kevinkeller

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by kevinkeller 2mo ago
> I don't understand the huge upside for Starlink outside of Africa or India, where they have <.1% the money to spend on such things. India is rapidly expanding fiber internet connectivity, even in rural areas: https:/&#x2F
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by kevinkeller 4mo ago
Micron has exited the consumer business, so this is only till stocks last: https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-deta...
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by kevinkeller 2y ago
Thanks for the paper link!
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by kevinkeller 2y ago
Likely due to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment
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by kevinkeller 2y ago
I love this type of articles where we can reconstruct what happened so long ago just based on careful observations. Some other instances I've come across: * The K-Pg extinction event that wiped off dinosaurs had the impact it did becau
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by kevinkeller 2y ago
If PETM was due to large scale use of hydrocarbons, there should be evidence of depletion in the strata, right? For example, currently not all sources are uniformly exploited -- some coal seams and oilfields are all but depleted, others are
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by kevinkeller 2y ago
I have been doing some late-night wikipedia binges on this matter, so I consider myself qualified to answer. > Is there a comprehensive list of all the planets, dwarf planets, moons, etc. that we suspect may have liquid water? Most large
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by kevinkeller 2y ago
Largest ocean in our solar system isn't even on Earth, apparently: > ... Ganymede’s ocean is even bigger than Europa’s—and might be the largest in the entire solar system. “The Ganymede ocean is believed to contain more water than t
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by kevinkeller 2y ago
> I don't want to lose data just because a cosmic ray flipped a bit somewhere. If you have disks set up in RAID 1 or RAID 6, would you still lose data though?
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by kevinkeller 2y ago
Yes, this model works in many cases. For example, ask the (better, costlier) Claude Opus to generate high-quality prompts, which get fed into (worse, cheaper) Claude Sonnet.
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by kevinkeller 2y ago
The NPU in the Snapdragon SoC used by the Windows Surface laptops was quoted to be ~ 40 trillion ops/s (TOPS). Nvidia 4070 Ti has roughly the same performance: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-4070
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by kevinkeller 2y ago
These AI assistants (Rabbit R1, Humane AI Pin), as they exist now, probably can be replaced by apps. However, if you give them the benefit of the doubt and think about what they're supposed to be (or eventually will be), owning the pla
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by kevinkeller 3y ago
Have each person create their own account, and share nodes: https://tailscale.com/kb/1084/sharing/
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by kevinkeller 4y ago
What made you switch from Google Fi?
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by kevinkeller 4y ago
> Lascaux where they closed off the cave completely and only allow tourists near the modern reconstruction. Video by Tom Scott, that talks about the similar Chauvet cave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zJbi9YatcA Poign
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by kevinkeller 4y ago
I think it's because of a sense of ownership and belonging (or lack thereof). People who made the art in Lascaux are, in a distant sense, ancestors of the present-day French. Most of Australia is of British ancestry, transplanted in th
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by kevinkeller 4y ago
I thought MPC-BE was the spiritual successor of HC. Good to see it's still alive.
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by kevinkeller 5y ago
Speaking of different climate in North Africa/Middle East: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period As recently as 5,000 years ago, it was a much wetter place.
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by kevinkeller 5y ago
"Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods, And Meaning" https://archive.org/details/MathematicsItsContentsMethodsAnd...
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by kevinkeller 5y ago
> we are the only rocky planet that has both plate tectonics and a natural satellite We have the oceans to thank for plate tectonics. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/253303432_Are_Ocean...
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by kevinkeller 5y ago
I too read Why We Sleep , and found it quite interesting. Then I found out that there is some controversy regarding its claims. Previous discussions on HN: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850 * https:/&#x
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by kevinkeller 5y ago
> another downside with auto-type is that not all websites put their full names in the browser title bar so auto-type won't show you your related passwords in some cases. to fix that you can install a browser extension that puts the
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by kevinkeller 5y ago
Is it possible to run the laptop directly off AC power, bypassing the battery? Alternatively, is it possible to cap the battery charging at, say, 60-80%? Since one of the key aspects of the laptop is the longevity and serviceability of the
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by kevinkeller 5y ago
> According to the myth of the Klamath Indians, Llao, the chief of the Below World, standing on Mt Mazama, was battling Skell, the chief of the Above World, who stood on Mt Shasta in California, about a hundred miles away (Clark 1953).
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by kevinkeller 5y ago
> Ukrainian Folk Tales I happen to have one of those! It's a Kannada translation by Raduga. The surreal artwork is etched into my memory still. https://imgur.com/a/Qs1ZWF8
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by kevinkeller 6y ago
You are probably correct, the timeline for India in the same page shows that IPv6 usage (which was previously stagnant) started growing sometime in mid-2016. Which is when Jio started onboarding customers from the general public (they previ
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by kevinkeller 6y ago
The regulation will also benefit other smaller players, no? For example, Tata Cliq, Snapdeal.
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by kevinkeller 6y ago
> paid services go to @paid.mydomain.tld, social logins go to @social.mydomain.tld etc Any specific reason to do this over the usual way (paypal@mydomain.tld, twitter@mydomain.tld)? How are you benefitting from the extra hierarchy?
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by kevinkeller 6y ago
>Azure can even configure mutual authentication between the LB & the underlying servers You can achieve a similar effect in AWS, by declaring only the LB's security group as the source in servers' security group ingress rul
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by kevinkeller 6y ago
Does this still work if folks are authenticated via federation/SAML instead of as IAM users?

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