sandworm101
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>> I don't see how you can have an independent business and be entirely dependent on third party for your operations
Like a lumber mill that buys logs from a logging company? Who subcontracts to individual fallers? Who buy their chainsaws from a chainsaw company, their fuel from a petrochemical company? No business isn't entirely dependent on third parties. That's what it means to exist in a healthy economy.
A "farm-to-table" megacorp that owns everything from the source of every raw material through to the finished product is a nightmare, an entity that needs to be reigned in and broken up. Capitalism is a competitive game, but a game that can never be allowed to end.
GMs also have access to a greater number of memorized situations. Regardless of whether they are conscious of it or not, they have previously analyzed so many moves that they can cut off branches they just know instinctively to be dead ends. Machines could do this, directly reference a massive dataset of precomputed board positions, but that isn't considered a proper chess engine... despite the fact that human GMs do use such techniques.
Ya, when we specifically ask for hallucinated data we call it _inferred_ data. As I want "good" pictures, I give the system permission to add/remove/infer/hallucinate whatever data it can to achieve a "good" image. Very soon we will all look like supermodels... at least in photos.
Not everyone is a socmed influencer. Some of us want to take pictures that match reality.
Lol. The author seems to think that people only deserve privacy when in color. Faces are blocked in the original color image but not in the black-and-white depth image.
>> what does using an LLM do that ublock doesn’t
It burns through tokens/electricity.
In all seriousness, far too many people think "throw AI at it" will solve every tech problem. AI remains inefficient, power hungry and mercurial. Replacing an adblocker or firewall with a constantly-running AI is as efficient and useful as rocket motors on a car.
Nope. Speed doesnt contribute to crater depth. Faster makes a wider crater, not a deeper one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_depth
When the object is near supersonic spèeds (throught the various materials) even the strenght of the materials becomes very secondary. A meteor made of sand makes the same crater as one made of stone.
Distantly. The all wore makeup at work.
These days? All rules are maybe this or maybe that depending on political winds.
Frankly, no company should be allowed to IPO without showing steady profit. An exchange or index that promotes IPOs of unprofitable companies diminishes its reputation, and the reputation of all other stocks it indexes.
Marion Morrison was a definitive male role model.
>> Same reason we used to read Euclid in class and make students demonstrate countless proofs.
Key phrase: "Read Euclid". American schools do not read about math. They are taught to do math. They do not read anything written by the people who created it. They are not given context. They are given set problems and taught how to solve them using prescribed methods. More often than not, this results in lackluster understanding.
I did an AP course at school where we had to write a paper on a subject. Not a problem set. Not a proof. An actual paper about a mathematical concept. I did mine on the mathematics behind various methods for counting cards.
But that isn't coffin corner. The "coffin" is a part of a flight envelope where departure results in near-certain horrible outcomes (ie too fast and wings fall off coupled with too slow and the resulting stall also rips the wings off). A lear or any other business jet is designed specifically to avoid any such things. It should stall, but not in any lethal way. And a lear is small enough that no storm should do things like rip bits off the aircraft. A thunderstorm will toss it around like a tennis ball in a washing machine, but wings/tails should not separate from the aircraft.
The fuel would not have contributed to the crater. Fuel does not explode, not at the speed needed to form a crater. It requires oxygen. No matter how much fuel was present, there was not enough oxygen in the immediate vicinity of the crash to burn that much fuel.
The fact that there was a fire long after the impact shows the fuel was not burnt in the crash. Fuel hung around long enough to still be burning at least several seconds afterwards, long after the crater was formed. That is why it wasn't a missile. Missiles use high explosives (propellants and warheads) which burn up all at once to generally leave a non-burning crater.
Some back-of-napkin math yields a crater depth of a little under a meter ... which is in the ballpark of images.
aircraft (1.5m radius cylinder x 18m long) at 6700kg = 51.54 kg/m3 aircraft density... over ~1,500kg/m3 average soil density x aircraft 18m length = 0.63m
=.63m / 2-foot penetration below ground level... which is what the pictures show.
Soil is dense. Aircraft are marshmallows compared to soil.
It wasn't coffin corner. This was a Lear at reasonable altitudes, not a U2 at the edge of space. The death spiral suggest a loss of control authority. It is conceivable that one wing severely iced to the point of unrecoverable asymmetric lift but I think it was something more the icing. It might have lost part of its wing, or the controls on one wing locked into an unrecoverable position.
In the pictures, the flaps appear present but not extended. If they had been extended they would have ripped away at that speed. And they would not have been able to lower them after the overspeed began. I think the answer is in the control system. One or more control surfaces were doing something other than commanded.
Some images seem to indicate a loss/absence of the horizontal stabilizer, but it is hard to tell AI from real these days.
Well ya, nothing on earth moves that fast, but the speed of power/signal in a grid is a speed described using direct reference to c, as opposed to the frequency of AC current which is measurable in frequencies we can actually appreciate with our own ears/eyes. They are in different leagues.
I see many two-way trips, especially in the north. Some are "December 2025" with one reading followed by "January 2026" with a consistently different reading between trip sets. It looks like someone driving to/from grandma's house for Christmas.
The distinctly different readings on each leg of the trip suggests a rather unscientific methodology, radiation stable to the detector rather than a measurement of background. Maybe someone picked up some banana bread at grandma's for the drive home?
>> explain why this was apparently so difficult to find out?
Likely because the source of the noise was a class of energy providers that themselves react to fluctuation in the grid. Electricity may travel at the speed of light but all the little switches and transistors that connect/disconnect suppliers do not. It would have been noise within noise.
>> will encrypt the data before it's written to disk
The people buying much of these "hardware encryption" products do so because they believe it removes the need for software encryption to/from the device.
Strange fact: in terms of heat energy, the hiroshima bomb released far less energy than the fire it ignited. Much of the total destruction seen in footage was the result of the massive instantaneous fire of a woodem city. Had it been a concrete city, things would have looked very different.
A forest fire can release many hiroshimas of energy every day, and canada has more than a few of those each year.
Back when APTs were getting numbers, the joke was that Microsoft was "APT -1". The presence of windows/excel/outlook in your network was more of a threat than Anonymous, China and the DPRK put together.
>> all matter will eventually decay or annihilate and all that's left will be massless radiation such as photons. If this happens then the concept of space and time itself will cease since from within the reference frame of a photon space and time are undefined.
So all matter is pushed out (dark energy) eventually reaching its own event horizon in the dimension we call time, then continues as photons (Hawking radiation). And eventually after all the matter has done so, everything collapses and this universe ends? Sounds like we are in an aging BH to me.
23 years old. "Played football four times a week and felt fit and healthy."
Not necessarily an eating disorder, but there is high likelihood she is on some sort of diet regime. My money would be on low blood sugar lighting the fire on the vitamin D deficiency. I have seen more than a few "fit" marathon types collapse after missing/skipping a meal. They just don't have the reserves.
Ask a bank. Banks do not keep individual piles of cash for each depositor. Why do they put everyone's money into one big pile? See the movie It's A Wonderful Life for the famous monologue justifying the practice.
>> Newtonian gravity calculations are quite spot on
Which is why the concept existed long long before any talk of relativity or time dilation, back before anyone knew the name Einstein. (He was like 4yo when this came out)
From American Physical Society:
"the true “father” of the black hole concept was a humble 18th century English rector named John Michell–a man so far ahead of his scientific contemporaries that his ideas languished in obscurity, until they were re-invented more than a century later."
https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2009/11/1783-john-michell-black-...
>> how I discovered vibe gaming.
No. Just no. AI has to stop. Today. The concept of half-assed "vibe gaming" is a bridge too far. Want to watch someone else play minecraft? That is what youtube is for.
Yes, but only if the organization is cooperative. Say you are a cop in Paris investigating some shady bitcoin transactions. But the mixer is in Japan. So you spend a year getting their records, only to point to another mixer in Canada. The goal isn't mathematical untraceability, just increasing the burden on investigators to the point they move on to easier targets. There are always lots of speeding tickets that need handing out.
They deposit the coins into organisations that mix coins from various customers. Its just like a bank. You deposit a fake/stollen 100$ bill one day and, if they accept it, you can withdraw a totally different 100$ bill from an ATM the next day.
"Oracle" being the cover for crypto bros who dont want to admit they need "the legal system" to fix thier mess. Its all idiology and freedom when you are poor but once you actually own something of value, like a flat, suddenly you want lawyers and police to keep you safe from bad people.
Once upon a time American-made televisions were a thing, back in the days of tubes. Television repair was a legitimate trade. Then Japanese electronics companies entered the market. Because of supply chain distances, and politics, they knew that servicing TVs in the US would be difficult. So the Japanese manufacturers decided to make TVs that would not need repair. And American TVs basically disappeared.
I'm not saying that will happen with cars, but it is something to think about.
Batteries (and their associated HV switching gear) are slow to react and have very limited lifespans, on the order of a few years. That's why your washing machine uses a capacitor to start its motor rather than a battery. Even capacitors are not as reactive as an already spinning mass.