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by bell-cot 3mo ago
I was thinking about the senior leadership, not the junior enlisted on the firing line. For KSU, Wikipedia notes - > The shootings caused an immediate closure of the campus with students and faculty given just 60 minutes to pack belongin
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> A 2021 state law allows campus police to own military equipment for civilian safety – students fear it may be used to quash dissent <sigh/> Maybe they should ask their History Dept's - or whatever is left of those - ho
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Just popped up, about pledge+unveil - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48851765
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> Volkswagen says this is one of Europe’s most advanced industrial agrivoltaics projects because it also includes a major scientific research program. > “Today, the photovoltaic farm delivers much more than green electricity. It has a
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Not saying that spraying would be the best solution to the problem - but the article seems rather obsessed with the possibility that glyphosate might be carcinogenic. Vs. I've heard that fire and smoke are far more certain dangers to h
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> A homegrown catnip lotion has proven “just as effective as Deet” as a mosquito repellant in trials carried out in Uganda. While this is good news...a quick realty check, for those unfamiliar: Malaria, which is transmitted by mosquito b
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
For a more sober take on the B-24, and disadvantages of the Davis Wing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-24_bomber
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> ... when you don't have access to ... These days, "don't have access" is a micro-market. Everywhere else, indoor growing has to compete with the cost & delay of importing. Last I heard, even Antarctic bases
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Over the years, many firms have poured many $millions into vertical farms. If you're growing extreme -value crops - marijuana, or maybe exotic salad greens for Michelin-starred restaurants - that can actually work. Otherwise, you&#x27
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Buried minor detail: > For us humans, the finding offers academic comfort rather than practical salvation. Most scientists agree that as the sun ages, it will steadily grow hotter, boiling Earth's oceans and rendering the planet com
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
>> The odds of this happening go way up the larger your individual drives are. > This is a common claim, but honestly, citation needed. FWIW, here's the quick & dirty argument for that: Assume: - We're working within
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> The odds of this happening go way up the larger your individual drives are. Technically true. Practically? There are several other major factors - such as the quality of your drives, whether you periodically run zfs scrubs and/
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
In theory. But real defenses are generally multi-layered. And in that context, a Swiss cheese slice with only one hole is still extremely valuable.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Don't overlook this part: > ... workers prize flexibility despite the significant trade-offs — like lower pay and almost no benefits.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Whether or not people are reading long or complex works for pleasure - what does this trend do to hiring for jobs which require serious comprehension of long, complex documents? Will we see in-person-only "interviews", where candi
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Yes, but notice the scale - 20 students, in a nation of 40+ million people. We might call that a moral or poetic victory - but practically speaking, it's like an endangered human language which "still has over 100 native speakers&
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> It's gotten to the point where I've now lost faith in democracy. Things aren't getting better... "it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried fro
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> ...the roots of the case are the 1998 alliance between IBM and a company called the Santa Cruz Operation which sold a version of UNIX... > Big Blue decided Linux was the future and bailed from Project Monterey – then allegedly contr
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> If your web app crashes one out of every fifty times I launch it, If you're using a different, random browser every time you access our web app, you're in a minority far smaller than 2%. Or you've shared your account wi
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Various combinations of "they didn't know", "still better than the place they left", "their experience wasn't that bad", and "needed for their resume".
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Not to speak well of air pollution, but the article seems far too eager to implicate it in reducing male fertility. Alternate theory: The pollution-induced epigenetic changes are mostly to adapt any offspring to living in an environment wi
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
"Sovereign" might not have been the best word choice - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement (Yes, I can see lots of ways for the idea of turning the LLM's we currently call "AI
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
As a generality, the winning side's historians write a lot of that kinda stuff.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
A title like "Latest winners of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest" might be more useful.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Late-stage capitalism wants sleazy intermediation and get-rich-quick scams. Talk about "honest hard work" is just a tool, for keeping the serfs where they belong.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Google also could eliminate hunger for hundreds of millions of people, reduce spam email from their infra by 95%, and many other nice things. Don't hold your breath.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Okay, cool - measure "bad vs. good" however wish, and shop wherever you want. I'm focused on my own use case, and how bad or good their tech-plus-all-the-rest-of-their-operations is for that use case. There seem to be plenty
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> Ok, load the app and search ... > Go to self-checkout and grab ... Okay, but what if I really don't care about those important-to-you features? Based on Costco's membership numbers, I might have a whole lotta of company in
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Very few people are shopping at Costco for their tech stack. And maybe it's just their talented/experienced/numerous staff, but my in-store experience with their tech is as good as it gets. Stuff just works, and works quickl
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Yeah. But even when you can, how many bosses might forbid it - because there's already too many arguments over the thermostats, or it's kinda noisy outside, or HR warned 'em of lawsuits for doing that when the air pollution

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