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It's not so much whether someone has hit anyone - speeding laws exist for a good reason to protect other drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, etc. There's a good reason that school zone…

Contract terms can vary greatly depending on the situation and the company you’re working with. Early/frequent payment terms are always good to have but you may not always have the…

At long distances the small cross section of the drone requires tight focusing (expensive optics) or a high power, preferably pulsed laser (expensive laser) or both. Not impossible…

It's interesting progression from Gas Town, but it seems like the bottleneck is still translating ideas into actionable input/output frameworks for various agentic tasks. Also ther…

The level of price discrimination enabled by the many middlemen of the US insurance system is insane any and all standards. If our groceries and cars were priced the same people wo…

But apologists would say that putting the data centers in LEO would mean that latency to a client via a ground station wouldn't be much more than ~50 ms extra. At least LATAM and A…

> SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device co…

That seems to be the preferred path for many devs on Windows - unless you can get your hands on a Mac at work WSL is much better/easier. Most non-software companies may not even of…

Probably same reason most folks who are capable of running Linux don't stay on Ubuntu, etc.

I’d try applying to in office roles too - I suspect that most places have a soft hiring freeze regardless of work status. At least, that way you know it’s not the remote work porti…

Airlines should recognize that middle seats are the lowest tier of service and adjust expectations accordingly. Not to mention on long haul!

I think that the author has a point that LLMs need to make sense (and money) in the context of products. Google’s Gemini integration from a consumer standpoint seems to be doing it…

Even small divergence angles add up if they’re trying to intercept at visual ranges outside of traditional munitions. That being said, probably ~10kW/m^2 is enough to overheat or d…

That’s true. It’s more of a policy issue that’s like carbon credits… nice on paper but a big nothing burger. Look at F1 and Porsche talking about sustainable synthetic fuels. When …

The density required for solar is also much lower - the coordination between different land parcels and routing power and getting easements increases the time required vs. on prem …

Gas plants are not bad… but imagine 400 MW of gas plants in a concentrated area. You’ll always have NOx and SOx by products whenever you’re burning gas.

Direct air capture imo can’t escape the scaling problem - when the feedstock has CO2 at ~400 ppm the economics simply won’t work out despite various oil companies backing one off s…

From Rafael’s site: https://www.rafael.co.il/system/iron-beam/ 100kW laser is nothing to joke about, but seems a good application for anti drone tasks. Fiber lasers are pretty snaz…

The pricing anchor concept is very intuitive and once you hear about it it’s hard to stop seeing at play.

Sure. To be fair, having gone down the path of porting and testing a problem to numba, it might be easier to just jump to Julia if you want to focus on the problem more than the im…

More so that the 1% have fewer loopholes, not the other way around. Regular folks filing taxes don’t have particularly difficult returns, but if the government already knows what y…

I mostly work with arrays in numpy but sometimes I get stuck with a problem that needs a for loop - only two things I can think of are parallelize the for loop or use numba/jax JIT…

Tax avoidance for most W2 workers is basically impossible without committing blatant fraud. Tax avoidance for the 1% has many more loopholes to exploit (depreciation, etc). Simplif…