euroderf

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by euroderf 2y ago
How many died that season? Dangerous work.
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by euroderf 2y ago
The love child of a quadcopter and a Meccano set. But hey, if it works, it works.
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by euroderf 2y ago
18F's internal artifacts & documentation will be passed to private contractors who come in after a while to do the same work at triple the price, including Elon's cut.
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by euroderf 2y ago
You probably just broke a RICO statute or something...
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by euroderf 2y ago
Excellent! Cheers.
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by euroderf 2y ago
A big leap was when the then-independent big three TV networks sold themselves to conglomerates. I think all three sold in the 1980s.
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by euroderf 2y ago
There's another "a-" that might not qualify as an affix. Words like askew, astride, aboard, atop, ... the list is actually quite long. It could be added so that users of the site do not incorrectly analyze certain constructio
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by euroderf 2y ago
Abolish land "ownership", and limit leases to 99 years. Existing ownership relations can be grandfathered in, but they will of course eventually disappear, in much the same way as how scientific revolutions eventually succeed: via
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by euroderf 2y ago
Technical troubleshooting is one thing. Organizational troubleshooting is another, and IME it is neither valued nor rewarded. YMMV.
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by euroderf 2y ago
A few years ago I found+installed a small, simple Service to run "touch" on a file, but it broke a few OS upgrades ago. Anyone got a replacement ?
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by euroderf 2y ago
Something I read a long time ago. No reference.
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by euroderf 2y ago
Yes, absolutely. All these other potential invasions of privacy. But I'd like to think the items on your list become more visible - and easier to combat - if recordings are time-limited. Can activists conceivably use FOIA requests to i
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by euroderf 2y ago
> all the buses have CCTV. IF the default handling of any recordings is total erasure after some specified (and not unreasonable) period, then it's not an unleavened evil is it ?
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by euroderf 2y ago
I get the feeling that the next step in this evolution is Typst.
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by euroderf 2y ago
Nobody is taking their data hoard and feeding it into a personal AI ?
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by euroderf 2y ago
> Also, as an old person, I will tell you that 1) I got my first personal computer in 1979 and have been trying to keep my bon mots archived ever since. > I literally have a footlocker filled with old disk drives I had a private maili
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by euroderf 2y ago
> in a bit more of a controlled fashion The guiding intellectual principle in the US at the time w.r.t. the economy of the ex-USSR was "You can't cross a canyon in two leaps". This was what passed for intelligent thought.
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by euroderf 2y ago
> observe the F4 Isn't there a truism that the F4 demonstrates that with big enough engines, you can get any lump of junk up into the air ?
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by euroderf 2y ago
> "very very low tolerance for social violence" is...not my general impression of the French people. "French people" includes the French police, I presume. For "social violence" it might be informative to su
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by euroderf 2y ago
Service guarantees citizenship! -Starship Troopers
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by euroderf 2y ago
I recall reading that the Space Shuttle was a big improvement on Dynasoar. Perhaps that the Dynasoar was not a true "lifting body" ?
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by euroderf 2y ago
If the AI found a needle in a haystack, that isn't bad, is it?
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by euroderf 2y ago
So if blank ballots win in a contest for a particular political office, does that mean that that office is a candidate for the chopping block ? I would hope so.
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by euroderf 2y ago
Dear Heist-O-Matic 3000, I want to write a novel about a massive jewel theft at a large European airport.
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by euroderf 2y ago
> The ideal outcome is the collapse of the federal bureaucracy so that the lords of capital can scoop things up and create their little kingdoms. This is, of course, the model for Russian oligarchs.
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by euroderf 2y ago
Here's a coupla questions for ya. When media become available showing robots "having sex" with other robots, will it be classified as porn ? And, what form will the uncanny valley take ?
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by euroderf 2y ago
Go to where the hosts are.
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by euroderf 2y ago
The standard establishment reply s that "Ignorance of the law is no excuse". Countered this with "Ignorance of how to write laws in plain language and make them easily accessible is no excuse".
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by euroderf 2y ago
So America is caught in a middle ground between EU & China where it can't do social welfare right and it can't do authoritarianism right. But there's been... progress.
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by euroderf 2y ago
In the WASM Component Model, there's a Postgres example available where the database runs in Docker. I'm hoping they whip up a version that uses SQLite instead, but with a similar WIT interface, and drop the Docker nonsense.

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