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by VLM 4y ago
At that time, the media was not united in support of one of the political parties. The problem with the linked article is it insinuates political bias is the only acceptable public opinion, propaganda in support of that one party is good, a
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That was the entire point of my Sci Fi techothriller I never finished writing where the plot was the HST was a declassified KH-11 and to F the Soviets over we released the declassified HST with an intentional fault so the Soviet clone would
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by VLM 4y ago
Not for new designs, milking .edu and .gov for all they can get, great specs but no delivery date, easier and more convenient to buy weed than their silicon ... it had a good run but it's just done now.
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by VLM 4y ago
Its been the same credibility gap from those people since the unobtainable $5 Pi Zero back in 2015. Eight years and many models later they still don't ship at MSRP despite what they claim. However, their competition can and does ship
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by VLM 4y ago
I'd say its pretending in the sense of comparing a vaporware product you'll never receive or only available for hyperinflated price from scalpers, vs delivered from Amazon Prime on your doorstep tomorrow. Like comparing a Chevy Vo
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NUCs and the like are about twice the cost of Beelink and the like. You can search on Amazon and pay about 10% to 25% premium to the dropshipper or get a general gist of the market and then order off the website (where it'll cost like
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by VLM 4y ago
802.3af was the old turn of the century standard limit of 15 watts. You can probably buy new stuff used but everything is probably 802.3at now from around a decade ago, which is twice the power 30 watts. There is a new standard came out a
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by VLM 4y ago
Now, like January 2023 numbers, you can get a brand new mini micro PC from a no-name brand with twice the memory and a large SATA drive and vastly faster CPU and probably a pirated win10 or win11 installation for 10% to 20% lower price than
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by VLM 4y ago
The market for Pi is dead. The article pretends that you can buy a pi for list price $5 or whatever LOL but I just checked Amazon and real humans are paying $170 to $205 for a pi. The article claim that you can't compare a $150 "
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by VLM 4y ago
We certainly hauled a bunch of sats home over the decades, see STS-51-A for a typical declassified example of some relatively boring comsats. The classified missions published landing weights for some reason; they were low; the assumption i
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by VLM 4y ago
I've never gotten a straight answer on who came first the KH-11 or HST. The mirrors are the same size and they both fit in the bay. A long time ago I considered writing a "sci fi techno thriller" book plot along the lines of
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by VLM 4y ago
Google Plus aka Google+ is "ancient history" so we can pretend that never happened and start using "Plus" as a suffix to products again.
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by VLM 4y ago
For a good laugh ask it to write poems about various political leaders and notice any trends you're not supposed to notice. As usual, censorship and propaganda will arrive in a wrapper of "save the children"
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by VLM 4y ago
I'm reminded of people eating Tide pods. Who makes 'better' memes? Social media or ChatGPT? Is something like this situation proof that Dead Internet Theory is real and social media is mostly bots?
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by VLM 4y ago
This is the problem in a nutshell, do you define a "good recipe" as one that is historically accurate, that tastes good, or that follows various belief systems like not culturally appropriating or only culturally appropriating whe
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by VLM 4y ago
There's a link to a PDF here from google itself. https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/9281931?hl=en I suppose you could have a "conspiracy theory" level argument that Google publishes what it
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by VLM 4y ago
The used book store cookbook section, the supermarket checkout magazines, and internet recipes are all the same ultra low quality level. I find it fascinating that "pro cookbook" level recipes exist, but you'll NEVER find any
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by VLM 4y ago
The problem will not be that the value of content will drop to zero, but that the value of asking someone else to ask ChatGPT for me and then wrap it in ads for me to view is very low compared to the inevitable result of I'll just ask
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by VLM 4y ago
An abstraction of the old "follow the money" argument is to figure out who politically benefits from dogma, then decide if you want to align with them, then determine if you'll be permitted not to obey. Tends to be a lot of &
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by VLM 4y ago
It took 70 employees 12 years to process those 3000 employees. That's one per work week, roughly.
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My experience is once you step off the path, you're done with corporate W-2. HR will blacklist you if you didn't work 40 hrs in the same job title or one step down last week. Its all about risk minimization and blame minimizatio
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by VLM 4y ago
Clearly.
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The only relevant factor in the dowser's success is on the long term for every $100 you give the experienced old dowser he will save you $1000 of expensive diesel excavator time. Technically he can probably stay in business providing
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by VLM 4y ago
A lot of it is sophistry in the definition of words and playing word games. The first problem is a sampling bias. Given a claim that a "good enough" EE can build a ham radio transmitter out of parts, we can test that claim by put
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I bet on a smaller level there's even variation in leaf and bark color. Another interesting theory: Everyone knows plants wilt when dry and perk up somewhat when watered; human eyes are hunter eyes, are we're good at detecting mo
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Some of it is the old horoscope trick of if you have enough leaks, you can just throw a dart and be correct. Much like most people meet enough people every day that a horoscope claiming "you'll meet someone today" is accurat
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by VLM 4y ago
The linked article works hard to provide only meaningless personal anecdotes and promote speculation to avoid any actual answers while pushing pre-selected agendas. AKA, journalism in a nutshell. Sadly typical. Which is why almost no one
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by VLM 4y ago
This is not going to fit well with the groupthink of "ChatGPT and other AI is perfect and going to replace us all"
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"not far away" from the famous Rock Lake Pyramid. There's a lot of unusual stuff in the general upper midwest.
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Even better, we could base hiring on solving word search puzzles containing workplace words to select the best of the best construction workers, and maybe some trivia tests.

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