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Agreed, but I'll just add that annular eclipses occupy an intermediate point on that scale. With a partial eclipse, shadows look odd and the sunlight "feels" noticeably dimmer and …

True, but predictability cuts both ways. We're all used to having to constantly update our browsers and phones to keep up with the security arms race. If a frozen model can't be up…

This is indeed a very elegant fastening method. I wouldn't be surprised if the designer of that CNC machine borrowed it from the popular Prusa MK2 3D printer, which uses a very sim…

I mean back in the day, those kinds of titles involved film editing, not video editing. As in, physically filming title cards with a camera (and then maybe optically compositing th…

Look up "long arm statutes". State courts can have jurisdiction over out-of-state entities, subject to limitations established by federal precedent. Doing business with customers w…

> therefore I write (hard?) sci-fi. This is not at all what Le Guin is saying! It's right there at the end of the essay: "I agree with my reviewer that I don’t write hard science f…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine)

There was a bit of a fad for stuff like this, maybe 20 years or so ago, as soon as browser JS/CSS support started getting good enough to support it. All of a sudden, we had the abi…

The official website ( https://www.staraxis.org/ ) has this to say: > Fundraising is currently underway to complete construction this year and plan for the future of Star Axis. Sta…

The coefficients are stored in writable memory as input data. Only the structure and degree of the polynomial are hard-coded in the program. So if the launch is delayed you just ch…

What does "no cash settlement" mean? If I sell a reservation, do I not get cash?

The short-term goal of a tool like this is to sell products. The more ambitious long-term goal is to shift cultural norms, blurring the lines between advertising and reality until …

Thanks!

Well the context is that it was posted to a subreddit for people who struggle with binge eating. So I guess you can think of it as the equivalent of sucking on a lollipop when you'…

One cool feature I've read about is that (at least some) GoPro cameras can save high-resolution IMU measurements to the recorded video files, timestamped and interleaved with video…

Being created by a "mechanical process" from an existing creative work doesn't mean it's not a derivative work. For instance, if I take a copy of $BIG_BUDGET_MOVIE, and resample th…

That's not meaningless at all, it's a great metric! If the "cost per correctly-solved benchmark task" is infinity, you know not to use the model.

No, they're talking about the clearance, which is the difference between the diameter of the bolt itself (1/4") and the diameter of a hole in which the bolt loosely fits (a couple …

The "how it works" page for that website says that the ID data is "digitally signed by the issuing government". But there doesn't seem to be anything in the docs about how to get o…

Where are you getting the information that this project hadn't been cleared? That seems like a big assumption, and I don't see anything in the linked tweet, or the replies, or any …

If you tolerate small abuses, and let people get accustomed to abusing their power in small meaningless ways, the abuses will only grow.

Well, the thing about reliability is that you can't really guarantee it by testing one particular scenario. It seems to me that neither the old nor the new version of the code is r…

The article doesn't link to it but this appears to be the repo in question: https://github.com/AasheeshLikePanner/lsm-tree-go I'm very amused by this obviously AI-generated "benchm…

This is an active area of research (look up papers that mention the "sim2real gap"). It is indeed a problem, but there are known strategies to deal with it.

> But on the other hand... this is a robust reminder that coding agents can do anything you can do by typing commands into a terminal—and frontier models know every trick in the bo…