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I worked on Windows 2000, thanks! But Windows 7 was better.


With Windows2000 i mean Windows-NT-Line without BS, so yeah XP(after SP2) and Win7 was probably better.


Idea: we should make sure we keep track of what the human created content is, so that we don’t get confused by AI edits of everything in the future.

For ex, calculate the hash of all important books, and publish that as the “historical authenticity” check. Put the hashes on some important blockchain so we know it’s unchanged over time.


Does this help with compute, or just MEMS and radio?


Not sure about compute. But

> Achieving higher scandium concentrations in aluminum nitride films can help increase RF filter performance. Pulsed laser deposition can take the scandium concentration in the film to at least 40%, up from the previous 30% limit

The first thing that came to mind when reading this was RF synthetic aperture performance for jamming-resistant directional antennas in military applications. These seemingly incremental improvements can have huge real world consequences.

Imagine the Starlink antenna but with 10x the performance, or a radar that can withstand 10x the jamming or hide completely because it needs 10% the power. I wonder if that's what's possible here.


(correction: phased array, not synthetic aperture)


I think it’s more for MEMS and RF applications. These techniques don’t have enough conformality for modern fin and nanosheet based transistor logic.


PLD is currently required for deposited materials that have, for example, high Faraday rotation (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_effect)

These are types of important material properties for the future of compute if we are to use light based computation. E.g. how can one make a medium for light to only propagate one direction.


How about copyright?

Every piece of data you create could be considered a copyrighted act, owned by you.


Copyright doesn't cover facts


This looks great, but I’m always nervous about granting access to google drive.

Does this give permission to read everything on my Google Drive or just this one spreadsheet?


(dev here) Completely understand the concern. This uses an embedded Google File picker to allow you to select what Sheets to allow access to. Until you do that, the extension doesn't have r/w access. The integration with Google (OAuth) has been verified and gone through their review process to only request/use minimal perms for the extension to function as expected.

https://www.addtosheets.com/blog/how-to-save-data-to-google-...


How many Starships would it take to go and bring Voyager 1 back to earth?

If each ship was used like an expendable stage, and we were willing to use 100 ships, how long would it take to catch up to Voyager, stop, and return to earth?


How many ships could the ships ship if the ships could ship probes?


That’s called reinsurance, and insurance companies buy that to cover them when disasters are more than they can afford.



There you go — I thought I had seen something like that before. Open-hardware it. (Although their price does not seem unreasonable.)


Not if he threatens to quit Tesla to start a competing car company out of spite.


I kind of doubt he'd do that. AFAIK most of Elon's wealth is in Tesla shares, and a lot of them are pledged against loans. If his Tesla shares go done seriously in value that could leave him open to margin calls.

Over time, he may be able to unload those Tesla shares, making him less tied to the company, but I'd guess it'd take a while to sell that stock without risking a serious share price drop.


How did the actions of the company not line up with being safe and ethical? It seems to have been tuned to be extremely safe and non-offensive, to a pretty extreme degree.

And totally unrelated, what’s wrong with worldcoin? Isn’t that the UBI project? That seems to line up with the idea that ai will create huge amounts of wealth, and he wanted to share it.


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