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- xaropeI stand corrected, my memory recalled the old star fleet battles BB class(!)
- I thought the BB class was no longer relevant in today's modern, missile and drone oriented naval battle fields?
- some companies don't have a choice; in a previous AEC job (architecture/engineering/construction), we had to deploy windows to use Autodeck Revit.
Now servers and other backend stuff, on the other hand, linux and illumos.
- for context, he was referring to a physical methodology, which requires a lot of training and knowledge of usage application.
As analogy, I don't think you'd treat "using API XYZ 10,000 times" the same as "serving an ace in tennis, 10,000" times.
- literally anthropomorphizing AI agents.
To be fair, I certainly name my tools. But I didn't have to use AI to invent a whole bunch of "personalities" for them.
- "If you can reduce a problem to a robust test suite you can set a coding agent loop loose on it with a high degree of confidence that it will eventually succeed"
I'm a bit sad about this; I'd rather have "had fun" doing the coding, and get AI to create the test cases, than vice versa.
- “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I do a lot of stuff that people think is "hard work", but as they say, physical pain is fleeting, and I typically have a half-dozen or more small and large goals that I am working towards, that requires such "hard work". So, perhaps I yearn for the vast and endless.... something?
- I dunno, I switch between grey and gray all the time; comes with having worked in so many different countries.
- there's a recent one about using poetry to bypass safeguards
... rummages around...
here you go:
- your answer seems very specific on joules. Could you explain your calculations, since I cannot comprehend the mapping of how you would get a liter of gasoline to 16.8m tokens? e.g. does that assume 100% conversion to energy, not taking into account heat loss, transfer loss, etc?
(For example, simplistically there's 86400s/day, so you are saying that my desktop PC idles at 350/86.4=4W, which seems way off even for most laptops, which idle at 6-10W)
- makes me a feel a little bit better that they deigned to show a fall (~1:46mins in).
some of those slopes I would have problems just hiking down (the scree, the pain)!
- I'm pretty sure protobuf ignores new fields (if you add; assuming you add as an append, and not change the field ordering), and it recommends you not to remove a field to ensure backward compatibility.
- would someone give an ELI5 on how a sand battery works? Is it just purely thermal mass, just with tons of sand?
- Happy thanksgiving all. Switched from ./ to HN and haven't regretted a single day. Hope you all have a great one!
- I'm a member of the ACM, so I would report this article.
However, I think the author may just have made some mistakes and mixed up/-1'd their references, since the 2023 report is actually #2
2. Di Battista, A., Grayling, S., Hasselaar, E., Leopold, T., Li, R., Rayner, M. and Zahidi, S., 2023, November. Future of jobs report 2023. In World Economic Forum (pp. 978-2).
Similarly, Footnote 7 probably should probably point to #8
8. Nietzsche, F. and Hollingdale, R.J., 2020. Thus spoke zarathustra. In The Routledge Circus Studies Reader (pp. 461-466). Routledge.
- shooting a rifle is "easy" to learn. That's why long guns are used. Hold+brace, point, aim reticle/scope, squeeze.
handguns are harder, since you can't brace the stock against your shoulder, but need to learn how to brace with your wrists and arms.
anti-tank weapons a bit harder still, since you need to maneuver properly and have multiple shooters at the same target. Also, I laugh/smirk everytime I see a movie where someone uses a LAW indoors or in an enclosed space/with someone standing behind.
(I'm ignoring grenades; suffice to say it's not as easy to pull the pin with your teeth as you think)
I think the hard part isn't the shooting, but the tactical movement side; L shape ambush or fire formation when under fire, or presence of mind to seek to leapfrog or flank, ability to communicate under pressure instead of just hunkering down or screaming your head off. It gets complicated very fast since there are vastly different tactics used in forest/vegetation versus urban warfare, and choosing the wrong tactic will get you shot fast (think chess openings; choose the wrong one and unless you are an expert - which you will not be with 1 week of training, you will get mated fast).
- Someone write a novel please. Not sure who will be more appropriate: Stross (more fun?), Stephenson (more of a slog through the first 600 pages, then an abrupt 180 and frenetic action in the last 100 with newly introduced, yet game-changing characters?).
- I've been toying with getting one of these with 128GB of RAM. What's your opinion (especially since you have compared it to thinkpad/xps)?
- it's funny until you realise your pension fund invested heavily in AI and are now down 30%
- what color was the bike the ape was riding, when the terrorist with the blue handlebar threw his nails?