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Cacti commented on Starbase injury rates outpace rivals as SpaceX chases its Mars moonshot   techcrunch.com/2025/07/18... · Posted by u/rntn
empath75 · a month ago
> But I'm sure the most major contribution to the numbers (besides people actually reporting their injuries) is a result of people working then anything else. It's a rate per person, so no.
Cacti · a month ago
The amount of people here who didn’t read the article and don’t understand basic statistics is shocking.
Cacti commented on Is the Q source the origin of the Gospels?   thecollector.com/q-source... · Posted by u/Tomte
jdthedisciple · 10 months ago
You would think so, until you realize that Matt and Luke have some narratives in common to the exclusion of Mark.

That has to be accounted for, which is where Occam's Razor falls short. It's probably the strongest argument in favor of a Q source.

Cacti · 10 months ago
Which ones do they have in common?
Cacti commented on Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer   forbes.com/sites/davidham... · Posted by u/walterbell
tamimio · a year ago
Yeah, these are called tethered drones. They've been around for decades and have their own use cases, especially on moving vehicles or boats. There's nothing new about them.
Cacti · a year ago
These have explosives and a ten mile fiber optic cable. Little different.
Cacti commented on How great was the Great Oxidation Event?   eos.org/science-updates/h... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
JohnMakin · a year ago
The dynamic nature of the planet earth is likely what drove the evolutionary changes to develop the highly complex life today. In the most stable period of earth’s history, the so called “boring billion,” (Mid Proterozoic) a period of a billion years of a stable environment resulted in extremely slow evolutionary advancements. This period interestingly was bordered by two oxygenation events, the first being the topic of this thread.
Cacti · a year ago
This sounds right, but it is speculative at best. If anything it just goes to show how complex the modern cell is and how long it took to assemble all the right pieces.
Cacti commented on Trackmania Nightmares   hallofdreams.org/posts/tr... · Posted by u/luu
Sohcahtoa82 · a year ago
What I haven't figure out is...how?

Considering that those sizes don't even include the models, what is actually taking up several gigabytes? How is it so much code? Or is it more than code?

I know it includes dependencies, but I'm still baffled.

Cacti · a year ago
lots of cuda libs
Cacti commented on Dear Julia, Dear Yuri: A mathematical correspondence (2022)   celebratio.org/Robinson_J... · Posted by u/georgecmu
linguaz · a year ago
Such a wonderful piece. I'd not heard of Julia Robinson or Yuri Matiyasevich...what a touching story of two people forming a friendship across time, place and culture.

> Julia thought of mathematicians “as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origins, race, creed, sex, age, or even time (the mathematicians of the past and you of the future are our colleagues too) — all dedicated to the most beautiful of the arts and sciences.”

The mathematics is way over my head, but I find this inspiring & would love to see how we might discover/co-create realms beyond such distinctions in other endeavors.

Cacti · a year ago
gregory chaitin has an accessible version of the math, if you’re interested. he builds a LISP with it.
Cacti commented on Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs   lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2024... · Posted by u/signa11
codetrotter · a year ago
Matplotlib already has a pretty uncomfortable API. I can’t imagine that wrapping that in a layer of elisp would result in anything nice to use at all.

It would probably be a case of the thing OP mentioned, where the amount of code needed would exceed just doing it yourself.

Cacti · a year ago
Seaborn, plotly, datashader, etc. all exist to wrap matplotlib and they are wildly successful. Is there some reason an equally good interface couldn’t be written in elisp?
Cacti commented on Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous   tante.cc/2024/06/26/mozil... · Posted by u/laktak
zem · a year ago
> Then they wrote one stupid line about their motivations (likely made up to justify playing around with local models) and get completely lambasted for that one stupid line.

to be fair, it's worth lambasting them over it because they are perpetuating the myth that AI is bias free (which a lot of people actually do believe!) and putting the weight of mozilla's reputation behind it

Cacti · a year ago
thanks but my reputation already has a colorway
Cacti commented on Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous   tante.cc/2024/06/26/mozil... · Posted by u/laktak
langsoul-com · a year ago
Blog article is a bit edgy. It's more like modzilla.ai is an AI consultancy, that just uses AI for The buzz word effect.

Man, modzilla really do the most useless things. I'm really surprised just how bad they're at generating any profit, the silly ideas and products are wild.

Can't they just try and make Firefox the best, ubiquitous and one day content actually against Chrome?

Cacti · a year ago
they’re there to be googles bearded monopoly foil, nothing more
Cacti commented on Notebooks Are McDonalds of Code   yobibyte.github.io/notebo... · Posted by u/sebg
alan-hn · a year ago
I can change parameters in a script. What's the advantage?
Cacti · a year ago
It’s a REPL, for starters.

u/Cacti

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