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danbtl··on GPT-5
9.9% on ARC-AGI 2

https://x.com/fchollet/status/1953511631054680085

danbtl··on A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022)
Was this made with a visualization library? Or is this custom code on top of Mapbox?
danbtl··on Tell HN: Pivotal Tracker removes non-enterprise price tiers
They didn't even bother to update their website from what I can tell.

You can still download a backup of all your data (in Pivotal Tracker, click on the MORE menu, then on Export CSV).

danbtl··on Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box
The game is certainly not lost. There are many of us running their own mail servers. Gmail will accept mail from your domain if you don't send spam.

You should try it.

danbtl··on Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023
I'm using rclone to sync with Backblaze nightly, executed directly from a cronjob.
danbtl··on WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
It's still sea-level. The transition altitude just changes the altimeter setting from one that matches the current air pressure to a standard pressure setting.
danbtl··on WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
Planes report pressure altitude via their transponders. 20-30 feet up and down is very normal for an autopilot.

GPS altitude is used for vertical guidance for certain types of GPS approaches (i.e. "LPV" approaches[1]) and requires the airplane's avionics to be equipped with a WAAS[2] receiver that provides accurate altitude information.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localizer_performance_with_ver...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System

danbtl··on Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law
Could you share the percentage of traffic coming from Google News, roughly?
danbtl··on Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law
You might be underestimating the amount of traffic Google sends to publishers through Google News. Anecdotally, I get Android notifications from CBC, Global, etc. through Google News daily and do sometimes click on them.
danbtl··on Why is my dryer radioactive?
We had such a remediation done recently, in Alberta close to the rocky mountains.

Costs were around $2,000 CAD to install a sub-slab depressurization system (i.e. a fan that pulls air from below the house and vents it away from the house).

Radon values dropped from around 500 Bq/m3 to less than 20 Bq/m3.

danbtl··on Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2?
> why play blame games

Because of the question of liability: If it was lab made and accidentally released, was it due to recklessness or criminal negligence? Is someone guilty of involuntary mass-manslaughter? Or if this was state-sponsored research, could they be found liable for the damage caused?

danbtl··on An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter
Hologram.io or Twilio
danbtl··on The Fed released a paper outlining pros and cons of a “digital dollar”
Have a look at Canada for a recent precedent: People had their bank accounts frozen for having made donations to support the protests.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-banks-ottaw...

danbtl··on Imgur Acquired by Medialab
Try OVH
danbtl··on German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux
Try Jitsi: https://jitsi.org/
danbtl··on Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
I'm curious, what are the technical reasons OpenJVM won't work for you?
danbtl··on Reddit Security Incident
How does SMS interception actually work in practice? Wouldn't this require physical access to the phone/SIM, or are there any known remote exploits?
danbtl··on Stripe Atlas for LLCs
What would be the combined fed+state corporate income tax rate for a Delaware LLC?

Quick google says this is 21% (federal) + 8.7% (Delaware). Is my understanding of this correct, that a Delaware LLC pays 29.7% taxes on its profits?

danbtl··on Tesla owner almost crashes on video trying to recreate fatal Autopilot accident
GPS by itself isn't accurate enough to determine what lane you're in.

Even WAAS GPS [1] (used by autopilots for airplanes) is specified to be accurate only up to 25 ft, although the measured accuracy is usually around 3 ft.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System