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damnitbuilds··on Ask HN: Sorry, what Was FiveThirtyEight?
Aha ! Thanks for explaining how my mind works :-}
damnitbuilds··on Drivers&mechanisms:convergent forelimb reduction in non-avian theropod dinosaurs
I am not a biologist, I don't get this.

They say some non-avian theropod dinosaurs convergently evolved smaller forelimbs.

But note the "some".

Aren't they just stating that the ones that the ones that evolved smaller forelimbs all evolved smaller forelimbs, and the ones that didn't, didn't ?

damnitbuilds··on Ask HN: Sorry, what Was FiveThirtyEight?
I thought it was a site about soccer :-}
damnitbuilds··on Ask HN: How to enforce engineers to understand the code they are shipping
We also have the problem that a (junior) engineer may not have the skills to understand the AI code.

When you writes code yourself, you only use concepts you have come across previously. But if you generate an AI solution, it may well use concepts one has not previously come across.

What do we expect a junior engineer to do then, if they do not have time to learn the concepts used ? Do we really think they will reject the AI code and implement their own, more familiar, solution ?

damnitbuilds··on Elon Musk Loses OpenAI Lawsuit After Jury Finds It Was Filed Too Late
1. Shouldn't the judge have ruled this at the start? Why did countless people have to testify about other stuff when a technicality was enough to render it all moot?

2. The Wapo headline is totally misleading:

"All of Musk’s claims in lawsuit against OpenAI rejected in federal trial"

https://archive.ph/LdcXN#selection-287.0-287.72

damnitbuilds··on The US space enterprise is desperately waiting for Starship–will it deliver?
V2 had teething problems. I think it is unrealistic to expect V3 not to have any.

I would not be surprised if problems are found with the new internal layouts. But I am sure they will be resolved for the next testflight, given the amount of in-flight monitoring Spacex can do.

damnitbuilds··on Show HN: Onionfutures.com: transferable contracts for future delivery of onions
Can anyone explain this for those not involved in the West Coast allium trade ?
damnitbuilds··on Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
"Secondly I'm italian so whenever they were, that means absolutely nothing to me."

Oh yes, silly us, we forgot this entire discussion was about you.

damnitbuilds··on Bachelors Without Bachelor's: Gender Gaps in Education and Declining Marriage
It's okay, the feminists will fix this.

Because they're ALL about equality and not just plain, disgusting manhate.

Aren't they ?

damnitbuilds··on Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
No, I draw it from decades of living life and reading the news.

I remember my college days, when the loony left ran the politics of the place, because normal people were uninterested, beyond having a good laugh at their right-on craziness, that achieved precisely nothing.

Now social media puts their immature views front and center in our politics and their opinions are dragged ever further to the crazy left by professors who are not interested in being - or are even paid to be - unbiased in their teaching.

damnitbuilds··on Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
No, booing is not what is wrong. I might myself boo at someone trying to glorify an AI-led future.

What is wrong is reporting the new student politics without the appropriate derision for the simplistic, biased views of students, and not condemning their simplistic, biased professors who inculcate only those biased views, who no longer teach students to respect and investigate other views, who instead teach them to violently deny people the right to air other views on campus.

damnitbuilds··on We Are Sliding Back into the Middle Ages
Crazy medieval beliefs are taking over. Quite literally.
damnitbuilds··on Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
People used to treat angry-student politics and the views of the noisiest, angriest students with the correct amount of derision.

That stopped ( as seen here ).

And, worse, social media has let those angry students drive debate, which has led to the rise of the hateful woke.

And, still worse, students are no longer being educated to be critical but to accept one side and hate the other.

damnitbuilds··on Meet the Sad Wives of AI
Oh look, manhate.

You don't see that every day in every newspaper and every news website.

damnitbuilds··on Plato's Cave and the Rise of the Highly Educated Radical
The "Free Press", freed: https://archive.ph/v16R3
damnitbuilds··on Iran's Internet Shutdown Enters Its 77th Day
"The measure presents an emerging mental health risk to the public"

The Iranian islamists massacred 40,000 protesters at the start of this year and are hanging more every week.

It is outrageous to mention not having internet as a health problem for the Iranian people.

damnitbuilds··on Starship V3
Not "everyone" or "entire".

But Musk was the one who had the skills, guts, personality - and sometimes luck - to bring these things to reality.

His existence has greatly benefited mankind and that remains true even if you hate the man.

He is The George Michael, while the rest of us are Andrew Ridgeleys.

damnitbuilds··on Starship V3
I am glad there is competition and BO clearly do enough novel work that calling them copycats is simply incorrect.
damnitbuilds··on Starship V3
This is not relevant to the comment is a reply to.

Go start yet another "Elon is an idiot because I hate his politics" thread.

damnitbuilds··on Starship V3
That works, the physics is proven.

It has not been tried commercially yet, so has not failed there, but that is not relevant to my point.

damnitbuilds··on Starship V3
The problem with that was not based on physics, like the thermodynamics of datacenters in space.
damnitbuilds··on Starship V3
Non-paywalled Part 2 which is a criticism of the Weinersmiths' more interesting, technical arguments.

  https://archive.ph/x3JDR
BTW, what sort of moron votes down a factual comment like mine that started this ?

Whoever you are, fuck you. You are making this place worse and shame on the mods that allow you to do this.

damnitbuilds··on Starship V3
Elon is smart and employs many smart people. If the thermodynamics didn't work, they would know.

I do wonder if shielding the multi-billion transistor GPUs will be a difficult.

damnitbuilds··on Starship V3
Spacex's work is out there ( and I am grateful for the excitement that generates ) but BO work in the shadows, surprising us sometimes with major advances.

I suspect BO not as far behind as you think.

damnitbuilds··on Starship V3
A single metal piece that contains plumbing inside it is simpler than a metal piece with attached pipes for that plumbing.
damnitbuilds··on Starship V3
There's a whole book positing that a permanent settlement on Mars is unlikely to work, and I have not seen their arguments debunked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_City_on_Mars

damnitbuilds··on Starship V3
"New this launch will be a few sats that have comms & cameras on them."

Is that confirmed ? Will be truly amazing to see.

damnitbuilds··on Bullshit Machines
A 10,000 word website about bullshit machines.

See what they did there ?

damnitbuilds··on Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx
Fact: I have never dated a single one of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover models.

Not one.

Gives me goosebumps just to think about it.

damnitbuilds··on Modeling the US-Europe Paradox
"In 2024 alone, roughly 4.2 million people immigrated to the EU from non-EU countries"

Are those immigrants a net cost to the European economy ?

Would the cumulative effect of paying for those immigrants account for lower European productivity ?

Genuine questions. Happy for "no" to be proved to be the answer.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

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