condensedcrab

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Remote work – not AI – has sidelined recent college graduates, research finds(npr.org)
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by condensedcrab 5mo ago
It's not so much whether someone has hit anyone - speeding laws exist for a good reason to protect other drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, etc. There's a good reason that school zones are 25 mph for survivability in the case of a ca
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by condensedcrab 5mo ago
Contract terms can vary greatly depending on the situation and the company you’re working with. Early/frequent payment terms are always good to have but you may not always have the leverage for it depending on where you’re at as a cont
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by condensedcrab 6mo ago
At long distances the small cross section of the drone requires tight focusing (expensive optics) or a high power, preferably pulsed laser (expensive laser) or both. Not impossible but many times more expensive than the drone
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by condensedcrab 7mo ago
It's interesting progression from Gas Town, but it seems like the bottleneck is still translating ideas into actionable input/output frameworks for various agentic tasks. Also there's the issue of how to identify systems-inte
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by condensedcrab 7mo ago
The level of price discrimination enabled by the many middlemen of the US insurance system is insane any and all standards. If our groceries and cars were priced the same people would be protesting in the streets… the author notes how much
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by condensedcrab 8mo ago
But apologists would say that putting the data centers in LEO would mean that latency to a client via a ground station wouldn't be much more than ~50 ms extra. At least LATAM and Africa would be getting a good deal out of it with bette
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by condensedcrab 8mo ago
> SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time informati
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by condensedcrab 8mo ago
That seems to be the preferred path for many devs on Windows - unless you can get your hands on a Mac at work WSL is much better/easier. Most non-software companies may not even offer a Linux laptop.
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by condensedcrab 8mo ago
Probably same reason most folks who are capable of running Linux don't stay on Ubuntu, etc.
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
I’d try applying to in office roles too - I suspect that most places have a soft hiring freeze regardless of work status. At least, that way you know it’s not the remote work portion that’s keeping you from a job. I’m in the US and everyone
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
Airlines should recognize that middle seats are the lowest tier of service and adjust expectations accordingly. Not to mention on long haul!
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
I think that the author has a point that LLMs need to make sense (and money) in the context of products. Google’s Gemini integration from a consumer standpoint seems to be doing it right, even though Gemini on the developer side could mean
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
Even small divergence angles add up if they’re trying to intercept at visual ranges outside of traditional munitions. That being said, probably ~10kW/m^2 is enough to overheat or disable a UAV
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
That’s true. It’s more of a policy issue that’s like carbon credits… nice on paper but a big nothing burger. Look at F1 and Porsche talking about sustainable synthetic fuels. When you compare round trip efficiencies and economics it makes s
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
The density required for solar is also much lower - the coordination between different land parcels and routing power and getting easements increases the time required vs. on prem gas turbines.
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
Gas plants are not bad… but imagine 400 MW of gas plants in a concentrated area. You’ll always have NOx and SOx by products whenever you’re burning gas.
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
Direct air capture imo can’t escape the scaling problem - when the feedstock has CO2 at ~400 ppm the economics simply won’t work out despite various oil companies backing one off systems around the globe. Capturing CO2 at the source (power
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
From Rafael’s site: https://www.rafael.co.il/system/iron-beam/ 100kW laser is nothing to joke about, but seems a good application for anti drone tasks. Fiber lasers are pretty snazzy.
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
The pricing anchor concept is very intuitive and once you hear about it it’s hard to stop seeing at play.
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
Sure. To be fair, having gone down the path of porting and testing a problem to numba, it might be easier to just jump to Julia if you want to focus on the problem more than the implementation.
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
More so that the 1% have fewer loopholes, not the other way around. Regular folks filing taxes don’t have particularly difficult returns, but if the government already knows what you owe/get back, why waste everyone’s time? Obviously d
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
I mostly work with arrays in numpy but sometimes I get stuck with a problem that needs a for loop - only two things I can think of are parallelize the for loop or use numba/jax JIT functions and GPU acceleration. Both don’t just work o
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
Tax avoidance for most W2 workers is basically impossible without committing blatant fraud. Tax avoidance for the 1% has many more loopholes to exploit (depreciation, etc). Simplify the tax code!
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
LLM “personas” seem somewhat useful for tuning output based on need, I.e. senior SWE doing code review on an established codebase vs. vibe coding proof concept demos, but you’re still right… you’ve only narrowed down the set of stochastic o
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
I think that’s where a range extended EV makes plenty of sense, and why I don’t think it needs to be a blanket ban on ICE for pure EV only.
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
Rather disappointing as an environmentalist. But the established freedoms of the car culture and price sensitivity in NA (probably parts of Europe, idk) hard to overcome — “what if I want to road trip though!” That being said, I think Ford
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
Not to mention many companies speedrunning systems of strange and/or perverse incentives with AI adoption. That being said, Welch’s grape juice hasn’t put Napa valley out of business. Human taste is still the subjective filter that LLM
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by condensedcrab 9mo ago
It may just be me, but it seems like digital clocks have been replacing analog clocks long before smartphones. That being said, I’ve enjoyed wearing my analog watch the last few years to tell time instead of having to pull out my phone all
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by condensedcrab 11mo ago
To be fair, the one thing Musk has going for him is bringing funding to opportunities and making the most of it. I wouldn't say that Musk is the only person who could have brought SpaceX and Tesla to where there are now, and certainly

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