msandford

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by msandford 9d ago
That's a great idea, thanks for sharing!
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by msandford 11d ago
This is the same problem as the "AI drives the car until it can't" situation. Feel free to doze off so long as you can wake up and instantly have world class racecar "save the situation" reflexes. Hope isn't
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by msandford 12d ago
My feeling about all the corruption talk is that everyone is at different points on the "oh yeah now I see it" curve. I've noticed that I'm really annoyed at people who are just now getting it as I've been seeing it
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by msandford 16d ago
You know that the usage has gone up something around 1000x since AI right? Nobody outside of actual engineering or engineering adjacent like construction used load bearing up until about 6-12mo ago. Now it's everywhere.
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by msandford 18d ago
Isn't this also more unique since they're trading futures contracts vs whatever a traditional sports bet is? I thought it was kind of a clever end run around the law where taking down their gig would also mean that you have to at
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by msandford 19d ago
It was literally Obama who did the things mentioned that had bipartisan support. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awla...
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by msandford 19d ago
I suspected that this was the case as the president can't just invent new laws on a whim. They have a fair amount of leeway on their interpretation of laws re: directions to the administration on how/when to do things but they can
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by msandford 23d ago
All we have to do is improve it by about 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000x and it might be able to power a phone for 1 second
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by msandford 27d ago
I'm confused about the idea that the project was a net negative. Based on what? River cleanups are happening that weren't happening before. That seems relatively positive. Is the negative that they spent too much money on the tra
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by msandford 27d ago
The title of the article is kind of technically correct but still misleading. It is true that The Ocean Cleanup "we're going to trawl the ocean for plastic" approach isn't working terribly well. But they did pivot to sto
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by msandford 1mo ago
What iron mountain does know is which drives are owned by oss. What they don't know is which drives owned by oss have the station's data on them. Hopefully nothing is comingled and drives are dedicated to a customer. Seemingly onl
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by msandford 1mo ago
It would be nice to see change in debt numbers vs change in deficit numbers. I think only Clinton ran a surplus in the last 30 years.
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by msandford 1mo ago
Yes it's true we shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good. But good also has to be good enough to solve the problem without creating more problems faster than it solves them. It's fine to propose a solution but if people ar
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by msandford 1mo ago
Think about gasoline consumption in an economy. If gas is $1/gal in today's dollars you can make many trips, they're almost free. At $3/gal people do some prudent economizing. At $10/gal people stop driving and take
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by msandford 1mo ago
If you're a market maker? It's the whole job. They're Federally regulated to do precisely that.
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by msandford 1mo ago
If I'm poor I'm still indirectly exposed through the stock market. Employers stock goes down I get fired. Employer has better robotics because of AI? I get fired. Datacenter wants to get built where land is cheap? I get evicted.
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by msandford 1mo ago
How do I get zero direct and indirect stock market exposure, no electricity price impact, no RAM or GPU price impact, etc? I'd love to live in a world where AI firms bidding these things up doesn't affect me but I'm really st
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by msandford 2mo ago
The article concedes that there is an actual base load that's real (so not a myth) but then talks about another sort of related thing and says that's dumb. Okay, but that isn't really base load. That's the other thing. B
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by msandford 2mo ago
Nobody is safe from a nation-state "attack" they'll just go threaten your providers to give up your data. Passwords written on paper are probably safer than a centralized password manager for almost every circumstance other t
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by msandford 2mo ago
I recognize the "esp32 perched on top of a circuit board" from the picture. I've got a couple of those at my house right now, I'm on the second version of one board and the third of another. I think I'm going down
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by msandford 2mo ago
Maybe you didn't read that it was the history of how Britain eradicated rabies? For most of history until the rabies vaccine if you got bit by a dog there was a 5% chance it killed you unless you amputated the affected limb. These are
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by msandford 3mo ago
1. They do a really bad job because you can't get fired 2. My package is delivered late yet again 3. I don't bother calling because the other 8 times I did I wasted an hour, nobody did anything (because nobody can get fired) and I
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by msandford 3mo ago
My problem rate with Fedex or UPS is maybe 0.1% of packages. I can't remember the last time I had a delivery issue. Just this week I had a package that was supposed to be delivered by Monday that lost tracking and didn't show up u
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by msandford 3mo ago
Prior to COVID I seem to remember that the point of a vaccine was so that you didn't get the disease at all. That's where the herd immunity argument comes from. If 85-90% of the herd has immunity (immunity meaning you can't c
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by msandford 3mo ago
Huh that's interesting! I found celery to mostly match my expectations. I used it in a couple of django apps. My only real foot gun was around having to set an EAGER setting for local development or tasks never got executed. How did y
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by msandford 3mo ago
This really seems like a solution in search of a problem. Maybe it would be useful for pro tour riders, but I would guess it'll be banned as not in the spirit of cycle racing. Recumbents would really change the game in the pro tour for
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by msandford 3mo ago
The idea that's been floating around in my head for the last few years is something like "it's being trained by the data produced by people, it's going to have many human flaws as a result"
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by msandford 3mo ago
I always thought it had to do with which way the vessel leaned while turning. Boats will lean into the turn, ships out. I guess that really only tells you if that's a displacement hull or planing hull, though.
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by msandford 3mo ago
And even that's not the hard part of a black start. The plant control is relatively easy. What's hard is grid coordination. All generation and consumption have to be almost perfectly balanced every second of every day. And the pow
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by msandford 3mo ago
The energy density on super capacitors is pretty bad. If you imagine full power 200kW braking for 5 seconds that's 1 mega joule and at a best case 8 watt hours per liter you're going to need 35 liters minimum. Really you probably

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