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Re:Bleached corals thrive within days on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:31PM (#50143259)
Corals are warm water animals, so it's pretty obvious that they'll grow out more when the water gets warmer.
Re:Bleached corals thrive within days on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:20PM (#50143142)
Most parts of the planet have never been survivable to humans. That's why we have invented fire, clothes, houses, air conditioning, water pipes, etc. And that continues to be the case whatever happens to the planet.
How about context length? Isn't it still just a few thousand tokens on local models?
Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @09:49PM (#50127078)
Rocket version also has an additional 400 liter COPV which takes up the passenger seat. Thrust version has a 200 liter COPV behind the seats.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:32PM (#50113223)
No, they're cold gas thrusters. The car has an air compressor, a composite overwrapped pressure vessel (COPV) and 10 nozzles.
Re:What's Earth's dominant species by mass? on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:50AM (#49990936)
The answer is Black Spruce with 11 billion tons of biomass.

The infographics is worth looking at. All animals are just 0.4% of total biomass, and most of that is arthropods, fish, annelids, molluscs and cnidarians. Humans, live stock, birds and wild mammals combined are just about 0.02% of the total biomass.

What kind of dataset is used to train DLSS 5? Do they need to generate synthetic image pairs first?
We've now learned that this isn't true for all migrant groups, and it has been an extremely costly mistake to make. Demographic replacement can't work positively if the productivity of migrants is below of the original demographic, and actually makes the situation worse. Europe might have learned this too late, but at least now EU and most European countries are changing course.
Re:Toyota is finally taking its best-seller electric on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:42PM (#49839254)
Read the original question again.
Re:Toyota is finally taking its best-seller electric on Thursday September 24, 2026 @04:01PM (#49836077)
You're wrong. The best-selling vehicle is the Flying Pigeon bicycle, the standard bicycle from Mao-era China with more than 500 million produced since 1950.
Re:Apple's Dimensional Drawings on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:54PM (#49702061)
It's a stroke font / SHX font produced by the CAD software, but difficult to know which one. They aren't actual fonts, but just single-stroke vector shapes. Claude thinks it's from PTC Creo Parametric, but I couldn't find any clear examples to confirm or deny.
Re:Stop Thinking of LLMs as Next-Token Predictors on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:05PM (#49569579)
It's a next-token computer. It computes the probabilities for the next token.
Re:My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality on Sunday August 23, 2026 @04:07PM (#49412104)
I feel like claude.md is like Asimov's laws of robotics. Whatever you write there ends up eventually messing up everything.
Re:I Made Tinnitus My Friend (Then It Disappeared) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @07:18PM (#49237257)
I have had occasional tinnitus, and once it lasted for a few months and then went away. Sometimes it appears suddenly, and I've taken vitamin B12 and magnesium and it goes away in a few hours. Vitamin D might also help according to some studies, but in my case I think it might make it worse. Not sure if placebo or not.
Yeah, these types of actuators are pretty interesting, but I've not seen anything super promising yet.
What innovations specifically?
I don't think electric motors + reduction gears can be improved much, unless I'm missing something. I hope someone invents something completely new.
G1 is a small robot designed for agility, and can't do much real work. That's why it uses lower reduction actuators with low sustained torques, and it'll overheat easily in continuous work. Many of the larger robots (Optimus, Figure, BD Atlas) use higher reduction actuators with strain waves or planetary roller screws. They're designed for higher sustained torques, but are also less agile and less safe for humans to be around. They're also quite heavy (BD Atlas is 90kg), and still can't match human performance.
I think the only real barriers are ethical. I'm pretty sure we'll figure out to do a completely synthetic biological robots without any kind of biological brain in the next 10-20 years, and they don't even have to resemble animals or humans. This should alleviate some of the ethical issues.
I think they're doing it the other way around, i.e. growing a biological brain for the AI, which would then be used in a robot.
Well, a giraffe could do jobs where you need to reach high, such as replacing a lightbulb. Sure, I'm half-joking.

Asimo used BLDC motors with strain-wave gearing, which is pretty much standard today on high-end humanoid robots. The only thing that has happened is that these are much cheaper today, and might be slightly more optimized.

I've kind of given up on humanoid robotics, because of how bad the actuators are. There has been no innovation in robotic actuators since Honda's Asimo. There's just no way that someone wants a 80kg wobbling tin can in their home or workplace.

My bet is that the final robotic revolution will use genetically modified human/animal bodies with replaced brains. You'll have to stretch your ethics a bit, but if you grow a bear genetically modified in a way that it has no consciousness or thought, it'll make a much better construction worker than any humanoid robot. You'll just need to wire it up with neuralink and then control it via LLM. Fast animals can be used to deliver packages, and giraffes for warehouses.

Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] on Friday July 24, 2026 @08:16PM (#49043210)
It is still about space. AI and space computers are just the vehicle to fund it all.
You wouldn't distill a car.
how is babby formed? how girl get pragnent?
I don't think this is true at all. I've been experimenting with a physical sky / atmosphere modeling, and it really seems that the most physically accurate sky is the most beautiful. I think this applies more generally to all light and shadows, and all natural effects which people perceive as beautiful, and at the same time difficult / expensive to recreate on a computer.
Re:Blender 5.2 LTS on Sunday July 19, 2026 @11:15AM (#48968911)
I read tutorials, but the UI was also more intuitive / discoverable than Blender. It's been over 20 years since I last used it though, but I remember it being much easier to use than Blender today. I could model, texture and animate a full game character from scratch by just learning the basic UI.
Re:Blender 5.2 LTS on Sunday July 19, 2026 @10:28AM (#48968499)
I used to use 3ds Max and I find the Blender's UI really terrible after years of occasional use. It's very unintuitive and you'll have to learn everything from tutorials / reading Blender forums. It seems to have many annoying quirks, which make me angry every time I use it.
Re:Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript Runtime and Ecosystem on Sunday July 12, 2026 @08:03AM (#48880477)
Does it support WebGPU?
Re:What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI on Sunday July 12, 2026 @12:02AM (#48878137)
Isn't it assumed that the AI agent is allowed to read your files in the directory you launch the harness? Most agents read your code on the first prompt, including any secrets you have there, which you shouldn't have. Also the .env file is for local environment, and shouldn't contain any actual secrets. AI agents should be isolated from any actual secrets, because they can't be trusted to follow instructions.

If you adjust your expectations, I think it's be better to upload the code to their servers instead of sending it through context over and over again.

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