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by mandevil 1y ago
This might be fine for some utility functions which you can tell at a glance have no errors, but for anything complex, if you copy you don't get any of the bug/security fixes that upstream will provide automatically. Oh, now you n
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by mandevil 1y ago
Which Ro Marine didn't have- but they submitted forged documents to Panama and other countries claiming they did. When you have the resources of a nation-state, forging documents from other countries is straight-forward: you can all bu
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by mandevil 1y ago
25 years ago, IR scholar Dan Drezner wrote the book _The Sanctions Paradox_ which tried to explain, in an IR theory sort of way, why sanctions are used so often and achieve so little- they don't overthrow governments, they rarely even
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by mandevil 1y ago
No, you've only heard about one application of it. Airbus and Palantir built something so powerful they productized it and now sell it to airlines to help manage their fleet https://aircraft.airbus.com/en/services&
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by mandevil 1y ago
Moore's Law was primarily a tool for arguing with finance guys to let you borrow the enormous amount of money to build the new fab- see, this law says that if you don't let us raise the money, then the other company will- see th
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by mandevil 1y ago
I was a tour guide at the National Air and Space Museum for a dozen years. I still remember seeing the exhibit plans the curators had, which called for a then 90-year old airplane (a Curtiss JN-4) to be mounted such that people could look d
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by mandevil 1y ago
Yes, and both William Beach (the one confirmed under Trump in 2019 who served through most of Biden's term) and Erika McEntarfer (the one confirmed under Biden who was just fired by Trump) talked about how they wanted to improve the me
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by mandevil 1y ago
It's complicated. Tesla sales rose 7% in July, month-over-month, but the expiration of subsidies hangs over the whole thing. This factor caused total EV sales in the US to jump 24%, month-over-month, as a whole bunch of sales got pulle
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by mandevil 1y ago
"Tesla is on track toward a second year of sales decline." - from the article Consecutive years of sales declines is a situation where it does not matter if the market is growing or shrinking, it's bad for a company. The only
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by mandevil 1y ago
Intel and AMD both sell quite a lot of customized chips, at least in the server space. As one example, any EC2 R7i or R7a instance you have are not running on a Sapphire Rapids or EPYC processor that you could buy, but instead one customize
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by mandevil 1y ago
Every year or two I like to re-read my 25th Anniversary Edition of Mythical Man Month (which included No Silver Bullet). Every time I pull out something different. I think that the willingness to rely completely on OSS libraries has fundame
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by mandevil 1y ago
The scale of energy released is the problem. Tohoku earthquake (which caused the Fukushima tsunami) released ~600 million Little Boy's worth of energy. Yeah, modern bombs are bigger- you'd only need a few hundred thousand Tsar Bom
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by mandevil 1y ago
Most of those tests (almost all since the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963) were underground, where no one could witness them except in photographs. Since the LTBT over 60 years ago, China has done 22 above-ground tests, and France did 50. F
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by mandevil 1y ago
So, in the Cold War, when NATO would do conventional war games, they almost always lost. (1) At some point or another NATO ran out of troops and a Soviet tank army Operational Maneuver Group broke through and there were no NATO forces left
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by mandevil 1y ago
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake that created the devastating tsunami was an energy release of something like 600 million Hiroshima bombs. Nuclear weapons are just the wrong order of magnitude to make a tsunami, this isn't about politics, it
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by mandevil 1y ago
Alright, let's talk physics! Presume that every thing I mention is actually caveated with "so far as unclassified understanding goes." Also, another caveat that I was an intern at a WMD non-proliferation group two decades ago
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by mandevil 1y ago
I mean, this is how semiconductors have worked forever. Every new generation of fab costs ~2x what the previous generation did, and you need to build a new fab ever couple of years. But (if you could keep the order book full for the fab) it
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by mandevil 1y ago
The employees along for the ride on an acquihire? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depends a lot on how generous the founder/target of the acquihire is.
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by mandevil 1y ago
As someone who has worked in companies from <30 to >100k, I would say that what an EM does is more about communication. Think of a company with m employees as a m by m matrix, with a 1 where there regular communication and a 0 where t
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by mandevil 1y ago
This has been the dream driving smart refrigerators for literally decades: if you know what food they have, you could sell them ingredient li so they could take their existing theta and digeut and make dish sha. Advertisers have wanted this
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by mandevil 1y ago
Because this clears the way to sell Intel Foundry and separate the chip design from the chip-manufacturing businesses completely. The CHiPs act money had claw-backs such that if Intel sold the Foundry off they had to pay the government all
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by mandevil 1y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/806/
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by mandevil 1y ago
Samsung has already announced that their frontier node (what they call 1.4nm) is going to delayed at least two years, and issuing statements calling it into question at all. Intel has announced that they will only do what they call 14A if t
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by mandevil 1y ago
Why should population scale with area? The top ten countries in area are: Russia (#9 in population) Canada (#37) China (#2) USA (#3) Brazil (#7) Australia (#54) India (#1) Argentina (#33) Kazakhstan (#62) Algeria (#32) There doesn't se
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by mandevil 1y ago
The DEA put Adderall on its list of the most abused medication, and limits production of it and investigates doctors who prescribe too much of it. This is a response to the problems with the abuse of legal opiates a decade ago- the DEA now
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by mandevil 1y ago
The whole point of Facebook is that your friend network is going to be largely similar to you: that's how they can impute your interests from analyzing the interest of your friend network and then target ads for you. So what most Ameri
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by mandevil 1y ago
The US was actually very low on Israel's targeting list: they came in at #18 on the list (0.7% of all TDR's submitted by Israel), lower than Israel itself (#14, 1.3%). I would speculate, given that previous reporting (the Facebook
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by mandevil 1y ago
From the article: "Israel ranks 3rd in the most posts targeted by TDRs out of any country. "On a per-capita basis, Israel ranks 1st in the most posts targeted by TDRs, and has 3 times more TDR targeted posts per-capita than the co
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by mandevil 1y ago
Seeing Hawaii, Alaska, Vermont and Wyoming at the top makes me wonder if their definition of "investor-owned" is actually picking up vacation houses/second homes? Just those are all small states with significant vacation hous
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by mandevil 1y ago
So first of all, Erika McEntarfer is a she. Second of all, revisions are incredibly common with BLS numbers, it's normal. They are trying to balance accuracy with speed, and this is how they do that. They survey about 50,000 companies

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