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by le-mark 2y ago
The weakness in AT seems to be the relay servers. Data/posts may be edited or deleted on a PDS, but once published what is the mechanism to alter or delete in clients/relays downstream? Also what’s the mechanism to prevent AT from
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by le-mark 2y ago
Thanks this is the perspective I was looking for. Like how television was imagined to bring Shakespeare to the masses, but instead met the masses where they are. And how people in the losing party lament the ignorance of the voters when it
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by le-mark 2y ago
Brazing has a long tradition in building bicycle frames.
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by le-mark 2y ago
> The second study was an online survey conducted with 923 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers, whose average age was 40 years. So psychology is now the study of mice, college freshman, and mechanical Turks? I have not seen this before.
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by le-mark 2y ago
> For those reading this who don't know much about node I would prefer to remain blissfully ignorant, thank you!
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by le-mark 2y ago
It is true there are some downsides to home ownership. But if owning a home is such a horrible investment then why are so many buying up single family homes to turn into rentals? Personally our home has doubled in value over the past ten ye
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by le-mark 2y ago
They do it because if they don’t the Army will get it, and a fixed wing aircraft budget which will come out of the Air Force purse. AF sees it as a distraction from what they want to be doing; air dominance.
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by le-mark 2y ago
There’s a ycombinator startup doing this exact same thing for the DOD. Not much of a “moat” apparently. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/theseus
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by le-mark 2y ago
It’s unfortunate neither the Navy nor the Air Force want anything to do with the close air support role. The Marines are the smallest arm of the US military but they “do it all”, except tanks, they got rid if they’re Abrams some years ago.
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by le-mark 2y ago
EWD is apparently Edsger W. Dijkstra for those also unaccustomed to reading him cited by his initials.
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by le-mark 2y ago
What hoaxes are you referring to? Her criticisms were mostly factual from what I saw.
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by le-mark 2y ago
This jives with my experience at a financial services company. I once sat next to the “big data team” and the company 5 year plan was all about delivering analytics and ai to customers using their data the company housed. The team consisted
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by le-mark 2y ago
My investments during the Covid dip attest to this. There will always be another dip.
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by le-mark 2y ago
Other ways are writing a hit song, advertising jingle, a bestselling novel, a top selling video game. Ways not to get rich; a “better c” language and compiler?
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by le-mark 2y ago
The keys oh god the keys. Adding to this the hatches on armored vehicles are also padlocked (sincgar radios stayed in the vehicle). Keeping track of the keys was always a massive pita. A lot of privates did a lot of push ups over misplaced
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by le-mark 2y ago
> By middle school, I was more or less distracted, and came back to technology later Lol this also happened to me, I wonder how common this is?
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by le-mark 2y ago
I was referring to mainframe migrations, sorry that wasn’t clear.
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by le-mark 2y ago
I’d love to read more about these projects. In particular, were they rewrites, or “rehosting”? What domain and what was the avg transaction count? Real-time or batch?
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by le-mark 2y ago
The challenge of the X-37b is imagination. My pet theories involve interdicting opposing countries spy/communications satellites with stealth drone satellites carried and retrieved by x-37. If we could get physical acces to satellites
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by le-mark 2y ago
I’d love to see a probe catch and examine ʻOumuamua. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ʻOumuamua
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by le-mark 2y ago
That is true, but it’s also true of Blue Origin who are far behind spacex in so far as flying real hardware. The difference is Musk maniacal zeal and yes leadership. I’m frustrated with Musks politics too, but his drive can’t be denied.
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by le-mark 2y ago
Reminds me of a new cto who, coming from a windows server background, demanded we reboot the servers (Linux) to prepare for the holiday rush (e-commerce site, mid oughts). Our admins had to explain we don’t do that. He persisted, so the adm
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by le-mark 2y ago
Very odd that this author seems to be conflating Unicode with fonts? I assumed since android is “jvm by another name” it would be utf-16 internally, just like the jvm. Encoding and decoding utf-8 is no problem. But this author is lamenting
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by le-mark 2y ago
> Chrome is designed to work for Google, not for you. Maybe more accurately “chrome is designed to work for you in so far as that also works for google”. I share the long standing dismay that so many willingly surrendered their data and
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by le-mark 2y ago
They had total control of the pagers, sigint and social graph, command and control hierarchy. They knew exactly who was who. Question is how did Hamas slip by this same highly skilled org?
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by le-mark 2y ago
> but if you list the important advancements of humankind (like LLMs, drug development, basic science breakthroughs etc.) Amusingly, free and open source kernels (including bsds) are key to enabling all of that.
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by le-mark 2y ago
The manifold geometry kernel library is a truly impressive piece of work imo; well worth checking out; https://github.com/elalish/manifold
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by le-mark 2y ago
> If multiple actors can play Hamlet, why can't there be multiple interpretations of Kirk? Just don’t call it “Hamlet”! Copyright infringement aside, Star Trk wasn’t that great, as Charles suggests, it was all we had.
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by le-mark 2y ago
As Mark Twain said the one who can read and chooses not to, has no advantage over those who can’t read at all. This sadly reflects in our current politically morass imo.
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by le-mark 2y ago
I’d love to be able to fab my own designs, 40nm would be awesome. Yes there are projects where you can. But they allow small area/transistor counts. Pcbway for chips would be amazing!

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