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by aftbit 7mo ago
Shot exchange is a huge problem, made even worse by the arrival of cheap drones. But you're implicitly assuming that the adversary is on roughly equal economic footing. If your defense budget is $800 billion and your adversary's d
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by aftbit 7mo ago
How does this guarantee a political and strategic win for Iran? Iran was already teetering on the edge of being a failed state: socially, economically, environmentally, and agriculturally. Iran is expending expensive ballistic missiles to f
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by aftbit 7mo ago
That reads like it was generated by Claude. Seems like parody but I dunno.
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by aftbit 7mo ago
The secure boot "shim" is a project like this. Perhaps we need more core projects that can be simple and small enough to reach a "finished" state where they are unlikely to need future upgrades for any reason. Formal ver
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by aftbit 7mo ago
I'm gonna keep saying this forever - there are two obvious "killer apps" for crypto: 1. Semi-private blockchains, where you can rely on an actor not to be actively malicious, but still want to be able to cryptographically hol
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by aftbit 7mo ago
>possible scheduling conflicts across the multiple calendars (that are not syncable due to corporate policies) Doesn't this sorta defeat those policies though? Now all of your calendars are "synced" to a random unvalidated
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by aftbit 7mo ago
Is this a service or a library? The README has curl and an API key... Can I run this myself on my own hardware?
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by aftbit 7mo ago
A guy on a literbike can drive at such stupidly fast speeds that he can't actually be pulled over already. By and large, society continues to function despite the occasional scofflaw doing 180 in a 55. They don't even tend to kill
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by aftbit 7mo ago
Sure, in the same way that vehicles without backup cameras or even airbags still exist. They will become less common over time. Vehicles don't have to be fully autonomous to provide this "service". They just need to have a re
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by aftbit 7mo ago
>(Do note that people can't just "not pull over" because they know there are no penalties involved; they would still be considered police, and "not complying with a police stop" would, as always, be a real crime
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by aftbit 7mo ago
It's not about feeling smart or dumb. I'm not doubting that lack of perfect compatibility is holding pypy back, though I suspect it's more related to C extensions and libraries than it is to bug-for-bug compatibility with the
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by aftbit 7mo ago
Strongly disagree. If you're relying on Python garbage collection to free file descriptors in a loop, you have a subtle bug that will rear its head in unexpected and painful ways (and by some unwritten law of software, most notably eit
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by aftbit 7mo ago
Trying a little experiment. Here's the same comment as above, but I asked Claude to research my claims and add web citations. Any errors in content are my own - I originally wrote the comment with no AI assistance and only brief web se
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by aftbit 7mo ago
I don't have that option on Linux, but then my desktop background is being drawn by feh launched from .xinitrc. It probably works on Gnome or whatever.
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by aftbit 7mo ago
Odd complaint but interesting list of about:config options! I must be in the tiny minority that has actually _used_ all of these right-click menu items at one time or another.
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by aftbit 8mo ago
This is reminding us something that we should never have forgotten - modern war has an insatiable demand for munitions. To take just one example out of dozens, the US fired somewhere from 100 to 150 THAAD interceptors - about ¼ of the stock
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by aftbit 8mo ago
The DHS post I linked says "America After 100 Million Deportations". If you assume there are 20 million people who entered the US illegally (which I believe is a substantial over-estimate), then that means they need to find anothe
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by aftbit 8mo ago
This is exactly how the current CBS censorship works. The FCC said they "may" revise a rule, so CBS complied in advance by removing the political speech that the admin wanted to avoid.
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by aftbit 8mo ago
Certainly at the beginning, the tools weren't 100% in place, at least in the west. Famously, China silenced one of the very first COVID reporters and forced him to recant, before he himself died from the virus.[1] As the pandemic wore
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by aftbit 8mo ago
Short term squeeze, because building capacity takes time and real funding. The component manufacturers have been here before. Booms rarely last long enough to justify a build-out. If AI demand turns out to be sustained, the market will even
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by aftbit 8mo ago
I'd really like to see a more centrist progressive in the White House in 2028. American politics is a pendulum. We should hope to dampen its amplitude, not intensify it. If we swing that far left, we'll swing even further right in
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by aftbit 8mo ago
Sure, but that's the straw-man version of the argument. During COVID, there was aggressive censorship of _everything_ related to the virus that didn't exactly toe the party line. Satire, comedy, and truly live questions (like the
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by aftbit 8mo ago
You still seem to be ignoring derived works a bit. For example, if I downloaded a copy of "Harry Potter" and replaced every "Harry" with "Harvey" and every "Potter" with "Plumber", my new bo
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by aftbit 8mo ago
You're talking about how higher prices can motivate higher supply. The parent commenter was talking about how higher prices shift the current point on the demand curve to the right. If hard drives sold for $1 billion per gigabyte, we w
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by aftbit 8mo ago
Tangentially related, the Trump admin has decreased the number of refugees that America will legally accept this year from 125k to 7,500. The new quota will prioritize white Afrikaners from South Africa, whom Trump claims face extraordinary
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by aftbit 8mo ago
Trump is up to ~3 million deportations now, while Obama did 3.1 million throughout his entire presidency. Obama's peak was 409k in 2012. Trump's peak was 605k in 2025. Unless this "concerted campaign" (i.e. broad based A
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by aftbit 8mo ago
More interesting to me is the "derivative work" concept. If a human sits down with a novel, reads it cover to cover, then writes their own novel which broadly has the same characters following the same plot in the same setting, bu
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by aftbit 8mo ago
Thanks for the correction. I meant to say from the customs service indeed but I got the acronyms twisted myself.
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by aftbit 8mo ago
There's a thought (and real) experiment about this that I find illuminating. Imagine that you are sitting on the train next to a random stranger that you don't know. A man walks down the aisle and addresses both of you. He says: &
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by aftbit 8mo ago
DHS -> Department of Homeland Security, parent agency of both others created after 9/11 CBP -> Customs and Border Protection, descended from U.S. Customs Service, which traces back to the end of the 18th century, but added to DHS

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