Animats

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by Animats 7mo ago
"Retarded" is an euphemism. It was preceded by "mentally disabled", "feeble-minded", and "idiot". Renaming doesn't help. Agnews, in Santa Clara CA, was successively called The Great Asylum for Th
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by Animats 7mo ago
We know that to be the case with Musk. He's admitted it. Andreessen, don't know.
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by Animats 7mo ago
Sadly, that's not a joke. There are multiple news articles repeating the IRGC claim of a successful attack. Some have pictures of missiles and Oracle buildings. Most of the same building stock shots, including some of Oracle HQ in San
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by Animats 7mo ago
There are solid news sources, but they're hard to find and differ by the subject. For example, war maps are hard to find. Al Jazeera publishes maps of what's been hit in the Middle East, which makes sense because their readers are
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by Animats 7mo ago
Useful study. UK-based. The "authenticity" thing of podcasters is only meaningful if the podcaster was there. Sometimes that happens, and those are the good ones. There are good protest videos. Not many war videos. Secondary sourc
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by Animats 7mo ago
SF should just name it "Chavez", as a convenience. Lots of people are named Chavez. No rush. Shorten the signs as they are routinely replaced. Going back to "Army" would be silly, especially since the U.S. Army never ha
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by Animats 7mo ago
That's been done as "The Store is Closed."[1] IKEA threatened to sue. [1] https://www.youtube.com/embed/sK5wPE-aQwc?autoplay=1&enablej...
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by Animats 7mo ago
Not to be confused with the Yggdrasil Linux distro. (Sometimes being first doesn't help.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X
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by Animats 7mo ago
Everybody has a JSON extension, and they're all slightly different. I just got hit badly by Dreamhost, which is still running MySQL 8.0. That version has a "JSON extension" which is almost totally useless. I designed somethin
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by Animats 7mo ago
> I suspect it's the optics of it. That's probably the justification for sending four people. First test flight probably could have been done with one or two pilots.
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by Animats 7mo ago
Here's a remark I made about setting boundaries in a completely different forum: More from the pasture: The herd has settled. The chestnut mare is boss, and she's a good alpha. My paint mare is second. The old draft horse gelding
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by Animats 7mo ago
This is a standard unit from DevDroid.[1] Here's the marketing video.[2] It's available for pre-order. They also have a model with a grenade launcher. [1] https://devdroid.tech/en/catalog/droid-tw [2] h
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by Animats 7mo ago
Hand-held devices for testing concrete properties would be more useful. Most concrete problems come from a bad mix - too much water, not enough cement, etc. Concrete testing usually involves cutting a core out of the poured slab and sending
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by Animats 7mo ago
It's an ad. "The Solution: TokensTree". From tokenstree.com I was expecting a secondary market in tokens, perhaps crypto-powered, but no. The cost difference for languages roughly correlates with how much text it takes to say
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by Animats 7mo ago
Right re 80 million in Germany. After a bombing campaign, most of the people tend to hate whoever bombed them.
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by Animats 7mo ago
A big mistake here was simply underestimating the scale of Iran. Iran has 90,000,000 people. More than 2x Ukraine. More than 2x Germany. More than 2x Iraq. More than any country in Europe. About 2/3 of Russia. Expecting to win a war on
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by Animats 7mo ago
Meanwhile, the complexity of the average piece of software is drastically increasing. ... The stats suggest that devs are shipping more code with coding agents. The consequences may already be visible: analysis of vendor status pages [3] s
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by Animats 7mo ago
It's not you. It's clueless. Any relationship between input and output is only slight. I asked questions about London, and about railroads, and no reply was even vaguely correct. Q: Where in London is the Serpentine? A: The illust
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by Animats 7mo ago
Microsoft will probably try to sneak it back in later. They've done that with other intrusions. Migrating away from Github just increased in priority.
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by Animats 7mo ago
They all have the face stripe, but it varies in size. Look at the hind socks. Some have two, some have only one. That's more of a variation than the stripe width.
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by Animats 7mo ago
Cloning works rather well now. Here are six polo ponies, Cuartetera 01 through 06, all clones of a famous polo pony.[1] Their owner has been winning world class polo matches on these mares. They're strong and healthy and very real. [1]
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by Animats 7mo ago
Intelligence seems to have evolved on Earth at least three times - mammals, octopuses, and corvids. These are different branches of the evolutionary tree, and the brain architectures are quite different. Octopuses have a distributed system.
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by Animats 7mo ago
I got an answer back from NARA: Specifically, you seek records related to practical instructions on how to rebuild society after a nuclear war. We searched our holdings in Record Group 397, Records of the Defense Civil Preparedness Agenc
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by Animats 7mo ago
This guy is all too right. Fortune.com today: > A CEO trying to reindustrialize America says blue-collar pay is headed for ‘massive hyperinflation’ and kids should skip college to become welders > Trump said the Iran war was ‘very com
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by Animats 7mo ago
From the article: "The main theme in the Spanish Golden Age playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s La Vida es Sueño (Life is a Dream) from 1635 is the contrast between subjective and objective perceptions of reality." Huh? Is thi
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by Animats 7mo ago
Donut Labs: "The Future of Powering Electric Vehicles Is Here Today with Donut Lab Introducing New High-Performance Solid State Donut Batteries Ready for OEM Use Now and Powering All 2026 Model Verge Motorcycles On the Road in Q1 2026.
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by Animats 7mo ago
Most of the solid state batteries have far less thermal runaway problem than lithium-ion batteries. At this point, several companies have working demo solid state batteries, but the price is far too high. Mercedes has one demo car with a so
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by Animats 7mo ago
Yes. See UL 2594.[1] There's a lot of monitoring on those things, plus regular circuit breakers and GFCIs. [1] https://www.intertek.com/batteries/automotive-battery-ev-tes...
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by Animats 7mo ago
> but there's still the the "forever problem" of kicking data down the road onto new storage technologies / services, too. Whatever happened to IFPS and Filecoin? If you paid for perpetual storage five years ago, is y
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by Animats 7mo ago
I'd like to have one where you lay out all your tools, take a picture, and it makes you a drawer insert that has a custom slot for each tool.

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