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by adolph 9mo ago
Brings to mind the Errol Morris investigation of a pair of historic photos in which the photographer may or may not have altered the scene to amp up the drama. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/roger-fenton-vall
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ianal and kudos to Bose for their relatively graceful hardware depreciation approach and releasing their API documentation; the license for said documentation does not appear to be easily recognized as "open source" by using a sta
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See the remotely operated Spike missiles: https://www.twz.com/news-features/spike-missiles-that-destro...
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Counterpoint is that Ukraine, Qaddafi, and Assad already demonstrated the significance of maintaining certain capabilities. Vzla didn't have those capabilities before, much less publicly depreciate them.
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> pressure on food manufacturers to make their products actually healthier Probably not. Food manufacturing is not high margin. The things that would make "products actually healthier" are higher cost both in terms of inputs an
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i have never seen an HN thread about Reddit that didn’t turn into mostly hating Reddit. Pretty much anywhere you go, people have a negativity bias both in what they say and in what they recall seeing. A great exception is Amazon rev
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I am truely a beginner. I am also annoyed by rotating identifiers for devices on the network since it increases the overhead to differentiate for the purpose of firewall rules. Maybe v6 has an identifier better than MAC that can be handled
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> exile Maria Corina Machado Machado seems to be the opposite of an exile until she escaped to accept the Nobel Peace Prize last month. Machado was prohibited from leaving Venezuela by a decade-old government-imposed travel ban an
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Yep, iot would be a tremendously worse security problem if everyone wasn't actually operating a household subnet without knowing it. When your washing machine, fridge, etc all come with ipv6 5g modems is when your house becomes part of
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The author seems based in North America which in December is typically cooler than the equatorial Galapagos. https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/galapagos
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The article doesn't deliver on the headline of why the author disappeared. At no point is the motivation for going to the Galapagos disclosed.
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The story ahead of the Tirpiz sinking is fascinating [0], right up there with the account in Blind Man's Bluff of Ivy Bells [1]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Source 1. https://en.wikipedia
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> This problem is hard because of the huge gap between the health/biology domain and the tech domain. Is there a reason you feel like Palantir is better equipped to close this gap? I'm not certain that it is better equipped tha
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I was going to reply "Susan Kare's bitmap pinstripes or bust" but based on this interview [0] that was Andy Hertzfeld. 0. https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/intervie..
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Eventually it will go away just like brushed metal, lickable, green felt, and woodgrain. Unfortunately for that to happen they will need to invent something so heinous you will wish for liquid glass.
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Yeah, it is dead boring until you hit the real world of trying to make a data request from an IRB which doesn't talk to the IT folks who don't really know the ins and outs of the data they steward but have their own forms and appr
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Yeah, ontology is a key word. Its like the best concepts from things like Informatica and Pachyderm and Snowflake, structured in a semi-sane data security model and certified with all the fedramp whatnot you need to make cloud saas work for
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Healthcare systems often use Foundry for organizing data. It's a complex problem and Foundry has a good toolset for the job. https://www.palantir.com/offerings/health/
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> And he is allowed to work for google and still rage against AI. The specific quote is "spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society." What has he supported for the last 20+ years if not that? D
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Just the haters here? Is what was written not hateful? Has his entire working life not lead to this moment of "spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society?" Fuck you people. Raping the planet,
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I've been eyeing the coolermaster kit. It seems like an interesting way to do a 1l pc. Can you just plug usbc directly into them without using the expansion things? The cooling seems to travel 90° corresponding to in the bottom and out
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++on older Lenovo. Something that Framework might have after many years is a viable secondary and third party market for repair components. Lenovo has also done a great job with keeping their detailed service manuals online and available.
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> I can swap out my mobo for a RISC-V mobo, or ARM. You can't do that with the 16, only the 13 [0] and you can't upgrade ram on it. Which is kind of the problem in a nutshell. Over time fewer user modifications make sense due t
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And the lawyers should have used an LLM to perform a first pass of the redactions and methods of redaction. Going forward the full stack of perpetrators, unindicted coconspirators, lawyers, judges, legislators, journalists, editors, fact ch
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The Scottish Highlands are also significant to contemporary understanding of geology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton%27s_Unconformity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfdwRRpiYGQ&t=68s
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A sibling comment says "just use Pi-hole" which kind of works and is also inadequate. A similar system is Ad Guard Home. These work at the DNS level with preset lists of bad domains. They aren't necessarily going to catch you
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Closed loop municipal water systems seem like such a good idea that just needs a little kickstart to become relatively self-sustaining from harvesting what is otherwise treated as waste. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science
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> Laotians smile the 3rd most, but are also among the angriest From "Be Careful Where You Smile: Culture Shapes Judgments of Intelligence and Honesty of Smiling Individuals" Although numerous studies confirm that positive p
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Thank you for linking to those benchmarks. Its interesting that in OpenSSL upload, Windows userspace is 16% faster than Linux.
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Maybe this is one of those things where "Worse is Better" [0] given HTTP/1.x will always receive more time/attention/resources than something that might be theoretically superior but never got the resources to fulfi

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