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by fsckboy 4mo ago
tldr for the wikipedia article: this plane did not crash, it made an emergency landing 2 miles from the airport in an onion field. Only 10 crew and 1 passenger survived. The other 123 souls aboard died of smoke/CO inhalation from the f
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> Fisker had built what Cory Doctorow, the digital rights author and activist, pointedly called a “software-based car.” Virtually every subsystem in the Ocean — brakes, airbags, shifting, battery management, door locks — needed to period
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> We recently discovered that an unauthorized party obtained a token with access to the Grafana Labs GitHub environment, enabling the threat actor to download our codebase. I don't much like the securityese dialect of bureaucratese
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> When I thought about Project Gutenberg I remembered that original brutalist non-design. I suppose a printed book, black ink on paper, is "brutalist" and unpleasant to look at? The text of a book shouldn't be encrusted w
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The ISO 216 "A4" paper system is broken (rounding errors) [video](youtube.com)
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
spoiler alert: the standard mandates that all dimensions (note particularly those calculated with 1.4142... sqrt 2)) be rounded to the millimeter. in the smaller sizes this error becomes significant and affects both linear dimensions and as
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
his joke does not rely on the truth value of the mistake you think he made, and it is funny based on his expressed awareness that any articles potentially could have been written by AI, so his error could simply have been a misplaced word t
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
thanks, since i had never heard of it i had to look it up but I guess I misread it, wikipedia says the project was started in 2009, latest version in 2018. I noticed the difference in word between "project started" and "rel
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> they weren't worth the electricity they cost to mine...I'd love to mine a bitcoin a day on my PC now... you can!... but they wouldn't be worth the electricity now either. the cost of mining (amortization of hardware cos
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> AI data centers will be protected like embassies. so AI data centers will be protected by relying on hostile or unstable governments to live up to diplomatic agreements, and every so often one will be ransacked like in Teheran 1979?
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> thinking black bishop can only go to black squares. and agreed this is a bit ambiguous sorry, "The task is to place four black queens and one black bishop on the chessboard" is not at all ambiguous.
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
most people would name hack (1984) or the fork nethack (1987) as the successor to rogue (1980). brogue (2018) i never heard of till now but probably i aged out by then (aged out of spending many mindless i.e. repetitive hours of fun)
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
his comment is that any self respecting article ought to have been written by AI, and if so it should have been written in Lojban. > It's strange to me that this blog post was written in English. If AI is available, why aren't
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> Trademark registration for Clark Stanley's Snake Oil brand Liniment, June 12 1900. Library of Congress. Public Domain I don't read the trademark registration as "snake oil" brand, it looks more like "Clark Sta
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
i've gotten multiball in the Windows version of SpaceCadet, pretty sure I wasn't the victim of the Full Tilt version supply chain attack because while I knew about other tables I've never seen any of them.
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
wrt eBay, you mean Beanie Babies. the Cabbage Patch bubble was pre-internet 1980s
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there's no way 1100 interns are all going to be offered full time jobs
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
That MOOP map is overlaid on top of the actual Burning Man POOP map: all those attendees who stream to the desert from their urbanized homes? they are People Out Of Place, and eradicating them and all the carbon footprints they leave would
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
i have friends who did NGO aid work in Africa and they said their work developing potable water sources was often undone. build a village a clean watersource, a small dam or a well, and the rival next village over would get jealous, and som
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> Apple Pay does not, runs the whole thing on-device so when I use the physical card that is also on Apple Pay, and Apple Pay tells me I just made a transaction as if I had used Apple Pay, that is all happening on my device? what online
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
I had no idea where you got your interpretation from, then I realized it was lack of interpretation. the social pressure is traditional society on families, and then elders in families exert significant pressure on younger dependents, not t
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
this critique of elite educational institutions was written in 2008. in 2008 he was denied tenure at Yale. [wikipedia] casualty causality?
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> theater and had no idea why people liked it. Didn't make sense, boring, long, generally stupid. Then I decided to get over myself and see what the fuss was about. Now I get it I'm a techie by choice but I was raised lit&#x27
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
the Baloch and the Kurds are ethnic Persians, they speak Persian languages.
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
>*Anything below Channel 12 is "Very High Frequency" VHF covers up to and including channel 13 It's actually something people across the country may feel familiar with because "Channel 13" is New York City's
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> the claim "most of the companies registered in Delaware are not trying to dodge US federal regulations" strikes me as dubious huh? you aren't making a coherent argument. registering in any US state you are still subject
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Bill Russell, Boston Celtics, NBA national champions 2 years in a row, 67-68, 68-69 (first black head coach in NBA)
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> if you own property there, you’re basically either caught holding a bag with life changing amounts of money lost but notice people can gain life changing amounts of money by lucking into real estate that soars, but there's no sen
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could introduce subtle bugs, so doing it all at once while it's on the front of everybody's mind with as much comprehensive review and testing of parts or the whole to everybody's satisfaction. if you don't do it all at
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> Occam's razor would point toward... Occam's razer is not a thing with explanatory or legal or even scientific force. if Occam's razor was really a thing, quantum theory and general relativity would be ruled out as compl

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