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by adolph 1y ago
> You do not own your airspace. The FAA owns your airspace. This kinda begs the question of what is meant by "airspace." If the term means a geometric volume that is generally occupied by materials in a gaseous state, then does
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by adolph 1y ago
> a drone hovering over someone's property would be likely used as target practice A long time ago I got to spend some time doing this and it was trickier than one might think. You have to lead over 3 dimensions instead of 2 and the
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by adolph 1y ago
I can definitely see a future time when small autonomous air vehicles start to have problems with the local wildlife, either from the thick flocks of grackles in winter or from the more mischievous neighborhood corvids.
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by adolph 1y ago
If it worked for AOL, why wouldn't someone continue today? (other than a lack of optical reading devicen in most compute). Maybe AOL would be better off today if they kept mailing and just added NFC and QR-code. In 2011, AOL CEO Steve
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by adolph 1y ago
The DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005 (the Act) and a subsequent regulation effective in 2009 established requirements for federal law enforcement agencies to collect DNA from individuals who are arrested, facing criminal charges or convicted, a
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by adolph 1y ago
This story about a physical card reader checker to detect skimmer devices was interesting and posted here a couple years back. https://tech.target.com/blog/cybersecurity-easysweep https://news.ycombinator.co
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by adolph 1y ago
> > . . . The groupthink and virtue signaling is intense . . . > Friend, this website is EXACTLY the same And it gnows it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4881042
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by adolph 1y ago
Using the word "should" acknowledges the proposed as counterfactual and the opposite as a rule that transcends any person's will. Its as harmless a claim as saying gravity has been reversed by redefining up.
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by adolph 1y ago
Which reminds me of The Cagots were a persecuted minority who lived in the west of France and northern Spain [0] The origins of the Cagots remain uncertain . . . . Despite the varied and often mythical explanations for their origin
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by adolph 1y ago
Maybe I'm old school but isn't the date the last date for inclusion in the training corpus and not the date "they stopped training"?
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by adolph 1y ago
The fundamental weakness of GPS and similar is that they are a set of beacons from which a position may be calculated. This has simplified the navigation task but also made that task more fragile. Navigation itself must "toughen up&quo
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by adolph 1y ago
Or maybe it’s that Hackworth hired a ractor instead of getting AGI completed
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by adolph 1y ago
Basically you need to sovereign-balance your services over different regions. Also have a high available pool of people to replace arrestees. One reason the the court has been hamstrung is that it relies heavily on contractors and non-gove
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by adolph 1y ago
Or an interactive AI primer for your grandchild.
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by adolph 1y ago
I typically just copy/paste directly from a sufficiently valid corpus of the domain.
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by adolph 1y ago
From an "Eats Shoots and Leaves" perspective, the following interpretation is just one interpretation: some business unit of NASA at Stennis Space Center released for its first time some software under an open source license. Othe
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by adolph 1y ago
> as long as there was enough money for everyone, they were okay with the ongoing theft. Cue @patio11: The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero [0] 0. https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
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by adolph 1y ago
> Not commoditising for enterprise. My last gig wouldn’t allow open source software or any company that might not be there in a decade, or which kept data anywhere but our own tenant. Hence IBM talking up Iceberg: https://www.
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by adolph 1y ago
Are the 100s of nanometers of light larger than the perturbations of Brownian motion? This oldish link would indicate inclusions of lead in aluminum at 330°C will move within 2nm in 1/3s but may displace by 100s of nanometers over time
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by adolph 1y ago
> They find a group ~30 people with similar The point to point for number of dollars information that Uber may have is the critical part. Municipal transit organizations are information poor since even if they could use municipal dataset
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by adolph 1y ago
Yeah, that’s a generous sentiment until you are trying to pull docs for a particular version of VAFileman from a .zoo archive . . .
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by adolph 1y ago
Teams is going through a central server and bouncing it out to participants, right? Not p2p.
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by adolph 1y ago
Yeah, some enterprise admin will click it and make it clickable for others. It’s a classic ratchet of enshittification until things reach a magic intolerability point and folks evacuate to other systems leading those to get rolled into one
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by adolph 1y ago
> So who does not have root access to "your" user terminal? Not to defend this but curious: Unless the terminal is attached to a local network that also has internet access, the satellite network would need to be traversed in o
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by adolph 1y ago
It may go on to be as important as the FPU [0]. Amazingly enough you can still get one for a Classic II [1]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_unit 1. https://www.tindie.com/products/
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by adolph 1y ago
> without getting any kind of qualification or accreditation . . . and still get credited with a story, then journalism itself has an identity crisis. A subplot of @patio11's podcast has been how to bootstrap the social conventions
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by adolph 1y ago
> they are close to the underlying hardware for practical reasons Could you provide reference information to support this background assertion? I'm not totally familiar with filesystems under the hood, but at this point doesn't
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by adolph 1y ago
This seems like a good spot for the link to @patio11's "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" So, as a public service, I’m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptio
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by adolph 1y ago
Also you can preview the video without taking an ad hit. Clearly the stable genius behind previews has left some revenue on the table.
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by adolph 1y ago
Cybernetic refers to systems of communication and automated control, which would describe the purpose of a corp in a broad sense, no? The Dan Davies book “The Accountability Machine” [0] makes the link between corps and cybernetics through

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