1. darwinwhy Oct 2, 2025 parent

   Sparse Post-Quantum Ratchet, or SPQR. Someone at Signal is a Roman history enjoyer.
2. darwinwhy Sep 5, 2024 parent

   I believe it does unless you're another tech giant with billions of users / revenue.
3. darwinwhy Jul 26, 2024 parent

   I couldn't tell -- does this editor work with Remote ssh?
4. darwinwhy Jul 9, 2024 parent

   How much AAPL do you own?
5. darwinwhy Mar 6, 2024 parent

   Direct link to the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roada...
6. 12 points Dec 1, 2023

   You can't explain prisms without understanding springs [video]

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7. 2 points Sep 28, 2023

   I got 8M guests per hour in a First Aid Room [video]

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8. 10 points Sep 2, 2023

   3b1B: The origin of light, scattering, and polarization [video]

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9. darwinwhy Aug 13, 2023 parent

   I somehow doubt they're going to destroy Amazon anytime soon. The market they're in reminds me more of Blue Apron/Hellofresh than Uber/Lyft. May as well take advantage their funders' bad bet before the river.
10. darwinwhy Jul 18, 2023 parent

    Have you looked up small, light items on Amazon and seen that they pack them up packs of large N? They do that to hide the fact that delivery is actually a very large fraction of cost on such items. Food delivery, as mentioned in the OP, is another example.
11. darwinwhy Jul 18, 2023 parent

    I wonder whether they've considered the possibility of open-sourcing their apps and backend. Perhaps this is just Pollyannaism, but I tend to believe that workers' rights and open-source are the perfect match in a market like ridesharing. "Just goodenough" open source solutions have difficulty breaking through in consumer software (e.g. the mythical "year of the linux desktop"), but in a market like ridesharing, worker coordination could easily provide the push to critical mass.
12. darwinwhy May 24, 2023 parent

    > That means this thing won't be going to Hawaii any time soon.

    They claim Mokulele as one of their customers so presumably they can travel between some of the islands.

13. darwinwhy Apr 7, 2023 parent

    Is that a reasonable assumption to make? I don't think we have any evidence of other places we look being "largely the same" with respect to life conduciveness. It took billions of years for our own planet to achieve multicellular life, which is a significant fraction of our best estimate of the lifetime of the entire universe up to this point.
14. darwinwhy Apr 7, 2023 parent

    The first link in the article [1], to a blogpost about the etymology of the definition of "shard" that we now think of as the primary meaning of the word, is super interesting.

    The release of Ultima Online doesn't really seem too close to any inflection point of the word on Google Ngram, but I'm not sure exactly how close we should expect it to be to 1980 or 2000.

    1. https://www.raphkoster.com/2009/01/08/database-sharding-came...

15. darwinwhy Mar 28, 2023 parent

    When I think of an investor, I think of someone who picks and choses specific companies or sectors of the market to invest in. I'm curious what the Fed's tools allow it to invest in specific companies or sectors other than the economy as a whole. Can they get more targeted than an individual bank? Or is that the limit of their targeting power?
16. 1 point Mar 9, 2023

    The Universe Coaster, by Marcel Vos

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17. darwinwhy Dec 11, 2022 parent

    this took two prompts:
18. darwinwhy Dec 11, 2022 parent

    https://labs.openai.com/e/xsEDWhMgal51T9cpiEHdx08Y
19. darwinwhy Dec 11, 2022 parent

    https://labs.openai.com/e/xsEDWhMgal51T9cpiEHdx08Y
20. 1 point Dec 11, 2022

    Diffusion models can look surprisingly horrifying

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21. 2 points Sep 17, 2022

    Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra: Dataset and Model for English-Tamarian Translation

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22. darwinwhy Apr 15, 2022 parent

    Is it too much to hope the addition of this Reddit feature can help the Google algorithm improve?
23. darwinwhy Feb 28, 2022 parent

    That's really interesting. If they had waited for the value of the investment to plummet, would they get less of a write-off on their accounting?
24. darwinwhy Feb 4, 2022 parent

    Do it!

    https://loginwithhn.com/

25. darwinwhy Dec 26, 2021 parent

    I have a sudden urge to want to deep fake Steven Hawking's voice. I wonder both how the deep fake tech would handle Stephen Hawking as an input, and I'm just realizing that he just missed the survival threshold for being able to use this tech.
26. darwinwhy Dec 24, 2021 parent

    That's the joke.
27. darwinwhy Nov 2, 2021 parent

    SponsorBlock is open source. https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
28. darwinwhy Oct 28, 2021 parent

    This is very good news for them, since their services revenue looks to be at risk due to antitrust scrutiny.
29. darwinwhy Oct 28, 2021 parent

    Services revenue is at risk due to increased antitrust scrutiny worldwide. The more Apple focuses on services, the bigger the potential downside on their valuation.

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