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plegresl

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    Comment #43640452

    Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million A quarter-century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He…

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    Comment #42834645

    The ones in museums supposedly had their internal wing structure cut to prevent them from every flying again: https://web.archive.org/web/20211113195112/https://theaviati... but th…

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    Comment #41989280

    Why? Google also partners with Broadcom for TPU.

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    Comment #41844741

    See also Rigetti Computing

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    Comment #41154100

    Dell is half the racks, the other half are SuperMicro: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1803429159005241780

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    Comment #40101570

    >They also say they will take liability provided you haven’t misused the system or failed to properly maintain the car. There's debate about this: http://safeautonomy.blogspot.com/…

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    Comment #39508463

    And the key blanks are from Ace Hardware!

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    Comment #38889062

    Fuselage assembled by Spirt AeroSystems in Wichita, KS with final assembly by Boeing in the Seattle area

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    Comment #38008146

    Reminds me of the classic paper "The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations": https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202

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    Comment #36620302

    Any suggestions on brand names, websites, etc. for these Japanese tools?

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    Comment #36523383

    Overweight landings are a thing and it's very, very rare for the airplane to break apart or even be damaged when performing them: https://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/art…

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    Comment #36486139

    Falcon 9 uses a factory of safety of 1.4: https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/164283main_2nd_exp_conf_24_Commerci...

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    Comment #36233116

    https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1665752607233826817 "Washington Court House is a town of 15k (not an actual courthouse)."

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    Comment #34332034

    There is a Fortran version of CUDA: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-fortran

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    Comment #33421500

    https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/space-explo...

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    Comment #32670733

    Also applies to AMD: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/U.S.-ti...

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    Comment #32513525

    Two of the Southwest flights are known to be mechanical related: https://avherald.com/h?article=4fc19a3b&opt=0 https://avherald.com/h?article=4fcfe330&opt=0

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    Comment #32492248

    Government agencies already have a dollar amount for the value of a human life that they are supposed to use when considering safety regulations: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843…

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    Comment #32483277

    Lots of airlines also preordered Concorde: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Sales_efforts

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    Comment #32143138

    The website and all the part details are amazing. I've made many purchases from McMaster for personal / hobby use so I'm surprised to hear about difficulties purchasing from them.

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    Comment #31898153

    The 176B parameter BLOOM model should be available soon: https://bigscience.notion.site/BLOOM-BigScience-176B-Model-a...