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A policy paper is intended to change policy. That means appealing to the party currently in power.

>thanks to the use of composite materials Not always. 777X uses a conventional fuselage but has a 6,000 foot cabin compared to the 8,000 foot cabin on the legacy 777.

Answer: they don't, they just work them into the ground because they can. Mainland China also has the 996 schedule for office workers purely as a cargo cult ritual, forcing people …

Stripe obviously records data around friendly fraud, (At minimum they implement Visa Compelling Evidence 3.0 https://support.stripe.com/questions/how-does-stripe-support... ) and s…

> Paliney® 6 is an age-hardenable palladium silver-based alloy ideally suited for demanding low current sliding electrical contact applications

Keep in mind that $275 today is the same as $140 in January 2000. Tech gadgets used to be far more expensive, both in real terms and as a percentage of average income.

Depending on how you convert synapse count to parameters, the brain also has something like a thousand trillion parameters. In that light it's pretty darn surprising that an artifi…

What event was this?

Are you planning on dying before 2036? That's one estimate for when they'll run out of power.

Fun trivia (well, perhaps not fun) in the second paragraph: "the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF), which was retrieved in 1990 after spending 68 months in LEO" Long exposure,…

On a smartphone, you're trusting Apple or Google to make the OS. They already can do anything they want with your system. Do you read every line of code in every security update?

The point of AI is that it's supposed to be intelligent. Why silo it in an app? Instead of telling it what to automate, shouldn't it sit at the OS level, watch everything you do, a…

From the author's writeup: >the final pre-trained model came out to about 340 million parameters, and had a final validation bpb of 0.973. The pretraining process took about five h…

Recent Tesla updates will detect dirty glass inside the camera enclosure and offer to schedule (one!) free glass cleaning. You can do it yourself if you have a trim tool. (A thin p…

Note for the confused: Ecombi achieves this by heating the bricks to dramatically higher temperatures using conventional resistive heating elements, thereby storing more energy, ev…

>The drag coefficient was the headline: 12% better than our design target. Is the drag much better than a regular cubesat? It doesn't look tremendously aerodynamic. From the descri…

From the article: >Evercoast deployed a 56 camera RGB-D array Do you know which depth cameras they used?

Ask one of the hundreds of vending machine companies in the NYC area where they put them, I suppose. https://www.google.com/maps/search/vending+machine/@40.69452... I walked into a…

The only people who care about SSO are large enterprises. Coincidentally, large enterprises also are the only customers that make SAAS profitable. Every other plan is part of the s…

The author has got to be taking the piss with that page background. Constantly moving blobs, really?

Seems like a foreshock of AGI if the average human is no longer good enough to give feedback directly and the nets instead have to do recursive self improvement themselves.

Double time at 14 hours? IBEW local 46 starts double time after 10: https://ibew46.com/media/7641/071724iwtentativelyagreedto.pd...

O365 raising the price to $40 a month ten years from now didn't quite land. Microsoft 365 E5 is $57 a month right now! $100 or $1000 a month makes the joke clearer.

A couple thousand of them in the US https://carta.com/data/spv-spotlight-q3-2024/

I built a meter around a SCD30 six years ago. The self-calibration routine was not very good, for two reasons. 1) It had an unrealistically low default level, something like 380 pp…