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·10일 전·discuss
...or the evacuation of highly populated Long Island.

Three Mile Island was a * big * deal - if that had happened on Long Island, it would've been unimaginable disaster and permanent stain on NYC.

To many people, "three strikes you're out" - 3MI, Chernobyl and Fukushima was the final straw, reasoning that even the Japanese can't safely manage this technology, so "Homer Simpson" stands no chance.

Meanwhile, even the country's leading experts have no politically viable strategy for disposing of the waste, including the risk of derailments, terrorism, etc.

This isn't the world I want, but it's reality. IRL, people would rather die slowly from CO2 than live with the fear of 3MI/Chernobyl/Fukushima regardless of how rare they are (and they're not).

I'm optimistic that modern reactor designs and reprocessing technologies can overcome these issues, but I can understand why voters go full NIMBY.
asah
·11일 전·discuss
two techniques I use with pg:

1. "materialize" the view as a full table, then index that. Any reasonable pipeline/ETL tool can provide incremental updates between tables. Obviously, anything materialized requires considerations around storage, replication, backup/restore, I/O, etc.

2. use a regular VIEW and index (precisely) the underlying expressions mentioned in the view, i.e. so when the view is used, then the indexes get used.

Both require rewriting SQL, though I've used VIEWs to make the change transparent.
asah
·12일 전·discuss
can these banks/brokers sell the data?

can these banks/brokers get hacked?

I'd love to see a way for people to revoke/replace their personal info, kinda like rotating passwords or changing their names - but for street address, birthday, government ID numbers, etc.

Penalties (of any scale) are insufficient to ensure absolute security.
asah
·12일 전·discuss
+1 - and what about an entirely AI generated song with a human who adds a 0.1 sec hum. Or even this hum is copypasted from another human generated song.
asah
·15일 전·discuss
weird q: the photo shows a wafer with partial chips rendered on the edges?
asah
·15일 전·discuss
Om had grace, and will be missed by many.
asah
·21일 전·discuss
I used <tab> and <space> and left the mouse hovering over the continue button, and it went very quickly.
asah
·22일 전·discuss
I've stopped telling people when I use LLMs because they focus on that instead of the work itself.
asah
·지난달·discuss
Foldables are life changing - everyone I know who's got one, doesn't go back.

It's all the benefits of a tablet with the weight/thickness of a cell.

Example: maps shows both the map and listing detail.

Example: messaging/email apps show the message/channel list and the current message

Example: virtual keyboard has plenty of space for punctuation, emojis, etc.

Example: games and multimedia are perfectly pleasant to view, even for hours.

Example: I used the remote-control app to take photos from my Sony and Fuji cameras, and the live preview was large enough to easily check for tack-sharpness, which is hard even in the camera viewfinder.
asah
·지난달·discuss
came here to say the same thing.
asah
·2개월 전·discuss
hard part is that cars should drive through shallow water... but how to know the depth?

given accurate mapping + realtime imaging, this should be possible albeit a Big Project(tm).
asah
·2개월 전·discuss
This probably includes "tradespend" - marketing dollars spent on retails and distributors to incentivize premier placement in retail/grocery channels.
asah
·2개월 전·discuss
This is CPG - things move much more slowly...
asah
·2개월 전·discuss
seems like an abuse of the word "global"
asah
·2개월 전·discuss
I always wondered if there was a relationship between this and the Oregon exploding whale in 1970 ? https://www.google.com/search?q=whale+explosion+oregon
asah
·2개월 전·discuss
easy - just keep a small amount (small %) in that account.
asah
·2개월 전·discuss
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asah
·2개월 전·discuss
MFABT is about survival. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
asah
·2개월 전·discuss
only 38 CVEs - that's pretty good!

...so far !
asah
·2개월 전·discuss
meh - by this logic, every new tech and startup ever is a "scam"

The truth is that the AI companies are gambling that inference cost will continue following a hyper version of Moore's Law, e.g. Google TurboQuant.

The countervailing thesis is that frontier models are consuming more and more compute.

The deepest truth: you often don't need a frontier model to get commercially acceptable results from AI. Thus, bring on the true pricing! and I'll just switch models to something financially sustainable.