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The (also awesome) writer Jo Walton wrote a great celebration of Ursula Le Guin's life. She wrote in part: She widened the space of science fiction with what she wrote. She got in …

Would you be willing to post the llm.py code? (Perhaps in a Github gist?)

This doesn't address the ecosystem problems and costs imposed by climate change - but for crops and drinking water, it looks like fresh water created by solar powered desalinizatio…

It depends on what you are thinking critically about - what is your frame of mind. You don't see a viable business here. But SpaceX does see several possibilities. One is supplying…

It's not nonsense. To refuel Starship to land on the Moon like the NASA HLS program proposes [1], it will take 16 Starship Tanker flights [2][3]. So 16 launch, transfer propellant,…

Apple | https://apple.com | AIML – Sr Full-stack Software Engineer, Data Operations | FULLTIME | ONSITE / HYBRID (3 days in office, 2 at home) | Seattle, WA, USA https://jobs.apple…

More realistic and detailed information is available here: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/02/a-new-era-for-the... China may be behind the US, Taiwan, and Europe in semicon…

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Check out Jeffrey "JB" Straubel's new company, Redwood Materials[1][2]. They recycle lithium-ion batteries. He was Tesla's former chief technology officer. They are essentially a l…

Twitter says "@maceip can't be messaged." I don't know what you mean by fc. What's another way to reach you?

Apple | AIML Senior Full Stack Software Engineer | Full-time | Seattle ONSITE hybrid (3 days/week in office) https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200519929/aiml-sr-full-... Our tea…

> But the value is not that we don't need stack overflow, it is that we don't need as many programmers. I'll believe that when I see it. I lead a team of AI-boosted developers, I'm…

Then there is the Tamagotchi Singularity inspired by an XKCD comic [1]. It is a server full of emulated tamagotchis [2] that interact with each other in a simulator, all running co…

Wow. Good to see this here. At age 17, having an Apple ][+ and this book got me started on the path to being an electronics engineer.

Direct link to paper with the X-ray images of the bee nests: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001670612...

The quote is talking about emulating the white oppressors, who oppressed people to gain wealth and power.

From _A Wizard of Earthsea_, the first book, near the end: And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, h…

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Comment from Tory Bruno, CEO of ULA: "Every engine, elex box, COPV, etc, gets an Acceptance Test (ATP) as they come off the line to verify good workmanship. (The one time Qual veri…

From the Wikipedia article: At 07:55 UTC, when Vostok 1 was still 7 km (4.3 mi) from the ground, the hatch of the spacecraft was released, and two seconds later Gagarin was ejected…

An indoor marketplace with shelf space you can lease is actually the business model of most large grocery chains. [1] Food manufacturers rent shelf space to display and sell their …

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Practically speaking, "farther ahead" may mean different things to different people. I tried to find a list of boards, systems on a chip (SoCs), or CPUs that Genode supports. There…