greesil

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   by greesil 4y ago

   Context.
2. 602.▲
   by greesil 4y ago

   Military industrial complex == arsenal of democracy This decade, at least.
3. 603.▲
   by greesil 4y ago

   Well there goes a weekend. I can't wait to try this out for my kids.
4. 604.▲
   by greesil 4y ago

   Yes, but in recent years deep state had taken on a political smell. Like, you can just call the university administrators a tyrannical bureaucracy and you'd be sufficiently accurate. Deep state implies some sort of secretive network th
5. 605.▲
   by greesil 4y ago

   This article is probably full of nuanced observations but lost me at "deep state". Ugggh.
6. 606.▲
   by greesil 4y ago

   Have the AI write a unit test for the human.
7. 607.▲
   by greesil 4y ago

   SpaceX is so cool. Why does Elon have to be the way he is?
8. 608.▲
   by greesil 4y ago

   TIL what is a hydrogen thyratron
9. 609.▲
   by greesil 4y ago

   "Alexa, would you like to hear my racist tirade?
10. 610.▲
    by greesil 4y ago

    But that would lead to accountability...
11. 611.▲
    by greesil 4y ago

    Very insightful. You forgot to mention "and is solvable by a human". Otherwise the captcha would be just be proof of work of some kind.
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    YO-3A Quiet Star: The Original Stealth Aircraft of the Vietnam War (2014)(itstactical.com)

    8 points by greesil 4y ago|0 comments
13. 613.▲
    by greesil 4y ago

    If by citizens you mean citizens with a fuckload of money.
14. 614.▲
    by greesil 4y ago

    Banding how exactly in a way that would have sufficient impact to change this? It's not trivial to start a massive political movement. I gotta pay my mortgage, etc.
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    by greesil 4y ago

    Unavoidable now because of the Citizens United court decision. Of course it's bad, but what are you gonna do?
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    by greesil 4y ago

    I'd be curious to know what it would take in terms of telescope size to directly image a nearby exoplanet.
17. 617.▲
    by greesil 4y ago

    So Diplomacy is just an acrimonious version of iterated prisoner's dilemma?
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    by greesil 4y ago

    Who still uses a printer at work?
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    by greesil 4y ago

    Don't you mean convolution in the time domain is multiplication in the "Fourier" domain?
20. 620.▲
    by greesil 4y ago

    Just don't generate garbage. You shouldn't be using malloc anyway you silly embedded programmer. Half joking, as a C/C++ programmer here.
21. 621.▲
    by greesil 4y ago

    Or industry!
22. 622.▲
    by greesil 4y ago

    I guess cryptography, but they're also used in GPS, and CDMA.
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    by greesil 4y ago

    Centralization does have some economies of scale in this regard. It seems like hosting your own Mastodon server is not for the faint of heart, and requires significant time investment. It's like a Twitter starter kit, just add capital
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    by greesil 4y ago

    There was a pretty good documentary recently on how Boeing got to where it is now. https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81272421
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    by greesil 4y ago

    I'm not an expert, but by default -no way to moderate content. you may see this as good or bad, but spam can be annoying. it'd probably be a lot worse us it became more mainstream. -costs due to bandwidth if you are part of the in
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    by greesil 4y ago

    Fuck it, I'm going back to usenet.
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    by greesil 4y ago

    Look at companies with enormous stockpiles of cash, or doing stock buybacks. They're just sitting on it, when some of it could be better spent on crumbling infrastructure that their delivery vehicles drive on, for example.
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    by greesil 4y ago

    Yeah but you'd be asking for metrics, PR curves, labeled data, and things like this. Not code.
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    by greesil 4y ago

    Sshhh, don't give them any ideas.
30. 630.▲
    by greesil 4y ago

    High Quakers are more fun.