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Comment · 9 months ago
Myspace and early Facebook were already a downgrade to classic chatrooms. I met with so many interesting people on chat in the early 2000s and have met with many offline as well. Multiple times I've travelled 6+ hours to participate in chat meetups with 20-50 others from the same chatroom.

Those were different times: Over 4 years, I've never received a d*ckpic or was target of stalking, harassment, abuse or scam. People were genuinely interested in each other, chat was not about building a personal brand and anonymity didn't make commenters psychos.

I'm not sure if ignorance was bliss, or times changed so much, but as an adult, I feel online communication has became a battlefield where I need to protect my sanity every time I interact with it. Rage bait, fake news, ads, bot farms, lies in a never ending flood. I wouldn't let my children to even try to live the same, uncontrolled online life I had.

Comment · 9 months ago
I think the heat dissipation relative to volume of the ISS is way lower than these satellites, yet that already needs sizable thermal radiators to cool: https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/150004

GPUs are also very power hungry, I need about 2 square meter of solar panels on my room to feed a single RTX 5090 during summer. How many do you want to send up in a single satellite?

What about the data link? Real world Starlink speeds are capping around 300 Mbps. I understand that is a shared link with plenty of peers but what is a realistic bandwidth between these satellites and some fixed, earth receiving stations?

Comment · 11 months ago
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How do LLMs calculate statistic metrics like average or standard deviation accurately in such experiments?
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Comment · 2 years ago
Totally agree.

I always cry on the inside when I see those beautifully designed, symmetrical, detailed sets taken apart and tossed together to form the next ninja castle or whatever, but after all Lego is to be taken apart and my 6-8-9 year olds have no remorse in doing so.

Comment · 2 years ago
And this means a 10x increase in the thermistor price compared to the toaster. It cold be even as high as $2 for a piece!
Comment · 2 years ago
I don't want to be rude, but given the average quality of material produced by big consulting companies I have encountered over my career, I'm not that surprised that GPT4 beats them.
Comment · 2 years ago
All the big corps I ever worked for had their devices configured to go through the central VPN and proxy even for browsing.

But I guess blocking $$$ corporate visitors should be fine by you as well.

Comment · 2 years ago
Have visited the site through my self hosted OpenVPN tunnel and got 0 for both the VPN and proxy score.
Comment · 2 years ago
The title is misleading. Only the fairly new and surprisingly expensive SMRs were taken into account, the much cheaper traditional nuclear power plants weren't. Which could be fine, but then don't generalise your findings across the entire nuclear landscape.

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