MilStdJunkie

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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
To explain how that relates to your point re: stages. The stage of our perception isn't stable. When we started voyaging on ships, that changed it. We went to orbit, whew boy. Today, maybe our terminally-online presence is changing our
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Some of the most beautiful moments in science - for me, anyway - come about when there's a refresh on perspective. You'll have something like the ptolemaic system, or phlogiston, or the luminiferous ether, and a tiny push in perce
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
No, I apparently dodged the trap of words pretty handily there when I meant to type "subscribe". I apologize, I'm dealing exclusively in XSLT today and I can feel my brain screaming.
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Not quite. I don't ascribe completely to the notion that we can't figure stuff out. But we do need to be careful about assuming that things like 3d topology (aka "inside", "outside", when the mathematical spa
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
When I hear debates about whether or not the universes are black holes nested inside each other, or what the fate of the cosmos is, I often have an instinctive reaction to question whether or not concepts like "inside", "nest
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Everything about the official inflation calculation is almost totally borked in terms of generating useful information. Like, information that would be useful for someone doing something real, like future historians or Zombie FDR. There&#x2
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Truth. Splitting labor by race, sex, and whatever other box you can draw. A trick as American as apple pie and, well, hiring weirdos to screw with unions. Something fun to think about: the explosion in preposterously complicated documentati
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Wow, "pay as you go html to markdown" seems like a very hard sell in this year of our lord 2024. I've got a brace of converters for various parts of this problem, some of them are pushing a decade in age. You have products li
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Speaking for myself, as a layman, I had always been walking around thinking of hadrons as balls with other balls inside, with forces mediated by tiny/insubstantial yet-to-be-discovered balls. Yes, I knew they weren't balls, exactl
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Nice to have an alternative to Lilypond (lilypond.org), but given the extreme complexity of notation, I would bet that any brevity gains are short lived. For those Asciidoc freaks among you, Lilypond is fairly easy to get running in your As
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
When you stop and look at QCD in the big picture, it's sort of shocking how little we know - like, really, really know - about the internal structure of the proton, or even the nucleon! It's the curse of "probing" with
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
I curious how good the infrastructure -- the plumbing/electrical/network/appliance hookups -- are in this sort of thing, and how repairable the fixtures are. If I have to sledgehammer a wall out to replace a bad outlet, I thi
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Life isn't an RPG where you read the gamefaqs and do an ULTIMATE BUILD. Your sense of self is a story, it's a narrative we tell ourselves, something we've evolved so that we can simulate our environment over and over and over
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Palm was incredible . Enyo, webOS, the list is a long one. It's hard to overstate Palm's effect on handhelds, how they successfully challenged Blackberry to the benefit of both companies, and the tragedy of its demise[1]. Jon Rub
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Depends on what you mean by "machine gun"[1]. By the most common military definition, no. The recoil force would probably throw it to the ground, and even if it did not, the accuracy would be so laughable that it'd be more ef
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Yeah, my bad, chucking rockets isn't what I had in my head, but I always try to use "chuck" as a verb as often as possible. What's actually the critical word is "invasion": no one[1] tries to take your land whe
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Part of the core problem of our whole economic setup is the widening gap between "where money comes from" and "what do things do?". The VC hype machine makes this gap so large that it can disrupt attempts to design a s
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Our local home depot had its entire setup stripped out and redone with self checkout, but the system - in spite of being very glossy and futuristic looking - was designed by someone who had never worked retail before in their entire lives[1
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
I'm sorry to say such an adolescent thing here, but, "Duh?". For a delicate regime with many bordering enemies, and with an international nuclear policy in total shambles, it's the most sensible thing to do. By a country
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Respectfully speaking, that sounds an awful lot like someone's last words in the accident investigation, right before "always" suddenly isn't . The truth is, in a lot of ways, those bombs are Pakistan's bombs, but
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
In terms of weapon effect, nukes really are in a whole other category, particularly against invasions, which require concentration of force by their nature. Even a dozen nukes with 1950s delivery systems can make the price of invasion unten
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
I know I've tooted its horn before, but Orange3 is a pretty neat Python-based GUI platform that makes this and a metric buttload of other statistical/ML techniques available to non-programmer types. Just watch out for null chara
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Damn frickin' straight man. Remember that scene in The Founder ? "You're not going to run a hamburger business. You're going to run a real estate scheme that happens to sell hamburgers". With the Welchians, they&#x
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
STE used to cost $2900 USD for the print copy. So . . baby steps, I guess? STE, unlike Simplified English or International English or its many cousins, has what I like to call the "ISO Kiss of Death". Basically, with IKoD, you get
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
I'm still in that niche, and I hope I'm not being Debbie Downer, but no, the software is still horrible. The only movement that's happening today is where individual ERP/PDM/ILS solutions are beginning to just incor
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
I move in these military/defense spec circles rather a lot, and yeah, ASD has come light years when it comes to ASD-100 (STE) availability. Cruise this thread and you'll see quite a few of the horror stories users have had just ge
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
The pay scales are locked down by two primary components: 1) the project contract document locks charges pretty severely for the project, to the point where a single high pay scale putting in hours will probably require a revision to the ch
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
In the defense and aerospace industry I've known - and continue to know - a number of engineers and specialists who do this. Leadership will often turn a blind eye, because the particular skill is so specialized, they'd need to gi
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
This is interesting. LibreTranslate has been my go-to offline translation system for a few years, but I need an upgrade. This looks like a decent candidate, assuming I can make it work with what we got.
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Google Edgewood Arsenal and the BZ munition. Long story short - just like with gay bombs and all these other sorts of Cold War esoterica - is that humans are really complicated, and war is even more complicated. Turns out making people gay

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