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by colinng 2y ago
It is an amazing feat and can put the US on excellent footing. But I’m not sure it is a fair comparison because the Space Shuttle also returned a crew with each launch. Starlink can afford to pay the cost of lost cargo, or diminished fuel r
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by colinng 2y ago
I think the tone of the article was really strong and, to me, it seemed biased because they repeated multiple times that “the buyers only care about looks.” A more in-depth article might point to the CyberLandr, and until I went 4x4 camping
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by colinng 2y ago
We don’t need to recreate Bell Labs. We have SpaceX and Starlink - that’s where innovation is happening. Compare Dishy to the Starlink Mini (which can run off a power bank), or the first live-feed (no radio blackout period) on orbital re-en
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by colinng 2y ago
Exactly what happened to me. These bastards planned that. That’s why they’re one of the richest companies in the world, because they knew how to trip their customers into buying shit they didn’t need to buy. And pricing RAM and Storage way,
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by colinng 2y ago
Don’t forget - they solder in the flash too even though there is no technical reason to do so. Unless “impossibly far profit margin” is a technical requirement.
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by colinng 2y ago
They will maliciously comply. They might even have 4 sockets for the 512-bit wide systems. But then they’ll keep the SSD devices soldered - just like they’ve done for a long time. Or cover them with epoxy, or rig it with explosives. That’ll
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by colinng 2y ago
I tested Llama-3-70b-8192 on Groq against ChatGPT 4, and while Groq ran it super fast, it hallucinated one answer, and didn’t get the logic correct on another question. So, ChatGPT 4 is still more reliable for my use case. But if I were to
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by colinng 2y ago
If only all tech news were this way. Then I’d waste no cycles on hot garbage.
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by colinng 2y ago
They’re really light and last a long time, but are not rechargeable.
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by colinng 2y ago
The time value of money is always more than inflation. The classic simple example is that if you need food today, the money for food is worth much more today than it is worth a year from now. Therefore to ask someone to surrender money toda
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by colinng 2y ago
If we had a better Blue Bin system it might work. Remove tags at home and place in compartment of Blue Bin, and at the recycling centre they get sorted out and sent back to the retailers. But if we really could scale RFID tag production dow
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by colinng 2y ago
Sam Bankman-Fried defrauded people. He didn’t intentionally create a digital black market, where everything from hit jobs, narcotics, poison, weapons, and human trafficking could (and were) conducted. And since there are many well-known mar
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by colinng 2y ago
Scam Bankrun-Fraud? Couldn’t happen to a nicer person.
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by colinng 2y ago
The on-his-way-out CEO is David Calhoun. Accountant. https://www.boeing.com/company/bios/david-l-calhoun > Calhoun has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Virginia Tech.
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by colinng 2y ago
Are we reading the same sources? The ex-CEO, David Calhoun, has a degree in accounting. https://www.boeing.com/company/bios/david-l-calhoun > Calhoun has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Virginia Tech.
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by colinng 2y ago
So someone whose dream job is to make airplanes that are innovative, fuel efficient, safe, and long-lasting and economical - goes to… accounting school?
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by colinng 3y ago
Yes, the Pinecil (both versions) are awesome, and if you buy several and split the shipping with friends, affordable. But a majority of the work was done by the RalimOS project (firmware for several soldering irons). In the end, the input i
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by colinng 3y ago
Ditto Lucifer and 2 other variants. Does it have the same ring as, “all right, Satan” or is it actually a nice name in Iceland?
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by colinng 3y ago
Gosh I am not a fan of long articles that read like a mystery novel.
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by colinng 3y ago
Software has its absolutes - and those are often good things. Security, ability for backup, redundancy, scalability. We value these things. Whether those attributes are applied toward authoritarianism or freedom is largely up to the develop
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by colinng 3y ago
Thanks for the article. But then it points to the Betacel, USA 1970s (60 pacemakers implanted by 1973). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betacel I’m not trying to dismiss a wonderful invention, I just want journalistic
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by colinng 3y ago
How is this the “world’s first micro-atomic energy battery”? Didn’t the USA do this in 1966? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238#Nuclear_powere...
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by colinng 3y ago
Ditto on this. I want to not buy an A100 for $20k, or even consumer GPUs, but the truth is that for LLM inference, to run large models like LLaMa2 70b with INT4 quantization so it could fit A100: 1248 TOPS MI250: 362.1 TOPS M3 Max: 18 TOPS
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by colinng 3y ago
It also led to MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue) and playing God for the therapist. Edit: then again, don’t out the therapist. I don’t want anyone getting sued for libel. The world has enough problems.
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by colinng 3y ago
Neat! An upgradable laptop made with high quality materials! I know nobody asked for my opinion, but I saw the [Ethernet card]( https://frame.work/ca/en/products/ethernet-expansion-card ) and was a bit sad. How
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by colinng 3y ago
Apple makes some great hardware and software. But here are things I think they drag their feet on: 1. iPhone on Lightning. USB-C is everywhere now, the only charging port on every MacBook for years, and on iPad Pro. 2. macOS not on iPad Pro
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by colinng 4y ago
I have both the H2 and H2+, and it runs fine off 12V. I have tested the system down to 11V, and possibly lower. The 12V or higher is required only for the 12V rail used power 3.5” SATA drives directly from the board.
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by colinng 4y ago
Just curious, what were you trying to sell? Were any of the items prohibited, or something that might run afoul of some law somewhere? For example, certain computers or game consoles cannot be sold in certain markets (export restrictions),
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by colinng 4y ago
Next news article: r/WallStreetBets followers spend lifesavings on underwear in hopes of propping up economy.
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by colinng 5y ago
Apologies in advance if I’m mistaken, but isn’t your Constitution supposed to protect your right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?” How does one have life and liberty if they have a crushing burden of medical bills? More simp

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