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by beloch 9mo ago
Although the reasoning has changed, the motivation was very similar to today. They were meticulous in making observations, made records that will probably still be around when most of ours have dissolved into entropy, and all because they
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by beloch 9mo ago
"The astronomers made an accurate note of its trajectory relative to the stars, which to an error better than one degree is consistent with an impact at Köfels." --------- This is what I find most amazing: Sub-degree accuracy in a
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by beloch 9mo ago
HN has upvotes, downvotes, and people chasing them for exposure, just like Reddit. The biggest difference is the lack of subs. Everything goes into the same category so you can't have highly specialized echo chambers. The moderators
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Microsoft and Google's role in this does explain why they're so keen to push AI into their products, whether customers want it or not.
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by beloch 9mo ago
It's not just Tiktok, and not just the last few weeks. There have been pro-Gold ads in every form of media for the last couple of years, many focusing on uncertainty. The timing is pretty clear. The 2024 election was a time of great
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by beloch 9mo ago
His family farmed a few things, including trees. Carter was on the record as a fan of soft-wood lumber tariffs, even though his term had come and gone by the time the softwood lumber dispute arose. There are democratic presidents who have
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by beloch 9mo ago
MAGA will likely not die with Trump, and the Democrats have done their fair share to shaft Canada too. (If Jimmy Carter were still alive you could ask him about his family tree farm and what he thinks of softwood lumber tariffs.) As our P
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by beloch 9mo ago
Don't take the Canadian market for granted. There's a strong desire to forge closer links with the EU now and reduce dependence on products that could be weaponized against us at any time. Geographic proximity doesn't coun
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by beloch 9mo ago
There appears to be a few factors combining in the U.S. right now that make protests less effective than they once were. 1. Politics are religion more than ever before. There is a solid MAGA core that will not turn on Trump for any reason.
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by beloch 9mo ago
While I understand the frustration with bad reports, this is how you get more of them (from the spiteful) and fewer good reports from the people you just threatened.
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"Today, opening social media often means seeing startup and mid-sized tech CEOs and executives eagerly praising, defending, or desperately seeking the attention of Elon Musk. It has become very difficult to work in tech without encount
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by beloch 9mo ago
To those who cling to customary units because... 1. "They're more intuitive". They're not. You're just familiar with what 70 F feels like. If you're used to metric, 70 F is meaningless, but you intuitively
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by beloch 9mo ago
The Theucydides quote Carney leads with, of course, recently rolled off the tongue of the white house deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller. The days of might making right are, apparently, back. Just in case anyone thought the genie could
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by beloch 9mo ago
A full analysis needs to look at the downstream effects as well. e.g. Exports and retail. As a Canadian, I now avoid American products and retailers as much as possible. This isn't just political (Trump has repeatedly threatened to a
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"As a young boy, Michelangelo was sent to the city of Florence to study grammar under the Humanist Francesco da Urbino.[13][16][d] Michelangelo showed no interest in his schooling, preferring to copy paintings from churches and seek th
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It shows a recency bias, which is probably unavoidable. I'd hope that, as time passes, there are mechanisms to archive (not delete!) pages that seem unimportant. However, while this level of coverage may present a noise problem for a
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There's a reason why historians tend to view anything more recent than 10-20 years ago as politics. If you don't want to get embroiled in political debates, stick to stuff old enough to be history. There's still politics the
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by beloch 9mo ago
I live in a city of one and half million. There are two "local" newspapers with histories that, in one case, reaches back over a century. One used to have offices across the street from city hall and regularly broke stories when
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by beloch 9mo ago
That's a matter of perspective. You'll have to forgive the rest of the world for being more concerned with the rest of the world.
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by beloch 10mo ago
Take a second look at Venezuela. Congress passed an act limiting Trump's ability to operate in the country. The U.S. is currently not occupying or controlling the country. They have not effected regime change. The former VP has tak
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by beloch 10mo ago
Invading Venezuela is not even remotely the same thing as invading a fellow NATO country, and most Americans know it. If Trump tries to invade, he'll trigger a domestic crisis. i.e. Will congress block it? Will the military obey ord
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by beloch 10mo ago
Don't give your "smart" TV internet access. It's that simple. Samsung's chicanery taught me this, but other manufacturers are no better. Those TV apps may seem nice, but they can be run on hardware you have more c
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by beloch 10mo ago
"We're very focused on delivering upon the AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we're announcing has an NPU in it—but what we've learned over the course of this year, especially from a consumer perspective
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by beloch 10mo ago
Historically, raster graphics won out because they used less resources. Perhaps that's changed. If so, it would make sense for various OS's to start working on native support. Irix did it in the 90's. It can be done now.
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What would LLM's make of normal human conversations if they had access to everything you say (Just wait!)? Think back to the last time you hung out with a group of friends, either in person or online. How much of what was said woul
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"10. In a large company, countless variables are outside your control - organizational changes, management decisions, market shifts, product pivots. Dwelling on these creates anxiety without agency. The engineers who stay sane and effe
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A wrong, followed by another wrong, followed by another wrong, followed by another wrong, followed by yet another wrong... ---------- "Flood the zone" is a political strategy in which a political figure aims to gain media attentio
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"The last time the United States formally declared war, using specific terminology, on any nation was in 1942, when war was declared against Axis-aligned Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania, because President Franklin Roosevelt thought it w
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by beloch 10mo ago
"The Wizard and the Prophet" by Charles C Mann sets up an interesting duality that I think more people should be aware of. Mann describes "Prophets" as people who see a problem and then try to prod people to change their
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by beloch 10mo ago
Meta now has an extensive track record of doing unethical things because they're slightly more profitable. This case is relatively minor compared to what they did in Myanmar[1]. Meta has some very smart people working for them but, un

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