _Adam 4y ago
Key point I think should be more prominent: The effect was on cultured brain cells. The reason brain tumors and other disorders of the brain are so hard to treat is that the blood-brain barrier keeps many big molecules out. That doesn'
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by _Adam 4y ago
That's sad. My dad had a subscription to these, so I read them quite a bit when I was younger. I think I still have a few lying around. At the same time, there's more exciting stuff than ever happening in the astronomy world these
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by _Adam 4y ago
> ... reaches up and flips the pressurization switch, cutting off bleed air to the cabin. The airplane rapidly begins to depressurize ... I cannot believe that a "kill everyone" switch actually exists, and if it really does thi
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by _Adam 4y ago
My pipes are all copper, and the hot water contains a non trivial amount of lead (from the solder used to join the pipes). I had it tested - around 20 ppb. We don't drink or cook with the hot water, but in theory if the plumbing was PE
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by _Adam 4y ago
https://news.google.com/search?q=%22wasn%27t%20wearing%20a%2...
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by _Adam 4y ago
The article tries extensively to dance around the fact that all else being equal, if your head is hitting the ground you're better off wearing a helmet. In the worst cases, you aren't worse off. Acceleration is what kills, and bec
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by _Adam 4y ago
A few years ago that would be true. These days, minimum wage workers are getting harder to find. But that's only if the search is constrained to immediate locality. The "great" thing about this concept is that we can hire min
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by _Adam 4y ago
I'm skeptical there's any value being generated here then. Who are the customers? How do they know this fancy looking biological design is any good at all? It's fine not to actually test fire it, but in that case prove it wit
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by _Adam 4y ago
I think adding another animal to the situation would only exacerbate the problem. Let's say we add lions. Then not only goats are eaten, but other animals. Hunting goats to local extinction is the cleanest and most humane way to deal w
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by _Adam 4y ago
We'll fix it till it's broke!
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by _Adam 4y ago
Exactly - and that maximum is the "minimum maximum" across all batches of the device. You might get a particularly resilient one that handles the 10V just fine. The encryption idea makes way more sense, and the means to short out
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by _Adam 4y ago
Many comments are permutations of different suggestions do here's mine: Get the business to buy into "fixing" this before doing anything. Convince them to hire more, sounds like the current team is already swamped. If you don
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by _Adam 4y ago
The best approach is to assume there's a renegade employee constantly trying to screw the company over. Granularity of permissions should be set to minimize the blast radius to the absolute minimum they need to do their job.
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by _Adam 4y ago
The powershell script is a minor part of the screw up. The real issues are multitude... 1) hardcoding actual production credentials in a script at all. Seriously what the fuck. 2) Thycotic not enforcing MFA for the keys to the kingdom admin
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by _Adam 4y ago
That profile in particular is interesting. The first two tweets appear to be human originated, and date from December 2021. There are no tweets from the account until seven hours ago, and all the tweets after that point are spam. Several op
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by _Adam 4y ago
>So within the next 10 minutes, teammates who will be leaving the company will receive a calendar invitation to a video call with a leader in your function and a teammate from the People team. In that meeting, you’ll review the details o
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by _Adam 4y ago
Wow. AI is now good enough that writers are considered robot until proven human.
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by _Adam 4y ago
I don't think this will make much of a difference aside from the branding advantage. The quality of a mass-produced product like a consumer hand tool isn't a function of the country in which it is made but rather of its design. Al
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by _Adam 4y ago
Fortunately this is opt-in. Imagine being that guy managing a fleet of these things mowing a giant golf course and three times a day just stop for no reason and start singing.

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