hwillis

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by hwillis 11d ago
I use codex daily and a moderately complex plan + a few files is more than enough context to make it blatantly ignore prompts like "stop and ask before adding new layers or data structures"
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by hwillis 19d ago
> Just look at how hard it's been to protest all the new gas plants that came up over the last ~20 years. People have been talking about SMRs being the economic future for over 70 years. It has not happened because it not true.
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by hwillis 19d ago
And a contrasting article from IEEE: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-forgotten-history-of-small-nuc... > Samuel B. Morris, the general manager and chief engineer of Los Angeles’s Department of Water and Power, traveled all
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by hwillis 1mo ago
1. those charges were dismissed 2. the article address that specifically: > The case is an example of Flock cameras being used to arrest a wanted alleged criminal suspected of committing a violent crime. But it is also an example of poli
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by hwillis 2mo ago
dendrites are not really a significant problem in popular batteries. It's associated with lithium metal, vs lithium in normal batteries is in the form of salts. Solid state lets you use metal, which is much more energy dense since yo
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by hwillis 2mo ago
The energy "stored" in the light oil electrolyte of a battery is >10x more than the electrical energy or the energy released by reacting lithium alone. An 18650 battery weighs ~50g and stores ~10 watt-hours. 10 watt-hours is 8
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by hwillis 2mo ago
The time between gpt 2 and 3 was 15 months. The time between gemini robotics 1 and 2 was also 15 months: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gemini/h... The difference between gpt 2 and 3 was
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by hwillis 2mo ago
Scale obviously does not make this more okay; watching many intersections or cell towers is obviously less reasonable than a single intersection or tower. > In comparison: license plates, when in public, are always visible, and very easy
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by hwillis 3mo ago
"some caching gains" is a pretty huge understatement- snipping something out of the middle of the window requires rebuilding the entire context. Thats a shitload of tokens. Afaik messing with the context also pretty reliably degr
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by hwillis 3mo ago
browsers aren't common either. Standards, formats, and interfaces are, which is exactly what WASM is and what this demonstrates. Native apps don't need a common operating system or even a common core like nix. They just need to
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by hwillis 3mo ago
for me the eyes are also showing the unwrapped texture of character's own heads, which is extremely unnerving lol
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by hwillis 7mo ago
Totally missing my point. Say you have bladder pain and chatgpt tells you that is a common indicator of appendicitis. If you go to the doctor and tell them you think you have appendicitis, they will think you are saying your appendix hurts
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by hwillis 7mo ago
We have standards of care for a reason. They are the most basic requirements of testing. Ignoring them is not just being a bad doctor, its unethical treatment. Its the absolute bare minimum of a medical system.
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by hwillis 7mo ago
> I do feel I actually biased the first doctors opinion with my "research." It may feel easy to say doctors should just consider all the options. But telling them an option is worse than just biasing their thinking; they are
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by hwillis 7mo ago
not to mention turning off FSD milliseconds before impact
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by hwillis 7mo ago
> An earth-like planet orbiting a different star would likely have evolved photoreceptor arrangements which match that star instead. No, not really- the limitation is chemical, not evolutionarily-driven. Earth is very well lit in infrar
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by hwillis 7mo ago
> From what I've heard from auto engineers I know, using the battery as part of the structure is not really done. Transfering mechanical stresses to the battery is something you just do not do. This is technically true, but structur
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by hwillis 7mo ago
Molicel's P60 (INR-21700-P60C) weighs 75 grams and can produce almost a horsepower. A 500 horsepower battery weighs less than 42 kg. It stores 12 kWh. Batteries are not heavy, range is heavy. Range is the sacrifice and sports cars
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by hwillis 8mo ago
The earth is actually a pretty big heat source in space. Solar radiation is a point source, so you can orient parallel to the rays and avoid it. The earth takes up about half the sky and is unavoidable. The earth also radiates infrared
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by hwillis 8mo ago
> They don't send repair people into space. There were five separate flights to service the Hubble telescope. It was designed from the beginning to be repaired and upgraded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-12
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by hwillis 8mo ago
The people of Minneapolis are defending their right to accept foreigners into their community. Do you genuinely think those people are being paid? That all those protestors don't genuinely feel that way? That the majority in that st
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by hwillis 8mo ago
> skewing their biases in a way that creates internal chaos and dissent, disrupting institutional order, and sewing distrust of thy neighbor. I don't really have respect for this idea; we do this to ourselves far more effectively th
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by hwillis 8mo ago
Idk that there's much of a privacy sell vs. messages being encrypted. In the end users are just trusting Apple to actually be securing messages; they aren't going to love that they are trusting dozens of strangers instead of te
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by hwillis 11mo ago
Axial flux motors are difficult and expensive to make. Motors need to be made of laminated steel sheets to reduce parasitic eddy currents. The laminations need to be thin in the direction of the direction of the flux. For radial flux moto
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by hwillis 11mo ago
Its freshwater and has to be freshwater because it goes through pipes and/or is evaporated. Corrosion, scaling and fouling are all issues. Even if seawater was easy to use and datacenters were near the shore, it would produce very sal
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by hwillis 11mo ago
Any discussion of aurora which do not mention space tornados: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tornado Is inherently incomplete. Not necessarily because they're needed to explain it, but they do need to be bro
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by hwillis 11mo ago
Pretty unlikely. Solar is built on cheap land with low demand, and if the land isn't sold then the power is free so why wouldn't you sell it? No matter how high the taxes are, free money is free money. Aside from making it to
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by hwillis 11mo ago
That's what claude.md etc are for. If you want it to follow your norms then you have to document them.
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by hwillis 1y ago
Lasers and masers are not inherently collimated or straight lines. The only thing specific to lasers/masers is that all the light is the same wavelength. Beam, parabolic and phased antennas are all very capable of making much tighte
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by hwillis 1y ago
Cruising altitude is ~40k feet or 12 km and the range of the weapon is 2km. The system only works because of all the exposed wiring on quadcopters; everything in a plane is enclosed in a highly conductive aluminum shell and is very well pro

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