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by api 5mo ago
I don’t know what I was expecting. Not much from this crew. But it’s less than that. It’s a pile of trash. It’s already known stuff, old hoaxes, cases from preexisting UFO literature, things that have already been leaked, and hilarious phot
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by api 5mo ago
Great Old Ones and beings from the ultimate void can be blurry in photos from the ionization of air around their bodies as they attempt to synchronize their quantum spin states with our normal universe. But it’s not just like a blurry photo
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by api 5mo ago
If we are being visited we would never see them unless they decided to show themselves, and if they did it would be absolutely unambiguous. Someone with the tech to travel the stars (or something weirder like between dimensions) could make
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by api 5mo ago
I remember one take I had in 2024 after the election. We're all familiar with some of the "defund the police" experiments that went too far in places like Portland and San Francisco and resulted in things like epidemics of ca
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by api 5mo ago
The correct Information Age is the one you get when you let your prefrontal cortex play DJ and pick your media based on what will enrich your life or teach you something. If you let your brain stem drive you’ll spend your life scrolling pol
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by api 5mo ago
I listened to a podcast a while back (human authored I'm pretty sure) about low-quality gutter level streamer content and how popular it is, speaking of personalities like asmongold and a vast number of even worse imitators. This conte
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by api 5mo ago
"It is simple to use, easy to organize and manage, and very robust." This is why nobody uses it. Cloud stuff has to be as baroque as possible.
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by api 5mo ago
I can manipulate space-time. Enter the on ramp to the highway and accelerate. I am now aging slightly slower than you are. I can also manipulate gravity by charging my phone. Since E=mc^2 my phone weighs slightly more when charged.
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by api 5mo ago
That’s really the killer for survivalist mesh ideas. It’s trivially easy to jam, and if it’s open it’s also easy to DDOS. Jamming is done in military scenarios too, but in that case it’s limited by the fact that a jammer is a big transmitte
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by api 5mo ago
It doesn't surprise me. This is a deep networking problem and very few CS people know anything about networking or how to design clean, fast, low-overhead network protocols and systems. If IP were designed today the packets would have
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by api 5mo ago
TBH Meshtastic's code isn't great either. It's neat to play with but not robust.
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by api 5mo ago
Look at how fast various nations ramped up advanced (for the time) military production before and during WWII, or the Manhattan Project, or the Apollo program, or China's rapid rise. Engineers who know how to build factories, batteries
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by api 5mo ago
This is not a Rust issue but an inherent issue with dependencies in all languages. External dependencies rot. For Rust code for serious industrial use cases or firmwares, it's always best to minimize dependencies as much as possible to
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by api 5mo ago
I think that was true maybe 5-10 years ago. We have Rust code in a living code base that is more than 5 years old and it's required maybe one touch in the last 5 years to fix some issues due to stricter rules. It was simple enough it c
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by api 5mo ago
The EU has the talent to ramp local production of panels and batteries in years, which as the parent said is how long a panel or battery embargo would take to really cause a crisis. I mean the EU has ASML, the Large Hadron Collider, and ITE
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by api 5mo ago
China copied the US. Now the US should copy China. At least with some things, like industrial policy.
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by api 5mo ago
That was one of my thoughts years ago after playing with early ChatGPT and local llama1: this proves that intelligence and consciousness do not necessitate one another and may not even be directly related . I’ve kind of thought this for ma
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by api 5mo ago
If AI as presently designed and operated is conscious, this ends up being an argument for panpsychism. As you say it’s static, fixed, deterministic, and so on, and if you know how it works it’s more like a lossy compression model of knowled
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by api 5mo ago
V4 plus one or more layers of NAT and all that junk objectively is more complicated, but it’s the devil people know.
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by api 5mo ago
Speaking of this: is anyone working on binary to source decompiler models? Seems like a no brainer and I could see it working exceptionally well especially if they were fine tuned for each language. So if you can tell it’s a Go binary use a
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by api 5mo ago
IT and telecom tend to have an ultra conservative if it’s not broke don’t fix it attitude. It won’t get deployed until enough customers ask for it or it’s required for something important.
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by api 5mo ago
It’s not. It’s IPv4 with more bits and some changes to Ethernet level lookup. The SLAAC vs DHCPv6 mess is not really a problem with the core V6 spec.
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by api 5mo ago
All the cyberpunk books belong in the nonfiction section.
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by api 5mo ago
The inability of governments to perfectly enforce laws and regulations shields us from their incompetence and corruption to some extent.
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by api 5mo ago
This is how they usually roll. They innovate sometimes in hardware but tend to fast follow or even slow follow in software and services. Apple Intelligence is a placeholder and a toe in the water.
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by api 5mo ago
No that’s just reactionary. The discourse around AI in the arts, and other creative and craft fields, is utterly identical to the discourse around photography when it came out to the point that you could search and replace terms and have th
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by api 5mo ago
I agree, but the problem comes back to how to evaluate quality at scale. That is very hard. It’s easier to just say no AI because that at least turns off the fire hose.
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by api 5mo ago
This is a spam problem more than anything else. It's not really an AI problem except that it's AI that is enabling this new type of spam. Imagine there's no AI, but for some reason you have people hiring armies of cheap overs
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by api 5mo ago
I’d say the same thing about Palantir. It’s very clear that they are playing into the hatred and speculation about them to puff themselves up and get attention in the “any attention is good attention” era. Being a literal comic book villain
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by api 5mo ago
They align with the actual motives of the people involved, which is lining their pockets. "America first" is for the rubes. The same is true of "fiscal responsibility." The GOP runs on this, but when they get into power

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