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by bell-cot 6mo ago
I used "problematic" to describe the boss who Shotwell is working for - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
>> [...] the state department of agriculture & consumer services, had fined Family Dollar after two previous visits. But North Carolina law caps penalties at $5,000 per inspection, offering retailers little incentive [...] So - i
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> The compensation figures, which have not been previously reported, place Shotwell's pay above many other high-profile tech executives. How many of those other exec's organizations are performing as far ahead of every competi
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
<sigh/> Part of me wonders if Karp might just be mocking recent rants by the Trump & Tech Bro's gang. Part of me wonders if the UK government could get its sh*t sufficiently together to dump Palantir if he'd actuall
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
I'd phrase it as 99% of Westerners feeling that they have no interests at stake. Whether that's literal money, or physical resources (say, rare earth mines), or transportation routes (say, a route out of the Persian Gulf), or mea
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Bold futurism can work very well when you're the (relative) scrappy underdog. So long as you're too smart or lucky to make any huge mistakes. Vs. when you're in the Top 10 of the Fortune Global 500, "steady as she goes&
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> Felt it all the way in Tokyo! How many stories above the ground, and might you guess at your building's construction (wood frame, steel frame, etc.) and foundations (on bedrock, on loose sediments, etc.)?
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Guess: Intel changed the spec. There's quite a few generations between a 286 and a P4, and new BIOS code doesn't need to run on discontinued CPU types. And new execution contexts like https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Maybe I'm not reading the right techno-utopian stuff - but I've never seen a Moon Base or Mars Base proposal which claimed to both have an actual business plan, and to project sustained profits.* Having no prospect for sustained p
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
> Also seems like executing three pre-decoded instructions without a jump after setting PE causes a triple fault for some reason. It's been a while, but I recall Intel documenting that a jump was required almost immediately after se
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Clicks pay the editor's salary. It could be useful if HN had a mild site reputation system. Submissions from high quality sites (say ciechanow.ski) would start with a point or two bonus. Submissions from sketchier sites would get a b
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Terraforming anything looks really expensive. Ask a finance guy to run numbers on terraforming places with gravity too weak to hold onto a useful atmosphere for any length of time*, and give you his opinion. *say, Earth's moon
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by bell-cot 6mo ago
Throw all their samples back outside, then very carefully sweep the inside of the LEM and throw the broom & dustpan out too? In theory, they could have been equipped to partially pressurize the cabin with (say) helium - which would allo
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
I suspect we disagree on the meaning of "zealously". I am not thinking of 100% agreement with Israeli gov't policies, nor "as much as you want" financial aid, nor other simplistic interpretations.
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Cool - but "A Mercury Rover Could ..." presupposes a soft landing on Mercury. Try asking an aerospace engineer about the delta-v requirements for that. Mercury has no atmosphere - so you can't aerobrake, as we do on Mars.
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
> If you find a screwdriver on an alien planet, you can deduce the existence of screws, machines that require fasteners, and ultimately a living being that built those machines. "Hey, Bob! Here's the screwdriver we lost yester
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
In theory , tax rules could make that situation possible. In practice - yeah...NO. Unless your "if I died now" world includes people near & dear to you who'd really need the insurance money, then don't waste your
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Might anyone have a view under the hood here, and not be under NDA, to comment on why ULA hasn't replaced Northrop Grumman with a less failure-prone SRB supplier?
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
America has zealously supported Israel since the 1940's - generally against the explicit advice of America's top diplomatic and military experts - because it's been d*mned obvious to America's elected political leaders,
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
> What wiring? If you've got normal residential power outlets, then you've got wiring inside the walls. Those wires are sized for the number of amps that the individual circuit's fuse or breaker allows, plus some limited
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
> I don't understand... I'm thinking that the landlady's "NO!" is based on: (1) You can't save yourself any money by doing this, so why are you interested?, and (2) Complex stuff that she doesn't know o
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
The appeal is strictly to certain sorts of dreamers, ideologues, and tinkerers. The vast majority of criminals are more pragmatic.
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
> So my assumption is immediately that some relatively large lobbying group feels threatened by 3d printing... I'd say the real groups behind this are the anti-gun ideologues, the "do whatever it takes to stop my panic attacks
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
However cool this idea might sound, notice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap#Methodological... Etc., etc. Old geezer take: The
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Maybe it's not quite your meaning - but there are browser plugins which allow per-domain blocking of js. I use one, with the default set to deny js.
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
There's a lot of context (behind Wickard v Filburn) which would obviously not apply to anyone distilling for personal consumption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Yes. And France has a history of taking its sovereignty a bit more seriously, for us to take the article's "ministries should submit their plans by fall..." a bit more seriously. But even if that goes perfectly...France is o
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Excepting the high-end stuff, ~zero purchasers prioritize your "simple, functional, reliable". Compared to pretty much every other tech product, printers have lots of moving parts. Especially the nightmare called paper. Talk t
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Make email reputation a performance metric for upper-level managers, and the situation will improve within hours.
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Subtitle: "Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies" Reality: Linux Foundation Europe boss desperately hopes that the EU will actually do more than endlessly talk, squander money

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