outworlder

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by outworlder 2y ago
> calculate the trajectory of the object Easier said than done. The Earth will be nowhere near where it is today. I assume such advanced civilization would be able to do the calculations, but it's going to be tricky. I hope they sha
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by outworlder 2y ago
Take a day for them to send commands. If anything goes wrong and they use too much power, that's it.
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by outworlder 2y ago
> Enriched uranium is potentially dangerous stuff Doesn't have to be very enriched to be used as fuel. Fuel rods are really tame and can be handled pretty easily. Once they get put into a reactor and it is turned on, it's a com
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by outworlder 2y ago
One is theoretically achievable using known materials. The other is theoretically achievable using unknown materials. That distinction might make a difference.
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by outworlder 2y ago
> However, today, a decade or more in to the race, self-driving cars are here. In a limited fashion, though. We don't have generalized fully autonomous vehicles just yet.
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by outworlder 2y ago
But this piece is talking about AI. It seems fitting.
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by outworlder 2y ago
The current guy in power has just as many cognitive issues, but it is a few years younger, is louder and doesn't have a stutter. That is, apparently, enough. Democrats did screw up by not allowing the people to choose the candidate. Th
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by outworlder 2y ago
> The system isn't great or even good, but it's still functioning. If it was, we wouldn't have unelected kids breaking and entering in some of the most sensitive government organizations, getting access to private data and
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by outworlder 2y ago
> you've seen multiple hype cycles. AI is the latest one. It doesn't mean AI is a con, there's just a tendency to exaggerate and make hyperbolic claims to sell. The term "AI Winter" dates back from the 80s, and t
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by outworlder 2y ago
And yet, you shouldn't give your attackers information to make their lives easier. That sentence is about relying on 'obscurity' instead of security, not _in addition to_
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by outworlder 2y ago
$15 times the number of posters you want to rotate. Plus the labor to replace them, multiplied by the number that you have.
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by outworlder 2y ago
> I'm thinking there's going to have to be some other breakthrough or something other than LLM's. We actually _need_ a breakthrough for the promises to materialize, otherwise we will have yet another AI Winter. Even thoug
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by outworlder 2y ago
> We had wallpapers and great homescreen and dock themes on jailbroken iPhones without a significant perf impact. Untrue. There was a noticeable UI lag when scrolling between app pages. I've tried it in both the iPod touch and previ
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by outworlder 2y ago
Generally I just get DNS names for those. It does 'leak' your internal host addresses but that shouldn't be an issue.
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by outworlder 2y ago
> To someone like me with hobby-level serving needs, the 90 day certificate life is pretty inconvenient I's only inconvenient because it isn't properly automated. That's by design. When this can be a acme.sh script cronjob
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by outworlder 2y ago
They will also complain about waiting times - as if you don't wait with private insurance companies. That is after you convince them that your procedure or exam is even needed, which can be a long protracted fight in itself.
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by outworlder 2y ago
There are plenty of countries with 'socialized' healthcare that had no wars in their territories.
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by outworlder 2y ago
My company is replacing the entire system we built with Github actions. Our previous DR plan involved running our automation scripts to reprovision the infrastructure that manages the rest of the infrastructure (runs jenkins jobs, etc). The
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by outworlder 2y ago
How fancy do we really have to get? A Raspberry Pi can detect an inadequate power supply and slow down. Granted, cheap consumer devices are much simpler than that, but it's still something that can be added to the SoC.
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by outworlder 2y ago
> Git is not that complicated. If you can't grok git I am seriously concerned about your ability to be an effective software engineer. If your hubris is this high, I am seriously concerned about your seniority.
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by outworlder 2y ago
I think everyone needs to know the existence of git bisect. That has the side effect of improving individual commits as you'll make sure whatever functionality they implement is atomic.
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by outworlder 2y ago
Well, since the author is sharing their pet peeve, I'll share mine and it's unrelated to Git: People that post XKCD without the title text!
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by outworlder 2y ago
What if blood magnesium levels tested normal?
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by outworlder 2y ago
I personally know of one ambien addict and it's scary. He just went through a divorce and lost his job. His barely coherent (and angry) voice messages while off the drug don't seem too different from addicts of illegal substances.
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by outworlder 2y ago
> The brain truly is a system with terrible service availability. On average, after running for just 16 hours, it must be offlined for 8 hours to run maintenance tasks such as "scrub", "garbage collect", "trim&qu
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by outworlder 2y ago
This is how I think the current bubble will pop. Yes, these are useful tools that we just now are trying to learn how to use. But wallstreet and bean counters are going apeshit on the prospect of replacing the (expensive!) humans they curre
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by outworlder 2y ago
> imagine GPS navigation wasn't widespread and there was a paid service GPS is something that wouldn't be invented these days. Instead of the US military footing the bill, it would be some private company somewhere.
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by outworlder 2y ago
> Really, at some time we need to stop glorifying cowardice and reclaim a little bit of dignity. And getting into a physical fight with real injury potential because of an item? If it is a cheap thing it is not worth it. If it is more ex
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by outworlder 2y ago
They aren't even required to know the law.
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by outworlder 2y ago
> That they can listen to Voyager with such an old instrument is incredible. It must help that the satellite is aimed at us. It is indeed incredible. Nitpick, but I'm not sure 'satellite' is correct in this context. Voyage

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