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by gattr 5d ago
I think we can all agree that "use humans for raw energy" is a really stupid idea, and sounds exactly like someone dumbed stuff down. FFS, a small Rickover fission reactor the size of a van (1950s tech) produces the same amount of
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by gattr 5d ago
Simplifying from memory, light propagation in medium can be treated on two levels (some phenomena require the 2nd, quantum, level): - classical (Maxwell): electrons in the medium oscillate out of phase in response to the incident wave; this
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by gattr 7d ago
I wouldn't say "violence", rather, an opportunity to demolish something on (good) purpose. Same reason children will be glued to the window if workers outside are going at it with jackhammers, or, better yet, an excavator is
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by gattr 9d ago
A custom 3D-printed user-matched disposable nozzle, perhaps? One could carry a handful in his pocket and don before the act.
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by gattr 1mo ago
I also loved the video. But I'd think if one wanted to deploy "simple" mechanical projectile weapons at scale, pneumatic launchers would be easier, more compact and more reliable (way less cool-looking and operating, though!)
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by gattr 2mo ago
What a coincidence: just earlier today I noticed that normal search with "Tools/Past month" does not in fact filter by date (last time I used it some weeks ago, it had always worked fine). A temporary bug, I hope.
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by gattr 2mo ago
Oh, I thought it's about AI companies asking people to wear those little head-mounted cameras, in hopes of gathering data to train future robot-electricians.
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by gattr 2mo ago
On a related note, there's an annoying mistake in one of the Fatalities in "Mortal Kombat 1": Liu Kang teleports with his opponent into outer space, summons a black hole with a snap of his fingers, and throws the poor sod in.
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by gattr 2mo ago
I watched a related Chris Cappy video the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RBY1cY-GF8 > Poland's elite GROM commandos have become legendary (...) in this episode, we explore (...) the covert war between P
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by gattr 2mo ago
That ship has sailed, no? Plenty of code for voice generation out there already, you'd basically have to ban general computing.
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by gattr 2mo ago
Very similarly, the movie "Screamers" (I liked it more than Dick's original novelette). Hopefully, no one will decide to really seed a continent/planet with autonomous "oh, we can control them just fine" killer
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by gattr 2mo ago
Remember the "Black Mirror" episode "Metalhead"? (If not, check it out, no spoilers here.) I'm afraid we'll see something like this in the not-too-distant future. Now, a squad of soldiers, or even just one expe
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by gattr 3mo ago
Good news, amateur astronomy is still done on web forums - they're the place for newcomers to acquire knowledge, and for technical discussions among the more advanced. (Modern social media tend to be rather used for outreach to the lay
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by gattr 3mo ago
Could a physicist comment on this? I've been reading on the CNO cycle [1], where it says neutrinos produced in the beta-decay steps can have any share of the resulting energy. Does it mean the Sun is shrouded in a rarefied cloud of suc
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by gattr 3mo ago
Remember that scene from "Men in Black" where K watches surveillance video feed of his ex? In the movie it was meant to be wistful and cute, I guess. Now that such systems are getting closer to reality, you realize the potential f
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by gattr 4mo ago
Nitpick: in Greek mythology it's Artemis and Aphrodite. Diana and Venus are Roman equivalents.
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by gattr 5mo ago
Not that big of a problem, right? Just put a lot of power sockets throughout the workspace. Robot gets to its work station, can be tethered and recharge when it's operating there. Similarly in a household.
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by gattr 5mo ago
And/or provide a baseline free tier, corresponding to how much a typical human user would at most push/clone etc. They have pre-LLM statistics on that.
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by gattr 5mo ago
In other words, just as they did in "Rob Roy": "My factor will contact Your Grace's factor..."
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by gattr 5mo ago
My classmate kept his Amiga 1200 a bit longer! ...eventually he got a PC with Pentium 60 MHz.
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by gattr 5mo ago
I haven't played the game, but I like to have Baldur's Gate 3 soundtrack in the background sometimes (can be found on YT).
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by gattr 6mo ago
Delta-v relative to the Orion is probably not that big, so I guess the waste will also circle the Moon and follow the crew into Earth's atmosphere.
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by gattr 6mo ago
It's Bighetti actually ([1]). [1] https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Head
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by gattr 6mo ago
Yes, sorry! I like them both a lot.
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by gattr 6mo ago
I don't think it's a best example. MMAcevedo is about running a real human mind on a different substrate (for science, for labor, or to torture it for fun a million times, I guess, by a bored teenager who got the image from torren
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by gattr 8mo ago
Maybe a more formal "with extreme prejudice" would have worked.
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by gattr 8mo ago
I have the same Dell (since 2016) and love it. But eventually I transitioned last year to a 27" 4K monitor. Still almost as sharp (KDE at 175% works fine for me).
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by gattr 9mo ago
I concur; just last month I started with `wgpu` (the Rust bindings for WebGPU) after exclusively using OpenGL (since 2000, I think? via Delphi 2). Feels a bit verbose at first (with all the pipelines/bindings setup), but once you have
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by gattr 9mo ago
I had such blocks as well. For a recent take on this, I can recommend Kapla, typically come in a large (a couple 100s) box of skinny rectangular cuboids. I had fun doing, ahem, preliminary testing, before gifting them to my niece.
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by gattr 10mo ago
Once we develop more efficient propulsion (fission, fusion, light sails, etc.), would you like for someone to catch the Voyagers and bring them back into a museum? I myself am not sure. (Perhaps a "live museum" instead, keep them

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