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by jamiek88 3y ago
Hahaha wow! That struck an HN nerve for sure, so many posts!
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And one reigning King!
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by jamiek88 3y ago
Fun fact: ford used to sell bbq grills and bags of coal from their dealerships!
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I would like to have done this. Maybe we’ll get it reset with a proper, clean, nice man made one instead!
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by jamiek88 3y ago
Has anyone ever tried to sell an engagement or wedding ring with diamonds? You get cents on the dollar. Even or I should say especially brand names like Tiffany. The whole thing is a scam from start to finish and I wish I could go back in
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by jamiek88 3y ago
> I think most of what we ascribe to intelligence in LLMs is a kind of textual pareidolia This is a great way of expressing a thought I’ve been unable to fully articulate.
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Yeah exactly! Separation and dummy decoy warheads become an exponential problem and shooting through atmosphere is hard at hyper super mega sonic speeds. So interception in space but where, as you say. The only real 'near peer' nu
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Vertical integration is one hell of an advantage. These mega companies that are contractors all the way down are like microservices - useful for some situations but probably not yours.
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I think if it is something to do with our deterrence it’s more likely to be testing an anti ICBM weapon than carrying a warhead. The US stopped talking about missile defense because it’s destabilizing but they for sure did not stop working
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by jamiek88 3y ago
Yes and some of these satellites cost more than an aircraft carrier. Having the x37 try out new materials and parts etc is a great capability that is obviously needed if the US is to maintain its technical superiority.
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You monster.
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The use of the word paratroup to describe mundane business travel is fricken hilarious. What’s next? We gonna SWAT into Hartford for an insurance sales conference?
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by jamiek88 3y ago
Oooh! Nice burn, kid! It still makes me do mental arithmetic when someone gives post 2000 as a birthdate. Shit, my nephew was born post 2010 and he’s twelve which is weird because 2010 was like, three years ago.
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by jamiek88 3y ago
Yeah i was thinking back to Cream (and other nights) at Nation in Liverpool early nineties and the Manchester scene. Mates dj’d downstairs at Baa Bar and we were just kids really. Some fucking great times. Fucked my hearing though, wear ea
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How do you solve stage 4 terminal cancer?
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And by safe it means 'won't die' not 'pleasant feeling' still be careful with 50v!
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It's funny thinking back to the hype cycle of Itanium back in the heady days where performance was doubling every year, desktop was king and this was the future . Turns out it was more like IBM's MCA / PS2 rather than the fu
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thank you so much! Justine is a genius.
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holy shit! > In the above one-liner, we've basically reconfigured the stock compiler on Linux so it outputs binaries that'll run on MacOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD too. They also boot from the BIOS. Please note thi
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by jamiek88 3y ago
I don’t think people are expressing incredulity at the expense here!
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Unprecedented wealth and living standards? it’s not very evenly distributed wealth but our enormous economies are not limited by supplies of an arbitrarily valuable metal. All money is imaginary anyway.
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Really? Wow! So different. Although with repair cost and complexity increasing, many more cars are totaled / written off than used to be here in the US. Particularly EV’s. I heard houses were a depreciating asset in Japan too. Funny h
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by jamiek88 3y ago
Hey man you might be shadow banned. I vouched for this comment, you might want to email the mods and see what’s up. They are v.reasonable on the whole.
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And in the south where it’s hot. Loads of these in Houston and New Orleans for example.
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Well I for one wish the crazy bastard god speed. I hope he pulls it off.
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So weird to see a dish that size almost pointed horizontally!
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by jamiek88 3y ago
Hey thanks for this thoughtful reply. I tend to be a completist so I will start with shards. I think Cordelia’s Honour as mentioned above seems a decent omnibus? It was fascinating reading your thought process and I love to answer questions
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My favorite siege story is Alexander being taunted by islanders who thought themselves immune to being under siege and attacked. They slowly stopped laughing as they realized the Macedonians were filling in the shore front to make a kilomet
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Short answer: no. They have similarities such as you mentioned but only at relatively low energies. There are several sorts of plasmas. An ionized gas is a sort of plasma, also called thin plasma. Thin plasmas, while physically different
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Well if you look at the accuracy and precision cutting and tessellation of some of the stone work the ancients did, starting with the Sumerians in the very first cities it would be fitting if our first cities in space were made by similar t

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