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The lasers alone set you back many tens of k so it's not really possible to do on the cheap presently, even if a lot of the cost is expertise and the high overhead of R&D costs whe…

The Carnot limit is the theoretical upper limit of the efficiency of a heat pump, so the stated number is presumably with respect to that, not heat moved per unit energy input like…

If it's true that more phones will allow people to be more productive, that increase in productivity should show up in GDP as well

I don't think there'll be any significant drop on a sub-decade timescale unless there's some kind of financial crisis, but the ideal kind of trend is prices stagnating or growing s…

Melbourne property prices actually haven't recovered from their 2022 peak, and that's before adjusting for inflation. I believe rents are down in real terms as well. Things have be…

They'll show up in the diff. Grep will find them too, but any in the diff you'll know for sure were added by you.

Huh, that's not my recollection. Mercurial on windows was "download tortoisehg, use it", whereas git didn't have a good GUI and was full of footguns about line endings and case-ins…

Based on the other examples of random inputs not being sufficient, I dare say the fish-based attempt may have been fraudulent.

It took me to the end of your comment to realise the crucial bit I was missing: that they're talking about implementing the CPU on an FPGA . As opposed to, say, interfacing with an…

They had some Starlink simulators they were planning to deploy (to a suborbital trajectory, to re-enter along with the ship) this launch.

As of his latest scan in November, 18 months post surgery, Scolyer's cancer hasn't recurred [1]. Average time to recurrence post-surgery is 6 months. Don't want to leap to conclusi…

If you're talking about "whalebait" markets on manifold, that's a bit disingenuous - these are markets where the thing you're betting about is related to trading behaviour itself, …

They've actually been having to dump propellant in order to more accurately test what a Starship in orbit would be like, given they're not flying with a payload that would consume …

That is indeed what you get with tidal forces - bodies closer than geostationary orbit lose angular momentum and decay inward, bodies further out steal angular momentum from Earth …

This might be what you meant, but the ordered dicts are faster, no? I believe ordering was initially an implementation detail that arose as part of performance optimisations, and o…

Python for one, and given that, I'd assume most languages.

They believe it works because it does work! "Chain of thought" prompting is a well-established method to get better output from LLMs.

What do they do instead? Given we're not talking to a base model.

FWIW, the fact that the recession market on Manifold doesn't resolve until the end of 2025 (to give the NBER time to declare a recession) limits how low people will push the probab…

The Fed is expected to cut soon regardless, not to bail out the government but because inflation is falling. I imagine that will be the resolution to this. Perhaps rates won't go a…

> Does your hardware vendor offer long term support for Linux? This seems muddled. If the CNC manufacturer puts Linux on an embedded device to operate the CNC, they're the hardware…

Like with a laptop trackpad? I'm smooth-scrolling through these comments right now, and don't remember when scrolling wasn't smooth by default on any trackpad.

It is. They didn't remove the UI option, they just swapped it out under the hood for the "juniper" voice.

No, I can't say I understand it fully - but if the clock goes backwards, peers will not talk to a client again until I restart the other peers' wireguard services. No matter if the…

The wireguard problem is a pain in the neck. Even if you're happy for your system to not have a realtime clock, when it does come online you'd want wireguard to not start until aft…