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There are probably some other interesting adaptations involved, like the fact that the surface of a mantis shrimp's (shell? carapace?) selectively filters out sound waves (and thus, shockwaves caused by its own "punch").
People on HN really love small-scale fission nuclear when the sun is (gestures) right there.
That seems like a rather inefficient use of resources. How long will a fund typically keep that on the books before they have to offload the asset or declare bankruptcy? At a certain point, that smells like a scam with a real estate business attached to it.
The Failure to Launch episode about Qian, the Cultural Revolution, and the brief inter-departmental war and attempted "coup" at the defense research institute where he worked... was quite something.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rocket-scientist-g...
If Books Could Kill (which is notoriously against self-help books) did an episode on Dale Carnegie.
Even they said that he seemed to be a pretty alright guy who was genuinely nice to people in his personal life, not just in his public persona.
Often reminded of this passage from Hitchhiker's:
The Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious (MISPWOSO) is a fictional research institution from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
You can get alternative bulk mowable native lawn substitute seeds from the Thomas Payne Foundation.
It was written by an LLM, so... yeah.
As the author is dead, I'm sure the money goes towards site hosting fees.
When I learned that this person was one of the RISD art students who started Fort Thunder, it all made a lot of sense to me. That was by all accounts a very strange and unique intentional space for people who didn't want to live in a conventional manner.
Here's an archive of the old Fort Thunder website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20091025093813/http://fortthunde...
If it's already scanned, then you don't have to leave your desk.
It's amazing that so many "leaders" (esp. in tech) seemed to not worry about or even tacitly/openly supported the Trump admin, when so many other folks could clearly see the disaster looming on the horizon.
It's a great idea, but I feel like that way ends up with the nightmare scenario of each of us managing an AWS-style admin console for washing the dishes, etc.
That way lies madness, although I suppose there might be one or two family members I would want to lock out of the dishwasher.
operating too close to the operational limit, tipping over it, and then requiring a power cycle.
GPUs--they're just like us!
It's wild that these are the failure rates for datacenter-grade products. If you were pushing consumer GPU servers all-out, I would expect this kind of variation.
I expect it's not just a problem with Nvidia, though.
So.... motivated reasoning makes the world go 'round?
Don't let comments like this fool you, nuclear is far from being competitive with natural gas. Even in countries like south korea that can deploy nuclear the cheapest it's still $3/watt roughly.
People still insist that ecofascists(?) or NIMBYism is what killed nuclear, when the reality is that it was the coal industry.
Why are you calling Bennett et al "the Stanford... study" ? Not one person on that team went to Stanford.
Direct link to the poster presentation: http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf
You're making the roundabout argument that MSFT/OpenAI will one day go the way of Yahoo/Alibaba, which is wild.
Could also be an article placed by a competitor + a squeaky wheel.
This is important. There's a difference between charitable donations that are actually for the public interest vs. shadow lobbying by oil companies.
Most states (at least in the midwest) have not kept up with their obligations when it comes to funding the historical land grand universities ("state" university, etc.).
Historically, America has grown its population via immigration.
Whoops!
Until the VERY recent Chevron ruling, that's how Congress's powers were intepreted.
The Necessary and Proper Clause (or Elastic Clause) in the Constitution grants (or granted, I guess) this power.
It's wild to think how Republicans used to complain about activist judges, but the current Federalist Society slate has undone at least 100+ years of precedent in the last half dozen.
Okay. Let's say the low lows of a middle Sweden equivalent climate are brought more in line with current UK temp ranges. Let's say the winter temp goes up +10 degrees Celsius.
What happens then to, say, the Mediterranean at +10 C average temps? Seems quite bad, eh?
Great WTYP episode on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EQT1gVsE6I
After first publishing this article a helpful commenter let me know Logitech released the MX Ergo S in late 2024, with quieter switches, USB-C, and a $20 price increase. Let's just pretend I wrote this article a year ago! Still, at least this project let me avoid some e-waste.
This is slightly funny, but I've noticed over the years that Google's decline in function as a quality search engine has correlated with lots of wasted time on my end, DIY-ing things that I later found to already exist somewhere in the world.
"This isn't a problem yet" is the argument, but... if you do enough money laundering for long enough and grow the share of crypto as a share of the economy....
This is, unfortunately, a problem that many tech companies have made worse and more accessible as they have removed friction from these systems.
Most folks will remember the 2019 temination of lootbox key trading for CS:GO on Steam.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50262447
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/research-identifies-suspicious...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266628172...
I'm not sure what good ways there are to manage this generally, other than limiting the size or types of financial transactions that can occur within a system.
This is the way. Don't become VirusTotal for deepfakers.