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by bdamm 6d ago
The "hazardous attitudes" study in this report will be gold.
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by bdamm 7d ago
Do you have kids?
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by bdamm 12d ago
Tractor props have the benefit of creating an airstream over the wings which lets you generate lift at lower speeds - this is why leading-edge props are so interesting. Pushers can’t use that bonus feature of the airstream.
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by bdamm 13d ago
I'm pretty excited for the hybrid airplane. Use battery charge to get up to altitude. Hybrid power during cruise and top off the battery with the leftover power. Far less power requirements, far less fuel use, better climb performance,
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by bdamm 13d ago
This is the true reason for watermarking by LLMs. So they don't get mad LLM disease by digesting their own product.
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by bdamm 14d ago
Kind of arrogant no? Linux kernel development mailing lists are producing something immensely valuable with a much clearer impact on economic indicators than your average scientific paper. Comparing them is hard, but it's patently absu
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by bdamm 14d ago
Retrocompomorphism
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by bdamm 21d ago
Indeed, it's just that since truth is both stranger than and has caught up with fiction, the grounds from which Laws of Robotics emerged is so much more fertile and more urgent now. It's absolutely clear that the 3-LoR is never go
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by bdamm 21d ago
Oh how I wish Asimov could be alive to witness today's actual AIs and the cavalier attitude towards his "3 rules". If there is any author doing good work along these lines, actually good writing and not the smoking trash that
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by bdamm 22d ago
Debatable. Optimus will be programmed by watching thousands of YouTube videos and by indexing the entire NEC. It is entirely possible that a single Optimus can be a master welder, electrician, and HVAC technician. What Optimus can't
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by bdamm 26d ago
* The NSA has backdoored core routers of the Internet, to gather traffic and metadata. The metadata is not superficial, but since the Internet is no longer decentralized, the useful surface for spying has moved into the applicaiton domains.
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by bdamm 26d ago
Would Ring be considered a mass surveillance apparatus? Accuweather? Facebook? Google? The Internet?
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by bdamm 26d ago
Personally I agree with the desire for more traffic enforcement, even if it means I personally would suffer because frankly I like driving fast. But as a cyclist who also likes riding fast, and a parent to likes giving freedom to children,
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by bdamm 27d ago
If this work has an implication for cryptography they might want to be anonymous for any number of reasons.
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by bdamm 29d ago
I always thought the Powerwall was undersized, especially when you compare to the cost and capacity of a fixed-mount generator.
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by bdamm 1mo ago
It was never clear to me who showed up first, but I used Delphi first and then tried Visual Basic and was like "Oh! It's here too!"
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by bdamm 2mo ago
My electric mower has lasted longer than the gasoline mower before it, which literally had plastic valves inside the carbeurtator.
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by bdamm 2mo ago
Passkeys on my iPhone works awesome. Too bad for Yubikey. I don't need them any more.
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by bdamm 2mo ago
Just the other day I was creating an ID on a government web site, which offered a list of security questions such as "Title of your favorite movie" or "Someone that you admired as a child" and the answer was not allowed
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by bdamm 2mo ago
Deep dusk will be quite a disco ball.
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by bdamm 2mo ago
Because their economy is almost exclusively oil? Quite a few countries of the world would qualify if that's the case.
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by bdamm 2mo ago
"A modern passenger car" varies widely depending on what locale the reader is in. A passenger car in Jakarta is not at all the same as a passenger car in Los Angeles. Can we just use Kilograms?
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by bdamm 2mo ago
Why do you think that a platform with so many customers as to be industry defining, with dozens of interface options, with a massive feature set, with a global footprint and basically flawless uptime requirements, could be kept running by t
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by bdamm 2mo ago
If that was good business then presumably the brand could have done it at some point during their long slow decline?
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by bdamm 2mo ago
Expect an error but this will depend on the brand. "Smudging" is a common trick. Just dab some face oil on the lens, just enough so it can't get detail but not so much that the system can tell there's a covering.
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by bdamm 3mo ago
Because the "other side" is busy trying to anthropomorphise AI into solving the trolly problem, while being mostly clueless about the actual problems. They'll show up after the fact and whinge endlessly about how they should
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by bdamm 3mo ago
How? Training and operating models seems to naturally focus on those willing to invest quite significantly in these operations.
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by bdamm 3mo ago
It's remarkable how often I hear about brilliant products being released by asshole personalities who were hard to work with, but still stayed engaged. The other two extremes tend not to produce much of interest; the committee of peopl
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by bdamm 3mo ago
Which just goes to show that technical chops and business chops are entirely unrelated. I think John Carmack did alright anyway.
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by bdamm 3mo ago
Actually yes. Pretty much most credit cards are in fact JavaCards. Weird but true, and quite obscure.

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