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by greedo 6mo ago
Take a gander at how much SpaceX has benefited from government contracts. And for Anduril, well the phrase "all hat, no cattle" is pretty appropriate. In all my years I've never seen so much hype for a company that really has
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by greedo 6mo ago
The Booker was a perfect fit for the Army reqs, and filled a genuine need. But it didn't have a sponsor that was willing to pay for it. The Armor Branch didn't like it, and the Infantry Branch, which is the real user couldn't
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by greedo 6mo ago
Deleting email to free up space has to be the most ridiculous justification for burning up the environment.
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by greedo 6mo ago
Wow! What state is this in?
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by greedo 7mo ago
Can you provide some examples from this time period? I'm having trouble squaring your statement with things like the Red Ring of Death with the X-Box etc.
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by greedo 7mo ago
Oil is fungible, so the cost will find an equilibrium regardless of source (excluding quality differences).
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by greedo 7mo ago
ncdu is a lifesaver...
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by greedo 7mo ago
And you can find stuff in perfect condition for reasonable prices! I have a ton of Stanley planes that are amazing.
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by greedo 7mo ago
When The Force Awakens, I spent $99 on a toy version of BB8 that you could control from your iPhone. It was a cool toy. Then after a while the app was no longer supported... Sad times. I also owned every iPhone from the first through iPhone
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by greedo 7mo ago
I don't agree. Older tech was simpler, and often more reliable. They didn't depend on being able to connect to a networked time clock for sync, didn't need networking period. Today's systems are inherently fragile. I g
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by greedo 7mo ago
My dad once told me that just because he had a phone (landline), that he was under no obligation to answer it. I thought it was funny at the time but I wish he was still around for me to tell him he was right. When iPhones became common, my
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by greedo 7mo ago
Agree 100%. The multivariate ways a note can be expressed is almost unlimited. For example, I first heard Bach's Cello Suite #1 played by some random cellist. Fell in love with it and listened to it endlessly. Then I heard Yo-Yo Ma pla
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by greedo 7mo ago
I remember watching a youtube video that was kind of a Star Wars fan fic. It had a great soundtrack, that was a cross between John Williams and Michael Giacchino. The YouTuber was using some commercial program that included samples of all t
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by greedo 7mo ago
I (like many on HN I'm sure) have been continually pestered by management to use AI like it's some cure for polio. They just want to tell their VP that "my team is accelerating its use of AI!" so that the VP can pass tha
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by greedo 7mo ago
I get what you're saying, but imagine a CTO/CIO who's never been very technical. The world is full of them. They vibe up an app, and think it's easy. They don't have the developer experience to know the things they&
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by greedo 7mo ago
I've been a skeptic about LLMs in general since I first heard of them. And I'm a sysadmin type, more comfortable with python scripts than writing "real" software. No formal education in coding at all other than taking Ha
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by greedo 7mo ago
Or in places where network effects make it impossible to compete.
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by greedo 7mo ago
If you read the article, it covers much of this. It's not just gathering evidence, but evaluating the data you've collected.
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by greedo 7mo ago
Funny thing about that. Knowing what science is important is the hard part, and you often don't know for years or even decades.
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by greedo 7mo ago
Yes? At least in the US, the GOP has been working relentlessly for most of my life to reduce welfare, to reduce Medicaid, to make unionization difficult and to neuter existing unions, and most of all, cut taxes on the rich.
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by greedo 7mo ago
There have been no legitimate reports of NATO providing real time AWACs feeds to Ukraine.
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by greedo 7mo ago
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by greedo 7mo ago
Good lessons. Like ignoring previous military plans that showed how tough a nut Iran would be to crack. Lessons like the value of AWACs. Now we're down to 15 and the availability rate is like 50%. So 8 or so WORLDWIDE. Yeah, that'
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by greedo 7mo ago
They sell them. Military gear (at least aircraft and missiles) aren't cheap like an AK47. They have enjoyed watching India and Pakistan in their latest air battles. Lots of operational intel gleaned from that.
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by greedo 7mo ago
You're conflating the Viet Cong with North Vietnam.
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by greedo 7mo ago
Well you can say the same about COBOL... Just because things hung around didn't mean that Sun/Solaris/Java were long for this world. Linux/x86 was just too cheap compared to SPARC gear. Even if it wasn't as robust a
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by greedo 7mo ago
Well we were a small startup, and the idea of using AIX was a non-starter. Solaris was lovely, but our E250 was only for mail, and in hindsight we should have stood up a FreeBSD server with dovecot or something instead of a system that we m
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by greedo 7mo ago
There's no reason the tankers need to be reusable. They can probably lift more fuel without all the cruft needed for controlled re-entry.
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by greedo 7mo ago
Sun was dying in 2000. I was busy deploying BSD and a bit later Linux for all our x86 gear.
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by greedo 7mo ago
Considering that driving (at least in the US) is a relatively unsafe means of travel compared to the alternatives, I can understand imploring someone to drive safe.

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