Aaron
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@budgetkilldozer @CsabaSzekely7 @TerribleMaps Probably a lot easier to go from Chicago to New Orleans by boat
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@CsabaSzekely7 @TerribleMaps new orleans to chicago by boat is crazy
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Why has the US not built a canal here to rival the Panama Canal?
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@blind_via @fuzziphy I don't think the problem is finding the materials, they're not uncommon, they just appear in very small amounts. The issue is refining, it's environmentally messy and so we outsourced all the pollution to China. We have old mines with huge piles of tailings with REE
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Startup Idea: Mass production of Brushless motors. This is now a national security interest. And that statement applies to whatever region you belong to. You need to make it locally as a critical supply chain you cannot afford to be without. PCBs have been a national security interest for a long time. this one is relatively new. Ripe for innovation and local market opportunities to be claimed.
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@servomechanica Is it for the NEO laptops, they're basically iphones in a laptop shell?
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principal silicon engineer, apple inc.: "wait hold on, why are there *two* USB phy macros in the a19 pro requirements. the iphone only has one port
apple silicon VP:
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@venturepictures I have to wonder, do they all agree in advance which way is "up"? I mean obviously they all determine "We're going to point towards the direction we're moving in" but for roll it's arbitrary, yet here everyone is "right side up". Is there an established local plane?
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I decided to do a little original fleet composition for fun. What’s your backstory to this? Who are these people? What are they doing? Comment to let me know.
Models by Irvine Wang animation made in Blender 3D by me
#scifi #spaceship #blender
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@Orbital_Perigee @RKLBMan Can they use the battery struts to hold cylindrical batteries, so the space isn't wasted and gets the center of mass nice and low?
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@RKLBMan they’d be fine if they didn’t keep coming in at a thousand miles an hour sideways
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I hoped the legs would be a bit wider...
the space cpa@thespacecpa
$LUNR - The official name of IM-3 is “Trinity” as disclosed within the AAS GN&C Conference last month.
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The cool thing about these places is that they still have large industrial capacity, which will be useful as the value of software goes to zero
Fraser@iamfra5er
Name a worse place to build a startup than this area I highly doubt you can
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xAI needs an IDE code editor @elonmusk
Austen Allred@Austen
If I were them I’d get to partner like crazy and start working with xAI
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@jeff_foust @JCOviedo6 It's not even rapidly usable, let alone rapidly reusable
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This comes nearly six weeks after Musk said the next Starship launch would be in… six weeks. x.com/elonmusk/statu…
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Starship V3 first flight in about 4 weeks
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@1llegalEngineer @odinthenerd @jlcjak Are there much cheaper alternatives for people who are doing rudimentary electronics? Like a joule thief is a bad example because the frequency gets insanely fast, right? Newb who was curious about an oscilloscope to understand the jewel theif, but realized it'd be $$
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@odinthenerd @jlcjak doesn't the price of modern oscilloscopes mostly consist of the gazillion dollars fpga required for it?
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USS TYPHOON. the Battlestar of Star Trek. #StarTrek
b@wwxwashere
show me a ship you'd defend no matter what
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@the_engi_nerd I asked the folks in Network Group once about MPLS, and if they'd let us set MPLS tags on the VM hosts to do virtual networking, and they basically told me they would never trust devices they didn't control to do that, and to get out of their area.
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computer networking people, what is the first word that comes to mind when I say "MPLS switched network"?
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@pronounced_kyle Would be a great use case for nuclear. And solar could actually useful because there's far more people there during the 100% daylight (summer) vs. the long night.
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The heating bill for a normal winter at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is $11,182,500.
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@BenderDrummer Can it also do EDM? And pick and place on any PCB I put in there
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i have designed a machine which does casting and machining in one desktop machining center
it is for sale
Cody James 🇺🇸@codyaims
You literally can't buy this product it's been advertised for years and is not for sale anywhere
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Aaron retweetet
水道水と言えば鳥取に移って直ぐの頃、現地の海水から約5000万年前に絶滅したはずの種の破片を見つけ、コンタミだと思って大掃除をしても解決せず、器具の下洗いに使っていた水道水まで疑って調べた事があります（水道水はシロ）。後に絶滅したはずの種が鳥取の海で生き残っているのを発見して驚愕！
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@Ex0byt @petefm8000 @maderix Can you model something like every time a memory is useful it's cache lifetime is extended, and it's overall relevance score increases. prune things that fall below thresholds?
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@petefm8000 @maderix Genuinely a hard problem. Intuitively what Juno’s to mind: accumulation filtering, step weight freezing/rollback (versioning), and loss function temporal weighting. Check out O-LoRA and DARE pruning methods. The idea is checkpoint, overwrite, not blend.
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Curiosity got the best of me again: so I hacked J.A.R.V.I.S to update its own model weights (`brain`) mid-conversation — every time it responds, Apple's Neural Engine fires in the background, runs LoRA backprop via reverse-engineered private API (github.com/maderix/ANE), and updates the model weights before you finish reading the reply (~8 Second loop).
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@VisforVeteran @codyaims I think that's probably the other containers sitting nearby. ;) I take your point and agree, though, it's not like there's a lot of copper to make motor windings in the crate. At best they're making frame sections or other bulky components from pellets.
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LUCAS <> COLAB pic from last year
2 unspecialized guys can learn all the skills to make practically unlimited units, from anywhere in the world
Christian Keil@pronounced_kyle
It is pretty remarkable — and incredibly American — that the new LUCAS drones are being built by 13 dudes in Arizona. Unveiled last July. In combat by February, 227 days later.
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@codyaims ...how much of the BOM can be made in a container?
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@badlogicgames @carsonfarmer Maybe those volunteer humans just go through and pick out the 1 or 2 issues a day that are legit? Reduce the incoming filter back to manageable levels, but ultimate decision making remains the same as it was? Just an idea
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@carsonfarmer sorry, didn't want to sound dismissive! truely appreciate the offer. got a few things cooking at the moment, so didn't have much time thinking about onboarding trusted contributors.
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yeah, i think that's it for OSS. opened the tracker last night. +20 issues in less than 24h. there's absolutely not chance i can make this suistainable, especially since this is a hobby.
open to ideas. i can deal with 5-10 issues per day. this is just too much.
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@pvncher @badlogicgames Another option is for people to supply something like an OpenRouter API key with a fixed $$ amount on it that is used to run other LLMs to vet those changes, looking for ones that don't break builds actually solves problems etc? Leverage AI to sort the AI wheat from chaff?
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@badlogicgames How about this:
The repo that’s public is a mirror of a private repo
You sell a subscription to people who want to submit a pr. It can even be $1/mo. Paying users get to work on the real private repo.
Proceeds can even be donated upstream.
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