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by kbelder 8mo ago
All of Musk's political nonsense, social media theatrics, etc., aside, if SpaceX performs over the next decade or two the way one would hope, he'll be remembered for centuries because of that. Tesla, X, his political dalliances,
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by kbelder 8mo ago
Ten more months in 2026, so you should be about 60,000x better by the end of the year.
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KYC is one of the greatest government overreaches in the last several decades. I'll back you up on that.
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Cheap shop rags!
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I was just reading how it's common to pulverize gypsum drywall to mix into dense clay soils to loosen it up.
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by kbelder 8mo ago
I think you probably should be able to do those things (using AI to hire, fire, ban, etc.)... but that every act and communication needs to be tied to a responsible human, who is fully held responsible for the consequences (discriminatory h
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by kbelder 8mo ago
>At GitHub, we want to protect developer privacy, and we find cookie banners quite irritating, so we decided to look for a solution. After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really. Go
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by kbelder 8mo ago
Darwinism exists at the level of nations, but I think you may have the outcome exactly backwards.
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by kbelder 8mo ago
Be careful, in the strength of your passions, that you don't become a stochastic word generator yourself.
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by kbelder 8mo ago
Is there a windows autocorrect? I thought that was a feature implemented by the individual program, not any sort of OS functionality.
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by kbelder 8mo ago
You're absolutely right, this is basic courtesy, and the sort of polite awareness that everyone should have when dealing in public. If you can't understand why you would often softpedal criticisms in public (while forthrightly ad
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by kbelder 8mo ago
You're right, and I think that's because the core functionality of a UI lib is not too difficult. I've tinkered in that space myself, and it's a fun side project. Then you start to think about full unicode support, righ
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by kbelder 8mo ago
Oh, wow. The absolute worst thing that could happen to this sort of program would be for artists to make the decisions about who qualifies.
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by kbelder 8mo ago
>The third-gen wired Nest Doorbell can save up to 10 seconds of clips, while the first and second-gen wired doorbells can save up to three hours of event history Wow, the march of progress.
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>Very small, high precision spheres are hard to make I remember this was on a list of zero-g manufacturing techniques that NASA was investigating at one point. I wonder what became of that? Normally, I'd think the cost would be pr
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The Minecraft paradigm.
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by kbelder 8mo ago
"I'm a guy using Linux" - Ok. "I'm a Linux guy" - Bad. This is very much an imprecise abstraction, more like a rule of thumb. Just be careful how you think of yourself. "I ride bicycles" - Fine. &quo
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by kbelder 8mo ago
The fact that it's a voluntary arrangement instead of forced makes a significant difference.
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Oregon is mentioned as an example of the general decline through the US. The article isn't really about Oregon specifically: Consider Oregon. Had it merely kept pace with inflation, it would have increased school spending by
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by kbelder 8mo ago
I agree with you completely, but I'm confused by this phrase? >Men literally die and are reborn every day in most parts of India.
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by kbelder 8mo ago
That's mostly true, but may not be in the case of government representatives.
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by kbelder 9mo ago
>TSA pre-check, Global Entry, and Clear _infuriate_ me And these additions are the opposite of privatization, they are federal requirements, de facto socialization.
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by kbelder 9mo ago
Same, but additionally Irfanview. And once upon a time, Media Player Classic used to be on that list. This train of thought made me go find https://www.oldversion.com/ . For a while, that was invaluable.
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by kbelder 9mo ago
My fear is people will actually take that article to heart, and begin accusing people of posting AI simply for using all sorts of completely valid phrases in their writing. None of those AI tells originated with AI.
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by kbelder 9mo ago
Learning is just as easy remote and with AI, maybe easier. It's testing and evaluation of that learning that's difficult. Universities make money not by teaching, but by testing and certifying. That's why AI is so disruptiv
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by kbelder 9mo ago
Which fact in the daily mail article do you contest?
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by kbelder 9mo ago
Absolutely true. I could certainly see an argument that we're closer now than 10 or 20 years ago. But closer than 1980? 1970? It's ludicrous to think so. It makes itself a measure that is obviously untrustworthy.
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"Mozilla Pioneers invites creative technologists and product builders to collaborate with Mozilla in shaping the next era of mission-aligned products for Mozilla." Topics of interest: * Trusted AI Experiences * Firefox Adjacent Pr
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Don't know. But I'm sure that people at NASA and other such places have done that calculation. I just wanted to point out that orbital space is big, so you have to do the math to see if there's an actual problem.
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by kbelder 9mo ago
But the orbit is a minimum of about 50,000 kilometers, and the satellite is maybe a meter across. That's a very low probability of a collision per crossing. I get that 'probably safe' or '0.001% chance of destruction pe

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