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Regarding applications for robots that have to move very precisely without carrying a load, there are robotic measurement systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinate-measurin…

We use a C compiler for embedded systems that doesn't support link time optimizations (unless you pay for the pro version, that is). I have been thinking about some tool like this …

> It feels like OpenAI is mostly concerned with developing proofs of the untrustability of every digital medium Which, to me, makes sense. Once the underlying technology exists, a …

Hopefully I'm not being over optimistic, and I only vaguely understand the many tradeoffs that go into rocket design. But, technology-wise, starship seems analogous to a falcon hea…

I think you are incorrect. If you build a 230-m tall pipe and fill it up with water, the water at the ground-level end of the pipe will be at the exact same pressure as the water 2…

It is different this time. I bet that was also said when the transformations that you mentioned occurred, but this time it really is different. LLM models are pretty general in the…

A couple times already I found myself adapting functions from the Octave standard library to avoid paying Mathworks for some expensive toolboxes.

Apparently they produced it with agricultural by-products. So no net CO2 (other than the energy it takes for the transformation)

Too many times I have been the guy in the top left quadrant of the chart in the post. I eventually came to the realization that I have often been disrespectful to the intelligence …

What the fuck indeed. I can't help but think of the Nuremberg laws in Germany. More specifically the "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" [1]. Sure, it's not _…

To complement your example, there are also cases when everything coincidentally happens to work fine. For example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7280877/why-and-how-does...

People tend to emphasize the negatives, like you mentioned, but WhatsApp has revolutionized communication in the low-income country I came from. And I think ultimately creating a n…

You got it actually, it's all about how long you leave your hand in. And that is why the probe has a very elliptical orbit, so it "touches" the sun briefly and goes back out into s…

> doesn’t hurt anything because there isn’t anything better being done with it or better ways to store it That's a very strong statement. If you unpack it a little bit, what you ar…

Just wondering here, is there any way to protect oneself from that type of situation while at the same time keeping the source code open? Obviously, the name and logo are trademark…

Other people in this thread bring up great counterpoints. Namely, gaming is not nearly as intensive as mining and whatever value gaming brings to society is more than that of minin…

I generally like the idea of rewarding replication studies. Replication/validation could be a required process that runs concurrently to peer review. The researchers who run the ex…

You're right! English is my second language, so I was typing "Antartica". I apologize for that.

I wish there was a way to move Antarctica around.

Fair point! I guess I meant the entire powertrain, not just the motor per se.

Disruption is the price of progress. Like cars with electric motors vs combustion engines, sometimes you have to start from scratch. You can't just keep improving combustion engine…

I remember hearing something about the Cell processors on Playstation 3's being the ones with manufacturing errors. The 100% good ones were supposedly sold to the US military. I re…

I am actually in favor of a UBI, as long as it is truly universal. That means money every month, no questions asked. I agree with your point: under a true UBI, workers would be abl…

Exactly that! As I read the article, I kept thinking "this guy is not following the money". The author's ultimate assumption is that money supply is somehow decoupled from accumula…