sbm_au

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by sbm_au 1mo ago
It's an interesting comparison between American sports leagues and the ruthless competitiveness of European football. It's quite possible in English football to found a "startup" like AFC Wimbledon and get it into the ma
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by sbm_au 1y ago
AlphaGo beating the top human player was in 2016. To my memory, that was one of the first public breakthroughs of the new era of machine learning. Around 2010 when I was at university, a friend did their undergraduate thesis on neural netwo
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by sbm_au 2y ago
I compare solid-state battery manufacturing, to extreme ultraviolet lithography. I remember reading about attempts to commercialise EUV lithography in the early 2000s (in a paper magazine!) The same issues that SSB have now - some lucky exa
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by sbm_au 2y ago
Freight trains are mostly diesel, to be fair.
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by sbm_au 2y ago
We figured out a system for that in 1881 - electrified railways! Of course it requires massive capital investment, a modal shift for the last mile, and it's somewhat inflexible.
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by sbm_au 2y ago
I really enjoyed "Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists" which engaged me like no tutorial or textbook has for a while. Anyone remember "The Poignant Guide To Ruby"? That was a fun work of art.
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by sbm_au 3y ago
Wow, I'm surprised that Keith Bontrager is quoted saying that quick release axles and disc brakes are not a design flaw. This is absolutely known as a design flaw! Downhill mountain bikers have known for decades (since say the 2000s?)
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by sbm_au 3y ago
At any commercial yacht marina, the wharf will almost look like a Tesla parking lot, with rows of chargers. There's a plug for every berth. If you do an image search for "marina" you can even spot them on most stock photos.
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by sbm_au 3y ago
They could have used increasing rotational degrees - Xbox 360, 540, 720, 900 and so on. Just like action sports, very extreme.
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by sbm_au 4y ago
I can say they do give Australia Post riders lots of training. I have a relative who did rider and driver training for learners. As well as the general public, they also ran Australia Post training courses which were large, regular, and too
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by sbm_au 4y ago
Ironically, WiFi was actually developed by an Australian public research institute. The patent earned over 400 million which went to the government.
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by sbm_au 4y ago
To add to the other replies, there's two etymologies that I know of. The first and most common explanation, is that when a film crew working with an extreme sports athlete would successfully capture a moment on film, they would mail th
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by sbm_au 4y ago
I really don't think we have a "virtually limitless supply of sites" here in Australia - in fact I would suggest the opposite. It's a really flat continent. I'm more familiar with the southeast, so I can't spea
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by sbm_au 4y ago
* Godel Escher Bach An ambitious work that's hard to describe, Douglas Hofstadter weaves history, maths, geometry, music, fictional Socratic dialogue and a hell of a lot of recursion into a investigation of Godel's infamous parado