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Also everything hes saying about China (and other actors) many outside the USA would say about the USA. The solution of a global arms race of state vs state with integrated statist…

Soulseek is still going strong last time i checked

Other countries will provide if the US doesnt

Surely for most the desire is just an LLM provider that doesnt store or sell their queries (including by national actors). As long as that is allowed to happen surely its the answe…

OpenSCAD uses CSG which is generally better. Easy to convert CSG to BREP. Cant generally do the opposite

Surely its the same hierarchy as before. For most complex things you start with high level to get something running quickly then move towards low level when you bed down the spec a…

Yeah its huge demand upswing from the growth of openclaw and similar pushing resources. Very clear from recent changes and announcement around this [0] Fwiw there are worse delays …

No surprises many people on YCs site align with Sam Altmans view of the world - right or wrong.

Its a well researched area. My understanding is for most use cases and data like this R trees outperform as bounding box comparisons are fast to run and the bounding boxes tend to …

For use cases like this - long term geospatial people still use postgis as foundational - mainly for its speed at scale and spatial indexing. For the wider tech world - I would say…

Agree with this. They are re-solving a problem that has been solved better by others before (with R-trees). They may well be using some data storage where spatial indexing is not p…

Theres only one solution to this problem and its 2 data centres in some way or form

Or just do what the Japanese do - remove unlimited (and overnight) on-street parking in urban areas and require anyone owning a car to prove they have a private parking spot to hou…

Looks great. I wish there was similar advancement for full 3d tiles. The only real option at the moment is cesiums 3d tiles format which is nowhere near as fast as it could/should …

"it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

The other side is lack of colourfast pigments back then. Underlayers would be cheap and colourfast. Top layers would usually be more expensive and deteriorate much more quickly.

If you read the rhetoric it is not about removing commercial exploitation of children. It is about removing child bullying, grooming and algorithms that lead to things like misogyn…

The bar is incredibly low considering what OpenAI has done as a "not for profit"

I dont think youd get less rich-people-friendly decisions from ccongress. It may well be the opposite. Certainly it removes some of the separation of powers.

One view is that the western idea of "good taste" was informed by people looking at greek and roman statues and buildings and incorrectly assuming they were always intended to be p…

I can see it for programmers. Here you can use industry standard python libraries (shapely, geopandas etc.). Nobody really wants to learn PyQGIS (the python interface for qgis). So…

A huge part of poorly designed roads is wider lanes (and parking spaces) that allow/encourage huge cars. Its been proven that narrower lanes correlate strongly with lower crash and…

Its a division of responsibilities thing isnt it? "Proper coders" in python or whatever provide up to an API. Past that its basically the web devs domain and they live in JS land

> But as long as OpenAI remains the go-to for the average consumer, they be fine. This is like the argument of a couple of years ago "as long as Tesla remains ahead of the Chinese …