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by andruby 3mo ago
My family runs a blood analysis lab in Belgium for which I wrote some of the statistics gathering software. The thresholds for 25-OH vitamin D: <20 ng/mL → deficient, 20–30 ng/mL → insufficient. When I looked at all 1738 blood
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by andruby 3mo ago
It is 16GB plus an additional 8GB for graphics.
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by andruby 3mo ago
Thanks! As always, plenty of problems there too. The colonization of Congo was indeed horrible. Inconsequential clarification: Congo wasn't actually a Belgian colony, it was Leopold's personal colony.
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by andruby 3mo ago
Does Elon _really_ support free speech? * He suspended multiple journalists from Twitter/X in December 2022 after they had reported on or criticized him [0] * He has been accused of retaliating against critics and employees through thr
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by andruby 3mo ago
Yeah, that seems like his goal. > If Tesla changes control Does selling Tesla to SpaceX actually satisfy "changing control" if he remains the largest shareholder?
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by andruby 3mo ago
I grew up and lived mostly in Belgium. Only a year in the US and a few years in South Africa. Belgium gets a lot of criticism for moving slowing, but it also rarely breaks crucial things. The system of >10 political parties has its flaws
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by andruby 3mo ago
> Perhaps the only weapon is to teach how to think for oneself. Who is going to invest in that in a scale necessary? _Most_ developed countries do invest in the education and teaching of critical thinking. It's not even that expensi
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by andruby 3mo ago
I understand Tesla acquiring other companies counting to the cap, but Tesla _being acquired_ by another company, why would that count?
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by andruby 3mo ago
I don't even think such a scale works for the kind of brilliant solutions Bellard (not Bertrand) creates. I don't think 100 1x programmers can create these solutions. So much gets lost having to communicate and coordinate people.
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by andruby 3mo ago
Space-grade photovoltaics are >10x more expensive than ground based panels. Add some (Tesla) utility scale batteries and it can run 24/7. No need for expensive radiators or rocket launches. And personnel can upgrade the hardware eve
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by andruby 3mo ago
Most large companies do that these days: GOOG, META all have different share classes. Even the small startup I worked for had that.
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by andruby 3mo ago
I saw that too, and it's so depressing. SpaceX was pushing the envelope of "interplanetary" travel/species, and to see it being reduced to a 7-8% "side-quest" :-(
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by andruby 3mo ago
What would it mean if SpaceX buys Tesla though? Does the combined market cap count? That would be wrong. Tesla buying SpaceX just for hist bonus and then rebranding to X would be classic Musk. It's a game for him, but so ridiculous. Wh
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by andruby 3mo ago
What are good OSS alternatives? Or do most users not bother with such infra tool?
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by andruby 3mo ago
Exactly the TAM for rockets just isn't there, and probably never will be. That's why SpaceX is "betting" so hard on datacenters in space (just build them on earth with solar and batteries), and AI. I think they know they
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by andruby 3mo ago
* GOOG's revenue grew from 16.6B in 2007 to 402B in 2025 for a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 20.4% * AMZN: 11.7B to 717B = 24.8% * AAPL: 24B to 416B = 18.6% * MSFT: 49.7B to 245B = 10.2% SpaceX is claiming they will grow by 41.
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by andruby 3mo ago
> against any sane logic The logic is super sane: rich people get richer. rich people in power let other rich people get richer. The insane part is the population that falls for the lies and votes for this
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by andruby 3mo ago
The administration has given their orders to the regulators, whether explicit or implicit, and this is playing out exactly as they want it to. This is not "by accident" or "by negligence". This is by design.
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by andruby 3mo ago
maglev but those do linear acceleration instead of rotational. seems tricky though for cars with such uneven surfaces.
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by andruby 3mo ago
Turned 40 too recently. I have a much more relaxed feeling than I had 2~3 years ago. I am content, even happy, with the life choices I made. My family and I moved from Europe to South Africa, and while that has made the work side harder, th
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by andruby 3mo ago
Priced at €290 (for Europe) Hardkernel offers an M.2 card with 6 SATA ports for €32. It looks like you could use three of these cards + an M.2 nvme ssd (for boot) to turn this into a massive 18 HDD storage server.
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Odroid-H5 SBC with 4xM2 Slots and 10GbE(hardkernel.com)
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by andruby 3mo ago
Not for crew carrying craft.
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by andruby 4mo ago
Off-load some of them when the valuation is _to the moon_ from AI and then later he'll force shareholders and the board to gift him even more shares then he sold.
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by andruby 4mo ago
Assuming $75B float for SpaceX * S&P500: 0.08% – 0.12% * NASDAQ-100: 0.47% – 0.70% * Russell 1000: 0.1%
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by andruby 4mo ago
They’re not talking about the corporations. They’re talking about the book authors.
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by andruby 4mo ago
What is Caveman mode?
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by andruby 4mo ago
The example you mention is a tricky one, ASML is about as European as it is American. It is heavily subject to US export controls because its machines include US components, US software and US IP. They operate multiple R&D centers and f
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by andruby 4mo ago
You're not the target audience. My parents, in-laws and the schools are the target audience. A reasonably large chunk of the world use a computer for "googling" information and sending/receiving emails. For them, opening
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by andruby 5mo ago
What horrible acronym/concept are those. It seems to be a US thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_zero-emissions_vehicle > In California, PZEVs have their own administrative category for low-emission ve

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