DuskStar

59 ms·

601.
by DuskStar 7y ago
I don't think the GP meant "you must work for a business you started" - I think they meant "even if you're working AT $bigco, you should be working FOR yourself".
602.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Exactly = even if this isn't the last time the launch escape system is used, it'll almost certainly be the last time it's used to escape from a perfectly good booster.
603.
by DuskStar 7y ago
> Sexual reproduction allows improvements from diverging lineages to combine in a single offspring. But only if they haven't diverged too far. Genetic engineering may bring beneficial feature from vary different species, or in this
604.
by DuskStar 7y ago
> Metro refuses to build subway stations by anything other than cut-and-cover, which means we end up with this massive stations with 20’ ceilings that cost way too much. Isn't this the cheapest way to build stations?
605.
by DuskStar 7y ago
It'll block a star for ~1/2500th of a second (assuming a three meter blocking radius, and 7500m/s) - I wouldn't be surprised if that went undetected 99% of the time. At most it would read as a minor brightness fluctuatio
606.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Yeah - the US commissioned 17 fleet carriers, 9 light carriers and a whopping 76 escort carriers over the course of the war. Japan? 7, 1 and 4.
607.
by DuskStar 7y ago
I'd say it was zero as soon as they gave the US such a large piece of internal propaganda (the attack on Pearl Harbor). Without that, and without a declaration of war, Japan might have been able to ignore US forces in the Pacific. Gett
608.
by DuskStar 7y ago
My understanding is that while the US losing her carriers at Midway would have allowed Japan free reign in the South Pacific for a few months, that was already the case for anywhere that all 6 fleet carriers showed up. Nothing the US had
609.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Oh, of course - that's why the Pacific fleet not taking the battle would have left Midway as a minor loss for Japan.
610.
by DuskStar 7y ago
You're assuming that Japan could have kept Midway resupplied, let alone defended it. From what I understand, that's very questionable. Midway wasn't keeping Japan contained in the South Pacific - the two were as militarily se
611.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Ironically, if Japan had committed all 6 fleet carriers to the South Pacific in early 1942, they might have been able to conquer Australia. Instead they split them - two to the South Pacific, to be damaged in the Battle of the Coral Sea, an
612.
by DuskStar 7y ago
And at the same time, carriers were counted as powerful enough to make the opening moves of the war. I don't think Japan was happy to discover that they'd missed all of the US's carriers. I think I've read that Yamato
613.
by DuskStar 7y ago
With a torpedo introduced to service in 1927 , though. She avoided using her homing torpedoes (the Mark 24 Tigerfish) due to fears that they were unreliable.
614.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Ehhh. There's a lot of people that seem to think that Midway would have been a disaster for the US if they lost, but there's not much reason behind this. The only thing the US was really risking that had a significant strategic i
615.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Oh, of course. But the MTBF for 'sleep 500y' on a mainframe is higher than on commodity x86 hardware.
616.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Especially if that was a way to "accidentally" kill an objectionable industry.
617.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Mainframes tend to be designed with extreme uptime in mind - to the point of often having hot-swappable processors .
618.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Oh, I didn't mean "how are we going to pay for this", I meant "who's going to be paying for this", and your answer is apparently "everyone with money, by way of government". That's not exactly
619.
by DuskStar 7y ago
That's nice. Where's the money for that going to come from? Because such groups already exist in small numbers - it's not like the existence of capitalist landlords prevents coops or charities from existing.
620.
by DuskStar 7y ago
I should probably point out that this dataset has been used for some machine learning tech demos in the past, for example This Waifu Does Not Exist [0], a StyleGAN-based automatic anime portrait generation tool. So it's not completely
621.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Some individual items are multiple TB, which would make 100GB shards a little difficult.
622.
by DuskStar 7y ago
I wish I could add Gwern's Danbooru dataset [0] here - 2.7TB of labeled anime images. But they only support torrent files up to 10MB, and that's over 20MB for the full dataset or 12MB for the SFW low-rez set... Incidentally, when
623.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Sure, but "how to toss existing docker containers into GKE" is IMO less than three days. Unless you have a reason to manage your own k8s cluster, k8s is extremely easy.
624.
by DuskStar 7y ago
They seem to be arguing that the names can be trivially changed without impacting further education or careers, and the names being used across classes and universities would say that that isn't (trivially) the case. If he had pulled t
625.
by DuskStar 7y ago
> I'll be fully transparent, this does make the question of "well how can we judge people without insisting on equality of outcome" rather tricky. I resolve this personally by just concluding that the precise judgement of
626.
by DuskStar 7y ago
> "Indigenous people" is the superset of earliest known inhabitants. "American Indians" or "Native Americans" are the indigenous people the United States. My area of Australia, we'd be as specific as sa
627.
by DuskStar 7y ago
If I'm understanding your objection correctly, it'd be summarized as "objective cross-cultural tests are impossible", right? And at least to me... Spatial reasoning, color comparison and differentiation, and formal logic
628.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Nah, you need to add some attribution there - "DISCLAIMER: THIS COURSE IS TAKING PLACE ON TRADITIONAL X-TRIBE LAND. THIS DISCLAIMER BROUGHT TO YOU BY YOUR STUDENT UNION FEES"
629.
by DuskStar 7y ago
> I find it hard to believe that you actually think this is why every single indigenous person is asking for the acknowledgement. A large part of it is that in the US (which is where this professor is located), the preferred nomenclatur
630.
by DuskStar 7y ago
That's fair! Data on who women respond to would be helpful here, but that would have to somehow be disentangled from messages in the form of "fuck off, creep".

More ›