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by aredox 3y ago
> "Democratic control over economics" looks like people voting for more services and lower taxes. Yes. And then they see the consequences. Coddling the people is not going to make our governance better. Do you prefer that an el
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by aredox 3y ago
He visited Israel a month ago. This man has the ideological orientation of a windvane.
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by aredox 3y ago
> like in the 60s and 70s, an overwhelming majority of advances originate in the US A lot of those advances were due to European immigrants educated pre-WWII in the best European universities emigrating just before, during and just after
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by aredox 3y ago
There are washers, or thread lock glue, but it is still a question of correct execution: has the glue been applied? Was the glue batch used before its shelf life? Were the parts degreased before glue application? Or did anyone decided to cu
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by aredox 3y ago
The MD "moles" managed to change the culture of Boeing pretty quickly from engineering- to sales-first. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing... https://archiv
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by aredox 3y ago
The MD merger is the reason quality nosedives. Management is responsible for ensuring a robust quality culture. If (if!) a few DEI trainings are enough to destroy that quality culture, then something is very wrong at Boeing anyway, and
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by aredox 3y ago
See the same sentiment from Marginalia : https://www.marginalia.nu/log/79-ikea-offramp/
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by aredox 3y ago
Stealth and aerodynamics. The idea isn't novel, but the degree of detail in simulations* and the onboard computational power make it possible now. *Still, actual physical testing remains a must in aeronautics. https://www.ae
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by aredox 3y ago
I just changed my XPS battery with a spare from iFixIt.
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by aredox 3y ago
It's clearly not good enough to pass a border, or to buy alcohol. And here I have absolutely no idea if it is true or not. I don't know you, I can't see you. You could be a bot, a dog, a scammer, a teenager... Your evidence m
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by aredox 3y ago
Maybe the BSD are too close to Linux to displace it.
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by aredox 3y ago
Maybe I don't speak English well enough, but I thought that "evidence" and "testimony" were clearly different things. E.g. in a judicial setting, a testimony may need to be backed up by "evidence" - the la
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by aredox 3y ago
A French sci-fi author wrote a novel where they do what you proposed... It is called "La guerre olympique" - the Olympic war. Needless to say it is a pure dystopia.
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by aredox 3y ago
Of course Palantir could only be represented by the grand-son of the founder of the pre-WWII British Union of Fascists (and Holocaust Denialist post-war), and son to the famous president of the FIA and Formula 1 - who is also a racist pub
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by aredox 3y ago
Because humans are diverse. Diversity is not something that is a standard state, it is a construction based on repressing strays and cutting every head that sticks out. Diversity also isn't a stable situation. In the XIVth, everybody
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by aredox 3y ago
Try to read about the "veil of ignorance".
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by aredox 3y ago
PWA are not as good as apps - and not because of OS vendors restricting APIs. Honestly this is one of Doctorow's weakest arguments - PWA are part of the enshittification of tech: poor substitutes to full-fledged performant applications
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by aredox 3y ago
Ha! Memories from twelve years ago... First live distro I tried. Already well polished at the time
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by aredox 3y ago
The United states did overthrow Allende. They financed the putchists, organised them, wrote their propaganda, trained them how to torture. We know it as a fact because the whole CIA archives have been declassified. You are a revisionist on
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by aredox 3y ago
Calling the 1973 CIA-led coup orderdd by Nixon against Salvador Allende in Chile as a "response to marxist economic mismanagement" tells you all you need to know about neoliberalism and its supporters. Nothing more _liberal_ than
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by aredox 3y ago
The "More from Spectrum" at the bottom shows what are the timescales of this kind of progress: "almost ready" = 10 years. https://spectrum.ieee.org/bright-blue-pholeds-almost-ready-f...
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Artificial Intelligence Is a Liability(theregister.com)
2 points by aredox 3y ago|0 comments
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by aredox 3y ago
Librarians do it.
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by aredox 3y ago
As a pure store of value, a few diamonds or a thin stack of 1000 swiss francs banknotes are more efficient. Expensive watches lose value if worn (with the exception, if it is still valid nowadays, of Rolexes), and customs officers can ask t
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by aredox 3y ago
The value of a ML model for this is fairly low, though. An expert model, with fuzzy matching if needed, is going to be far more reliable for "standard" parts. The only value of a "generative" model would be for "cre
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by aredox 3y ago
Rolex has been less secretive nowadays. Still no public tours, but some media types have been invited. https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/inside-rolex IWC, Zenith and a few other Manufactures do offer tours. It is fairl
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by aredox 3y ago
The iPhone and iWatch are clearly status symbols. How many users really need the full power of those chips? How many actually use it? I could go into very lengthy details into the technical prowess behind Rolex watches.
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by aredox 3y ago
It's like saying your Tesla has better 0 to 100 kph acceleration than a 70s Aston Martin V8. The answer is "so what?". You're not driving an Aston Martin V8 for the best acceleration, or the gas mileage, or suspensions,
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by aredox 3y ago
In terms of finishing, the best is found outside of Switzerland: either A. Lange & Söhne, or the very high-end Seiko (Grand Seiko and Credor). Otherwise, real watch people buy vintage watches. Universal (tricompax), Longines, Zenith (el
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by aredox 3y ago
A decade ago, a Rolex wasn't much cheaper but it was in effect "free", as it was the only watch you could resale at the same price you bought it, even used and scratched. It wasn't an investment (and you didn't need

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