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by bell-cot 7mo ago
For a modest upcharge, I suspect Ukrainian Counter-Drone consultants could advise them on detection & correction measures. Suggestion: The offender gets locked in a Faraday-cage brig, and is forced to subsist on a diet of expired Cheez
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Article feels too short. Suggestion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisuke_Hironaka
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
> So your supposition is... No. But Denmark lacks the armored divisions, bomber wings, carrier task forces, etc. to pursue a "we've got a bigger stick" strategy. And undermining your opponent's will to fight was rou
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet#History (& following sections) Calling something "Ethernet" amounts to a promise that: - From far enough up the OSI sandwich*, you can pretend that it's a magic
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
"Values up to 999G are supported, more than enough for interfaces today and the future." - Article "When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory." - Bill Gates
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
> In an actual war there is absolutely no possibility of success for Denmark, even with the help of allies. Assume that Denmark's strategic success criteria is not "win up-front battles with US armed forces". And that the
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
Unfortunately, that adjective applies to many things which the US has attempted, often "successfully", recently.
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by bell-cot 7mo ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary* depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair *Nothing changes if you replace "salary" with "financial interests". Or "so
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Yes, and I'd say it's more true now than then. Best case, your fancy algorithms are super-sizing code that runs 1% of the time, always kicking more-often-run code out of the most critical CPU caches. Worst case, your fancy algor
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Misleading headline; here's a critical bit: > UF Interim President Donald Landry said in a statement that the Florida Federation of College Republicans, an organization that oversees campus Republican organizations, contacted the un
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
While "AI" may get clicks - is this news for anyone outside Today's 10K? Every grownup in the biz knows that a DC is a softer target than an Alabama ice cream warehouse in July. And the military learned that you can't
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
> AI is destined to make our lives so dull... An efficient Phase I tactic for Skynet, no?
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Someone is very confused about what a meson is - not a good look: > In September 1971, scientists at the United States National Accelerator Laboratory (NAL), operated by Stanford University at a site in Menlo Park, California, needed to
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
No, sadly it's par for the course these days, for anything "AI".
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Generally, a lobbyist is someone who is paid to give money to lawmakers. And for a lawmaker who is considering retirement, "become a lobbyist" is often the most lucrative career option. Now who are you imagining will pass effectiv
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
If your goal is to score points in the culture wars, then frame methane mega-leaks in terms of global warming. If your goal is to stop global warming, then frame methane mega-leaks in terms of natural gas spot prices, and the millions of do
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
On the one hand, the "adults are skipping out on their duty to spawn for our benefit" framing is really entitled and obnoxious. OTOH, my impression from news stories and young parents I know is that large parts of the US Public Ed
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
From the "Higher States of Bromine" article: > What's the name for the compound shown at right? [BrC2O4F3] Very few of us will have the need to name it, though - you make that one by condensing trifluoroacetic anhydride
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
> Corruption makes things more democratic in an autocracy... Technically , maybe yes? But autocrats tend to use "de facto authorized" corruption as a carrot for their loyal supporters, and "arrested for corruption"
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Old geezer perspective: - Before that new-fangled "TV" thing made it so easy to dose your brain with "I am socially connected" juice - without any of the bother, costs, or risks of actual human relationships - there were
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Rich businessmen have expensive hobbies, and those can look a lot like real businesses. Jeff could also buy a couple oceanographic research vessels tomorrow, spend a few years looking for sunken Spanish treasure ships, then get bored and s
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
I stuck to the threats you mentioned. Paper in a file room is more slightly more quake-resistant and bomb-resistant than digital. But slower to move to safety if the threat is large volcanic eruptions. I am not saying that paper is magica
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Problems with well-known solutions 100 years ago: "Fireproof file rooms and cabinets in the 1920s were crucial for protecting business and government records during the rapid expansion of the industrial era. The era saw a massive shift
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
No politician ever got elected by supporting simple, old-fashioned stuff that just worked.
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Far better coverage of the broader subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturnin... > What can be done? > Iceland’s environment minister, Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson, recently said that the la
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Sadly, "nail in coffin" is an exaggeration. Though the press would be throwing that phrase around. With plenty of dire-sounding quotes from cheap PC manufacturers. Limiting cannibalization wouldn't be hard. Just load up a
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Yeah, from the Pentagon's or CNN's PoV. Though if I was a hacking group with little interest in Iran, hitting a US-based target...I might make some pro-Iran noises, trying to confuse the attribution. Or to curry favor with China,
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
At least from CNN's story, it seems unclear whether this was an attack by a known pro-Iran group, with an "in retaliation for killing schoolgirls" tagline. Or an attack by some unknown group(s), with such a tagline. Given ho
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
I'd politely inform the org which ran the contest. Noting that you don't know if their "winner" violated any contest rule by doing this - but they seem to be in violation of a prior informal agreement with you, to credi
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by bell-cot 8mo ago
Without a real-time, probably national "who has voted & where did they vote" database - how would a "just show up and vote" system block a citizen from voting once in each of multiple jurisdictions?

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