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   by fwipsy 7mo ago

   The theme of the book is "power corrupts." Wynn-Williams is not an exception. Sometimes she acknowledges it, sometimes she glosses over it, but the way the job compromised her own morality is one of the most fascinating parts of t
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   by fwipsy 7mo ago

   How the hell did Zuck run Facebook for so long without learning about the Streisand effect?
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   by fwipsy 7mo ago

   The objective parts of quality (technical skill) are fairly easy to saturate, most serious artists do so, but it's not sufficient to be successful. Objective quality is common, but it sounds like you've just defined subjective qua
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   by fwipsy 7mo ago

   Recently rereading William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" and I'm struck by his belief that certain art or memes are objectively good and destined for virality. I think both Gibson and this author are wrong. No content i
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   by fwipsy 7mo ago

   Wow I'm just learning so much today. First I learned that heat shield engineers can work on space toilets, now someone is teaching me about sarcasm. It's great how everyone here on HN is so dedicated to teaching me things.
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   by fwipsy 7mo ago

   Are you sure? I wouldn't have thought the skills would be transferable. I don't mean to judge, but I think if your toilet needs heat shield engineers, maybe you should see your doctor.
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   by fwipsy 7mo ago

   It's so ironic reading about all of the Orion heat shield engineering problems but at least they have a groundbreaking new toilet!!
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   by fwipsy 7mo ago

   The obvious counter move is just to charge higher premiums. It works whether the crises are real or fabricated. The real losers are not the insurance companies, but other tourists overpaying on their premiums.
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   by fwipsy 7mo ago

   I've also had good experiences on eBay. Buyers can leave bad reviews for anything so good reviews are a strong indicator. (That said, there are plenty of "genuine" laptop batteries for $15 from high-scoring sellers.) I feel l
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/nasa-rewraps-boeing-st... someone else linked this which said they were retired.
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    Thank you! It looks really ordinary. If I saw it at a science fair I wouldn't look twice.
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    Helping the AI is helping themselves. You're doing your job, the AI is helping with their job.
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    Thanks, this is interesting and makes sense. > A lot of the supposed "graft" and pork of the defense industry is about giving it a lot of leeway just to stick around. Even if they stick around, will they maintain an edge? Seems
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    By that logic, nothing computers do is scary.
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    If you could find that, I would be really interested to watch it.
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    I'm having trouble reconciling this comment with reports that US stockpiles are already being depleted by the Iran war. At this point the US weapons production seems relatively specialized and inefficient, not "huge scale." S
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    Can you be more specific? I see a lot of uninformed takes, but no specific bias. Do you mean downvotes?
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    Yep, in the experiment where they did not, their brains had been removed. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/07/guest...
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    To me it signals honesty. But this is a subjective judgement. It really sounds like you subjectively disliked the page, and you're trying to present that dislike as objective fact. It really annoyed me the way you kept changing your ar
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    Tl;Dr it's actually a CIX p1 + 32gb (similar to orange pi 6) and a "160TOPS" NPU accelerator with 48gb - attached via NVME. models will either have to fit in one pool or deal with shuttling data over m.2, the company has some
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    The words are intrinsically ambiguous. A standard fridge opens horizontally but stands vertically. Is it vertical or horizontal?
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    Not a joke. It's just true.
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    Perhaps they did that because they knew some people would be too polite to?
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    Don't, you'll get chopsticks in your sinuses
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    The fairy gannet looks like two smaller airplanes clipping into each other. It looks like an AI from ten years ago generated an image of an airplane. It looks like they hired engineers who got their degrees in Kerbal Space Program and then
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    I was right about some things, he was right about others. It was not immediately clear which was which. Trying to say "wait that seems wrong" without knowing exactly what or why starts an argument and wastes the time of everyone i
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    Yes, I had that one xkcd in mind as I wrote that :)
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    I need to learn a similar lesson. My team lead isn't used to being questioned, and when I tried to correct him in a meeting it resulted in a big argument. I realized that I did so partly because I wanted to demonstrate my own knowledge
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    I think they're "debunking" a strawman argument that old gear was completely useless
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    by fwipsy 7mo ago

    I think HN readers are the leading edge of the technology literate. Might take longer than you think for the general public to start noticing "AI voice."