myrmidon

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by myrmidon 2y ago
> That is precisely the benefitting of the military industrial complex that I am fed up with. This whole position just strikes me as misguided, because the numbers simply dont work. At all. Because if what you mainly care about is reduci
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by myrmidon 2y ago
I think classifying western aid to Ukraine as tax transfer to the military industrial complex is just incorrect. Because a lot of it does/did NOT need to be directly replenished for the donors-- instead the donations was more like gett
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by myrmidon 2y ago
People are speculating about whether this was intentional, and, if so, who is to blame. How is that "Orwellian"? Russia has quite the recent history of poisoning civilians both native and foreign (do you dispute that?). Those acts
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by myrmidon 2y ago
What are you even talking about? Are you suggesting that "the West" has a too negative public opinion of Russia or China? I would argue that interactions/treatment specifically toward Russia, especially by European nations in
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Looks really cool, might need to get this! What actually suprised me though was the almost 10% return rate on steam sales that the article did not even comment on. Is this typical? Are there a lot of people that pretty much demo and return
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Yes absolutely, but threatening more often does not make them a bigger threat . I'm not saying that they are harmless (being a nuclear power, obviously!), but I strongly believe that they are less of a threat to EU-nations than they
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Maybe we are talking past each other. In my view, talking shit and murdering a few hundred civilians is not "threathening a nation", the same way Ukraine is not threatening Russia (as a nation) right now. Being able to install a
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Say Russia wins decisively tomorrow. Ukrainians are tired of this, they all just give up. Russia annexes all of it. Then what? From the perspective of "Europe", what actually changed, compared to 2015? Sure, Russia gained some ter
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by myrmidon 2y ago
The problem is that their efficiency at converting electricity into projectile kinetic energy is really bad (like single digit percentages bad), getting electrical energy and power density is quite difficult in the first place (capacitors h
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Eh... That is not clear at all. Given typical coil gun efficiencies (single digit percentages), there is absolutely no way that this thing is even remotely comparable to a typical 9mm handgun (in projectile velocity and just general lethali
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Who gets to define what "ignorance" is, though? Because to me it appears that you just give the "ignorant" peoples power to someone else, and if your goal is to keep being a democracy , then this sort of power redistrib
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by myrmidon 2y ago
I really like that approach-- you could also increase the conductive stripe density towards the bottom, for a more free-fally experience at first. This sounds like a really fun ride, actually.
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by myrmidon 2y ago
No it's not. There are trademark exemptions for satire/parody, and have been for a long time. Sure the companies could have sued, but chances would have been about exactly 0% for those companies to win the case against the EFF on
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by myrmidon 2y ago
You could make the first part of the experience free-fall (throw people with a magnet strapped on down a tube that is conductive only near the bottom). I think the big problems are that you need a hefty magnet (which is inherently dangerous
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by myrmidon 2y ago
That would be completely negligible I think. 200m of height difference (a lot!) only translates to 0.5°C in temperature difference worth of potential energy (assuming the object has the specific heat of water). And that ignores the fact tha
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Because it would ruin the whole point . Satire aims to evoke an emotional response, to point out moral failures and inconsistencies as crassly as possible. Social criticism that first and foremost avoids offending anyone is a waste of pape
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by myrmidon 2y ago
How is the publication of the scans an unintended consequence, if it was stated as intention in the grant application?! I also dont see at all how this is even a problem for the museum: Their gift shop is basically a rounding error in their
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by myrmidon 2y ago
This is utterly puzzling to me. I just don't understand how you sit on the museums side of the trial on this, without seriously questioning your own position and conceding immediately. They were basically arguing that they are entitled
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Vogtle capacity factor is at 91%. That won't do for a datacenter. This is exactly why highly energy intensive consumers are still connected to the grid, and NOT to individual power plants. In a grid with increasing proportion of renewa
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Absolutely! But this is a huge amount of complexity in build system/linker setup/debugger that you are gonna have to stay on top of. The gains from using Rust need to be overwhelming to justify a setup like that. Also consider tha
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by myrmidon 2y ago
A very important point that the article neglects is that for a lot of embedded platforms, you have to heavily rely on the hardware manufacturers libraries and tooling. All of that stuff is typically gonna be targeted at C. Without this, usi
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by myrmidon 2y ago
"Hardware limitations" are extremely unlikely in my view to establish useful limits. Consider: Do hardware limitations establish useful limits on the kind of problems a computer can solve? The answer is a resounding NO in my view,
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by myrmidon 2y ago
I think it is a naive assumption that such a limitation even exists ("exists" in a sense that it is actually useful, by being consistent and somewhat simple to describe). We investigated similar ideas for language (=> Noam Chom
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by myrmidon 2y ago
I agree that Ukraine was not a nuclear power even while they had warheads on their territory after the USSR fell apart, but I believe it was very feasible for them to become one. Posession is nine tenths of the law, after all-- it would&#
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by myrmidon 2y ago
I will concede that if you do this very rigorously (reject out-of-quota candidates very early in the hiring pipeline, without letting current quota deviation ever influence any specific hiring decision) it is possible to not affect candidat
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Caveat: This is in my view not just a technical achievement, it also works because some library authors play nice. And because things where standardized from the get-go, instead of evolving organically/provided much later by users. I
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Julia is a really nice language. It was one of the first modern languages I've used were "buildsystem"/package management was properly/deeply integrated from the start (like rust with cargo)-- contrast with Python,
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Puma is feasible, got lucky and saw a wild one there myself! (Corcovado) Spotting wild jaguars in Costa Rica is insanely unlikely though from what the park rangers told us, they are too evasive. Also, don't miss out on the Cerro Cirrip
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> rather than doing the usual outreach programs only to the usual universities, you could decide to turn stones that you wouldn't usually turn in order to find people you wouldn't usually find. This reads to me "onesidedly
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Maybe we are just talking past each other. What I mean by "hiring for diversity" is that the business has some DEI goals, like "more female software devs" and lets those influence its hiring decisions. As soon as you hav

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