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by mandevil 2y ago
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/10/not-a-ma... This blog has a brilliant insight that I still remember more than a decade later: we live in a fantasy setting, not a Sci-fi one. Our moder
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by mandevil 2y ago
It's more that the God of Moore's Law have given us so many transistors that we are essentially always I/O blocked, so it effectively doesn't matter how good our assembly is for all but the most specialized of applicatio
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It's a series of cases, from 1967's Pierson v. Ray, through Harlow v. Fitzgerald (1982) to Pearson v. Callahan (2009) that made QI so insidious. (Each of those cases was 8-1 or 9-0, incidentally. The Supreme Court gets the respect
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One of the missions of those helicopters was the immediate evacuation of personnel in the event of attack against Washington D.C. That requires the speed and range that a helicopter can provide but cars can't. To do that mission requir
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I think that letting it go to a jury is reasonable. QI short-circuits the entire jury process, ending the case almost immediately. Letting a lawsuit develop and letting a jury decide if the Officers actions were reasonable or not, given the
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by mandevil 2y ago
Daniel A. Bress is a Harvard grad, has been a member of the Federalist Society since 2003, clerked for Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, and was appointed to the 9th Circuit by President Trump in 2019, approved by the Senate on a party-l
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The way that the modern Supreme Court (starting with its extremely conservative turn around 2005 with the replacement of O'Connor with Alito) has treated Qualified Immunity is that the constitutional violation (in this case, the violat
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This was the civil lawsuit, resolved without ever going any further, thanks to the court created doctrine of Qualified Immunity. This is the end of all legal consequences anyone involved will ever face. The Sheriff did lose his job when he
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by mandevil 2y ago
It was created out of whole cloth by the Supreme Court in 1967's Pierson v. Ray. That case was a grim reminder of just how terrible the Supreme Court has always been: 15 Episcopal Priests were taking part in the Freedom Rides in 1961 (
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It's good that the Sheriff had already lost re-election five years ago, hopefully this played a part and the current sheriff has learned a lesson. Also, you can't do exactly this again within the 9th Circuit without being sued? Th
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Yes, I don't disagree that RoC having nukes (or Korea or Japan) would be bad for the world, and is likely to have bad consequences for nuclear proliferation generally. I think that decent leadership from the USA (and the countries invo
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by mandevil 2y ago
Taiwan is almost certainly only a few months from completely indigenous nuclear weapons: they have their own nuclear power reactor at Maanshan, and all the way back in the 1980's the US estimated that they were less than two years from
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by mandevil 2y ago
The employees, suing in Federal court, since they have a clear and obvious loss to point to, they will have standing. Judges can either obey the law or not. If they don't obey the law, then we are much further along on the authoritaria
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by mandevil 2y ago
Packaging is not trivial. I don't think either of those companies has been near the frontier for packaging in ... more than a decade? Two decades? This would be something where it would take a lot of time and throwing away badly packag
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Besides the fact that the AZ plant does not produce TSMC's bleeding edge process (3nm) but the older 4nm, the product from that fab can't be delivered directly to a customer. Every wafer at that plant has to be shipped back to Ta
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by mandevil 2y ago
Also, my understanding is that AF was not profitable on Concord even ignoring those accounting costs. So AF wanted to shutter the plane after the accident, and changing the costs of shared maintenance equipment from 50/50 to 100/0
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by mandevil 2y ago
Boom is not currently flying their intended engines, the Symphony, which does not exist yet. (1) The XB-1 is flying with J85's just like a T-38 has, and just like a T-38 it can go supersonic with afterburners. If the Symphony is able t
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by mandevil 2y ago
I vaguely recall a line from a sociology lecture, to the effect that masculinity is always in crisis because it has to be refashioned every generation and culture to fit the current situation. Femininity doesn't change as much because
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by mandevil 2y ago
It lead to more revenue for the industry as a whole. But not necessarily for the individual companies that bubbled the hardest: Cisco stock is still to this day lower than it was at peak in 2000, to point to a significant company that sold
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While it is amazing for initial discovery to have everything presented for the developer's inspection, in production it ends up requiring too many network round-trips to actually traverse from root to /resource_name/resource_
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by mandevil 2y ago
There is a distinction between (proper) REST and what this blog calls "OpenAPI". But the thing is, almost no one builds a true, proper REST API. In practice, everyone uses the OpenAPI approach. The way that REST was defined by Roy
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by mandevil 2y ago
Even in the 1960's most Soviet radio traffic would have been encrypted. That was why the US did things like Ivy Bells (1), because they wouldn't be encrypting domestic phone traffic. (They were able to get information on Soviet mi
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by mandevil 2y ago
So I recall this being briefly discussed, under the "Classic Wizard" code name, in the 1986 book by William Burroughs, _Deep Black_ (his history of US space intel). Obviously didn't have details like how the computer systems
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by mandevil 2y ago
Sentencing is complicated in the US. Generally speaking, they have a huge range and a standard for computing where one falls in that range, but everything within that range is open to judge's discretion. Life without parole was within
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by mandevil 2y ago
My guess would be it's all about electricity. Texas has a .... unique energy market (literally! They don't connect to the national grid so they can avoid US Government regulations- that way it's not interstate commerce). Beca
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Found it more readable, yeah, but all of the captions on the diagrams- identifying block types by color- no longer made any sense.
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And yet, it carries legal meaning in the US, thanks to NY Times v. Sullivan and Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc. This is not GP's "notion" this is an actual thing under US law that the US Supreme Court created back in the 1960&#x27
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Yeah, so much of Google's moat in mapping is just the sheer amount of human time thrown at the problem of all the little regional idiosyncrasies all around the world. Getting that right is what makes it so hard.
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The modal OSS project is a one man band, or at most 2-3 people involved. By the time you get to something large scale there is also quite a bit of bureaucracy there too. Look at something like, to pick something mostly at random, a single p
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I've been at hugely decentralized companies (several thousand engineers, one level of management between me as team lead and the actual executives). Each team was fully empowered to solve their problems in the best manner and they went

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