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631.
by dboreham 8mo ago
I don't think tinycc can compile the Linux kernel into a bootable image.
632.
by dboreham 8mo ago
People who do this for a living actually have such a definition.
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by dboreham 8mo ago
Salary data like this has to be interpreted by someone knowledgeable. Very often it becomes skewed or invalid in various ways. Source: close relative is a compensation analyst.
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by dboreham 8mo ago
I don't think this is meaningfully different than the human case for the past 20 years. Every large project I've worked on had people writing tests that didn't test anything and people who argued strongly when I pointed out g
635.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Drug companies and insurers are big advertisers.
636.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Presumably these are equally likely because you could build a DNA-printer and thereby create a dragon of some sort (not sure if it could have fully functional fire breathing though)?
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by dboreham 9mo ago
I think it's pretty clear at this point that rule of law isn't functioning. Perhaps it never was. It was just rule of law theater.
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by dboreham 9mo ago
I think you under appreciate him a bit here. No he's not a super genius. He's probably not even a good engineer. But he is a) a total a.hole and b) a tremendous bullshitter. There are circumstances in which you need such a person
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by dboreham 9mo ago
Just to show that disinformation exists in every field.
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by dboreham 9mo ago
You don't need to carry ID/license to operate a vehicle. People (including I'm sure some cops) think you do but you only have to possess the license and present it to the cops if asked. Presenting can include going home to re
641.
by dboreham 9mo ago
Passport works. You don't need real ID. Its only purpose is to deal with states where the normal driver license issuing process isn't up to whatever standards the feds dictate.
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by dboreham 9mo ago
Fun fact: for internal flights in New Zealand you don't need (and aren't asked for) ID. There is security but pretty lightweight. No shoes, laptops, belts, liquids, scanner crap.
643.
by dboreham 9mo ago
Mass hysteria.
644.
by dboreham 9mo ago
Pre 9/11 you could go through (useless) security without a ticket but longer ago there wasn't even security. And in some places the "gate" was...a gate. In a fence. So being at the gate meant walking from the street up t
645.
by dboreham 9mo ago
Perhaps this was never actually true. Did anyone do an A/B test with messy code vs beautiful code?
646.
by dboreham 9mo ago
Freedom Theater
647.
by dboreham 9mo ago
Now those dumb articles about AI data centers in space from a couple months back make so much more sense.
648.
by dboreham 9mo ago
You can do this manually, obviously. The key is the starting point. The design of thermonuclear weapons is always a good place to begin.
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by dboreham 9mo ago
Someone needs to send this to Spike Feresten.
650.
by dboreham 9mo ago
The hosting aspect is only necessary because a) piracy and b) Google would eat their lunch if they were the gate keeper to content. Bit like how Ticketmaster takes all the money from artists because they get to say who sits in a seat.
651.
by dboreham 9mo ago
This isn't universal. The schools in our Montana town have pickup lanes and short term parking areas for pickup. Stopping on the road isn't allowed.
652.
by dboreham 9mo ago
People loitering in their cars waiting for a space to pick up their kid. So not actually parked.
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by dboreham 9mo ago
It goes back long before the current regime. People may remember a certain cabinet secretary who ran her own exchange server in the basement.
654.
by dboreham 9mo ago
No but you give up a large margin to shippers, importers, distributors and retailers in those geographic locations.
655.
by dboreham 9mo ago
In the US, saying that "your job has been eliminated" mitigates various legal risks (discrimination lawsuits for example). So although companies can do pretty much WTF they want, they also don't like being sued.
656.
by dboreham 9mo ago
Having no moral compass is a feature not a bug. There's supposed to be a government generally maintaining the population's long term interests as a balancing force. The USA lacks that. The capitalists got the root password.
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Midair collision near Washington DC followed years of ignored warnings(theguardian.com)
3 points by dboreham 9mo ago|0 comments
658.
by dboreham 9mo ago
Amazing that only 2 aircraft of this design have crashed in this way, once you read the incident reports and see the exact same failure mode.
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by dboreham 9mo ago
There may be some other limiting factors on the rate of generation of new useful software. E.g. money to market it, humans to specify it, perhaps there's enough software already...
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by dboreham 9mo ago
TSA is much more skilled than the security people employed by the airlines that proceeded them.

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