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I was reminded recently of one of the more dumb-ass things I have done. In one of the Armadillo Aerospace vehicles we ran an alcohol feed pipe through a liquid oxygen tank. It had an air gap jacket, but we were still concerned about the possibility of freezing the alcohol if
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I am more skeptical than a lot of people in the tech space about the near term utility of humanoid robots. Long term, driven be AGI, sure, they are going to be an enormous economic engine, but business plans that have them making a dent in the next five years seem unlikely.
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Looking for advice on a little re-shipping project. I want to donate a set of 21 science fiction books, selected by the Libertarian Futurist Society from their Prometheus award winners, to any town or school library that requests them. Does anyone have good experiences with a
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I have always been disappointed that more instruction sets don’t have peak-efficiency block move and fill operations. REP MOVS/STOS in x86/x64 is still pretty great, although not optimal in all cases. https://t.co/RIOZjOhHBD There is certainly a bias against it due to not being
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RT @Project2501_117: Happy Halloween! 🎃💀👻 In 1986 the first hobby grade RC car I ever saw and drove was the Tamiya Hornet ( Yes, the? RC c…
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SD could be used with tools like DreamBooth to make images of specific people with as few as 3-5 reference photos taken from social media. (Today, modern tools need as little as 1 reference photo.) If Photoshop is like a musket, SD is like an assault rifle.
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RT @MotorCarTidbits: One of those people barred from buying a Ferrari is John Carmack, the co-founder of id Software. Why?, well, because F…
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Marvel has been producing collected editions of every comic they published in a given month when a famous character or team was introduced in the 60s. This is interesting as an unbiased slice of media, versus the normal Lindy effect where your view of a period is often formed by https://t.co/0JpMcPkmaC
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Thinking about an alternate history tech timeline where TVs used a spiral scan instead of a raster scan. The lore is that Farnsworth had the insight that led to raster scan while thinking about farm furrows, but it seems like the continuous smooth variability of a spiral pattern
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I worked on https://t.co/zTKG9POy4L for two years and the way it actually happened was that the software side was tyrannically overseen by a print publishing department with insanely strict quality standards
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A couple years ago, I made a $10k bet with a random developer about adoption of a distributed metaverse vs Roblox. It took a little prodding, but despite the account recently disappearing, the remaining bitcoin just showed up. More honor than you might expect from anonymity!
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RT @joebarnard: If you're stoked about this, don't let that energy go to waste! Go build something! You can learn CAD, programming, circu…
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RT @EloiAlonso1: Ever wanted to play Counter-Strike in a neural network? These videos show people playing (with keyboard & mouse) in 💎 DIA…
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Last night, Trista was playing a third person 3D platformer game (Pumpkin Jack) and started to feel a little sick. I suggested cutting the max frame rate from 120 to 60 in settings, and that made it better. Simulator sickness tends to come from high quality rendering of smooth
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Beat Saber is still my favorite game of all time — immersive, physical, social, and I met @Project2501_117 while playing!
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I'm glad you came by to check out Orion. I mentioned this in person, but I also wanted to publicly apologize for my previous comments about your time at (then) Oculus. I’m sorry. After reading the recent Tablet piece I dug into some of the events that preceded my time when a
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Quest 3 open air facial interface (is this new?) Really great for MR games/virtual desktop work! https://t.co/u8NReueeT1
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Starting a task that will take a day to complete, then continuing to optimize the code, is often like the SF stories of interstellar hibernation or generation ships that are overtaken by ships launched later with better tech.
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Today, experiences like this feel futuristic and amazing, but in the future, when everyone has AR glasses and MR headsets, holograms like these will be part of everyday life. This is @Arcadia_tv_, a Mixed Reality co-location fitness game. Can you imagine a future like that? https://t.co/VgnnYbHMhW
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I passed by a cool lounge with an extensive collection of old books. I browsed the shelves and started to pull one down. They… they… GLUED ALL THE BOOKS TOGETHER! I was APPALLED!
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