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Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:42PM (#50124365)
Out of curiosity, how do you define flight? To me, I think the Roadster flew because it clearly maintained powered propulsion after leaving the ground. Sure, it only flew for a few seconds, but it's not far from the Wright Bros.' first flight.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:46PM (#50113826)
Sounds like it was just compressed air (rechargeable on the fly). Impressive if true.
Problem is, where do you take a company like this if you want peace of mind that the new host country won't immediately try to pass a similar law?
Re:Meta VR Glasses on Thursday September 24, 2026 @07:02AM (#49828927)
Most other VR headsets don't put their entire weight on your nose and ears.
More than testing. That is their primary on-orbit link method for Starlink satellites as of 2.5 years ago: https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-laser-system-is-beaming...
Re:The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:58PM (#49792540)
Knowing Jared Isaacman, he won't let MSR die without a fight. It wouldn't shock me to see NASA consider Rocket Lab's MSR proposal; they had submitted a pretty affordable proposal some time ago.
Sorry for the late reply. They require you to unplug the entire drive and plug it back in to properly recognize a new disk.
FWIW, it turns out that all USB floppy drives nowadays are made in the same factory, and all of them are kinda glitchy. Go buy an older model on eBay instead of buying new.
Re:I resigned from Anthropic today on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:34PM (#49619656)
My thoughts exactly. While the corpus of human-generated data contains both good and bad data, I suspect the majority of it leans towards humans enjoying life and trying to be decent people. If that is your training set, it becomes less likely for ASI to extrapolate "kill all humans."
I was thinking maybe reverse engineering newer Apple Silicon devices to port Linux.
Re:Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise on Friday August 21, 2026 @07:21AM (#49386480)
How about building another fab first?
Re:Stealth Model on Friday August 21, 2026 @07:02AM (#49386353)
Sounds like this could be GLM 5.3 vision. Reports said that outputs were identical to base GLM 5.3.
Re:DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp on Friday August 21, 2026 @07:00AM (#49386339)
I've heard that DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731 has frequently assumed that it has vision capabilities and then resorts to inventing text-based image analysis tools when it finds that it actually can't see. In that case, this is a great upgrade for the model.

Anecdotally, I had to tell 0731 to refrain from viewing screenshots since it kept breaking its sessions by trying to read images.

Re:Git at Any Scale on Thursday August 20, 2026 @08:46PM (#49382277)
Cursor's entire schtick is providing AI coding tools. I'll give you one guess as to what they probably used for the diagrams.
Re:Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:30PM (#49323370)
Toyota TSS3 is in fact encrypted; openpilot users who have TSS3 have to manually extract decryption keys from their cars to be able to talk on the CAN bus.

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