Tangurena2

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by Tangurena2 5d ago
> There are already cameras on top of all the lights. Those are infrared sensors that pick up the heat from car engines. They've had to be modified to pick up electric cars. > How hard can it be to hook them up to AI that is i
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by Tangurena2 5d ago
One of the first "expert systems" was one that helped you spec your DEC computer. It was easy to order a VAX that was missing necessary hardware (or had incompatible hardware). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xc
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by Tangurena2 5d ago
Some of the letter combinations (at least in Irish) can be represented by another Roman letter. Like mh can be represented by v . One short showing how funny this can be is: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1EBnFqRKZ7A
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by Tangurena2 5d ago
When handwritten, thorn looks like a sloppy y .
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by Tangurena2 5d ago
I leave because it stops being "fun". The way my father put it is "when you start a job, they hand you 2 buckets. One they fill with money. The other they fill with crap. When the bucket of crap weighs more than the bucket wi
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by Tangurena2 5d ago
The crew that the farmer needs don't live anywhere near the farms/clients. Hiring and driving the workers to where the work is will still be needed.
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by Tangurena2 5d ago
My office's "net nanny" blocks archive.is as a "Russian site". However, archive.ph (use the same link across all the various sites) is not blocked (yet).
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by Tangurena2 8d ago
> a world in which the labor required of each human to lead a flourishing life approaches zero. The AI bubble is pricing AI stocks so high that the only possible way for them to meet investors expectations is for AI to charge so much t
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by Tangurena2 9d ago
If the sides of the pond collapse (which happens a lot with mine tailings), then you have something resembling a oil pipeline rupture (which also happens a lot, but some states make it illegal to get video footage of it) which is a rather t
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by Tangurena2 10d ago
Legislators in the US won't cover the actual costs of road maintenance. Most cities issue long term bonds to finance road construction & repair, but in order to repay those bonds, those states & cities need to constantly grow.
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by Tangurena2 10d ago
There used to be an epidemic of cars striking and killing pedestrians. The advertising industry (hired by the auto industry) came up with the new imaginary crime called "jaywalking". This diverted attention from the killers and on
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by Tangurena2 11d ago
> Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of th
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by Tangurena2 11d ago
If you have a vehicle that can reach orbit, then you have an ICBM. That's why Sputnik struck such fear into Americans.
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by Tangurena2 15d ago
So this is the result of "move fast and break things (humans in this case)".
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by Tangurena2 18d ago
Well, it would be a very bad idea to use any pagers sent anonymously to the researcher.
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by Tangurena2 18d ago
Some of the code needed to be digitally signed to execute on target hardware, so being able to get the actual digital certs meant that Stuxnet could not be a hacker group and could only be some national agency or "Bond villain."
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by Tangurena2 18d ago
Some of the recipes in the Anarchist Cookbook are incorrect. I know, I had a copy from Paladin Press.
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by Tangurena2 22d ago
> there are several platforms One such platform used to be called Vigilant Systems. They'd sell details of where a car has passed a police/Flock ALPR camera, mostly to repo companies, but also bail/bounty hunters. Using
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by Tangurena2 22d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by Tangurena2 22d ago
It is European which means that it is both anti-capitalist and communist and therefore must be spit upon.
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by Tangurena2 22d ago
In the olden days, the doc would hold your nuts and tell you to turn your head and cough. This was to detect if you had a hernia (which was a medical exception). The bunghole inspection was to see if you were the receptive partner in anal i
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by Tangurena2 22d ago
The politicians really want to know who to prosecute if someone on the internet says bad things (about them).
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by Tangurena2 22d ago
Not in the US. Several EU countries have PKI systems integrated with identity documents that let the requester to ask for age (for example) and then only age is supplied. But their PKI systems are for the whole ID document. As for the passp
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by Tangurena2 22d ago
That's why I say "Our lobbyists have more money than your lobbyists" . Every state has sunshine laws to show who the lobbyists are, what they lobbied on, and to whom. Some states separate those lobbyists into legislative &am
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by Tangurena2 22d ago
I used to work for my state's DMV. They'd sell vehicle registration data to various companies, which is how and why you get those "we've been trying to reach you about your car warranty" phone calls. I don't kn
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by Tangurena2 22d ago
It is a REAL ID requirement. It is federal law. States issuing REAL ID compliant identity documents must mail them to your physical address. USPS provides that data for address validation. DPVCMRA = delivery point is a commercial mail recei
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by Tangurena2 22d ago
It would be best for any such ID system to capture only the minimum data to fulfil their function. Pre-WW2 Dutch records also listed religion, which made it very easy for the Nazis to round up and murder them. Some examples from Kansas show
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by Tangurena2 22d ago
I fell down one of those rabbit holes by watching a young adult TV show called "The Children of the Stones" which was filmed at Avebury (a village built around a stone circle, about 25 miles north of Stonehenge) and the book &quot
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by Tangurena2 23d ago
Until the Industrial Revolution, there was nothing even close to what we nowadays call "childhood". As children became old enough to walk by themselves, they'd accompany their parents and help with weeding & cultivation.
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by Tangurena2 23d ago
> In thirteenth-century England, Christians were expected to avoid meat every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday during Lent (when eggs and dairy products were also forbidden), Advent and on some saints’ days (or the eves of their feasts)

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