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by plegresl 1y ago
Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million A quarter-century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it. https://www.nytimes.com/
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by plegresl 2y ago
The ones in museums supposedly had their internal wing structure cut to prevent them from every flying again: https://web.archive.org/web/20211113195112/https://theaviati... but that part of the post has
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by plegresl 2y ago
Why? Google also partners with Broadcom for TPU.
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by plegresl 2y ago
See also Rigetti Computing
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by plegresl 2y ago
Dell is half the racks, the other half are SuperMicro: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1803429159005241780
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by plegresl 2y ago
>They also say they will take liability provided you haven’t misused the system or failed to properly maintain the car. There's debate about this: http://safeautonomy.blogspot.com/2023/09/no-mercedes-benz-w
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by plegresl 3y ago
And the key blanks are from Ace Hardware!
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by plegresl 3y ago
Fuselage assembled by Spirt AeroSystems in Wichita, KS with final assembly by Boeing in the Seattle area
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by plegresl 3y ago
Reminds me of the classic paper "The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations": https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202
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by plegresl 3y ago
Any suggestions on brand names, websites, etc. for these Japanese tools?
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by plegresl 3y ago
Overweight landings are a thing and it's very, very rare for the airplane to break apart or even be damaged when performing them: https://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_...
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by plegresl 3y ago
Falcon 9 uses a factory of safety of 1.4: https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/164283main_2nd_exp_conf_24_Commerci...
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by plegresl 3y ago
https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1665752607233826817 "Washington Court House is a town of 15k (not an actual courthouse)."
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by plegresl 4y ago
There is a Fortran version of CUDA: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-fortran
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by plegresl 4y ago
https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/space-explo...
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by plegresl 4y ago
Also applies to AMD: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/U.S.-ti...
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by plegresl 4y ago
Two of the Southwest flights are known to be mechanical related: https://avherald.com/h?article=4fc19a3b&opt=0 https://avherald.com/h?article=4fcfe330&opt=0
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by plegresl 4y ago
Government agencies already have a dollar amount for the value of a human life that they are supposed to use when considering safety regulations: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843310123/how-government-ag
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by plegresl 4y ago
Lots of airlines also preordered Concorde: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Sales_efforts
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by plegresl 4y ago
The website and all the part details are amazing. I've made many purchases from McMaster for personal / hobby use so I'm surprised to hear about difficulties purchasing from them.
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by plegresl 4y ago
The 176B parameter BLOOM model should be available soon: https://bigscience.notion.site/BLOOM-BigScience-176B-Model-a...