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by Hilift 2y ago
100%. It's been that way forever too. I've caught numerous people setting up mining crap, it's everywhere and anyone that shouldn't be trusted but is probably will be a vector.
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by Hilift 2y ago
ARM has been a shambles for years since acquisition by Softbank in 2016. The China subsidiary went rogue and had to be dealt with at a time when they were considering an IPO. This has Oracle Java like lessons learned waiting to be written,
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by Hilift 2y ago
There is clearly a difference between states that invested in projects that went over budget. Power generation is cheaper in a lot of states due to the price of natural gas is dramatically lower than it was 20 years ago. Florida uses gas
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by Hilift 2y ago
It was probably a VAX 11/780. If you were cheap you purchased an 11/750. The 780 had a PDP-8 for a console processor. https://news.microsoft.com/features/the-engineers-engineer-c...
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by Hilift 2y ago
Translation: We have a new caste of operating system user. First there were regular users. Then there were mobile users. Now we have automobile users, which are similar to the second case, except due to driving are even more defenseless aga
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by Hilift 2y ago
I think both Microsoft and Redhat can contribute to Linux kernel without it becoming an issue of unfair competition.
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by Hilift 2y ago
Farmers in South Dakota were so poor they couldn't afford to trap/stop the wolf, so they enlisted the federal government to do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer_Wolf
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by Hilift 2y ago
If you read Wikipedia, there was the Massacre of the "Latins" in Constantinople in 1182. That almost certainly made it easy to make it a revenge play for the Venetians and associates. What I find most interesting is the Romans wer
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by Hilift 2y ago
> leave the country to renew paperwork is an insane anachronism Not really. This is really Customs and Border Patrol/Immigration way of saying, you can always do the default/what everyone else does. You can leave and return six
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by Hilift 2y ago
I think the more interesting developments occurred after the fall of the western Roman empire. The eastern empire (Constantinople) had frequent arguments and disputes with the west over nearly everything, including Christianity. The eastern
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by Hilift 2y ago
I wouldn't classify hydrogen as "failed" yet. Much of today's industry runs on natural gas. However after many large companies converted to using natural gas in the 1990's, it was almost a disaster due to the price
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by Hilift 2y ago
The US Navy has detailed specifications and tables on honors. Like the number of sideboys present for visiting dignitaries, ruffles and flourishes, guns on arrival/departure, and boat "gongs". https://www.seaflags.
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by Hilift 2y ago
One of those "scientists" was Theodore Hall. At 18 years old, he graduated with a physics degree from Harvard in 1944, and provided the single most detailed source of information on a complete working bomb to Russia. He was "
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by Hilift 2y ago
> The intensity of feeling within the Linux community towards Windows and Microsoft back then was intense. Remember that Microsoft didn't really have an OS that didn't suck yet. Windows as we know it today did not exist, it was
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by Hilift 2y ago
In 1947, the US congress attempted exactly the same thing with the National Security Act of 1947. There were inter-service rivalries during WW2 that needed to be addressed. The Air Force was separated from the Army, but the Army quickly re-
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by Hilift 2y ago
Sadly, popular open source projects are vulnerable to this vector. A popular package that is adopted by a large vendor (Redhat/Microsoft) may see a PR from months or a year ago materialize in their product update pipeline. That is too
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by Hilift 2y ago
This is public/state controlled funding. Also it is reserving it for "research with economic benefits." New Zealand isn't a rich country. Also private entities can fund research. It is common in the US for chemical compa
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by Hilift 2y ago
Look a City of Industry in California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Industry,_California My guess would be SpaceX wants to pay for and hire their own police/fire/roads instead of paying for and using
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by Hilift 2y ago
> Android is close. But ultimately you can't run any PC apps on it Android can run KVM. What Android cannot do is run Windows due to the consumer would not have or bring a license or purchase a license.
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by Hilift 2y ago
"Ibrahima Ndiaye, a senior principal engineer at GEVAR who led the project, says the breakthrough was figuring out how to give a conventional transformer the capability to change its impedance (that is, its resistance to electricity fl
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by Hilift 2y ago
1985 was a really interesting time though. The Mac was hugely popular after one year. I remember going to Kinko's at 11:00 PM to work on a document and there was a bank of Macs with people furiously working on something for class. The
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by Hilift 2y ago
A voice/wireless provider can abuse a lot of things and get away with it now. Even if it is an obvious problem, the FCC doesn't do anything about specific complaints unless you hire an attorney to file a formal complaint. All of t
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by Hilift 2y ago
"we constantly strive to enhance the performance and efficiency of our Mamba and Jamba language models." ... "The growing importance of multi-step reasoning at inference time necessitates accelerators that can efficiently han
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by Hilift 2y ago
It's the main reason that tactical nukes were removed from surface ships in 1991. When a carrier deploys, the airwing flies aboard. Then ordnance is loaded during underway replenishment. For the warheads, this was almost a full day of
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by Hilift 2y ago
NYPD has abundant resources with $11 billion budget/36,000 sworn officers and has a high murder clearance compared to other large urban cities in the US. 2023 346/257 cleared (74%). LA was 683/395 (58%). This guy wanted to be
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by Hilift 2y ago
There are already companies selling 5,000+ qubit quantum systems to the NSA. I would assume they are already using it for that in the huge data center in Utah.
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by Hilift 2y ago
Location seems to be a factor. NYC has better statistics. Overall it is 54% since 2020. Washington DC had 1,088 murders, 559 clearances (51%) from 2020-2023. Baltimore is 1,042 and 315 (30%). NYC is notably better: 1,740 and 1,190, (68%).
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by Hilift 2y ago
> I can't help but wonder if a big part of the reason the number of incidents is so high is because we're intentionally hyperbolic about risks when it comes to warning labels Chainsaws have about the same number of annual ER vi
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by Hilift 2y ago
Some people just smell bad and taste bad.
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by Hilift 2y ago
Depopulation resulted in an oversupply of nine million housing vacancies outside the cities. Tokyo pays people a million yen per child to move out of the city. It looks like the population plateaued about 10 years ago and is trending down s

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