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by bradley13 7mo ago
Great animations!
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by bradley13 7mo ago
No one should use a Patriot to shoot down a drone, but they certainly have done so. There are some pretty solid reasons why Ukraine offered consultation - unlike the US, they have actual combat experience against hordes of Shaheds. The US
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by bradley13 7mo ago
I find it remarkable that magnetic core memory was used in (semi-)modern fighter aircraft. Their systems have to pass extreme vibration testing, and you would think that core memory would be very susceptible to vibration. Core memory was in
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by bradley13 7mo ago
Cheap airborne weapons have irreversibly changed warfare. IIRC a Patriot missile costs something like $4 million. Using them to shoot down $50k Shahed drone is a losing proposition. That's not only because of the price, but because the
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by bradley13 7mo ago
I moved almost everything off of GitHub when MS bought it. Go to GitLab or CodeBerg, depending...
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by bradley13 7mo ago
Wow, talk about the law of unintended effects! Without going into the specifics of car seats, I do think we overemphasize safety. The article mentions saving 57 children. How much are 57 lives worth? The answer is not infinite - a life has
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by bradley13 7mo ago
Birds are highly optimized. For example, all cells contain a full genome. The genomes in birds are a lot smaller - less trash DNA - which saves them weight and generally makes the cells more efficient.
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by bradley13 7mo ago
Amazing engineering. Today's software development: Write a program running on a framework (of which you need 1%, but get it all), that framework depends on dozens of libraries (but again, you only needed 1% of them), which in turn depe
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by bradley13 7mo ago
Is this a proof of how great CSS is? Or is it proof that CSS has "jumped the shark", adding in a plethora of features that have no place in a "stylesheet"?
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by bradley13 7mo ago
Thex will try again. And again. It's for the children, don't you know? The only way to really stop this would be to pass legislation that permanently strengthens privacy rights.
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by bradley13 7mo ago
Some years ago, my institution (primarily a teaching college) decided it needed an additional accreditation. The organization they went with requires faculty to publish. Including our undergrad business faculty. We all know that "publi
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by bradley13 7mo ago
We don't want age verification, and we do want E2E encryption. Yet, because Meta is an evil company, we cheer on this judgement. Reality, folks: you can't have both.
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Sure, but the fact remains that it was referred for criminal prosecution. They didn't follow through, this time, but the victim still had his "lesson" about insulting his betters. And Germany really did sentence people for ca
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by bradley13 7mo ago
The article makes one mistake: praising Europe for having a better approach. Governments here are pushing hard to force ID requirements. Sure, they start by pretending it's "for the children" and they "only want age veri
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by bradley13 7mo ago
"The professors use AI themselves and expect their students to use it, but do not have a gauge for what kinds of problems make for an appropriately difficult assignment in the modern era." I'm a prof, recently retired but sti
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by bradley13 7mo ago
Sure, and anyone who thinks that was a Nazi salute fell victim to clickbait. "My heart goes out to you" with a throwing gesture that ends with your arm outstretched. Of course, only the final position was blasted all over the pres
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by bradley13 7mo ago
His politics are less extreme than you probably think. Modern journalism goes for clicks, which means generating outrage.
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All of Linux should do this. Add to T&C that it cannot be legally used anywhere that requires an age check. Then have the big distros enforce it. See how long Silicon Valley lives with no Linux. Seriously, we in the tech industry can he
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by bradley13 7mo ago
Really, it's more about the police not doing their job. Face recognition pointed her out, the police saw she had a rap sheet, and therefore they didn't check further. She apparently could not afford a lawyer, who would have pointe
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by bradley13 7mo ago
Most of the comments are cynical. I read this, at least the "right to compute" part, as a reaction to the current onslaught of censorship and age verification laws. Which is a good thing. The AI part honestly looks fairly harmless
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by bradley13 7mo ago
I suspect ya you're right - nothing to do with Wireguard. I set it up do I could VPN into my home network from my phone. More than once, I have forgotten to turn it off. Everything worked, and I only noticed days later. Very robust, in
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by bradley13 7mo ago
IMHO the problem is allowing changes to terms and conditions for existing contracts. If I have a contract with a company, that contract was made under existing T&C. The company should not be able to change those conditions without my ex
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by bradley13 7mo ago
I have it running locally, but speed is a problem. I have the 35GB model running on a PC with 64GB, a fairly new processor and a mid-level GPU. Ask a question, go drink a coffee. I mean, it's great that so many models are open-source a
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by bradley13 7mo ago
Walk around an office and look at what people are doing. Accounting? Marketing? Administration? How many of these jobs could be done by AI? Maybe companies haven't seen it yet, but most office jobs can and will be eliminated in the n
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by bradley13 7mo ago
Let's be clear: this is a first step. The obvious next step is to require proof of age. This ties in nicely with the international movement to require ID to use social media. Why is this an international movement? Suddenly, simulta
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by bradley13 7mo ago
These lawd prove one thing: the politicians know nothing about the subject matter. What is almost more disturbing: at least some of the politicians will have been advised by consultants or lobbyists who know what they're advocating f
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by bradley13 7mo ago
Sure, "think of the children", that's the classic excuse. Put on your tinfoil hat and ask yourself: why is that suddenly a topic in so many different countries?
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It is likely not a coincidence that so many different countries simultaneously started pushing for age verification. The decline of privacy, the increase in intrusive government surveillance, the increasing restrictions on free speech - thi
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by bradley13 8mo ago
That's mixing apples and oranges. Digital currencies have nothing to do with credit cards. First, consider: The Euro is already digital, as are all the other European currencies. We can easily transfer money electronically, either vi
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by bradley13 8mo ago
I'm not a huge fan of OpenAI as a company, but I subscribe to ChatGPT. I regularly try put the competition, but (for me) ChatGPT deliveres better results. Give me an open source or non-American product that delivers the same quality, a

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