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by akiselev 3y ago
According to the author's bio [1], he was remastering photos of Neil Armstrong in 2019 for NASA for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 so clearly the timing lines up. Multiple sources on NASA and elsewhere point to that Flikr gallery.
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by akiselev 3y ago
I believe all of the new scans are available here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums
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by akiselev 3y ago
> The bit about a Comanche warrior wearing the armor of a conquistador is also real That was probably Iron Jacket [1] who is known for wearing conquistador armor that made him seem impervious to light arms fire. [1] https://
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by akiselev 3y ago
De-aged Clancy Brown or Michael Ironside.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Right, that's the point. The Allies helped France rebuild after their occupier - Germany - was defeated _by the Allies_. France's colonies, however, did not receive the same courtesy when their occupier - France - had to be vi
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by akiselev 3y ago
The difference is that the Allies helped France rebuild instead of making it pay indemnity [1] for the actions of the Vichy regime. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_indemnity_controversy
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by akiselev 3y ago
The world isn't "fair" or "correct" and it's bad guys all the way down. The French empire just tends to be one of the worst [1][2][3][4] with a sprinkle of modern state sponsored terrorism [5] for good measure.
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by akiselev 3y ago
It's called the Middle East and North Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MENA Plenty of geopolitical organizations like the World Bank recognize it as a region: https://www.worldbank.org/en&#x2F
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by akiselev 3y ago
I find that blaming imperialism on the imperial aggressor is a safe and practical approach.
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by akiselev 3y ago
With a tenth active users and ten times the spammers!
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by akiselev 3y ago
Can't really blame him - Hudson brought out the worst in everyone.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Not even typeclasses are safe from Wolfram!
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Is this a record that should be set straight? It's Wolfram. If they didn't claim to invent something fundamental in the first paragraph, I'd immediately assume the site was hacked or it's a poorly timed April fool
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by akiselev 3y ago
The primary change to HMMWVs is the shape of the hull: they’re now designed in a V shape to deflect the force from explosives away to the sides of the vehicle.
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Canadian Who cares? I'm not being flippant: what jurisdiction - especially criminal - does Canada have here?
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by akiselev 3y ago
If they pass the Bar and have a license to practice law they become an attorney . With a law degree but no license, they're just a lawyer.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Brett Devereaux (or Ollie, really) is very popular on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=acoup.blog
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by akiselev 3y ago
Correct. It's an esoteric reference to Lisa Simpson's motion to declare writ of boys will be boys in defense of her brother [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QsR2CZ1fzE&t=87
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by akiselev 3y ago
Starbucks is like $5 per 100-200mg. IV caffeine is like $500 per 100-200mg.
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by akiselev 3y ago
It was a complete abdication of professional responsibility to his client. Doesn’t matter whether he pulled the citations from a paralegal, ChatGPT, or Google - it’s his job to check and validate before submitting anything to the court In
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by akiselev 3y ago
In Canada? Invest in indoor hockey rinks.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Yes but the point of controlled burns in California (for example) is that they eliminate fuel as the ecosystem gets drier. In peatlands, controlled burns instead make more fuel available by drying out the peat, causing a death spiral.
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by akiselev 3y ago
A key value store in the cloud. With locking!
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by akiselev 3y ago
But then how do you fatten your children to keep them docile and slow? :) Different parenting styles, I guess.
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by akiselev 3y ago
The problem is that Canada is covered in peatlands. Once they dry out, controlled burns can ignite peat several meters deep and release one of the biggest carbon stores on the planet. See what happened with the Russian wildfires in 2010 [1]
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by akiselev 3y ago
Usually that means they know how to microwave their own hot pockets and open a can of spaghetti-Os.
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by akiselev 3y ago
You can also see the haze on Zoom Earth [1] with a hourly timelapse. There seems to be an especially large cloud of it hovering off of the East Coast of the US and Canada [1] https://zoom.earth/
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by akiselev 3y ago
The Free Wales Army rises again! They have infiltrated every rung of society and soon the plan will be complete, if not for your meddling large language models! Bydd De Cymru Newydd rhydd yn codi eto!
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by akiselev 3y ago
I feel like we need a new XKCD for this situation like the “today’s lucky 10,000” [1] one. Congratulations! You’re one of today’s lucky million! You discovered a feature that’s useful instead of anti-user just in time for a tech company to
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by akiselev 3y ago
You're not giving the LLM "time to think". It is incapable of thinking . You're just inputting random magic incantations into a glorified Markov chain. You might as well ask it "did you check your answer?" Co

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