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by dark_star 2mo ago
https://www.forth.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Starting-FO...
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by dark_star 1y ago
The (also awesome) writer Jo Walton wrote a great celebration of Ursula Le Guin's life. She wrote in part: She widened the space of science fiction with what she wrote. She got in there with a crowbar and expanded the field and made it
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by dark_star 2y ago
Would you be willing to post the llm.py code? (Perhaps in a Github gist?)
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by dark_star 2y ago
This doesn't address the ecosystem problems and costs imposed by climate change - but for crops and drinking water, it looks like fresh water created by solar powered desalinization is going to be very inexpensive in the future. [1][2]
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by dark_star 2y ago
It depends on what you are thinking critically about - what is your frame of mind. You don't see a viable business here. But SpaceX does see several possibilities. One is supplying a US Moon base and US space stations. Since Starship&#
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by dark_star 2y ago
It's not nonsense. To refuel Starship to land on the Moon like the NASA HLS program proposes [1], it will take 16 Starship Tanker flights [2][3]. So 16 launch, transfer propellant, land, refuel and refill propellant on the ground, and
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by dark_star 2y ago
Apple | https://apple.com | AIML – Sr Full-stack Software Engineer, Data Operations | FULLTIME | ONSITE / HYBRID (3 days in office, 2 at home) | Seattle, WA, USA https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details&#x2
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by dark_star 2y ago
More realistic and detailed information is available here: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/02/a-new-era-for-the... China may be behind the US, Taiwan, and Europe in semiconductor manufacturing, but they ar
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by dark_star 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240607011424/https://www.theat...
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by dark_star 3y ago
Check out Jeffrey "JB" Straubel's new company, Redwood Materials[1][2]. They recycle lithium-ion batteries. He was Tesla's former chief technology officer. They are essentially a lithium mine that's using a very hig
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by dark_star 3y ago
Twitter says "@maceip can't be messaged." I don't know what you mean by fc. What's another way to reach you?
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by dark_star 3y ago
Apple | AIML Senior Full Stack Software Engineer | Full-time | Seattle ONSITE hybrid (3 days/week in office) https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200519929/aiml-sr-full-... Our team builds iOS apps, back
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by dark_star 3y ago
> But the value is not that we don't need stack overflow, it is that we don't need as many programmers. I'll believe that when I see it. I lead a team of AI-boosted developers, I'm hiring as fast as I can, and all my
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by dark_star 3y ago
Then there is the Tamagotchi Singularity inspired by an XKCD comic [1]. It is a server full of emulated tamagotchis [2] that interact with each other in a simulator, all running code dumped by Natalie's technique. I'm impressed by
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by dark_star 3y ago
Wow. Good to see this here. At age 17, having an Apple ][+ and this book got me started on the path to being an electronics engineer.
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by dark_star 3y ago
Direct link to paper with the X-ray images of the bee nests: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001670612...
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by dark_star 3y ago
The quote is talking about emulating the white oppressors, who oppressed people to gain wealth and power.
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by dark_star 3y ago
From _A Wizard of Earthsea_, the first book, near the end: And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true se
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by dark_star 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230716210954/https://duskos.or...
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by dark_star 3y ago
Comment from Tory Bruno, CEO of ULA: "Every engine, elex box, COPV, etc, gets an Acceptance Test (ATP) as they come off the line to verify good workmanship. (The one time Qual verifies the design. BE4 is qualified). The BE4's o
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by dark_star 3y ago
From the Wikipedia article: At 07:55 UTC, when Vostok 1 was still 7 km (4.3 mi) from the ground, the hatch of the spacecraft was released, and two seconds later Gagarin was ejected. At 2.5 km (8,200 ft) altitude, the main parachute was depl
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by dark_star 4y ago
An indoor marketplace with shelf space you can lease is actually the business model of most large grocery chains. [1] Food manufacturers rent shelf space to display and sell their products. But these stores are run by corporations, not by t
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by dark_star 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230109122455/https://www.newyo...
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by dark_star 4y ago
Practically speaking, "farther ahead" may mean different things to different people. I tried to find a list of boards, systems on a chip (SoCs), or CPUs that Genode supports. There's no master list [1] but you can go digging
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by dark_star 4y ago
In my opinion NuttX is like a secret weapon. RTOS, good hardware support for many boards and CPUs, and a very high performance TCP/IP stack that can be interrupted by hard realtime tasks. It's also growing in popularity now– I wou
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by dark_star 4y ago
Maybe choose it if your embedded board, system on a chip, or CPU is supported. NuttX has a lot of supported boards, SoCs, and CPUs, and they differ from Zephyr's supported hardware. [1] NuttX supported platforms: https://nut
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by dark_star 4y ago
Software development is creative work. Creative insight can come anywhere, any time. Better ideas can make difficult things easy. And make the impossible– possible. So the most important thing on a software team (or really any team creating
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by dark_star 4y ago
Bunnie Huang is working on Betrusted [1], a communications device that is designed to be secure from state actors. The first step is Precursor (about: [2], purchase:[3]) the hardware and OS that will be the platform for the communications d
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by dark_star 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220610131709/https://www.econo...
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by dark_star 4y ago
In the Art of War Denma Translation (excellent BTW!) the text says: And so the method of employing the military— When ten to one, surround them. When five to one, attack them. When two to one, do battle with them. When matched, then divide

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