XorNot

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by XorNot 7mo ago
Your hypothesis here though is full of complicating factors. For example >I stopped drinking heavily and using other drugs, i.e. marijuana Like the primary change you made was to cut out using a whole bunch of drugs with known, significa
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by XorNot 7mo ago
These days I'm rather more concerned that a lot can come next. The cessation of my sensory experience might be a very long time, but from my perspective random chance bringing me back would be instantaneous.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Wouldn't convincing the criminal part of the population to just stay home be a net win? Policing and prisons are both notably more expensive then welfare.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Right - until anti-air measures designed to deal with voluminous relatively low performance threats get deployed. There's a reason Ukraine has been rolling out old school anti-aircraft and flak guns, and the modern variants are now sta
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Define cheap and multiply by thousands. Ukrainian front line drones stopped being DJIs years ago. They're now much closer to $3000 USD+ at the low end for an ISR vehicle. $8000+ for the more capable FPV kamikazes is the estimate for Ru
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Is only said by those days intending to provide neither? Is said in place of using actual arguments or evidence?
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by XorNot 8mo ago
I thought 3001 was fine and a good conclusion. Although it seemed implausible in the setting that humanity wasn't immortal given some of the technology.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Presuming that state of affairs will persist though is fraught. It's quite likely that in about 5 years most military installations will have a mix of weapons to intercept those systems - and depending on a number of factors you could
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by XorNot 8mo ago
The F-35 is cheaper then some new production 4th generation fighters at this point.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Who is saying people would starve? Holy strawman batman! But if people are going to get judgy about food delivery then they can rather put the effort in to explore why they feel that way. But there's nothing efficient about hundreds of
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by XorNot 8mo ago
The original comment was lamenting people not buying their own cars and driving to pickup food. Which is again, incredibly inefficient on every possible level and actually pretty damn expensive.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Delivery services are more efficient then having the same customer base all drive to the restaurant. Unless it's in walking distance, one driver can service many people using a lot less resources.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
If I have cancer then whether to trust the radiation machine due to the name is certainly a choice I can make, but you get to own your own priorities in that case.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
At this point those are about the same in terms of quality. "I spent money writing "a prompt* and this is what I learned".
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Sure but that also feels like a compiler problem. The compiler knows everywhere my function can go. So rather then having it just throw an exception - i.e. arbitrary data - on the stack, surely what's really happening is I'm cre
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by XorNot 8mo ago
I will freely go on the record as saying that there's nothing wrong with exceptions for this exact reason: errors are so common that a function being "pure" is the exception, and that errors-as-value handling invariable tur
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by XorNot 8mo ago
There are two things I think you could have as implict in Go - error values, and contexts. Just pass along two hidden variables for both in parameters and returns, and would anything really change that the compiler wouldn't be able to
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by XorNot 8mo ago
The number of casualties from the American civil war was estimated at 700,000 soldiers from both sides. The death toll from Hiroshima and Nagasaki is estimated at about 200,000. Nuclear weapons have killed far fewer people then any other ty
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by XorNot 8mo ago
This is such a tiresome take. Anything is a weapon if you work hard enough at it, but do you really think the main thing that will stop us killing each other is access or lack thereof to weapons? Like we have prehistoric skeletons with obvi
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by XorNot 8mo ago
It wouldn't quite solve it: the issue is it's very helpful to hit a button on my phones home screen to get "different directory" immediately via a different shortcut. Like there's a fair bit of ergonomics here which
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Funnily enough I use this just to have a camera which saves to a different directory for keeping RealityScan images apart from my general photos.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
I mean you say that, but as someone with family in California the issue isn't the general citizenry it's that ICE and border people aren't general citizenry. If the system decides to screw you over, that your average Cali r
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by XorNot 8mo ago
That's a very different proposition to what the various parent posters are implying though. Like if you work for a defense contractor, you know what your work is for even if you wouldn't know exactly what the product or applicat
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by XorNot 8mo ago
And that is entirely the fault of American voters. The government is doing exactly what they said they would.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Taiwan buys military equipment and operates it's own military very much like it is independent of China and views Chinese troops in it's territory as a threat.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
The inability to accurately cite any story about this, and the "friend of a friend" structure is what implies it's garbage. Not to mention it itself requires a conspiracy theory: "no one would do this work voluntarily&qu
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by XorNot 8mo ago
They knew the US was at war and they knew it was a government program for military purposes and they knew they were dealing nuclear materials. A journalist not involved at all figured it out just fine, but at the very least it's not li
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by XorNot 8mo ago
I currently have dropbear-ssh presenting the LUKS password prompt on my home server, but that has the very annoying quality that there's no way to do it from the console if you set that up too. It's not a huge problem but it certa
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by XorNot 8mo ago
I'm assuming there's a missing /s tag there.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Vertically upright humanoids have a lot going for them: they don't occupy a lot of floor space, they can pull an object right into their center of gravity to manipulate it, and because they're familiar they're relatively easy

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