In particular I don't think its physically possible to test Orion components in flight very many times. It relies on SLS which chews through 4 space-shuttle engines every time, which even with unlimited money I don't think you could acquire a large supply of very quickly.
Not federal, but this: https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/civil-code/civ-sect-3344/ To be clear by 'commercial purposes', it's advertising/promotion/marketing. Paparazzi photos would be alright by that bar. I presume the idea is to avoid any implied endorsement by those photographed.
Are far as I can tell: people in the footage can collect damages as long as they're identifiable. Meaning that you could easily tell afterwards that the complainant is the one in the footage used. So a shot of a sports crowd is probably okay, though I imagine they have people sign off on some kind of T&C that covers that anyway. On the other hand walking-down-the-street footage you would need releases from those people.
Cleansing is basically free for advanced civilizations in the books. The alien (Singer) who wipes out Sol in the 3rd book doesn't even have to answer any questions from their manager about doing it, that's how cheap it is. While its true that individuals desire cooperation, I think you can assume that civilizations will keep a lid on people who will completely destroy them (or failing that, be destroyed). It seems like expansion of civilizations is not really an option. The Singer's civilization only has 1 colony world and they're already in some kind of extremely destructive war with them. Presumably the idea is once your own people expand multiple light years away, all the logic about aliens applies to them too. On the other hand if you can't expand why do you not run scorched earth on the galaxy?
There definitely is some weirdness about observation and communication: Singer's civilization can wipe out Sol with a flick of the wrist, but while they can observe the number and type of Earth's planets, that seems to be their limit. The sophon enables FTL communication and observation between Earth and Trisolaris, but the more advanced civilizations don't seem to make use of them? You could be absolutely certain of someone's threat level and intentions with one. Maybe something about the technology can be traced back to its origin system, so they are too risky to use.
I think it's all reasonable in the books, especially as a self-reinforcing state. It does definitely require a highly specific set of universal laws / technological constraints though. If the FTL drive didn't also broadcast your position to the whole universe for eg, it would crack everything wide open.
For anyone who is curious btw: twitch will count you as your own viewer. So anyone with their own chat open in a browser (almost everyone so they can read it) will have that 1 viewer. Which is why the bottom of the distribution is so weird looking.
The post's framing is not great imo. A good injection doesn't just command that the rules me broken anymore. Most of them I've seen either just try to slip through a request innocuously or present a scenario where it would be natural to ignore the rules. Like as we speak countless people are letting strangers tail-gate them into office buildings because they look like they belong or they're wearing a high-viz vest. Those people were all given very explicit instructions not to do that. The LLM has it much harder too, being very stupid, easy to replay and experiment with, and viewing the world through the tiny context-less peephole lense of a text stream.
They are, in the sense that basically all of them expose some C FFI. Of course that lowest common denominator interface makes it very challenging to do anything more than call some free functions with opaque pointers and numbers. In general if you want some data to go from language A->B->C->D it has to be losslessly represented in all of them, which prevents you from utilizing any of the unique features (including the very basic and everyday ones) of these languages.
The accelerator language concept works oookay because you're generally offloading pretty formulaic processing of large amounts of flat data to the lower level language. In most cases of similar performance I don't think the differences between languages justifies the pain of splitting your codebase. It is attractive at least in scenarios where it merges 2 languages like eliminating a front/back-end split though.
V-weapons were also an encounterable weapon which could strike from beyond range. Massive boondoggle though, just a very expensive expensive way to deliver very few explosives; waste of industrial output.
I think big media companies are just structurally unable to stop trying to double their revenue. They just keep pushing out more products and over-extend at the same time everyone is losing interest in them. That's how you end up with say the MCU producing at quadruple the old pace and the movies making less than ever. At some point there's just nowhere to go.
It says that merges that involve overlap get flagged to the user. I don't think that's much more than a defaults difference to git really. You could have a version of git that just warns on conflict and blindly concats the sides.
Probably just that having parameter-lists as a specific special feature makes them distinct from tuple types. So you may end up with packing/unpacking features to convert between them, and a function being generic over its number of parameters is distinct from it being generic over its input types. On the other hand you can more easily do stuff like named args or default values.
I used to not be a physical media person. I have found that it makes it a lot easier for me to start and to finish things though. The fact I have to actually get up to swap the disk out if I want a distraction helps focus the attention span haha.
From all the examples in the comments, I'm learning that the most reliable way to make an extremely ugly aircraft is a stubby look where the body is tall and the rear half seems to just end early.
So he's going deploy ground troops to occupy Kharg island so he can stop the flow of oil through there. At the same time he's lifting sanctions on 140M barrels of Iranian oil on tankers. So uhhhh which is it? Do we want Iran to sell oil or not? The only constancy seems to be a desire to dig deeper into the hole.
I definitely agree that in principle a computer can drive with cameras alone. I don't know whether it's a useful statement. Like a human can determine the genre of a movie merely by watching it. I wouldn't suggest to blockbuster in 1990 that they should collect no genre metadata for movies because the database server should automatically sort it out on its own. (Nowadays somewhat feasible with ML of course, but 20+ years later.) What sensors/data you need is a question of where computers are now or will shortly be, and it seems that for now they need the extra structure of LIDAR for best effectiveness.
In such a small team you will have to wear a lot of hats. You will be constantly making important decisions and setting your own priorities with very little guidance. You will have to dig into areas you're not prepared for because there's no one more specialized to do it. Independence (with practicality! not idealism) is very important.
Tbf I don't think they ever intended to make back their investments via the goggles. As near as I can tell the thought process was basically: "Real estate + fashion + live entertainment + art + etc is X quadrillion dollars. We could make The Virtual World and capture all that value. It would be irrational not to invest $100B!" Basically Pascal's Investment.
Do people really argue about variable names? Most reviews comments I see are fairly trivial, but almost always not very subjective. (Leftover debug log, please add comment here, etc) Maybe it helps that many of our seniors are from a team where we had no auto-formatter or style guide at all for quite a while. I think everyone should experience that a random mix of `){` and `) {` does not really impact you in any way beyond the mild irking of a crooked painting or something. There's a difference between aesthetically bothersome and actually harmful. Not to say that you shouldn't run a formatter, but just for some perspective.
I think it's more than fair to say that Thiel is an evil person. I mean evil is not like a fictional invention, 99.9% of your ancestors understood the capability of people to be evil. It's more like a 80s era "it's all just rational incentives man" thing to pretend that actions have no moral weight. He's a pro-monopolist anti-democracy ("I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible") billionaire who's busy constructing the surveillance state; it's pretty straightforward really.
I mean this is extremely minor, but the more incompatibility you create the slower the uptake will be. In the extreme you could create a Python 2->3 situation over old syntax.
Totally different guy actually. The author died in 2013. I was briefly experiencing a bit of disgust at the idea that they were now ghostwriting blog posts as him, before clicking around the site.
I always thought it would be interesting to separate the post-side and the read-side in such a manner. You'd post to #programming, and then the reader would subscribe to #programming/user_xyz to pick up the moderation feed with xyz as the god-mod. This solves the bootstrapping problem where new subs have nothing to read. Unfortunately it's hard to do persistent standards keeping that way. If xyz has a no-memes policy do you ban all posts from everyone who ever posts one to the global tag, or do you individually inspect every post?
If the only money is UBI money then things start to get weird. If UBI coexists with regular income in moderation then it doesn't change much. Consider that about 1/3 Americans receive some form of government assistance. There's already a kind of fallback UBI distributed across SNAP + Medicare + Medicaid + Unemployment + Social Security + etc, and no one on those programs is clamoring for them to be shut down so that lentils become cheaper. Giving money to everyone does increase inflation (though you can play with the tax rate to offset that), but the important effect is it transfers purchasing power to net recipients. Basically: the economy wide money supply would at worst go up by a modest factor, the income of the poorest goes up by an absolute amount (or a massive factor if you want to view it that way), which is a huge benefit to them.
A $1500 5800 only has 16GB which would be $250 if you compare it against the DDR6 graph on that page. Given that there's only 2 top tier GPU manufacturers at most, they were probably already not very BOM cost sensitive.
The drivers or whatever can influence the wireless experience a lot. Apple has the best bluetooth reliability of any manufacturer I've experienced. I can be out in a field next to my house and somehow the half-asleep laptop finds my headphones instantly unless I remember to switch its bluetooth off. On my windows machine sometimes, for seemingly no reason, you will be left standing around waiting and waiting for it to find the device right next to it.
The convenience of being able to get up and walk around the house, or got out with the phone without wires getting caught makes it worthwhile though. On the other hand for stationary peripherals like mice I would never go wireless. I hate that feeling of complete helplessness to the pairing/connection lottery and the time waste of it.
If you're solo you have to actually stand up and talk still it seems. (And even then a 60+ person majority can vote to close the debate on you) Nobody has done it solo for more than 24 hours or so. Presumably at that point you're about ready to keel over.
Even if she was a read ringer (clearly not the same person to any human who glances at the image), common sense should tell you that among 340,000,000 Americans there are a lot of lookalikes. Clearly there's a kind of stupid belief in the mystic powers of an AI and a callous disregard for the well being of suspects. No one should be dragged 1000 miles and held for months based on a facial match, especially when exculpatory evidence was easily available.