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by gary_0 3y ago
NASA would have to pull out the Saturn V blueprints and rebuild the manufacturing process from scratch. They would have to start hiring from 0 and reacquire all the institutional knowledge they lost over the past 50 years. They would have a
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by gary_0 3y ago
The Drug War is massively, massively expensive. You have to pay for all that policing, plus the massive resources needed to convict and incarcerate people. All that pointless, wasteful cat-and-mouse with addicts and dealers. Not to mention
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by gary_0 3y ago
I sent dang a grumpy email about this problem the other day. His response was more gracious than I deserved, but nonetheless his faith in the title-mangler script seemed unshaken. We must double our resolve.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Saving you a click: This seems to be about a court ruling in the Netherlands, and the "something worse" is that pirates' personal details can be revealed if the BREIN anti-piracy group makes a valid legal claim.
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by gary_0 3y ago
They see the Federation as Space USA using their superior pew-pew spaceships to enforce Freedom on the unwashed Aliens, many of whom are based on racial stereotypes. Because every planet only has one culture on it, doncha know.
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by gary_0 3y ago
> Stross would point out In fact, he has: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38221741
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by gary_0 3y ago
I reckon Elon Musk has about as much relation to Banks's ideas as Stalin has to Karl Marx's.
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by gary_0 3y ago
A nitpicky plot hole: There's no way poor people in this near-future dystopia would have access to a device that can access darknet forums, nor would video hosting sites allow hacking instructions, nor would the building's ISP all
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by gary_0 3y ago
Aye, I know (and it's obvious from TFA), hence the ";)".
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by gary_0 3y ago
> instead of having to do 12 different simple instruction, you can just do the one obscure instruction appropriate to the situation That one instruction just turns into 12 micro-ops, though, and then you need a much more complicated fron
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by gary_0 3y ago
Pretty rich, coming from the author of Accelerando . ;) https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...
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by gary_0 3y ago
Her books are like a mug of hot chocolate after a long day out in the cold. And I need a lot of hot chocolate these days.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Reading Macleod's Fall Revolution books as a teen 20-ish years ago blew my fucking mind. I had barely half a clue about the historical and political references he was building on (and making what I assume were very clever wry jokes abo
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by gary_0 3y ago
I skimmed the video but a lot of it sounded more like advertising than technical information to me. On the other hand, I'm looking forward to watching the Asahi folks crack this stuff open.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Nobody's asking for .NET or an IDE. Just enough to build things like the aforementioned Python packages. Or am I missing your sarcasm?
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by gary_0 3y ago
"Microsoft offered Valve $147M to launch Half-Life 3 on the Windows Store." "Blockbuster offered Netflix $147M to sell streaming subscriptions in their store." "IBM offered Microsoft $666M to sell the Windows usersp
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by gary_0 3y ago
All you really need is cl.exe and friends, and the C/C++ headers, in some fixed directory path. (And, apparently, maybe a Fortran compiler?) That shouldn't take up that much space. And the last time I was forced to install Windows
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by gary_0 3y ago
Paywalled. Here's another source: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/governme...
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by gary_0 3y ago
I'm surprised it's not more of a thing to have a CLA that allows relicensing only to another OSI-approved license. I don't see many examples along those lines[0]. And the "OSI-approved" wording would allow a project
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by gary_0 3y ago
That XKCD joke was all over the Internet in 2006. Now get off my lawn.
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by gary_0 3y ago
One feature they didn't mention they left out was the ability to run `make me a sandwich` ( https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/blob/main/Makefile.in#L... )
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by gary_0 3y ago
(2017)
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by gary_0 3y ago
In the links to Ninja implementations at the bottom: > This tiny little implementation[0] in Python! 345 lines of well-commented Python. Cute as a button! It doesn't seem to re-use already-built files, though. I wonder how many line
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by gary_0 3y ago
Yep, a while back I grabbed yt-dlp and I've been going through my bookmarks and locally archiving useful (or nostalgic) YouTube videos. My 8TB hard drive beats Google's enshittification.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Seeing a product photo from that era evoked a particularly weird feeling of nostalgia that I had never reflected on before. I think it's the sleek molded-plastic consumer electronics design combined with crisp photography that still la
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by gary_0 3y ago
I wonder if LLMs and text-to-speech AIs would be useful for generating unique plausible conversations so you could hide encrypted data in the background noise of the audio stream. You could even train it on your own voice so there would be
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by gary_0 3y ago
Will Google geoblock Chromium source code downloads in the EU to prevent people from going #undef BREAK_CRYPTO_FOR_EU? I guess all Linux distros that package their own browser builds will be illegal? Or could you be arrested in the EU for s
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by gary_0 3y ago
We're living the first ten minutes of a Black Mirror episode.
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by gary_0 3y ago
If you own a soldering iron, nothing is bricked until the magic smoke gets out!
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by gary_0 3y ago
Christmas came early! Thanks, jart-Claus, it's just what I wanted!

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