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Comment · 1 month ago
What was the end result of this?
Comment · 1 month ago
> Participants were randomly assigned to receive assistance from an LLM (GPT-4o, Llama 3, Command R+)

These are pretty old. I'd be curious how performance compares with the latest frontier models.

Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah, I suppose another way to look at it is that ALL satellites have to radiate the energy they get from the sun (since 99+% of electricity used by electronics gets radiated off as heat). A datacenter is no different. All that is different is that quantity of energy both in and out, the ratios are identical.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Now, input power. Sunlight in orbit ~1,360 W/m², assume ~22% cell efficiency, we got 300 W/m². So each 1 MW compute, 3,300 m² of solar panel and minimum 1,200–1,500 m² of radiator.

We need > 2x more solar panels than we need radiators. Doesn't this imply radiation isn't really the limiting factor here?

Comment · 1 month ago
Depending on how much you drive per week, a 120V charger might be viable. My new house has the same problem (I'd have to upgrade the electric panel for my car due to its age), but I've been using the normal 120V charger to charge it, and haven't yet run into a case where I couldn't charge it enough.
Comment · 1 month ago
Except their validation doesn't seem to work. I've gone through both (both personally and for my company), and.. no response for weeks.
Comment · 1 month ago
> And a high visa fee ultimately hurts more than it helps because it drives away both groups

Does it though? It seems like it would drive away the $60k worker, and the companies hiring the million dollar worker would pay it without second thought.

Comment · 1 month ago
I think it's 2 different end-consumers. Apple targets "watch on my arm", garmin targets fitness tracker that happens to do a few watch things (notifications, payments, some limited messaging).
Comment · 1 month ago
Idk, if you check the profiles of the people posting, these would be pretty expensive shills. I genuinely think it's just happy customers.

And to pile on, I switched to Garmin a few years ago after a pixel watch and a galaxy watch, and it's night and day. Battery life, and it's built to actually work offline well (global maps, and all of the tracking).

Comment · 1 month ago
Does alice "own" alice.dntls after she registers it? If so, how do you prevent name squating?
Comment · 1 month ago
Do you have a brief explanation of what DNTLS is that you could post here?
Comment · 2 months ago
Does KDE connect work with other, non KDE window managers?
Comment · 2 months ago
For more complicated products, the fear is that this subsidy destroys all competition, and then you're dependent upon that country / company.
Comment · 2 months ago
> you are off by an order of magnitude

On which figure?

Comment · 2 months ago
Stablecoins are a pretty clean solution to this. Negligible fee, sub-cent transactions supported, no need for kyc when paying. Fill up your browser periodically, and pay from an embedded wallet.

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