Diesel555

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by Diesel555 4y ago
Of note for anyone confused and reading the comments now, the link was to an empty, but real, twitter repository at https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm . Now it is a 404.
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Elon Musk acquires Twitter for roughly $44B(washingtonpost.com)
7 points by Diesel555 4y ago|2 comments
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by Diesel555 4y ago
My comment, as well as the parent post, refers to training. When not in training, the placement of armament switches, as well as many other risk avoidance measures, will vary based on the type of conflict and risk. There is a good article f
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by Diesel555 4y ago
> That made the RADAR LOCK alarm go off in the cockpit and the trainee, as he was trained to do, immediately hit countermeasures without thinking. (That will save your life!) And this is why there are armament switching which you turn on
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by Diesel555 4y ago
https://extantaerospace.com/products/ALE-47_CDU.pdf [pdf] In the picture above you will see a dial for modes. They range from human tell the machine exactly what to do (via the PRGM dial and other switches), to human c
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by Diesel555 4y ago
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of
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by Diesel555 4y ago
> but rather that it worked out in practice to be a fairly good filter for whether people actually had (enough of) that skillset. How did you rate your negatives to judge the filter was correct? You know the "Positive" status,
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by Diesel555 4y ago
> Speedtest kept reporting 100Mb/s range speeds (the tier he was paying for). Local file transfers however were stuck in the 1MB/s range I read that speed test reported 100Mb/s and local files were receiving 8Mb/s (1M
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by Diesel555 4y ago
The person you replied to is being sarcastic. Their response to the quote is a also a near quote of the parent post.
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I like the Touch Bar. Apple failed to realize people don't look at it
1 points by Diesel555 4y ago|0 comments
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by Diesel555 4y ago
I'll just put this here, there is a book which describes exactly what the author realized too late. It's better to learn these things things via reading than in retrospect. I realized I have "Difficult Conversations" man
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by Diesel555 4y ago
People also change and / or realize what they thought they'd like turns out to not be what they like. You can't know you will like a situation until you are living it. I think entering a new job is similar, I may think I&#x27
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by Diesel555 5y ago
The first article is for a completely different benefit. The GI Bill from WW2, the Montgomery GI Bill, and the Post 9/11 GI bill are completely different things. To be clear - the article reports on a great injustice and it's sad
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by Diesel555 5y ago
> You're not allowed to say disparaging things about anyone in your command chain, which goes up to the president. There's also limits on your political speech, in relation to making political statements in favor of candidates.
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by Diesel555 5y ago
> they tap you for a conflict which you have ideological differences with, YOU ARE GOING irrespective of your convictions Your statement is not entirely true, it is not irrespective of convictions. A conscientious objector is defined as
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by Diesel555 5y ago
As I read this post I kept thinking you had a rough time in service. This doesn’t match my experience at all. Then I saw at the end you didn’t serve, made assumptions based on stories, and had an axe to grind. > The most important thing
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by Diesel555 5y ago
Pointing out that primary residents get great breaks does not mean that landlords do not also get tax breaks. They just don’t get those. And of course you pay tax on the income left over after expenses. About the direct revenue tax. Governm
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by Diesel555 5y ago
> Where exactly is the difference between those goods and housing? The first difference is elasticity of demand. Housing is relatively inelastic in the short term due to land availability, time to build, and government regulation. This s
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by Diesel555 5y ago
> I guess if code needs to be gender inclusive there's a few spoken languages in the world that need to get rid of their gender specific grammar. I say that as a monolingual Scot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
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by Diesel555 5y ago
For anyone unaware, lichess is an open source website. The source code was leaked by "ornicar" - the maker of lichess.org - and the link to the source code is their GitHub. Pretty good April fools joke!
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Tesla will ask shareholders to authorize additional shares to enable stock split(twitter.com)
1 points by Diesel555 5y ago|0 comments
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by Diesel555 5y ago
Yah I'm confused on all the comments on the housing market. Did they read the article? The first three letters of house and housing, "hou", are not even on the website. We can debate on if the market is cooling.... but not ba
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by Diesel555 5y ago
You're right, it's hard to take such a complex topic, whose definition does not always match colloquial use, and boil it down to two paragraphs (I guess asking for a definition was unfair). Like most debates that people take to po
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I, Pencil [pdf](fee.org)
1 points by Diesel555 5y ago|0 comments
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by Diesel555 5y ago
I'd be really interested to hear your definition of capitalism, because I think you are confusing ideals. It appears you are tying capitalism to a tax structure or some other government program to promote equity. Capitalism is simply u
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by Diesel555 5y ago
From another article https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/investing/premarket-stocks-tr... > The benchmark MOEX index surged by as much as 10% in early trading. The index was up roughly 5% in afternoon trad
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Russia's stock market reopens after month-long closure(cnn.com)
2 points by Diesel555 5y ago|2 comments
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by Diesel555 5y ago
I still use a VPS because my websites present user data and I host a GraphQL backend to store that data (Strapi, KeystoneJS, and NestJS). What is the alternative here? AWS? My frontends are static and hosted by netflify.
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by Diesel555 5y ago
Sitting on a 2019 MBP now, I agree - this computer has been a disappointment. I'm tied to my charger for any days with more than 3 hours of planned use time.
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by Diesel555 5y ago
> but it does add to the experience of using a laptop around the house where you also have a car and a 3 year old. I got a 2019 MBP and my 3 year old spilled water on it. The repair cost more than an M1 Air. My next computer will be a ch

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