evilos

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by evilos 5y ago
There's tons of footage available on the internet. Usually from Brazil.
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by evilos 5y ago
IMO citizens being well armed is deterrence. It makes the likelihood of 'evil martial law' government less likely by increasing the perceived cost. If you truly disarmed the entire country (something I consider basically impossibl
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by evilos 5y ago
This would cause so much chaos and probably result in thousands of divorces. Maybe we could get a lawyers group to front the money lol.
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by evilos 5y ago
Visual effects artists and embedded programmers are very niche communities (former embedded SW engineer here). Probably something like 90% of people just need a browser 90% of the time. It's kind of a no brainer from a business point o
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by evilos 5y ago
Do you mean face shield only? That seems like it would be much worse than mask only, if covid is airborne as the article suggests. Mask plus face shield should be even better than mask only.
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by evilos 5y ago
There are plenty of positive traits that are associated with Masculinity: Bravery, Boldness, Self-Sufficiency, Discipline, Self-Assured, Skilled, Strong, etc. Of course this does not mean that these traits are somehow exclusive to or owned
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by evilos 5y ago
Absolutely. Ublock origin is probably one of the highest impact products on my life. I would have a measurably worse time if it didn't exist or didn't work as well as it does. And it is free! The developer is a saint, and it just
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by evilos 5y ago
Sidenote, he lists "Push over-the-air software updates to weapon systems (U-2) while flying the jet" in his list of accomplishments. Is this what it sounds like? It sounds like a terrible idea.
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by evilos 5y ago
What will I do with the spare motherboard? It would likely be too hard to sell. I wonder if framework will sell you the chassis parts without a motherboard?
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by evilos 5y ago
I don't think so. Maybe if I had said, "when they release a dvorak keyboard I'm in!" but preferring AMD is not a super user ask. There's also the issue of they missed the whole point of the product.
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by evilos 5y ago
They seem to be fairly confident about it in their material: https://frame.work/blog/the-upgradeable-mainboard Yes an AMD APU with RDNA graphics in this laptop is what I really want.
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by evilos 5y ago
Uh, you missed the main feature of the device. Basically everything in the laptop is user replaceable. Even the motherboard can be swapped and presumably replaced with a newer model. The ports can be swapped too, so no more wishing you had
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by evilos 5y ago
I guess I'm struggling to understand what the problem to solve here is (besides security bugs). Maybe that is wrong, and the idea is just to try new things. But seems to me that 'try new things' isn't a particularly stro
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by evilos 5y ago
Interesting talk but I'm not convinced of the value proposition of "rediscovering hardware". The speaker points out that there are lots of small processors inside a modern SoC that are often running their own software hidden
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by evilos 5y ago
You're saying Taiwan will essentially give up without a fight, which is laughable. If you think the Taiwanese and the Afghans were in similar situations, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. If Taiwan were just a land b
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by evilos 5y ago
Afghanistan is about as irrelevant of an example as I could think of in this case. I struggle to think of ways in which it is even remotely related. War is about supply chains. Even if (big if) you managed to land several tens of thousands
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by evilos 5y ago
From a traditional amphibious assault? Absolutely, because they are a fucking nightmare to pull off. Amphibious assault basically negates the population advantage that China has. Of course if China wanted to just bombard Taiwan into rubble,
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by evilos 5y ago
I've seen material saying the opposite. The buildup necessary to properly invade Taiwan would take several weeks at least, and would be impossible to hide. Taiwan would be as ready as they could be for an amphibious invasion. Amphibiou
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by evilos 5y ago
The fact that a lot of workers are able to find an employer willing to give them a raise to come work for them indicates that there was perceived unrealized value. If you cannot find a better deal, then that probably means you are operating
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by evilos 5y ago
That is incredible. Why did GloFo think they could just take the 1.5B and not deliver? I guess if they don't have to pay too much damages it's a huge free loan...
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by evilos 6y ago
When I tried to get my friend to switch to signal, they told me: "Signal is for drug dealers". This isn't helping.
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by evilos 6y ago
Not really sure how this relates, but ok. The vast majority of combat causalities are from explosive fragmentation anyways.
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by evilos 6y ago
Surviving rifle fire has been a solved problem since like, the bronze age. Add more metal. Getting to and landing on another planet (intact and functional) on the other hand, is probably like 3 orders of magnitude higher in difficulty.
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by evilos 6y ago
I would also make this trade but I know lots of people who would recoil in horror at the prospect. For lots of people (even those who do not explicitly realize it) eating is one of their main sources of pleasure. This doesn't even mean
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by evilos 6y ago
You can have a big part of your energy generation come from renewables easily (as you pointed out). The hard/impossible part is making renewables the main or only source of power. That requires an insane amount of energy storage capaci
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by evilos 6y ago
All the nuclear waste the US has ever produced fits in a football field at a height of around 30 feet.
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by evilos 6y ago
FYI they do not print money. The US fed gives banks money in exchange for collateral (US govt debt). The banks cannot spend this money, it has to sit there doing nothing. The banks do make a small amount of money from the assets they swappe
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by evilos 6y ago
The pool of valuable stuff and services grows over time, in general. There is a fixed amount of bitcoin to represent the value of all valuable things. Therefore in a world with only bitcoin, a bitcoin grows in value over time and is more li
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by evilos 6y ago
Also since its debts are in US dollars, it can literally print money to pay off debt.
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by evilos 6y ago
That is deflation and is intentionally avoided by central banks because you don't want people to hoard their money. Hoarded money sits there and does nothing while money that is in banks can be lent out, invested, and be useful.

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