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New comment by wumpus in "How Will Language Modelers Like ChatGPT Affect Occupations and Industries?"

wumpus — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 06:18:31 +0000

Everything is more meaningful, do you mean? In developed countries, agriculture is highly automated, and if you want a hobby garden in your leisure time, you can choose how much automation you want.

New comment by wumpus in "How Will Language Modelers Like ChatGPT Affect Occupations and Industries?"

wumpus — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 04:24:27 +0000

> Because most 'AI ethicists' are overeducated well off urbanite upper-middle class landed gentry-adjacents

Every time I come back to HN after a break, I am quickly reminded of why I left.

New comment by wumpus in "Giant satellite outshines stars, sparking fresh concerns for astronomers"

wumpus — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:11:49 +0000

What a great idea! Can you point at a concrete explanation of how it is affordable with astronomy's budget?

New comment by wumpus in "Giant satellite outshines stars, sparking fresh concerns for astronomers"

wumpus — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:01:58 +0000

TLEs come with a variety of precision. The gold standard right now is for the satellite owner to have GPS on the satellite and publish it.

New comment by wumpus in "Giant satellite outshines stars, sparking fresh concerns for astronomers"

wumpus — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:00:24 +0000

To comment on this a little more, it would be way out of our budget to abandon our telescopes on earth and do it all from space.

New comment by wumpus in "Giant satellite outshines stars, sparking fresh concerns for astronomers"

wumpus — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:59:05 +0000

The fun part of that was that astronomers were whining about light pollution all along, and being ignored. And here we are.

New comment by wumpus in "Giant satellite outshines stars, sparking fresh concerns for astronomers"

wumpus — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:58:31 +0000

> are missing the longer view.

I love all the condescending comments like this one.

New comment by wumpus in ".io Domains Considered Harmful"

wumpus — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 04:10:53 +0000

How dare that guy have a clear opinion that he's willing to back up with reasons!

Way better than Dijkstra being pithy about everything.

New comment by wumpus in "Starlink User Terminal Modchip"

wumpus — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 08:26:14 +0000

Well, yes, in that you would be arrested.

New comment by wumpus in "FTX balance sheet, revealed"

wumpus — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 08:10:18 +0000

Remember the Wirecard collapse, where there was a fake bank account in the Phillipines that allegedly had $2.1 billion USD in it?

This is the crypto equivalent.

New comment by wumpus in "An unconfirmed tweet about Freeport LNG is upending gas markets"

wumpus — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 06:30:57 +0000

> Production of Gas is incidental to oil drilling

For some wells, yes. For others, no.

New comment by wumpus in "An unconfirmed tweet about Freeport LNG is upending gas markets"

wumpus — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 06:22:11 +0000

The German government has already taken action several times during this crisis.

New comment by wumpus in "An unconfirmed tweet about Freeport LNG is upending gas markets"

wumpus — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 06:13:05 +0000

Don't blame astronomers! We think it's cold when it's actually cold, not only after the solstice.

New comment by wumpus in "Why is Rosetta 2 fast?"

wumpus — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 05:14:20 +0000

20 years of "progress" and hey, C++20 is gaining the likely attribute.

New comment by wumpus in "Why is Rosetta 2 fast?"

wumpus — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 05:13:22 +0000

> In finance

Isn't low-latency trading only a subset of finance?

New comment by wumpus in "M.2 for Hackers – Connectors"

wumpus — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 01:41:53 +0000

I'm a guilty party for reusing a connector because it already existed -- we wanted to make a HyperTransport slot standard (HTX), so we used 2 PCIe standard connectors. We placed them at an unusual depth from the edge so it was unlikely that anyone would accidentally plug an actual PCIe card into them. But I'm sure someone was confused by it at some point.

New comment by wumpus in "Reasons why Fortran is still used (2021)"

wumpus — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:11:22 +0000

Most Fortran compilers are also C compilers, and the Fortran standard library is usually implemented in C. So interop with C is easy.

New comment by wumpus in "Cartography shows that the Isthmus of Tehuantepec used as inter-oceanic passage"

wumpus — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 07:48:23 +0000

Wow, that was used for a long time. The Greek one was 700 years.

New comment by wumpus in "Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max"

wumpus — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 05:39:15 +0000

A Chinese post-doc came to join my group 1 year into the pandemic. He took an antibody test, which should have shown antibodies due to his 2 doses of Sinovax.

Nada.

The first thing he after he arrived in the US was to get vaccinated.

Perhaps you have evidence that Sinovax works?

New comment by wumpus in "Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max"

wumpus — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 05:04:04 +0000

Woah. I have my luggage in my apartment. I never realized what that meant until now.