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martyvis

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About martyvis

I've been a tech nerd all my life. I do network and security engineering and live near Sydney, Australia

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    Australian news reporting on this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-07/ai-models-design-viru...

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    Comment #44333066

    It's a reference to the Beatles song Revolution Number 9 which includes a lot of clips like that. It does get old pretty quickly here.

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    Comment #43627901

    Josh Wardle sold Wordle to the New York Times for at least a million. https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22911274/wordle-new-york-...

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    Comment #43211756

    See the board here on Lichess https://lichess.org/study/facg4YUQ/jnXlZXWo

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    Comment #42762032

    FYI 2600 and 2.6k use the same number of characters.

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    Comment #42652562

    And Elon says they have run out of training data ... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/09/elon-musk...

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    Comment #42639731

    It doesn't seem it is showing the tilt for Earth correct. When I zoom in for around now, the North Pole is in full sun rather than mid Winter. (I'm in Australia so I don't know if …

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    Comment #42561354

    Actually I have heard the exact opposite of what you are stating is true. Both Google and Apple fight very hard to avoid handing data to authorities. They don't want to be seen as …

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    Comment #42446933

    I wonder how noisy it is - it would have been good to include in the specs.

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    Comment #42438169

    / All 75 light switches in our new house run Tasmota 75! Can't you just employ a butler? ;-)

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    Comment #42280810

    It reminds of the art of M.C.Escher in the sense that it is driven by a mathematical mindset, yet goes beyond mindless repetition. This artist and M.C. Escher would have loved havi…

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    Comment #42280549

    I have a 135 minute train ride to my office which I probably undertake once every week or two. Thankfully I can be seated for it and usually have enough room to either work with my…

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    Comment #42280477

    The fact that they know about the incursions means that they had least have some defence capability against them.

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    Comment #42234358

    LEO means less RF power and lower latency.

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    Comment #42227461

    Yes, pretty amazing. While I did have a couple of free tourist maps, I planned and executed a 1700km road trip to New Zealand basically using Google Maps on my laptop and then simp…

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    Comment #42190113

    I think they have a "build it and they will come" attitude. While their own Mars goals will need 100s if not 1000s of launches they also see new customers that would want launch an…

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    Comment #42190089

    But they haven't reused one yet AFAIK. They have reused an engine.

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    Comment #42190063

    The 2nd tower at Starbase is much more modular than the first and is being built at quite a rapid rate.

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