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271karma·160submissions·March 25, 2025
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Is it well regarded in either place? I've somehow not come across these preparations. I like barley tea and have made it via other coffee methods. (cold brew/french press.) So I guess espres…
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pg had his 'pending comments'[0] a long time ago. I think you work so hard for everyone here. Maybe it's a kind of cultural gardening. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…
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"... display shows Mach 1.07, but the aircraft is actually at Mach 1.0. The difference comes from the system's calibration" (from the youtube description) What causes something like tha…
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Are there any autonomous air freight companies? Not the zipline style last mile delivery, but something larger. Seems like there's suddenly a lot of autonomous military aircraft, but I haven'…
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Kinda cool to see the rail flow as arteries of a region. Would love to see for all transportation systems (freeways, freight, air, etc). The other maps are pretty cool too: https://anita.ga…
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I entirely missed this game and meme. It's well reviewed on steam. But the comments are all either "this is literally the most boring game I think I've ever played", "true mas…
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I believe some of Ray Madoff's points are that the tax code and most tax intuitions kinda differ. There's the idea that "wealth" gains tend to not be taxed for a variety of reasons…
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"Mr. Musk or his affiliates may become aware, from time to time, of certain business opportunities ... and may direct such opportunities to other businesses in which they have invested." &qu…
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Is there any risk to SpaceX that the Musk brand pulls the market cap too far ahead now? It's not a risk factor I see in the prospectus but seems plausible to me. Just like with the AI company ves…
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The paper references some threat models they considered. They suggest someone might "possess paired information (both original and watermarked content)" and therefore be able to undo waterma…
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I guess the SynthID-Image paper from Oct 2025[0] was an encoder-decoder for which they tested checking a flag or a 136 bit payload in 512x512 images and the watermark's robustness after various t…
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What information is included in the metadata or SynthID? How many bits can be encoded in a SynthID? Can it be used to create something like nutritional labels for synthetic content? 10% synthetic text…
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Musk leaves the board in 2018 I think. And something happens in DX-754 where they've pivoted to AI in SpaceX around then too. I had a lot of trouble telling what "AI" meant in late 2017…
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I love Robin's newsletters (and the books etc) and love "opinionated operator decisions make the internet go round". Maybe I'm missing something but it seems like if i go gmail -&g…
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People need a mental bucket for 'stochastic software' for a while. Or hot mess, a fast food meal that you can expect to mostly be bad in some sense, but serves a purpose, and can be really g…
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Ya! So many posts with clear presentations of css/svg/canvas. The Daily Sketch series or 'CSS Animation with offset-path' are equally fun.
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The AI bothered me less, but I got a little frustrated with less than substantive comments on the front page. Oddly I made an extension* to use the site more the way I wanted and now I find it a littl…
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I think one of the main goals of NASA QueSST program[0] is contributing to making commercial supersonic air travel happen. And there's a lot of private companies contributing[1]. But makes me won…
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This footage includes a landing this time. And I guess something akin to the cockpit HUD? A post[0] from a couple days ago says they've reach ~0.95 Mach, ~43k feet, 10 flights, 11.7 hours of flig…
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I've been aware of Bbedit but never really used it. Are there things it does better than more recent editors or is it more of a devil you know? Like a WordPerfect situation.
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The page about the earnings[0] is interesting. The Amazon share for kindle edition is higher than I expected. [0]: https://vivianvoss.net/print/integrated-by-design …
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spacecowboy runs a 'For You' bsky feed powered by matching your likes to similar user likes. He added a way to traverse posts via the like graph[0]. (The backing architecture was posted prev…
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"The MQ-25A Stingray is the U.S. Navy's first operational, carrier based unmanned aircraft system, designed primarily to serve as an aerial refueling tanker." And youtube promo video[0]…