Dalewyn

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by Dalewyn 2y ago
You have it backwards: The omnibox (or whatever you want to call it) came about because people don't know what the hell a Universal Resource Locator is. Most people don't know how to navigate their local file system, let alone t
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
No, everyone loves it. By everyone I mean the vast majority of the world. The fact of the matter is most people do not grok addresses, so a dedicated address bar is useless to them. It's bad user interface design that defies what mos
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
What good is a top-world military if we can't win wars without resorting to ancient barbarism? I'm serious, our absolute best loses to some AK-47 manufactured over half a century ago that's seen shit and a beater Toyota picku
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
May I remind you that an entire US Navy Carrier Strike Group can't handle[1][2][3][4] a bunch of deranged desert goat herders lobbing explosive tin cans at them and the shipping lane they're supposed to protect? The US hasn't
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Lockheed Martin has absolutely murdered Boeing in the jet fighter market. USAF sourced the F-15EX Eagle II because Lockheed can't make F-35 Lightning IIs fast enough, but even that was a flop because guess what: Boeing forgot how to in
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Even as someone who indirectly holds Boeing stock, I am pleased at this $6.2 billion dollar bleeding, more please. I hope the strikers vote to reject. The only language Boeing understands at this point is bankruptcy.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Going from an inflatable pool in your backyard to a community pool is world changing. Going from the Pacific Ocean to the Seven Seas is still lots of water.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>There's a big difference No, there isn't. As far as what they are, Ohtani, Zuckerberg, Musk, and Joe Average are all just ordinary citizens unless I missed a memo. There is a difference in that someone like Zuckerberg is a m
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
It's the context that is important. As an example: Shohei Ohtani bought a house in Los Angeles a while ago, this transaction is public information by law and anyone so inclined can query the applicable public databases for it. Two of t
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Keyword there is may . Putting aside whether the sentiment is justified, it is currently extremely unpopular to impose Chinese tariffs. It's also worth noting that Chinese prices are so low that certain tariffs can reach the stratosph
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
A significant reason the real holders of power in the world today are Saudi Arabia and China is because we've refused to gather and use our resources while they have theirs. It's high time we realize that Pax Americana is our era
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I block every single notif from nearly every single program on my phone. The only real exceptions are my bank and brokerage and games I play everyday; you know, stuff I actually care about. I haven't lost anything from blocking the res
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Media in the sense of sensationlist dopamine hits is bad for society in the same way smoking is bad for your lungs. It'll get you high, but you will become worse off for it because you waste so much time and energy being artificially a
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I remember plenty of naysayers claiming that Musk was going to go broke with Tesla and SpaceX, driven more by vitriol than fiscal arguments. Astronomers (and only astronomers) also hate Starlink. I'm going to agree with Walter that it&
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
He's basically talking about Godwin's Law[1], which reads: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." and "Any off-topic mention of Hitler or
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I'm going to point out to you that insufficient power generation capacity and/or transmission infrastructure, the reasons behind brownouts and blackouts, has nothing to do with "unclean" energy sources. In fact, if the c
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I shudder to think that even a simple Google query leading to a Wikipedia article was too much effort here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_DES
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
For better or worse, when you have more time to learn how the real world works and make the right connections with the right people, you get much more leeway in what you can get away with. Naturally, older people had more time to do that th
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The specific example isn't important. The point is that our agreement is merely the result of there being no other conclusion as far as we are aware, and to expand our awareness we must be skeptical of our conclusions in perpetuity. Th
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Just because I listen doesn't mean I'm going to become. I like making my own opinions, because that's how I become informed. If I'm just taking in what others say, I'm just an NPC acting along their programming.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>so what level of 'evidence' is sufficient for you? Enough evidence such that no evidence to the contrary can stand. We agree that liquid water is wet because we can't find anything (yet) that says liquid water is not wet,
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>public trust in science. The argument that science should be trusted (believed) is insane, the whole point of science is questioning everything and deferring skepticism only in lieu of anything that can disprove. Trusting science is jus
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
No, the Soviets lost simply because we wasted more metal than they did. Consider that just the Apollo programme had twenty one (21) launches in a span of about just 8 years before Apollo 11 landed the first men on the Moon. Gemini had
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
To be clear, there won't be a "wipe out" at least in the "floor fell out from left field" sense. If a bankruptcy becomes likely, investors will start selling Boeing stock to recover what they can. Creditors will sta
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
This was the internet we loved, I miss it.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Do you believe that being rich implies merit? To some degree, yes. You don't get rich by being incompetent, and even if you get a headstart with an inheritance or endowment you're still going to end up broke if you can't
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>Boeing needs to launch a few dozens more of test flights to gather the data needed for this kind of reasoning. This in fact is a shining vindication of Musk's "Waste metal, not time." philosophy. Boeing is operating in th
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Moore's Law is mostly dead Claims of its death have been greatly exaggerated. >mostly give me the same speed as the latest model. Am I right? Is it worth saving the money? I mostly use spreadsheets and web apps. Any CPU from the
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>I don’t see what Prada brought to the aesthetics of this. As a taxpayer whose tax dollars in part went into this, I am happy that precisely none of it went to aesthetics . Form resulting as a consequence of function is amazing, just lo
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
There is an argument to be made that gigabit ethernet is "good enough" for Joe Average. Gigabit ethernet is ~100MB/s transfer speed over copper wire or ~30MB/s over wireless accounting for overhead and degradation. That

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