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Here's a good interview with the director of the Free Speech Coalition on the consequences of these "protect the kids" moral panic laws, which include widespread surveillance, bann…

The code they posted doesn't quite explain the root cause. This is a good study case for resilient API design and testing. They said their /v1/prefixes endpoint has this snippet: i…

I think this comment misses that OpenAI hired the guy, not the project. "This guy was able to vibe code a major thing" is exactly the reason they hired him. Like it or not, so-call…

Taylor Lorenz has done excellent reporting on this. It's a right wing censorial moral panic that's forced some Democrats to go along with it by positioning it as "protecting kids".…

The argument here is simply over your false claim that "You don’t need to do anything to keep panels with a significant angle clear of dust in deserts." Your only source does not, …

Thank you for providing a source. That’s an early stage research paper, not the proven solution you originally implied. There are tons of early stage research papers on all these p…

> We don't use fibre optics on earth rather than lasers because of some specific limitation of the earth's surface being in orbit would avoid. That's incorrect. Lasers can suffer f…

You are again misquoting the article. She did not say soiling was "significantly less of a problem" in the desert. She in fact said it "requires you to clean them off every day or …

You’re not summarizing the article fairly. She is saying the soiling mechanisms are environmentally dependent, not that there is no soiling in the desert. Again, it cites an effici…

What’s your source for that claim? Soiling is a massive problem for desert solar, causing as high as 50% efficiency loss in the Middle East.[1] [1] https://www.nlr.gov/news/detail/…

I’m all for it — converting just a third of that land to solar would be enough to power the grid in terms of raw output — but there is still a huge, unsolved problem of energy stor…

> using wireless communication means even less bandwidth between nodes, more noise as the number of nodes grows, and significantly higher power use Space changes this. Laser based …

> Even just building a long powerline around the globe to fetch it from warmer regions would be cheaper. Deserts have good sun exposure and land availability but extremely poor wat…

What makes you say they "clearly have not read" their citations? Are you assuming that because they used ChatGPT to generate the citation section based on their description of the …

> It makes far more sense to build data centers in the arctic. What (literally) on earth makes you say this? The arctic has excellent cooling and extremely poor sun exposure. Where…

There are plenty of legit concerns here about e.g. the launch externalities which are actually greater than the launch costs themselves, i.e. climate impact to future generations. …

At least in one case the authors claimed to use ChatGPT to "generate the citations after giving it author-year in-text citations, titles, or their paraphrases." They pasted the hal…

I tried clicking on every number on this site and none of them linked to any primary sources. I clicked through on the first news item I saw, "Security forces open fire on woman fi…

I just think it's funny he has an obnoxious snow animation all over his screed against arbitrary graphic elements.

I am skeptical as well BUT on the cooling question, which is one of the main concerns we all seem to have, the article is doing a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison between the…

Sure, but there's an obvious tradeoff: You're also delaying the uptake of fixes for zero-day vulnerabilities. The article does not discuss this tradeoff.

It was a change to the database that is used to generate a bot management config file. That file was the proximate cause for the panics. The kind of observability that would have h…

Thank you. I am sympathetic to CF’s need to deploy these configs globally fast and don’t think slowing down their DDoS mitigation is necessarily a good trade off. What I am saying …

By rapid I mean a rapid rollout of changes to 100% of the fleet, not how often changes are made.