nick238

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by nick238 1mo ago
Laguna Seca, a fairly famous California race track, was opened in 1957 built out in the middle of nowhere. In 2024, people that moved near the racetrack sued to get it shut down. I know there's some level of caveat emptor when buying a
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by nick238 1mo ago
I'd be more worried about all the leaded gas that GA planes use. Oh no, there are all these old engine that can't use unleaded gas. The hobby pilots just have no choice but to continually dust the surrounding area with lead vapo
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by nick238 2mo ago
Oil, natural gas, corn (for fuel), soybeans (for cattle feed)
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by nick238 2mo ago
The length of a noon-to-noon day (synodic day) varies from +29.9 seconds near the winter solstice to −21.3 seconds near the autumnal equinox[1]. If you account for the seasonal changes, you get closer to the ideal solar day which only devia
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by nick238 3mo ago
From the bubble center plot, I'm guessing that the bubbles are separated on average about a few mm apart? Taking the other comment's guess at face value, you're going from about 2 mm to 20 um, so 2 orders of magnitude. Air (t
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by nick238 3mo ago
This is old (2025). Fortune links to a BBC article, which doesn't really provide any more detail about the testing conditions. I wonder if rubbing a bar of soap on your windows would reflect light and be easier to wash off. Also, were
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Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation(kennethpayne.uk)
206 points by nick238 3mo ago|202 comments
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by nick238 4mo ago
I still don't understand why programmers seemed to get off on this sort of shit. Doing `while(( dest++ = src++));` is great and all (maybe fine because it's kinda idiomatic now, but should you really be using that over `strncpy
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by nick238 4mo ago
> Cocaine and its metabolite can help fish swim farther, but it could put them in danger, report finds Isn't this true for people as well?
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by nick238 4mo ago
Why would this be any different from dropping a coin or other small metal object? If you're worried about ultrasonic noise pollution, nearly every SMPS operates there, and they're constantly running.
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by nick238 5mo ago
Don't know adding, but multiplication has diagram on the last page of the PDF. xy = eml(eml(1, eml(eml(eml(eml(1, eml(eml(1, eml(1, x)), 1)), eml(1, eml(eml(1, eml(y, 1)), 1))), 1), 1)), 1) From Table 4, I think addition is slightly mo
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by nick238 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_Post-Quantum_Cryptography... and search for "published attacks".
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by nick238 6mo ago
Ever play Doom (2016)? It's about renewable energy. Pesky little-- very minor --side effect that it's extracted from Hell, and using it causes the denizens of Hell to spill over to our side. One would say they are "unleashed&
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by nick238 6mo ago
The US military is extremely good at doing specific objectives. All militaries are garbage at changing hearts and minds. That's what diplomacy is for.
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by nick238 6mo ago
Nowadays it's about efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Sure, 99% of the time a Shahed-136 might "lose" against a Patriot, but a Patriot missile costs 200x what a Shahed does. Laser and EWar approaches are going to be more suc
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by nick238 7mo ago
Money analogy could better be put as one of: 1. Store your money in a 0% interest account—leave RAM totally unused—or put it in an account that actually generates some interest—fill the RAM with something, anything that might be useful. 2.
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by nick238 7mo ago
US healthcare is a leader in administration fees (e.g. paying health system executives) compared to other countries around the world. High US healthcare cost isn't because of increased usage, but because of the higher admin fees and hi
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by nick238 8mo ago
Unlike the PS3 which the US Air Force bought 1,760 and clustered into the 33rd most powerful** at the time. (**Distributed computing is very cheat-y compared to a "real" supercomputer which has insane RDMA capabilities)
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by nick238 8mo ago
Spotlight search is infinitely more useful than the Windows 10+ start menu. 99% of the time I'm just using it to open an app or a recent document/download. In Windows, if I hit [Win], type "fusion" (to open Fusion 360, a
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by nick238 8mo ago
The LLM model and version should be included as an author so there's useful information about where the content came from.
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by nick238 8mo ago
While "The Liberator" (one of the first 3d printed guns) was interesting as a test of the technology and what it means for the law, I don't know if I'd trust using one to not blow up in my hands. Pretty sure you could as
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by nick238 8mo ago
Didn't know this. It kind reminds me of MIME multipart messages (used in email attachments, MMS, etc.) where the header includes a "boundary" tag which the parser will look for to terminate the part. It feels strange, like it
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by nick238 8mo ago
I've noticed diskprices.com getting increasingly bad with filters, probably because the source data is garbage with Amazon sellers trying to jam all the keywords into titles or descriptions/features..."M.2 USB-C 3.2 PCIE NVME
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by nick238 8mo ago
This kinda reminds me of error correction, and where at some level you can have detectable but not correctable error conditions. Adding Bob is just like adding a parity bit: can give you a good indication someone lied, but won't fix
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by nick238 9mo ago
I pulled out the data that I could see; strangely it seems to be the 16th question but the page shows "#736" Data as JSON: https://gist.github.com/nicktimko/fb48810b448275a4d7817e2b65... Or if you want to dow
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by nick238 9mo ago
Decades ago, there was less competition for eyeballs, much more high-quality content (vs. slop), and investors were a bit willing to just build an audience without seeking immediate returns. Early social media was aspirin: a useful drug, bu
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by nick238 9mo ago
I get that Chernobyl is near the border of two countries at war, but why the everloving hell is anyone targeting anything within miles of the exclusion zone? Are there any military units anywhere near there, or is it intentionally being tar
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by nick238 10mo ago
Is launching an ffmpeg process so heavyweight that there's a reason to avoid it? If anything, it feels like it would trivialize parallelism, which is probably a feature, not a bug, if you have a bunch of videos to go through.
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by nick238 10mo ago
>99.999% of the power put into compute turns into heat, so you're going to need to reject 8 MW of power into space with pure radiation. The ISS EATCS radiators reject 0.07 MW of power in 85 sq. m, so you're talking about 9700 s
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by nick238 10mo ago
You're breezing past the labor cost quite deftly. I'm reasonably sure that developing the Voyager probes required a few more people and hours than your average microservice.

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