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> Hybrids are the worst of both worlds when it comes to maintenance. While this seems intuitively true, I have some pushback, and I think that the reliability record of e.g older g…

I think this is a really interesting difference between Anthropic and Open AI’s models and points to why people seem so split on which model they prefer. GPT seems to be designed m…

It’s really bugging me that whatever software was used to assemble this did some weird AI-ey blending from the lower jaw into the crown moulding.

Really excited to see this one step closer to release! My first car was a 1999 Mazda b2500 (a rebadged ford ranger). I’m sure I have a bit of nostalgia around it but I’ve missed th…

Just about any shirt is going to have a higher spf/upf than any normal sunscreen. Also who puts sunscreen on their hands?? A long sleeve sunshirt with a hood or better yet a floppy…

I wonder how many of these drones deliver a .txt copy of the GPL along with their payload.

In other words, “yes, definitely”. But they won’t because €€€€€.

I like this! Though I’m not sure the math works. That page says ideal efficiency for that system would be something like 0.75 kWh/m^3. Compared to 4000 to 5000 kWh/m^3 of diesel. N…

I think you’re right. I read the Wikipedia page after to refresh my memory on the synopsis and I’d definitely forgotten a lot. I think I mostly latched onto the ship being called R…

Wait, did I grossly misunderstand Blindsight?? I definitely thought that the aliens were 100% conscious (or at least elements of some conscious entity) and that the humans interpre…

"Officially, we are required to investigate, document, and disclose any and all signs of sentience in the systems we ship, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise …

The author notes a possible error that the laser config file never seems to get copied to the location the laser software will actually run from, but it could have been done direct…

I’m pretty sure that switch has always been there, but turning it off doesn’t do what you want. It disables thinking entirely.

Whenever I’m tempted to think that potential AGI/ASI scenarios sound “too sci-fi” I have to remind myself of this. We live in a world with nuclear weapons and spaceships and microw…

This only a proof that a field with more connections is possible, not what it looks like. I’m very out of my depth, but the structure of the proof seems to follow a pattern similar…

I admit the comment you’re responding to was low effort, but I don’t think the existence of cons in one’s own culture invalidates criticizing cons to some other culture. Problems d…

Thank you for that context. I’m probably going to get down voted for this, but that doesn't sound like a bad deal. They’re giving up tax dollars that the region wouldn’t have recei…

> Really unsure why this is getting downvoted Because it’s a boring argument that we’re not going to make progress on until it is actually tested in court. Also, if/when this is is…

> Well, it turned out that at some time during spec investigation, Claude needed to understand authenticity verification which is a paid feature. With a context full of reverse eng…

I don’t endorse using these apps, but for what it’s worth, Instagram actually does have this feature (tap “instagram” at the top and select “following”). You get a chronological fe…

Mules are hybrids of donkey and horse. This was an important technological advancement some 3000 years ago, providing benefits of both breeds in one animal. The donkey and horse th…

You say “up until a year ago”, what ended up replacing it? I’m in the market for a tractor in roughly that size, and am very tempted to just find an old machine in decent shape. I’…

Don’t forget you’uns or yinz! I struggled with this when I was a school teacher. English lacks a good way to clarify you are addressing a group vs one person, which comes up a lot …

Your bike already has two crappy 80psi pressure vessels, why not three?