K0balt

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by K0balt 9mo ago
It only works Like that because fences are hard to build at 5000 Feet. Remote disabling vehicles is a very different thing.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
If you mean, by reporting statistics, you’re probably right. But men in general are widely used to physical abuse and are expected to take it. Granted, it is rarely significantly harmful and women use it as a way to reassure themselves that
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Women also cause enormous turmoil and suffering through their indiscretions and poor choices. Men are hardly alone on that journey.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Systemic? It goes way beyond that. Nature itself ensures that life is short, brutal, violent, and punctuated with horrors. Happiness is a transient state that loses its power if it is present more than part of the time, and joy can only exi
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by K0balt 9mo ago
I don’t think that mammals are, in general, ignorant of the character of harm, violence, and death. Animals even kill to end suffering. Life is short, brutal, and violent. We do what we can to make it less so.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
That was my first reaction as well. Maybe if we include letting others harm themselves or others by choosing poorly it makes more sense, but then it’s patronising to the opposite sex, like their agency is invalid. OTOH I can remember being
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Was about to say, but it looks like you’re working on it! Cool idea, it’s already been helpful to me even with the often inaccurate scraping.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Bluetooth and specifically BLE is way more capable and versatile than most people understand. We are using it for a connectionless time synchronisation protocol that also contains a rudimentary control plane. The clients can receive synchro
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by K0balt 9mo ago
If you have solid domain knowledge, LLMs are a force multiplier for electronic design. You just have to have a spider sense for “this is going off the rails”. Other than that, it does useful circuit review, part selection (or suggestions fo
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Shocking that retailers raised their prices when the cost of goods sold jumped sharply! So bizzare, who would have thought.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
It’s surprisingly difficult to not eat a little human flesh. People nibble on loose skin and the insides of thier mouth a little, you end up swallowing blood, and there is often a tiny bit of human biomass in processed food. Ergo the “signi
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by K0balt 9mo ago
I’m sure there is more overlap between gun ownership vs non, but I’d argue the overlap from both groups is vanishingly small. Plenty of liberals own guns, and also a lot of people that would not identify as liberal are extremely anti gesta
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Nah, not really. Thats what the polarizing media would have you believe…. But guns are everywhere in the USA.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Well, not with that attitude, they aren't. But I've been on some charters where I'm pretty sure that they were, in fact, larping Chuck Yeager. I've seen a solid 2.5-2.8G turns in a 737, as well as some cornea-peeling rot
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by K0balt 9mo ago
I mean, it is kind of a bit, in a way, but I really did announce to my social group my resolution, about 40 years ago, and I’ve been ratcheting it up gradually ever since. I have kept my public and official New Year’s resolutions for 37 yea
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by K0balt 9mo ago
This is a great example, an object lesson in something that is deeply misunderstood. Running a company and running a government are fundamentally disparate things to the point of one set of skills being antithetical to the other, even thoug
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Well, it may not be a term of art, but regression from the mean is reasonable to imagine as a failure to rise to the mean level.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Well, I added that after realizing that it wasn’t uncommon to accidentally eat small parts of your mouth, fingertips, things like that in the course of a year, and I was not about to fail in my quest to reject cannibalism for the year. I me
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Nope, I meant literally not consuming human flesh as food. After years of unsuccessful New Year’s resolutions, I decided to pick one I was sure I could stick to. Success through lowered expectations.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Ah, success through lowered expectations! This has been my mantra for the last 40 years, and it has worked surprisingly well. I started out with a New Year’s resolution to not intentionally consume significant quantities of human flesh, an
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Mmmm…. Not saying us pilots are universally great, but I have definitely seen a significant regression from the mean in many foreign cohorts. I imagine it’s due to fundamental differences in the concept of training. It’s one of the things b
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Ah, whistleblowers. Always and forever committing suicide. Turns out thinking you can stab the gorgon with no consequences is a form of mental illness.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
We don’t have to go down that path, it’s the path we’re already on. It’s not the way I think it -should be- but it is the way that it is. The incentive alignment keeps it at that local minima, and every attempt to move it to a new one so fa
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by K0balt 9mo ago
What is odd to me is hearing people talk as if somehow a job is supposed to be intrinsically enjoyable or enriching. Paid labor is and always has been a subservient role that pays exactly the minimum that the market allows for the circumst
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by K0balt 10mo ago
I’ve been pleasantly surprised how useful it is for writing low level stuff like peripheral drivers on imbedded platforms. It’s actually-simple- stuff, but exactingly technical and detail oriented. It’s interesting that it can work so well
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by K0balt 10mo ago
Unfortunately, that’s not the result of money being useless. Money being useless means the end of scarcity for a very few, and life outside the gilded walls for everyone else, trying to maintain an agrarian society so they can eat , and try
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by K0balt 10mo ago
I think you misread my post as optimism. If we are not very, very careful, it will be more like macroscopic grey goo than some kind of techno-utopia… and that’s with humans still in charge.
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by K0balt 10mo ago
Surprisingly, at least in theory, and probably in practice with better technology, supersonic travel can be as efficient or even more efficient than subsonic flight. Supersonic travel opens up higher altitudes, higher altitudes means less a
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by K0balt 10mo ago
Interesting, maybe new for pocket compasses. I had a marine plotting compass that used a massive copper cylindrical housing, with a sapphire glass bottom and window. It was very well damped. It was made in the 1940s, presumably when yachts
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by K0balt 10mo ago
Manufacturing means, realistically, bootstrapping the general purpose robots that will foment the “third Industrial Revolution”, which will revolutionize capital and make money largely irrelevant. Energy, materials, and automation are the o

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