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by caconym_ 6y ago
With so many civilian vessels nearby, and so near the coast, it seems like "shoot first and ask questions later" might not be the way to go in cases like this. A Phalanx CIWS round can travel over 5 km if it doesn't hit anyth
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Isn’t spreading political disinformation, hate speech, etc. not allowed on Twitter? I think that’s generally a good policy; and they should just treat this kind of speech from political leaders, the rich and powerful, etc. the same way they
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I've actually found Rust to be extremely stable since I started using it 5-ish years ago. I haven't had as much time to keep up with new features recently, but all my old code still builds as easily as it always did and the way I
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by caconym_ 6y ago
My partner resets her Google password every time she logs in. It's just part of the normal flow for her. She probably does it with everything, but I'm not listed as a recovery on the other things. Something better would be great.
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by caconym_ 6y ago
SpaceX is taking concrete steps to make their satellites as unobtrusive as possible without significantly compromising their design. Beyond that, this is really a choice between developing space and not. Quit with the FUD about Musk “dodgin
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I don't know much about how the STS or ISS EVA airlocks are configured, but I wonder if you could do it with a slightly modified Crew Dragon docking nose-to-nose with another one. One acts as a fallback and home for the non-EVAing crew
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by caconym_ 6y ago
SpaceX, in the last decade or so, has: * Achieved dominance in the commercial launch market, arguably with an even more substantial technology lead. * Performed the first landing and reuse of an orbital rocket booster. * Developed a heavy-l
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I broadly agree with you but I think you're ascribing too much coherent judicial intention to the way we treat prisoners. Sure, people are sent there as punishment, but it seems more like the way they're treated once they get ther
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Yeah, and there's always some apologist acting like it's the average consumer's responsibility to have relatively obscure technical knowledge, e.g. that diamond-like carbon coatings are harder than sapphire and will readily s
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> The reality is that manual entry is even more error-prone, bias-prone, with more people falling through the cracks. It doesn’t have to be. But when it’s subjected to the same incentives that produced this software and perpetuated its b
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Exactly! It’s pure wishful thinking, and in a lot of cases those wishes are (at best) frighteningly amoral in context. It’s like a hack to get around the whole “reasonable doubt” thing: just sequester all that pesky doubt in a black box so
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Yeah, there need to be consequences for this. The alternative is empowering people and corporations to destroy lives with impunity in pursuit of their own goals, as long as they can later claim it wasn’t intentional. What really pisses me o
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by caconym_ 6y ago
These are very overloaded words, which you will understand if you look them up in a dictionary. If you do, you will also see the definitions I’m using—nobody is “re-defining” anything. I am simply using these words because they mean what
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> You’re saying that what progressives championed in the early 1900s, and continue to support is conservative. It doesn’t make much sense. Why doesn’t it make sense? Political progressives and older land-owning (relative) conservatives h
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> Zoning was a progressive idea! Zoning is a child of the administrative state. Well, like I said, upzoning is still not super popular with progressives as in American progressives, because of the leftist crossover and social justice ang
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Relaxing zoning codes to allow new, higher-density development is a progressive idea in contemporary urbanism. In a lot (but not all) of cases, it literally comes down to wealthy landowners vs. young non-landowners, and the former group typ
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I was thinking more the former. I understand the latter as more of an ethical position, and it's one I'm not really familiar enough with to talk intelligently about... Conversations like this are just sort of pointless, where one
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Sure. Don't know if I'd say that's the point , either, but it's definitely a lot closer to the essential spirit of the whole thing.
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> This is the whole point of open source. What is? Because I don't think the point of open source is to have big companies make money off code that other entities—in many cases individuals—made available for free. It's certainl
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I wrote the first draft of my first novel in Vim using Markdown. I've since switched to Scrivener, mostly for the general convenience it offers and especially the mobile apps and syncing, but there is a lot about that old workflow that
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Thought experiment: there are two men standing in a room. One holds a loaded gun aimed at the other’s chest, his finger on the trigger. He tells the other man to bite off all his fingers or die. The man on the other end of the gun certainly
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by caconym_ 6y ago
It’s entirely your choice whether to recognize people’s right to define themselves how they want, or to wring your hands in “intelligent” consternation at something you don’t seem to have put much effort into understanding and likely doesn’
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I wouldn’t argue with much of this on the face of it but I think people forget that this is a single-player RPG, not some game-as-a-service designed to support an endless grind. The fact that people are working through the content (of which
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I played ~80 hours and enjoyed it more than any RPG I've played since the original Mass Effect trilogy. It looked great too, at medium settings on my 4 year old gaming PC. It does seem like there were some legitimate issues on consoles
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> destroying your communities in fire is legitimate protest while being angry at and petitioning your federal government at their seat of power is sedition. Do you seriously actually believe this is a balanced representation of the event
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by caconym_ 6y ago
The police murders occurred before 2020, so they can't have occurred during the protests I'm talking about. That seems pretty darn simple. > Consequently, the media mislabeling of the reign of terror campaign this summer doesn’
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Let me help you understand my comment. I put “BLM protests” in quotes because I am specifically talking about the protests last summer that resulted from several high-profile police brutality incidents with black victims. I don’t really con
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I've been trying to say this wherever the comparison is made. I haven't done the math, but in terms of fatalities per participant-day I think Wednesdays' events are probably at least two orders of magnitude more deadly than t
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by caconym_ 6y ago
IIRC there are 25 deaths attributed to the "BLM protests". That includes all of them, across the country, likely a number of events in the high hundreds or low thousands. AFAIK that number does not include any police deaths, tho
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by caconym_ 6y ago
The legal system is certainly a flawed creation of man, but it isn't a magic wand. I'd go so far as to say that most legal systems, extant and otherwise, won't (absent corruption) serve as a vehicle for you to do literally

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