Fun! But not terribly significant. These kind of mines have been identified elsewhere, in quantity. Diamonds are no longer scarce.
Readit NewsJoeAltmaier commented on Native apps had a good run, but PWA is the future oneuptime.com/blog/post/2... · Posted by u/ndhandala
These things swing back and forth, and have for years.
As parameters change (capability of the rendering device; network latency and speed; storage capacity and transfer rate; power profile) then the winner can change, abruptly.
JoeAltmaier commented on China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon arstechnica.com/space/202... · Posted by u/themgt
So far they've landed some probes, returned some samples. With lots of false starts.
A big stretch from there, to getting people to the Moon.
I'm gonna wait to make a bet on either outcome.
JoeAltmaier commented on What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code viralinstruction.com/post... · Posted by u/warrenm
Telling scientists things is hard. They love to be experts, and can be resistant.
Even computer scientists. Had one come to me, looking for an API for fast data copy in RAM. I asked what he was achieving, he told me. I asked the bus width on the CPU and the clock speed. Told him, that's what it can do. He went away, said he remembered there was a library routine that could do better and he would keep looking. I just shook my head.
JoeAltmaier commented on America's housing market is shuddering economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/jcartw
Around here (college town) the rooming houses close to campus are selling out. The rent doesn't justify the investment and the property taxes. You do better with bank interest!
So the housing crunch rises. Those old rooming houses (ten for sale on my street) will be bought by families and house three or four instead of six or eight students.
Any coffee shop you can't get a decent latte isn't a coffee shop. In my opinion. Not worth a dime much less, millions.
JoeAltmaier commented on What Does One Billion Dollars Look Like? whatdoesonebilliondollars... · Posted by u/alexrustic
A cube of 100 dollar bills four feet on a side is about 160M dollars. So, six of them.
JoeAltmaier commented on North America's Oldest Known Pterosaur si.edu/newsdesk/releases/... · Posted by u/gmays
I've never known why Pangaea was stable for billions of years, then broke up in fire and death 200M years ago. Anybody have a reference?
Thanks for pointing that out. Obviously I hadn't read the whole article. That is an interesting determination the judge made:
> Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its AI models was "exceedingly transformative" and qualified as fair use, a legal doctrine that allows certain uses of copyrighted works without the copyright owner's permission.
There are still questions: is an AI a 'user' in the copyright sense?
Or even, is an individual operating within the law as fair use, the same as a voracious all-consuming AI training bot consuming everything the same in spirit?
Consider a single person in a National Park, allowed to pick and eat berries, compared to bringing a combine harvester to take it all.
I think GPS is essential. Tie it to a location - if stolen, it won't operate. Then a way to text you if it is moved outside the designated area. Telling you where it is.
At that point, I suppose it would still be worth stealing just for the battery? A hard problem to solve.