rdl

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The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist(conic.al)
391 points by rdl 1mo ago|189 comments
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by rdl 2mo ago
EU changed a lot this year (EU EES and ETIAS, long delayed), so this is probably different now than it was for some people before. It should be passport + biometric in and out, with a passport and biometric enrolled once as well, and visa-f
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by rdl 3mo ago
I still remember him being one of the best writers about tech (a bit more than "journalism" in that a lot of it was of more evergreen value...) from the dotcom boom and then the peak "interesting" web apps period (2004-~
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by rdl 3mo ago
We also used to x-ray people for shoe fitting/for lulz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
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by rdl 3mo ago
This will be really interesting for brain imaging I think -- particularly for non-penetrating trauma (blast, crash, falls) in environments where MRI is unsuitable/unavailable, or where potential injuries are very common and thus per-sc
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by rdl 4mo ago
If a fund can get into the Anthropic Series A vs. not get into the Anthropic Series A based on a flight to meet with the team, that is worth buying the supersonic plane even if you scrap it after.
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by rdl 4mo ago
Vastly more favorable today than it was when Concorde flew. 1) Rich people are WAY richer, and time is even more valuable 2) Businesses have some very important employees and "2 day trip" vs "3-4 day trip" is worth $50-1
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by rdl 4mo ago
That would be true if everyone weren't supply constrained and buying literally everything they can find. There are actual risks that this trend doesn't continue, but as long as the trend continues, it is pretty good for revenue. &
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by rdl 4mo ago
If "cost" is mostly capital investments, absolutely. Normally you'd use operating cost (which for capital equipment would be depreciation and interest), and here they are using the capital cost as full cost. No one really kn
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by rdl 4mo ago
For a rapidly growing new line of business, this isn't bad at all.
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by rdl 4mo ago
I think RISKS (which he edited) was one of the first places I saw computer security discussed in a meaningful way outside a military context (NSA, Puzzle Palace, Rainbow Books, etc.)
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Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93(nytimes.com)
23 points by rdl 4mo ago|4 comments
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by rdl 4mo ago
Where I live (Puerto Rico) Costco is basically the only decent midrange to upper midrange store. There are a couple higher end butcher shops, but local groceries are "smart and final" or other discount-US grocery equivalent, with
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by rdl 4mo ago
If the issue are tent stakes/lag bolts which get buried under surface, clear solution would be metal detectors available to borrow/rent (or brought by each camp). Also probably could do a drone or ground robot with a metal detect
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by rdl 5mo ago
He was pretty shockingly an entrepreneur and inventor in all the best ways,’in a field dominated by very cautious scientists (who are great too, but who likely never would have gotten the genome sequenced within 10-20 years of when he did i
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Craig Venter has died(jcvi.org)
342 points by rdl 5mo ago|85 comments
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Prototown: America's answer to China is hiding in rural Texas(youtube.com)
5 points by rdl 5mo ago|2 comments
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H.R. 8250 – Parents Decide Act (mandate OS age validation)(congress.gov)
2 points by rdl 5mo ago|0 comments
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by rdl 5mo ago
My theory is a lot of the anti-AI sentiment is specifically US geopolitical adversaries (pick one or more: China, Russia, Iran, ...) who want a bad outcome for the US (AI as potential AGI; AI as one of the few successful economic sectors of
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by rdl 5mo ago
It's depressing now, but also was genuinely amazing how great EFF was early on. I think a lot of that had to do with the board, membership, and staff (such as yourself) intentionally trying to keep things balanced and focused. Thank
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by rdl 5mo ago
It will be interesting to compare PQ rollout to HTTPS rollout historically (either the "SSL becomes widespread in 2015" thing, or the deprecation SSL 3.0). Cloudflare is in an easy position to do stuff like this because it can de
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by rdl 6mo ago
I insure a bunch of big datacenters (crypto mining, AI); there are really two main drivers of cost of insurance per $ of equipment: 1) Internal risks and controls within the datacenter (the company involved and their operating history, fire
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by rdl 8mo ago
There are some products where I absolutely don't take a chance (I buy all my tourniquets/etc from North American Rescue, who are the manufacturer or primary distributor, directly), but for a while I wouldn't even buy razor bl
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by rdl 8mo ago
Very recently Amazon announced they'd stop commingling inventory from 3P sellers and themselves, so it should be safer to buy from Amazon in the future (if you look at the specific seller), but still maybe worth avoiding for safety cri
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by rdl 8mo ago
I hate cancer. What a long and unpredictable path his life took. Too bad he isn't still with us. I really loved Dilbert (the Gen X defining comic), and especially his first couple books.
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by rdl 9mo ago
Unclear. I have a t-mobile e-sim in the phone I was using and that worked for me.
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by rdl 9mo ago
I’m in Niseko (Hokkaido) and had just driven 2.5h through a snowstorm to my hotel, opened door, and put down bags and phone. Weird alarm from my phone (new phone; forgot to disable, which I usually do because where I live abuses the system
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by rdl 10mo ago
One $4mm cabinet of GB300 can generate maybe 10-20x the power/hvac cost per hour so it doesn't make sense to ever have it idle. Vs. $100K worth of miners for the same 40KW conditioned or 100KW raw power.
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by rdl 10mo ago
No one I've seen does without at least battery backup/conditioning/etc. Some may have less than 100% redundancy on generators, but that's mainly because some of them are running with e.g. a 200MW grid feed and 20x10MW g
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by rdl 10mo ago
I insure like >$3B worth actively I think (which includes some additional power equipment, hvac, etc. below the scale of main site transformers, etc.). If you count former equipment which has been removed from service over the years it i

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