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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Critical bits of the article: This is an extremely rare cause of fatalities (in the US), and the fatal flight was very high risk with out the GPS blocking. > It's worth taking a closer look at what happened last May. While the Rui
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> I'd personally label the factions within the military that view aerial bombing as an effective strategy as "conservative"... If "aerial bombing as an effective strategy" still means "you can win wars just
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
I'd bet people are saying it - you're just too isolated from low-experience/low-competence DB users to notice it. Vs. the much newer LLM's...
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Yes? SQL injection attacks have been a thing for decades now, and some people are still failing to guard against them.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
In utterly unrelated news: "The 2026 Texas gubernatorial election is scheduled to take place on November 3, 2026, to elect the governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott is running for re-election to a fourth term.&qu
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
The delusion is somewhat over a century old now. It originates from factions within the military community (vs. politicians) and there's nothing particularly conservative about it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Perhaps dating myself... 2001: A Space Odyssey (2001)
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
"Fewer and dumber" screens is the new "more and better" screens.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> But he still thought we'd be having linoleum on our floors... Yes, but no. He's writing a story about a character (the automated house) that needs lots (relative to the story length) of explaining. "Linoleum" very
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> A chess game between to bots is boring, no matter how ... I'm thinking quite a few chess nerds could be interested - depending on how the game develops.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> baiting title, adjust to ... Meh. The article's titled "Final Countdown", which (on HN) tells me nothing about the article. Vs. the subtitle is nicely informative. From a quick skim, I'll agree that the article is
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
You might want to read this, for a better sense of local attitudes toward AI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151933
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
True - though you may be misreading my "this one", said when there were no other comments or upvotes here, and the article was again fading into obscurity. Context of my "this one" was HN's /newest page. Great
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Judging by the short lifespan of this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Unix - I'll guess there wasn't much demand for *nix on the Amiga. Also, saying NeXTSTEP saved Apple is pretty dubious. Far more imp
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> ...only cultural/society/civilizational goals make someone think that far ahead ... Not saying I was paying close attention to America from 1850 to 1950, but a variety of cultural and social factors - especially less hyper-in
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> ...one doesn't exclude... Yes, but I don't see that realization as noteworthy. Does history record a nation which never found its own advancement hobbled by the scheming of its petty local officials? > ...has to juggle fe
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Long-winded, as anyone familiar with the New Yorker would expect. But still very good. Whatever its other weaknesses, China has the enormous advantage that the people really in power are focused on raising China to global dominance. Vs. t
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
The fake-it-'till-you-make-it crime lab "scientist" is worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Gilchrist
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
6 submissions, 4 comments, and a combined 24 upvotes so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=admiralcloudberg.medi... Keep trying, folks. This one is worth it. EDIT: > Note that this is a long article (~3 hour re
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> Some 180 kg of explosives were used today, Adevărul reported, to move a large rock restricting the flow of water. > Acting defence minister Radu Miruță hailed the operation as a success, saying it will help with cooling of the plant
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> What the hell is the point of human interaction if ... Sadly, the point is validating the human worth of the human who can't do any better than this. But, assuming you're not stuck on that human's Self Esteem Care Team,
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
You are too focused on the gov't being a "cause" of the 9/11 attacks. Vs. mere incompetence - which the gov't demonstrates its mastery of 24x7x365, year after year after year. Notice how they still seem helpless t
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Opinion, I have never been a legal practitioner in the UK: As a generality, "NO". Why? Unless there is a specific professional standard for AI use, then "use AI" is either a quick-and-cheap checkbox, or a slippery slop
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Not an expert, but... The use case for this water is calibrating ultra-precision instruments. The use case for those instruments is measuring water with normal-ish isotope ratios. Calibrating your ultra-precision instruments to a point far
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
tl;dr; edition: Norway went big on factory farming of salmon. Which resulted in all the usual problems that factory farms cause. They are now trying to mitigate the problems. But that costs money, and is a lot harder than running on &qu
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> Which is the whole chip, because ... Here's the actual Half-Double paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec22-kogler-half-double... Note two things: - The entire chip is already refreshed every 3
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Yes? When a given row's counter hits the limit, you refresh every other row which your actually-competent testing has shown might maybe possibly be compromised by that activity. Same as a good car's computer doesn't make a
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
It doesn't need to be a fully accurate simulation, any more than your car needs a fully accurate ICE simulation to decide "Change the engine oil". Just count accesses to each row, and refresh the adjacent row(s) when some lim
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
IIR, a number of rich & famous people have developed severe mercury poisoning after extended conspicuous consumption of swordfish and other very expensive/very contaminated seafood. Obviously the luxury bottled water industry is mi
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Not a Tailscale user, but... For any software or tooling with a complex config, my ideal would be to have a superset of this feature, to provide "intelligent diffs" between full or local configuration states. Whether active or sa

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