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by plorg 3y ago
I would imagine a majority of hours on this were product managers doing evaluation rather than engineers writing code. Even if those PMs came from Twitter I can't imagine their insights being particularly proprietary.
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by plorg 3y ago
Note for the confused (maybe just me?), this is not related to python-mutagen[0], the metadata library. [0] https://mutagen.readthedocs.io
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by plorg 3y ago
He described it in the video - he uses two motors. The launch motor is held in place by friction and is ejected by the ignition of the landing motor.
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by plorg 3y ago
The argument is not that the definition of wine is malleable (which it definitely can be without falling down your slippery slope), but that being picky about the definition misses the point of the Eucharist entirely.
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by plorg 3y ago
...Until search is subsumed by chatbots and all you can access is a commercial statistical model's rendering of the truth, digested from ever more abstract renderings of the primary sources, which probably exist somewhere but are impra
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by plorg 3y ago
A lawyer is certainly at fault if they do not fact check the material they present at trial. But the conmen who are selling ChatGPT and the like are extremely irresponsible for the way they sell LLMs as magical AI that arrives at factually
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by plorg 3y ago
The title here is in line with HN guidelines but does a disservice to the actual article as it suggests the criticism is far more abstract than it actually is. It rises in direct response to specific use by Polish political actors.
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by plorg 3y ago
I want this to be true, but is it actually relevant here? The previous Boeing CEO had his bachelor's and graduate degrees in engineering and made decisions that were bad for both business and engineering reasons.
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by plorg 3y ago
I think the idea is that it costs much more labor and energy to fully recycle a battery pack than to repurpose it, and you can always do the recycling later on. If you're suggesting the time, energy, and safety and compromises required
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by plorg 3y ago
A figure that I've seen bandied about is that there are 17 states that have already adopted rules based on some portion of the CARB advanced clean transportation rules, and that those states represent I think 35% of the population and
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by plorg 3y ago
In the medium and heavy vehicle industry one of the big discussions is on reuse of batteries at economic EOL. The idea is that after maybe 600 charge cycles a vehicle-sized battery will have a lot of life left but will no longer support the
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by plorg 3y ago
His phone wasn't compromised, it was subpoenaed in a lawsuit.
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by plorg 3y ago
>8) had the wreck disposed of before contact the authorities Worse, he reported the incident to the FAA, who asked him for the location and told him not to disturb the wreck (they told him more than once). He then disposed of the plane a
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by plorg 3y ago
He bought it for $5000 less than a month before his stunt, without an airworthiness certification.
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by plorg 3y ago
Another pilot also said that they strongly recommended he do some specific maintenance on the plane before attempting to fly it to his purported destination, and that Jacob repeatedly told him not to worry about it. The other pilot even off
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by plorg 3y ago
It's a plea deal. The things he was covering up were also illegal, but by taking the deal he will not be charged for those actions.
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by plorg 3y ago
Seems like this guy didn't even really have a financial incentive for this stunt - it cost him $5000 for the plane and another $5000 for the helicopter to pull it out of the forest. All that for $8000 from the metal wallet company. I g
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by plorg 3y ago
Again, it doesn't suggest anything about foreign influence for a person to disagree with you. Telling people not to worry about (increasing) spectacular violence because they're more likely to die in a car accident reads as if you
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by plorg 3y ago
It doesn't take foreign influence for shocking violence to get attention. Sensational news has been a big part of mass media as long as mass media has existed.
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by plorg 3y ago
One would, in that case, draw the ire of the justice overseeing the case, whose time one would be pretty obviously wasting.
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by plorg 3y ago
The title of the article is misleading. The author says the phone cannot be bootloader unlocked without first connecting to the Internet. Once they have connected they are able to unlock the bootloader.
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by plorg 3y ago
So the violation of social norms is harmful to children? Is that your argument? Or is it "voluntary self-expression" that children should be protected from?
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by plorg 3y ago
I guarantee you that people who support the rights of trans people to be trans people are not doing so contingent on there being some kind of purely biological basis. Most people probably don't even know there is a proposed biological
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by plorg 3y ago
>...people should be able to participate in social institutions like marriage consistent with their biology... "Consistent with their biology" is not a precondition that you could find broad agreement on - I don't think yo
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by plorg 3y ago
What about drag shows is inappropriate, for what ages, and what intervention would you consider reasonable to prevent the harm of children? Plenty of drag shows are designed to be family-friendly, and generally parents can just not bring th
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by plorg 4y ago
Hilariously, if you searched for "substack" but misspelled it you would get an autocorrected search with the correct results (that is, results containing "substack").
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by plorg 4y ago
Our political systems are not equipped to handle these problems anyways. They aren't problems of fact (though when factual disagreements occur it makes problems worse), but of needs, desires, priorities, and values. The magic computer
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by plorg 4y ago
There also used to be a setting that would turn this off, but it isn't present in the version with the button. That same option can be chosen with a command flag, but that requires editing the Edge shortcut.
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by plorg 4y ago
Being used as a pawn does not put you in a place that is sustainable over the long-term or even really the medium term.
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by plorg 4y ago
This is what turned me off to YT Music. When they migrated users from Play Music I tried it once, it took 10 clicks (including the dismissal of two interstitial modal ads) to get to a song that I own, and I still had to wait through a minut

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