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by jp42 3mo ago
Meanwhile Starlink and Starshield: Hold my beer ;-)
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by jp42 4mo ago
I believe this will get solved once agent protocol is adopted widespread.
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by jp42 5mo ago
anecdata: The responses of grok on X in my language are really good. the tone, sarcasm, level of "vulgarity" in response is so accurate that it seem its written by human
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by jp42 1y ago
May be when robots truly arrived. We don't have to work and we get to spend more time with our kids.
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by jp42 1y ago
Slightly tangent. At some point in future I can imagine humanoid robots will be doing this job. Of course, the robots need to be super reliable before we hand over the our kids
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by jp42 1y ago
Apple notes app works well for me. I just keep top 3 things to do everyday. not to me mention these top 3 are for everything - personal work and everything else. just top 3 things. that's it.
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by jp42 1y ago
In undergrad(around 2005) we used to have a COBOL lab, most of the assignments were pretty much add/update/delete types. A friend of mine found COBOL so boring, in order to keep it interesting he wrote COBOL program for brothel(no
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by jp42 2y ago
Well I did not even bring Elon into my original post. What I wrote is true regardless of whether its starlink or some other constellation. e.g satphones are routinely used across the world in conflict/insurgency areas. Starlink is alre
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by jp42 2y ago
why i am being downvoted for this :confused:
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by jp42 2y ago
Internet shutdown typically happens during riots/ violent protests. Starlink makes "internet shutdown" impotent. Though Starlink has to follow country's laws and actually shutdown the internet. Most if not all protest ar
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by jp42 2y ago
population size? imo it makes huge difference in how effective you can govern.
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by jp42 2y ago
Do it! I am waiting for my 7 month old to become big enough to be ready for 6 hour drive. I plan to make it annual ritual to visit Starbase with kids.
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by jp42 2y ago
if you can, visit Starbase. I can't believe its so easy and you can see those huge rockets from so close. No permission of anything needed you just drive to there.
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by jp42 2y ago
In recent India's general election. A deepfake video of a leading politician costed a massive vote shift and they almost lost an election. The damage was done by the time they have clarified it is fake.
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by jp42 2y ago
even if we assume you are comment is correct. Lets extrapolate what happens next. talented team, biggest compute among all competitors and CEO who is hell bent on winning the race. imo that is the reason it is big deal.
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by jp42 2y ago
30 years ago, no one in my native place has seen telephone. Now every single person young and old are connected to the internet, conduct banking and other transaction via phone and many many other things. Many unimaginable things happened i
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by jp42 2y ago
I had theory long time ago that booking hotel or airlines tickets from mac used to be more expensive than windows. Many of my friend also experienced as well. Its just theory so don't know if others had similar experience.
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by jp42 2y ago
The Making of Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. Its not about one people but a project, Manhattan Project. One of my most favorite book.
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by jp42 2y ago
I wonder how cheating problem could be solved? A cheap multi camera system + software, that can be quickly installed at candidates location to watch interviewing candidate. This can be sent by employer before interviews. its cheap enough th
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by jp42 2y ago
anecdata - I am Indian and on h1b. Intel hired Accenture folks, they just put more people with no experience, it took more time to train them than doing stuff ourselves. Another instance, Intel gave tens of millions to do something that few
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by jp42 2y ago
here more such things from Dan Rasky (nasa scientist) about his experience with spacex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMLDAgDNOhk
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by jp42 2y ago
"Those satellite photographs -- the landsat photographs -- are so darn good that when they re fully enhanced by computer, we can actually tell how high the waves are out in the middle of the Pacific; we can tell what the temperature of
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by jp42 2y ago
This!
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by jp42 2y ago
100% agree on pay. Also Intel is ossified, there is less and less team where you are held accountable. Empire building is rampant. One of the fundamental thing missing is vision and how each team is relate to that vision.
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by jp42 2y ago
I wonder what stopping three letter agencies to secretly push for keyboard manufacturers in such way that each keystroke has unique sound and it becomes easier to detect keystrokes.
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by jp42 2y ago
Over the time I can see my dad getting that feeling. He is 76, it took him years to make peace with that feeling. Apparently it's unfortunate reality that we all have to go through it.
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by jp42 2y ago
dumb question. I can understand LLM can be used for disinformation as it can generate text/image at scale. can you explain how it can do large scale surveillance?
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by jp42 2y ago
I am one of the few who is on the fence. This comment motivates me to give it try to this paper. Thanks ImageXav!
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by jp42 2y ago
almost always I really liked the book when a friend recommended it or i stumble upon online thread/conversation where somebody recommended a book. I rarely liked any book that was recommended from some recommender platform like goodrea
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by jp42 2y ago
This may sound troll post, but i assure you its not, I'm genuinely curious. Can someone currently in USA on h1b or F1 but didn't get selected into lottery go to Mexico, enter USA illegally like many others these days. Register him

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