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601.
by imglorp 2y ago
Parent is right too, I mixed up one of them. I should have said: shoot toward s downwind and run away towards upwind.
602.
by imglorp 2y ago
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap At 1kt (max for the W54?) most of the effects are under 1 km: eg the radiation radius is only 0.84 km. Looks like if you shoot 1 mile away up wind, take cover from the flash, and then run
603.
by imglorp 2y ago
Even so, would a rate limit be wise?
604.
by imglorp 2y ago
Have FPGAs been evolving very slowly? Modern CPUs have some 20 billion transistors and these limitations don't seem to have grown at the same rate since the '90s the last time I looked at them.
605.
by imglorp 2y ago
Further piling on potential stress for any whistleblower in a highly specialized field, once you're publicly critical of that field, you're basically unemployable there. And that's without any active retribution from the offe
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by imglorp 2y ago
I worked for a company that located phones during E911 calls, at the cell network level, without using GPS, down to a few meters. The most humanitarian mission you can imagine. It was golden. But it turns out, authoritarian states wanted to
607.
by imglorp 2y ago
Yes, according to @whiteboardfinance, the car is 26% only of their gross profit. The rest is finance, insurance (warranties), service, parts, etc.
608.
by imglorp 2y ago
The whole dealership system is parasitic, rentseeking, friction. Tesla might have a point here. Instead of transparently selling a product for fixed price, the dealer system appears based on information asymmetry, haggling, upcharges, finan
609.
by imglorp 2y ago
His Goodreads comment on Ted Kacyzinski's book (better known for other work). https://i.redd.it/j9n3oplojv5e1.jpeg
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by imglorp 2y ago
Ok fair enough. But please explain like you might to a child, since these fund managers are exercising their power and since they are picking short term focused, parasitic, extractive boards like the Boeing/Intel ones, what impact are
611.
by imglorp 2y ago
https://12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/20... Despite the article swooning over his skills, he was not especially careful. They tracked him to a Starbucks and hotel.
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The UnitedHealthcare Gunman Understands the Surveillance State(theatlantic.com)
8 points by imglorp 2y ago|2 comments
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by imglorp 2y ago
Looks like trash for usefulness so far, or at least its system prompt sometimes. > name the president before obama > I can't help with responses on elections and political figures right now. I'm trained to be as accurate as
614.
by imglorp 2y ago
Last I heard, DDG used it in production.
615.
by imglorp 2y ago
Came here to mention this. I saw one around 1985: our numerical methods professor had one but we did our homework on a DEC-20 with a "proper" LA36 terminal with APL font and keycaps. Wonderful course, taught in APL from the Red Bo
616.
by imglorp 2y ago
Yeah. I'm surprised it didn't get enough uptake to succeed, especially among the regulated/auditable crowds, considering all the purpose built tech put into it.
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by imglorp 2y ago
Harder than you'd think, given a couple of requirements, but there are off the shelf products like AWS's QLDB (and self hosted alternatives). They: Merkle hash every entry with its predecessors; normalize entries so they can be co
618.
by imglorp 2y ago
Is card counting still possible, or have casinos implemented enough countermeasures to defeat its advantage?
619.
by imglorp 2y ago
If you're wondering just how much to cringe, here's a sample. https://youtu.be/48Y-pCffh10
620.
by imglorp 2y ago
No vibes and there is voluminous evidence, eg many links here: https://spreadprivacy.com/how-does-google-track-me-even-when... as well as Google Takeout itself. Oh and I forgot location data and shopping records, those are
621.
by imglorp 2y ago
I think we shouldn't minimize the harm Chrome does by calling it adware. It monitors all your activity for Google to tie it to your identity, who then publish your demographics, preferences, history, and mental state on the global mark
622.
by imglorp 2y ago
Why is it so desirable to circumvent browser zoom? I hate it.
623.
by imglorp 2y ago
Should we be learning about the product or the company? Only one seems valuable, no?
624.
by imglorp 2y ago
The quote was about "programming by poking" which I take as highly relevant to actual distributed software. It meant (1) systems are more built by integrating many components, and (2) for many reasons, the components are not under
625.
by imglorp 2y ago
Oops, thank you.
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by imglorp 2y ago
Aquatic turtles have another brumination (hibernation) strategy. Since they breathe air, yet may get trapped under the ice for months at at time, they lower their metabolism plus have adaptations such as scavenging some oxygen from the wate
627.
by imglorp 2y ago
Apple and others should be forced to unlock its abandoned hardware. If they don't want to deal with it any more that's fine, but it shouldn't be ewaste. I have an old ipad mini that is still super hardware but they won't
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by imglorp 2y ago
In addition, there's probably a correlation of states which don't make exceptions to save maternal life: situations like ectopic are almost certainly fatal if untreated.
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by imglorp 2y ago
Fully agree but as usual it was more complicated than this even. Losing controls and instruments in IMC conditions could mean you're straight and level with many minutes to troubleshoot and try things off book, or maybe another attitud
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by imglorp 2y ago
Credit to Cory Doctorow for the term.

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