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minitoar··on We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines
Is there anything stopping a franchise from putting 2? I think it can’t be required because they have to meet some sort of smallest viable footprint.
minitoar··on The IPv6 Transition
What? I don’t write a check to Google to use their email. It’s free.
minitoar··on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
Right, I thought this was just an arms race for tools that can generate output to fool other tools.
minitoar··on Software Engineer Titles Have Almost Lost All Their Meaning
My title became what it is purely so employers could fit me into a comp band that was competitive.
minitoar··on The IPv6 Transition
Most people are totally fine relaying everything through a third party. A vanishingly small number of email users host it themselves.
minitoar··on Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate
You’re thinking of a quantum jump. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quantum%20leap
minitoar··on Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
True, but I guess some societies decided there was a greater good in that very specific context.
minitoar··on Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
No, I’m not making a comparison to the holocaust. Thanks for asking.
minitoar··on Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
This isn’t paraphrasing, it’s referencing. The reference has become synonymous with saying “this is a slippery slope for X”.

As to your use of the argument in the other direction, I’d say it doesn’t work very well because no one with any power is coming for those things.

minitoar··on Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
First they came for fashion magazines, and I said nothing.
minitoar··on The electrifying rise and litigious fall of energy beer
I think that practice came to be when 4loko was forced to lower the caffeine content.
minitoar··on Analyzing my electricity consumption
I think the consequence would be less freezer burn and more frost buildup.
minitoar··on Analyzing my electricity consumption
That was just for local real-time monitoring iirc, using eg an Emporia Vue. I think you can still get the data from their website.
minitoar··on Analyzing my electricity consumption
Most freezers already do a defrost cycle so could probably play with that. It’s only a few degrees oscillation so idk how much savings you could get there.
minitoar··on Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
Right, that’s a nice way of thinking about it.
minitoar··on Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
If you have enough of them you can just lose some fraction and still function.
minitoar··on Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
Just go read the starshot proposal. They address all of these issues, some more convincingly than others but they have thought it out in great detail.

In short, it’s a swarm of gram-scale probes and they work together to transmit.

minitoar··on The one-year anniversary of my total glossectomy
Yes, Long Island is known for having cancer clusters.
minitoar··on Swarming Proxima Centauri: Picospacecraft Swarms over Interstellar Distances
No, it’s a relativistic flyby.
minitoar··on One malicious car could trick smart traffic control systems in the US (2018)
As far as I know all of the sensors that are embedded in the pavement use inductance.
minitoar··on One malicious car could trick smart traffic control systems in the US (2018)
I found steel rims to almost always work as long as you put it right over the middle line. In CA they often paint a little bike where you need to put it.
minitoar··on One malicious car could trick smart traffic control systems in the US (2018)
that doesn’t work for the majority of these sensors as they rely on inductance
minitoar··on Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season
I believe those two events differ in frequency by at least a few orders of magnitude.
minitoar··on How Shazam Works (2003) [pdf]
Dang is sorta like Shazam for hn articles.
minitoar··on Scaling will never get us to AGI
No, I think he meant they are literally here. I see one everyday.
minitoar··on How the biggest plane would supersize wind energy
That makes sense. They need lots of weird long rig components.
minitoar··on Let's talk about joins
The reason those tools have more limited support for joins is mainly because they are making intentional trade offs in favor of other features, eg performance in a particular domain.
minitoar··on A Lufthansa A350's frustrating Oakland diversion
He would be in the wrong to wait and then declare a fuel emergency. He’s supposed to divert once he reaches a certain level. Only if he then had some problem diverting would declaring a fuel emergency become a real option.
minitoar··on US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving 'ignition' over and over
For computing devices being smaller typically means using less energy as well, so it’s a bit different than a power generation facility where the whole point is power.
minitoar··on The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year
I think they’re trying to limit it to “families” being more than 1 generation and more than 1 person.
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