apendleton

6 ms·

1.
by apendleton 6mo ago
Zipcodes are not great for reliably describing locations. They're collections of multiple postal delivery routes, and that's it. There's no guarantee that any given zipcode lies within a single city, or a single state, or tha
2.
by apendleton 10mo ago
I think they get to that a couple of paragraphs later: > The idea was good, as were many elements of the execution, but there were also problems: some of its statistical methods needed more work, some of its approaches were not optimal,
3.
by apendleton 11mo ago
> The reason for cost overruns is simply because NPPs are one-off products But there's no fundamental reason they _have_ to be one-off products. They just historically have been for at least partly regulatorily motivated reasons: be
4.
by apendleton 11mo ago
In terms of cost of materials to build a reactor, sure, that seems right. But most of the cost of fission is dealing with its regulatory burden, and fusion seems on track to largely avoid the worst of that. It seems conceivable that it ends
5.
by apendleton 11mo ago
Oh for sure, I'm not claiming that CFS (or Tokamak Energy or Type One or whoever else) will for sure succeed, or if they do, that they've already solved all the problems that will need solving to do so. My only assertion/pred
6.
by apendleton 11mo ago
> It would require a technological breakthrough that we have not yet imagined. Maybe, but not necessarily. The necessary breakthrough might have been high-temperature superconducting magnets, in which case not only has it been imagined,
7.
by apendleton 1y ago
It wasn't Airbus yet, so more like: Bombardier had to sale a controlling stake to Airbus to gain access to its Georgia production facilities.
8.
by apendleton 1y ago
> What is the alternative Other markets in the US are generally energy + capacity markets -- you get paid both for what you actually provide and for your ability to provide a certain level of power, whereas Texas is an energy-only market
9.
by apendleton 2y ago
As have Rocket Lab, Firefly, Astra (RIP probably), Stoke, Relativity, Spin Launch if that counts, and probably others.
10.
by apendleton 2y ago
The whole thing that differentiates this company from the dozen other seemingly-interchangeable new-space entrants is the novel technology they've developed to facilitate reuse. Even if it were the case that there isn't a market f
11.
by apendleton 2y ago
I'm not sure the goal of this competition, in and of itself, is AGI. They point to current LLMs emerging from transformers, which in turn emerged from a general basket of building blocks from machine-translation research (attention, et
12.
by apendleton 2y ago
Intent on whose part, though? Like, supposing in arguendo that the company's goal was to make the voice sound indistinguishable from SJ's in Her, but they wanted to maintain plausible deniability, so instead cast as wide a net as
13.
by apendleton 2y ago
I think this is overthinking it. ChatGPT is billed as a general-purpose question-answerer, as are its competitors. A regular user shouldn't have to care how it works, or know anything about context or temperature or whatever. They ask
14.
by apendleton 2y ago
It wouldn't be 0 dollars, though; the majority of their users are apparently outside the US. So the question is: how does the amount you could get by selling a US-inclusive Tiktok compare the potential future earnings of a US-free Tikt
15.
by apendleton 2y ago
If you want to call from Go into Rust, you can declare any Rust function as `extern "C"` and then call it the same way you would call C from Go. Not sure about going the other way.
16.
by apendleton 2y ago
If it's any consolation, I'm pretty sure the leading edge is the blunt one, not the sharp one.
17.
by apendleton 2y ago
If you're building a submarine, you don't have to call it a "future submarine" until it submerges; people understand that if you say "I'm currently building a submarine," it has yet to go under water, but
18.
by apendleton 2y ago
If SAFs are to be economically viable at all, they'll almost certainly need to be able to run in existing, unmodified engines. So: all engines will be able to run on some amount of SAFs anywhere for 0% to 100%, as will this new engine.
19.
by apendleton 3y ago
They did demonstrate this during their Starship-only bellyflop/landing tests a couple of years ago. This wasn't in space, though, obviously, and wasn't after an extended coast period. So... we know they can relight them under
20.
by apendleton 3y ago
Orbit is mostly about speed, not about height. Going straight up and down doesn't count, even if you pass the height that some orbital vehicles attain. This vehicle is actually going orbital speed, but not quite orbital height (or rath
21.
by apendleton 3y ago
Yes, the companies targeted here aren't property managers themselves, they sell software to property managers, and have ended up providing services to many ostensibly-competing managers and building owners in some metro areas, who coll
22.
by apendleton 3y ago
They broke the story, so I think if anyone else is carrying it, it will be framed as "new report says X" rather than their own independent reporting. But Michael Weiss has written for the Daily Beast, New Lines Magazine, CNN, etc.
23.
by apendleton 3y ago
Here's an article: https://newrepublic.com/article/179267/recycling-doesnt-work... The gist: similar to Big Tobacco, etc., internally with the plastics industry, there seems to have been a much greater degree
24.
by apendleton 3y ago
At least in a US context, the proximity advantage is often less about line losses than about the political realities of building transmission. We have way less transmission in the US than we're expected to need as we electrify, and the
25.
by apendleton 3y ago
Yes, the gist is that in a fusion device, you've got a chain reaction where the splitting uranium or plutonium is making neutrons, and those neutrons strike other uranium or plutonium, which makes more neutrons, etc. But you have a ver
26.
by apendleton 3y ago
This is solvable with parking permit programs. Make street parking in those surrounding neighborhoods resident-only. And then people considering living in the "underparked" neighborhood who need parking will have no alternative bu
27.
by apendleton 3y ago
Just restrict who can park on the street. Then if people want to park a car, they'll need a residence with a space, and if there's demand for residences with parking spaces, developers will build them, minimums or not. The issue w
28.
by apendleton 3y ago
I think the value proposition they're offering is a carefully integrated system where everything has been thoroughly engineered/tested to work with everything else, down to writing custom firmware to guarantee that it's all s
29.
by apendleton 3y ago
Honestly it's probably not some kind of grand scheme. My guess is that whatever engineers or product managers decided to add the Meta Pixel in the first place had never heard of the Video Privacy Protection Act, and either didn't
30.
by apendleton 3y ago
I went to Mexico City, and this museum, for the first time this summer, and agree with the post: it's really an impressive collection, and certainly more than we could do in a day. This plus the Templo Mayor site in the middle of the c

More ›