SonicScrub

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by SonicScrub 3y ago
By providing a better service. Not by combatting the pirates in a technological arms race. Incidentally, movie/TV piracy is on the rise again as streaming has become more fragmented and more expensive. https://9to5mac.com&#x
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
I feel like this is a very convenient scapegoat for American unions to avoid looking internally at their own flaws. Many Americans have negative opinions of unions. Corporations and their wealthy owners have certainly put a lot of money to
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
There's an interesting story about how the social security number evolved to being much more than just for social security. Quick 5 minute primer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus&pp=ygUYY2dwIGdyZXk...
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Unfortunately my maximum cycling speed is well short of 7-8 km/s
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Big data aggregation makes this process much much easier. We are living in unprecedented times of mass surveillance, and we have yet to have a real reckoning of what that means in the hands of extreme ideologies. Also things don't have
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
I would not assume that there is no data pipeline connection between big-data collectors and government. Now, and especially not in the future. And that data you create now is forever.
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
There are parts of my life that are fine for ad companies to know. What clothes I like, what music I like, what sports I like etc. These are all benign, and even useful to me if ad companies know about them. The sentiment of your comment ma
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Why would anyone waste their physical and mental well-being by consuming poison?
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Any need of someone with a background in aeronautics/flight-simulation ;)
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
That local sea life also provides humans with food. So even with the human-centric viewpoint, we have a strong incentive to solve this problem.
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
You'd be surprised. The architecture and design podcast 99% Invisible did an episode on this recently. Give it a listen if you're interested in learning more. Here are some details from memory. Internal space without windows can&#
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
The F-35 is owned and operated by many nations besides the US. For example, those in the article itself (Norway).
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
> Sovereignty is impossible without defense. Defense is impossible without credible deterrence See above
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
As much as I love the entertainment value of The Pentagon Wars, citing that as a source for procurement problems is not great. It's a lot more than just 20% made up, and the parts that are true (i.e. the live fire test shenanigans) are
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Not really. Large military procurement programs are always a gold-mine for the media, especially those involving new technologies (compared with design iterations). Issues, bugs, production issues, etc are inevitable, and given the large pr
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
The issue with the F4 wasn't the lack of a gun alone, and focusing on that aspect 50 years after the Vietnam war clouds the current state of things. The issue was that missile technology was in it's infancy and unreliable, coupled
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
https://www.aviacionline.com/2022/01/f-35-cheaper-than-the-g... Specific figures will differ depending on how exactly one calculates acquisition costs. These numbers differ depending on the acquiring country, the
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
The F-35 is cheaper than it's contemporaries, and has a lower accident rate.
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Because it creates an easy scapegoat for our problems. It's much easier to point to the behaviors of a very tiny group of individuals and lay all the blame on the them than it is to grapple with the real truth of climate change: that o
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Based on the announcement it looks like the standard data-science libraries (numpy, pandas, matplotlib, seaborne) will be available. The covers a lot of use cases. However I would really appreciate the ability to set the python interpreter
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
US federal budget currently allocates around 1 trillion dollars for various welfare programs. NASA's entire budget is 32 billion. Please explain how gutting all space-related activities to boost federal social services by a mere 3% is
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
> I'm fairly certain the Canadian government has more strength, more endurance, and more defendable resources, then all tech companies on Earth, combined, if they fully set all their efforts in that direction. This seems like a weir
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
As the folk-wisdom goes "Twitter isn't real life". The ones who have that opinion are the terminally online.
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Ok, but you made a comment stating that what I said is inaccurate. It's not. It's just a different philosophy for analyzing rotating systems. And importantly, it's how Karman conceptualized his dynamic model for an aerodynami
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
I swear to God, the amount of misunderstanding around the concept of centrifugal force is insane. Relevant XKCD by the way: https://xkcd.com/123/ Sometimes it's more convenient to do physics in a rotating referenc
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
I wrote this post when I've supposed to be working on some Kalman Filter models at work, and it really shows. > Additionally, in orbit there is no force opposing gravity There is when we treat the vehicle in a rotating reference fra
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
I see a lot of discussion/arguments on the definition of space here. Allow me to fill in few relevant details of how "space" is defined. There is no clear definition of a boundary between space and not-space. Some like to use
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
The grift here is that there is no way in you are ever going to see a cent of that promised UBI. I hope giving away your biometrics was worth that slim hope. I'd personally go for the lottery ticket if I wanted to some have fun with ma
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Off the top of my head, more recent ish bands that never really crossed the border: The Arkells, Metric, July Talk, Broken Social Scene, Billy Talent, Tegan and Sarah, and many more. These bands sell out large music venues domestically, but
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
> Also I'm no longer near the people who I actually work with I think herein lies the divide between people who find the office valuable vs those who don't (or at least part of it). Back in the pre-pandemic days, I worked for l

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