PBnFlash
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Comment · 28 days ago
I use to try and coordinate game nights across the world, and a url with the Unix timestamp of the event and a countdown showing how many days and hours worked quite well.
Comment · 11 months ago
Reminds me of the flash player hack that would trick people into enabling system storage while hiding the menus.
Vectors just can't help themselves
Comment · 11 months ago
It seems like big cities get congested, on marginal systems the chances of only getting half the messages is very high. It really dosnt integrate with much else, the mqtt stuff seems unreliable.
It does seem like the RNode radios are a lot less mature but they seem to be aiming to be less of a toy.
Comment · 1 year ago
Because they killed dozens of people and destroyed a town though lack of re-investment and monitoring their infrastructure.
Comment · 1 year ago
I had a little page that would encode Unix time of the event in the url, then just count down.
Super reliable.
Comment · 2 years ago
They are artificially suppressing the api value by banning uses people want. If people want to opt out of the recommendation engine and ads that makes hosting cheaper and easier for YouTube. They only do it to leverage market position and imo that's bad.
Comment · 2 years ago
What is with the sudden surge of hypersonics?
Surely this is military funding on some level?
Comment · 2 years ago
This seems to not have consideration for hypersonic air flow. If this is just a lifting engine it can only provide a small fraction of delta v.
Comment · 2 years ago
Worth noting that flying to the equator can provide a pretty significant increase of payload mass.
Just a quick layover to orbit.
Comment · 2 years ago
The 1980s chip Doc Brown made on the hood of a car in Back to the Future 2 was about 6 square feet, modern chip would need to be the size of the Pentagon.
Comment · 2 years ago
If we ignore the law of universal gravitation the ambulance can hover over the park.
Rules are a part of how the world works as is the violation of them. Thought problems that deviate so far from reality are more a test of abstract thinking.
Rules implicitly exist for terminal goals (don't kill the grass in the park so people can enjoy it) but get abstracted into actionable decrees that are not necessarily aligned (Becky can't enjoy the grass if she's dead.)
Comment · 2 years ago
If you can handle the science changing since publication in the 1930s(!!!) Olaf Stapledon is simply remarkable.
"Last and first men" is one of my favorite books for just how unique it is, but "star maker" has some interesting parallels
Comment · 2 years ago
There are probably a lot of optimizations in the silicone and software to find. It's not necessarily obvious what corners can get cut or where, the tradeoffs of tapping out new chips is worth it. Yet Another Matrix Multiplication Chip is not going to set the world on fire. Nvidia has that market pretty well captured.
But perhaps it turns out that subnets can be trained independently or swapped with semantically equivalent but qualitatively different ones. The routing network would effectively "Standardize" and could in principle be well enough understood to "hand optimize" the routing network into hardware. Or maybe back propagation has some novel physical analogue that can be exploited in scales we can access. The real question is if Altman is capable of finding the right path in the notoriously dead end filled field of chip design. His backing of helion [1] didn't bode well in my view. But with enough R&D maybe he will flail into something useful trillions is enough for a lot of flailing.
[1] https://youtu.be/3vUPhsFoniw Edit: more derisive link
Comment · 2 years ago
With their bigger brains larger lungs and stronger bodies too expensive in the ice and snow. We the budget model had an advantage but in this time of plenty some neanderthal clones would give us a run for our money.