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by caycep 5y ago
I think this goes along with the prevailing view - that Ukraine would take heavy losses as a given. I think no one expected Russia to do the same. But now, it seems headed towards old school Red Army style meatgrinder warfare, sadly...to t
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by caycep 5y ago
I wonder if Apple's dev tools/swift teams can overcome whatever dysfunction is going on there (see the whole Chris Lattner Swift brouhaha) and release something coherent i.e. a mature swift UI w/ cross compiling support for w
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by caycep 5y ago
This reminds me of the Cube Hackintosh conversions....I just wish that design worked out better in the court of public (consumer) opinion....
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by caycep 5y ago
An additional worry is that these things never end well. I have to dig up this book on the downstream costs to all these countries that were allied w/ the west or USSR during the cold war...they all pay the price economically, social
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by caycep 5y ago
Play more Civ 6! ;)
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by caycep 5y ago
the underlying concept of EEG hasn't changed since the initial ones in 1929. Basically just electrodes trying to detect whatever LFP (aggregate electrical potentials) comes across the cranium. The clinical ones are considered a roug
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by caycep 5y ago
honestly, looking at the devices and not seeing the EEG traces, I half suspect that a lot of the input is already muscle artifact. Even w/ dedicated medical EEG w/ the fancy electrodes and conducting goop, it's plagued w&#x
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by caycep 5y ago
I think a lot of this is not really under anyone's control; every country -esp those not under a strongman/autocrat, wants Western style benefits and democracy; if Russia wasn't going to provide it (since their modernization
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by caycep 5y ago
The NYT are running interviews w/ Russian citizens; w/ the premise that a lot of them are perplexed as to why Putin ordered all of this, especially bc there are a lot of friends/relatives cross border.
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by caycep 5y ago
https://www.engadget.com/2014-02-26-when-carl-sagan-sued-app...
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by caycep 5y ago
Sometimes I wonder if Craig finds it harder to say "no" more and put his foot down. And his priorities, for better or for worse, seem to be on developing new features vs. fixing bugs/robustness. Granted, he's had to o
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by caycep 5y ago
Go has Rob Pike as a sort of BDFL within google, no? Apple it seems does well w/ a Scott Forstal or a Bertrand Serlet running cover for their engineers. maybe not so much if there's a giant committtee....
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by caycep 5y ago
I've heard great teams at Apple and toxic teams - maybe more on Software than hardware (see the writeup / postmortem on Aperture which started off great but middle managers under time constraints ruined it/made it toxic). Not
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by caycep 5y ago
Kind of OT, or maybe not. But why didn't Musk (or anyone else) go with Maglev tech? The efficiency seems ok, and it probably doesn't matter if you do it above vs below ground, and it's deployed around the world now.
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by caycep 5y ago
It sounds like glioblastoma multiforme maybe. Life expectancy used to be 6 months average post diagnosis...
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by caycep 5y ago
Maybe something to do with creative control/strings attached/freedom from studio accounting practices?
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by caycep 5y ago
"dirt cheap Starship" kinda reminds me of a backwoods project where all that was needed to achieve spaceflight and warp drive was a drunk James Cromwell and a few wise-cracking Starfleet officers who traveled back in time...
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by caycep 5y ago
"frequently" yes...but with the Pacific theater histories - most of what I've seen and also what's being quoted in the arguments below re "Would Japan have surrendered without the A bomb" are from books by prim
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by caycep 5y ago
Also, history written by the victors...convenient to convey Curtis Lemay as a war hero vs. a war criminal that signed off on a raid designed to purposefully incinerate civilians. Whose ethnicity were constantly dehumanized as part of the p
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by caycep 5y ago
are they one of the supported devices for one of the open source router firmwares?
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by caycep 5y ago
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised; with all the pressures and priorities of Tesla to meet production goals and such, the workplace environment of the factory is probably not high on Elon & leadership's priorities...that and th
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by caycep 5y ago
So ironically, maybe it will be Azure that's the last one left standing?
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by caycep 5y ago
Granted..in the stories, the palantir caused all sorts of trouble (backdoor for Sauron to infiltrate the corporate networks..) so maybe the name is apt...
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by caycep 5y ago
I remember when it was decommissioned and flown to LA on the 747 transporter...definitely an event. They publicized the flight path and times, and did like 2 or 3 loops over LA and the west side. Everyone in the city was watching on the ro
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by caycep 5y ago
I feel like FreeBSD lost a lot of momentum once a lot of the Apple contributors moved onto other companies...in contrast to linux which has (or had) several corporate contributors continuing to fund/drive open source commits.
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by caycep 5y ago
How "open-sourcey" is Firefox these days? i.e. is there a health community contributing commits a la the linux kernel or are most of the development done in-house these days?
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by caycep 5y ago
I'm just amused at all the hollywood names on the PR...I mean if Black Widow herself was in on this funding round, it really must be secure!
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by caycep 5y ago
Also, at least per a lot of his defenders, most (maybe not all ) of the anecdotes were pre-NeXT Steve vs post-NeXT Steve...albeit who knows what to believe...
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by caycep 5y ago
Yes - I guess I should have rephrased my comment (or read things the first time more carefully) - thanks for pointing out the inconsistencies so poignantly...
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by caycep 5y ago
Of note, ironic that the writer seems to think Indiana govt "cares" about his child. The likely author of a lot of Indiana Medicaid rules was likely Seema Verma. She most emphatically does not care.

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