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dpe82
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About dpe82
Previously: - YouTube: - Shorts: founding engineer and infrastructure lead - Stories: infrastructure engineer - Uploads: Android TL - Vidmaker (acquired): founder/engineer (browser-based video editor) - Sony Vegas: engineer (desktop video editor) - WI state senate: legislative staffer - Various: LAMP stack hacker back when P was for Perl
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Comment #49214494
> even the MON navaids are having maintenance issues resulting in outages Which is exactly why we previously had such a dense network: to provide redundancy in the face of inevitab…
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Comment #49188976
Another thing to add to all this is FAA has been steadily removing from service non-GPS navigation aids.
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Comment #49039276
`claude update`
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Comment #48943422
Humans (exhibiting "general intelligence") are tool builders; virtually all our capabilities stem from our ability to create and use tools - often extremely specialized to a task. …
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Comment #48900068
Seems roughly in line with UCSF's entry-level post-doc compensation: https://postdocs.ucsf.edu/pay-and-benefits That too, of course, is too low to live comfortably on your own in S…
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Comment #48683260
After 2000 years everything mixes together at least somewhat so trying to draw hard lines is an exercise in pointless semantics, but it's worth acknowledging that as a system, comm…
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Comment #48680070
> *English Common Law* has entered the chat
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Comment #48663986
I don't understand why you're getting downvoted. I've used GPT-5.5 and Opus both for FPGA design with good results. We built a lot of tooling around it to help the models, but even…
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Comment #48651072
They won't all be fulfilled. I would imagine this is part of the price-discovery process.
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Comment #48613246
Seems like a fairly neutral term to me.
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Comment #48546938
Nit: at some point you start getting metal fatigue issues (see Aloha Airlines Flight 243) but in general yes: fuel efficiency and fleet standardization. Also airliners usually just…
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Comment #48537666
That wouldn't stop their development and use in the rest of the world...
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Comment #48514637
Why would foreign (relative to the US) models suddenly sit still? There's enormous incentive to improve; surely they'll be able to figure out how just like their American counterpa…
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Comment #48514605
As we learned with export restrictions on crypto in the 90s, that disadvantage will be short-lived and backfire in the long-run.
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Comment #48486498
Also known as: supply and demand.
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Comment #48441773
And there were a bunch of WYSIWYG editors in the mid-late 90s. It seems like everyone had one, including Netscape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Composer
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Comment #48250264
Oh don't worry, the enforcement is extremely selective.
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Comment #48140047
Thinking about it as a system: If every university were subject to similar constraints, the average "quality" of research proposals would go down (everybody would have less time to…
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Comment #48130828
The press release states it clearly.
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Comment #48069537
In a proper 2-loop cooling system, the primary loop (with direct electronics contact) and secondary loop (with seawater/external cooling source) are hydraulically isolated by a hea…
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Comment #48027792
Forgejo is just the one I landed on, but like I said - there are options!
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Comment #48013220
I recently moved all my projects to a self-hosted forgejo instance and have found it quite satisfactory so far. And it's fast! If you're in the market for a github alternative, tak…
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Comment #48005574
TUIs, apparently. :)
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Comment #48001262
A year ago I would have agreed with you, but now anyone can build a perfectly reasonable native app.
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Comment #47942417
If someone expects to be compensated for their work they should be upfront about it. IMHO it's dishonest/immoral to freely give something away with no expressed expectation of reci…