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Precision Engineering and Dumpster Diving at Worlds Largest Particle Physics Lab [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mulmen 6d ago|0 comments
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by mulmen 8d ago
> AI gives the military a way to cover or deflect war crimes Huh? Who is accepting “it was AI” as cover for war crimes? > Does a horrific war crime like My Lai[0] get scrutinized and investigated in 2026 or do people just say "e
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by mulmen 8d ago
The People (as in the electorate) are doing a lot. If you mean our elected representatives then say that instead. Otherwise you’re just perpetuating the toxic helplessness that got us into this mess.
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by mulmen 10d ago
I honestly don’t get the snark. The status page has: Seemingly meaningful IDs Search Region filter Email update signup Predictable URLs for instance status so they can be deep linked in runbooks What appears to be the actual live instance
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by mulmen 10d ago
Could be. With a big conference going on and the updates mentioning resource exhaustion it could be a bunch of people doing demos, AI driven or not. Basically slashdotting themselves.
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by mulmen 11d ago
You claimed Oracle is offering something they aren't. I corrected you. Nobody said anything about AWS or Google.
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by mulmen 11d ago
There's a 0.0% chance I trust my credit card number to Oracle. The Free Tier page says up to 2 VMs with 12GB of RAM. Compute Arm Compute Instance Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 12 GB of memory usable as 1 VM or 2 VMs Al
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by mulmen 12d ago
It’s 12gb and two ARM instances now. If you can get one. They’re frequently out of capacity. They even suspended the over-provisioned legacy instances.
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by mulmen 13d ago
This conversation is tiresome. It comes up every time the LCM is mentioned. Jody Allen is simply respecting her brother’s wishes. Paul Allen had many projects. Only a handful were ever intended to outlast him. LCM was not one of them.
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by mulmen 13d ago
Jody Allen is the executor and trustee of Paul Allens estate. She is simply complying with his wishes.
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by mulmen 13d ago
Partially. > Is this the Living Computer Museum? > We are not Living Computers, but in May of 2024 the Living Computers Remote Vintage Systems were acquired and transfered to us. https://icm.museum/?faq
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by mulmen 13d ago
Yes, I’m surprised it has not been discussed more. I submitted this because it appears to be something of a successor to Paul Allen’s Living Computers museum which I occasionally see mentioned in comments. I think we were all disappointed
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The Interim Computer Museum(icm.museum)
164 points by mulmen 13d ago|27 comments
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by mulmen 20d ago
> So do you agree or not agree that mandatory penal slavery is an extension of 19th century and earlier American slavery. I agree that mandatory penal slavery (as practiced in US prisons in the 21st century) is an extension of 19th centu
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by mulmen 21d ago
> Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. > Section 2.
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by mulmen 22d ago
They don’t know what you do.
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by mulmen 23d ago
Ignoring externalities remains popular. We live in a society. I can’t build a helipad on my roof in the middle of Seattle. Technically that’s a limitation on my personal liberty. We accept it because of the cost to the people around me.
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by mulmen 23d ago
Or just honor the deal. The only reason for doing this is Verisign’s bottom line.
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by mulmen 23d ago
> If we, collectively, decide we need age-gated websites We haven’t decided this. > having something from the government that will say "Yep. He is who he claims." You’re literally trading liberty for convenience. I understan
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by mulmen 23d ago
Then inexplicably keeps the data and gets hacked in the most obvious way possible.
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by mulmen 24d ago
> […] ability to use the ID as a proof of age or other attribute as needed What attributes should require proof? Where do you draw the line? Age? Gender? Race? Religion? Political party? Citizenship? > We'll get there eventually
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by mulmen 24d ago
Your failure of imagination doesn’t make national ID a good idea. This is Chesterton’s Fence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
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by mulmen 24d ago
Given the voter suppression history I’m curious if that experience is consistent across location and racial dimensions.
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by mulmen 24d ago
> They're run extremely efficiently for the government. They suck use because of that (long wait times, most important stuff gets shipped by mail weeks later). The government is efficient without qualification. People just like to c
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by mulmen 24d ago
I had two active Clear subscriptions at the same time. How did an identity verification company not know both accounts were the same person? They were both using the same credit card! What does an "identity verification" company
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by mulmen 26d ago
> Given the US had all the initiative in starting the conflict I would have hoped there was a logistics plan that involved not relying on those bases to continue to exist. Anyone with the capability to plan for the Iran war never would h
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by mulmen 1mo ago
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?
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by mulmen 1mo ago
School is about wide exposure to concepts that wouldn’t be encountered elsewhere. The goal is to teach students how to think, not what to think. The actual subject matter is irrelevant. I don’t remember if the area of a triangle in my
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by mulmen 1mo ago
> And you don't think they deserve exclusive exploitation rights to that discipline for the next 20 years? 20 years is the midpoint between the Wright Brother’s flight and operational jet fighters. They won the race but it was very
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by mulmen 1mo ago
The social graph is the source of the fake news and manipulation. Before social media the social graph was email and it was all the same slop and misinformation. Before that it was literally physical mail. Look up chain letters. Truly n

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