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by gorgoiler 7d ago
Hard to take this seriously when it just lists “onion” as the commodity. The onion we extract from the ground is not the same everywhere. Onion can be either light or heavy based on the size and density. Light onion will roll more easily
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by gorgoiler 7d ago
It’s funny to hear they are not pack animals. I’m sure that is technically the case, especially in the wild, but my house cats definitely cling to me and follow me around like I am their leader. They groom/fight to try to establish a
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by gorgoiler 8d ago
The music is hilarious! Thus moved solar-thruster
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by gorgoiler 8d ago
Wow, I had no idea about the 10,000ft/min descent, or to quote from the end of the video it’s as if a regular airliner was descending from cruise altitude — ”ladies and gentlemen we will shortly begin our initial descent into Philadel
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by gorgoiler 10d ago
Roundabouts are the Segway of civil engineering. In theory, a game changing transport innovation. In practice, just a little too mismatched with everyday aesthetics to properly fit in. Dorky and annoying for pedestrians too! Good old tr
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by gorgoiler 11d ago
While armor is indeed much harder in space, it is not impossible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipple_shield Whipple shields use spaced plates to disperse the impact of a projectile on the first plate over a larger a
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by gorgoiler 13d ago
”Ideally the regulators would have forced these models to actually benefit the commons if they are from the commons.” This echoes my feelings entirely. It is galling that we do not at the very least get a bill-of-materials for the models
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by gorgoiler 15d ago
Gosh, the voice singing “unlimited downloads!” but the underlying text saying “400 per day” sure hit hard. As if generative AI needed more publicity for its “we are literally just making stuff up” approach to getting stuff done. Cool prese
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by gorgoiler 16d ago
Are smart glasses not the modern, practical implementation of the metaverse. I don’t think Meta were banking on games and low-poly avatars for their next generation of revenue, it was more about building (and then — hold onto your lunch pl
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by gorgoiler 17d ago
1. Re: complaint (1) the court should be aware of clear video evidence that, contrary to the claimant’s statement that a “rocket sled” was delivered via parcel post, that in fact the delivery was twofold: one 33” acme jet motor and a set of
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by gorgoiler 17d ago
That’s really interesting, and you’re right, I had assumed an agent could be instructed to treat all vendor copy as biased to the point of being hostile! I also don’t think I’d ever hand the credit card over to an agent. I just want a summ
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by gorgoiler 17d ago
I am not an AI super mind hell bent on consolidating my power by leveraging chaos to take control of humanity’s resources, but if I were then sending one million deepfaked ransom emails to impressionable people would be the best tool for ef
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by gorgoiler 17d ago
Your example is about helping a consumer navigate a market to get the best product and I think it’s bang on. Too many sectors of the economy sell the lie that they are operating as a free market when in reality they are confusopolies that
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by gorgoiler 17d ago
Do you mean in terms of competence at resisting breaches? I trust Meta’s security team a lot more than anyone else’s in that respect. They are big enough and pay well to have a competent team. Compared with momandpop.com (willing but too
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by gorgoiler 17d ago
I don’t have a good intuition for the aerodynamic environment around a helicopter blade in flight. It feels like it ought to be very blustery. Presumably there’s a huge amount of pressure on the underside and a drop in pressure on the top
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by gorgoiler 18d ago
I really love the idea of having all the PCs in some place far away from where I, the human am sitting, but I don’t know how to do that. HDMI and USB cables can’t work over more than a few tens of feet can they? Or maybe these are special
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by gorgoiler 18d ago
https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/jupiter-moons/io/facts/#h-m... Jupiter and Io have a very interesting symbiosis. Jupiter melts Io to form dusty volcanos. It then magnetically sweeps Io clean of dust.
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by gorgoiler 20d ago
I see a few gloomy comments here about pricing and being “sold out”. Cheer up! The great thing about an eclipse is you just need to see the sky! It is an event it is impossible, or at least very difficult, to scalp and extort. Sure, hote
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by gorgoiler 1mo ago
I remember, vaguely*, a British polemicist once tilting at the eco-populist demons-du-jour by saying “it’s not carrier bags that are the problem, it’s supermarkets, and it’s not SUVs destroying the plant, it’s cars.” In that spirit, it’s no
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by gorgoiler 1mo ago
Do we know that to be the case? This could just as likely be an incompetent prosecutor showing up with inadequate or invalidated evidence and the jury throwing the case out on grounds of procedural incompetence rather than sympathy.
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by gorgoiler 1mo ago
(1) Ars quoting Ars isn’t a source. (2) You might be correct that Ars quoting Senators might be a “source”? I think it’s just more muddying, and, in the spirit of my complaint, certainly doesn’t count as original journalism. I stand by my
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by gorgoiler 1mo ago
A single source article where the “source” is just a URL! https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-26-03490 Would’ve been nice to see a few quotes. Come on, Ars!
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by gorgoiler 1mo ago
”Perhaps you can think of a way to design an alerting system which cannot be abused…” Staged rollout with engagement metrics that cancel the alert if it’s not alerty enough. Stages: one town, then a city, then one county, then everyone.
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
Reminds me of human Pokémon: man -> woman -> wowoman https://www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns/comments/7ztt2...
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
If we’re talking 80s, a better comparison would be He-Man . The FTC let the free-market run riot with children’s TV. Shows used commercials to push expensive plastic toys. The shows themselves became commercials for their associated prod
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
I can’t quite parse what you’re saying in your second paragraph, but if you are saying “[Zuckerberg then] pushes for export controls on China” then that’s different to what he’s saying, namely: “I do not believe restricting access to forei
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
I’m not refuting your point but, ironically, wasn’t gcc first developed at a time when hackers were trading favors for CPU time on shared mainframes and the hardware was impossibly expensive?
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
When I finally buy myself a $300m yacht you can bet it will have a full spectrum software radio that captures and transcribes all calls on all frequencies, not just the one I happen to be tuned to right now.
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
Volvo EX90 has a lovely lil bump above the windshield collecting LIDAR stats for some future purpose … Volvo … Li … Geely … PRC … feeling sleepy … can’t stay focused … everything is fine.
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by gorgoiler 2mo ago
Reminds me of Iain M Banks’s Feersum Endjinn , where the castle resisted investigation by leveraging its smart fabric to hurl ghosts at the workers trying to drill out its walls!

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