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by pookha 3y ago
Theodosian Walls.
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by pookha 3y ago
Really? Seems self evident to me...The entire point of binding an employee or user to a certificate, PIN and an x509 PKI system has always been for authorization and tracking. No hand waiving required. For instance, Militaries around the wo
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by pookha 3y ago
This sounds like the official signaling coming out of the US' nation-state George Creel-styled media. I'm personally grateful for the distributed and non-curated media. DC is just going to have to get over itself and adjust to the
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by pookha 3y ago
Good times. If you click on the sun switch the entire UI gets zeroed out and you get to use on:hover mouse shtick to read the UI through a fuzzy radius. Is Yoko Ono designing websites now?
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by pookha 3y ago
You might want to take a look at this: https://github.com/ngageoint/sarpy
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by pookha 3y ago
F35 has a lower mission capability rate than the F-16, and it's not even close (< 50% vs 73%). They're complicated (overly) machines...The DOD industry has come a long ways from Edwards Demming.
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by pookha 3y ago
Why not just use the JVM and concurrency? I routinely parse 300+ GB of geospatial data without breaking a sweat using a very simple combination of concurrent linked queues and cached thread pools. I couldn't imagine diving head long in
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by pookha 3y ago
EU commission is a pure technocrat governance system. No democracy. You're just supposed to trust the experts they install. Many of which come from "genteel" families (A.K.A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by pookha 3y ago
The U.S federal government is a crony capitalist system where lobbyist, NGO's and well connected private industries (Sackler family, Pfizer) coerce bureaucrat's and lowly paid senators (they only make 200K). Much of the time regul
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by pookha 3y ago
Agreed. Maoists (which the Khmer were) would bulldoze two thousand year old cultural sites. They were simple minded communists and could care less...Some of the most complex and distributed forms of government in the history of human kind e
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by pookha 3y ago
I've always just thought it was just the universities. They train people in Python, which meant that people who had low level libraries written in C\C++ could wrap their utilities in Python so as to capture a larger audience...But I al
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by pookha 3y ago
A tornado wiped out my town when I was nine. the local authorities never activated the tornado sirens. Killed something like 18 people in a clustered area. the people that died trusted the government to warn them whereas the people who surv
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by pookha 3y ago
That trail is awesome! I can't believe they took wagons up that trail back in the 1800s...If you ever get back their there's a service road that leads up to the top of the mountains and takes you to some lakes. You can see it from
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by pookha 3y ago
I was in Laihaina in mid-July. I've been all over the world and that was easily one of the most beautiful places I've experienced. Locals were incredibly friendly (bought a hat at Maui Hat). No hint of snobbery or localism. Very s
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by pookha 3y ago
Have to disagree with you. Plenty of web applications are using WebGL and have been for years (Cesium\GoogleEarth). I also like my applications to function when they're offline, especially if I'm flying or working without a netwo
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by pookha 3y ago
I was just out there in July. There's an entire class of rich entitled a-hole that hate tourists in Hawaii and they're normally the exotically rich (often they're in the guise of a surfer). Had one yell at my daughter while s
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by pookha 3y ago
I've never worked from home. I wouldn't even know what to do with myself...In the red hot heat of the pandemic (April of 2020) I was commuting to an office with 50+ other people (developers) in a cubicle forest. I even worked with
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by pookha 3y ago
LOL. "Sam Altman" is not trying to upend governments. It's the opposite. Him and his ilk are trying to interface with governments in such a way that they can use the legal violence of a government to streamline the integratio
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by pookha 3y ago
Safety was one of the first learning experiences I persevered through when I spent a little bit of time on the streets (very little). Shared company with quite a few homicidal psycho killer-looking characters on the dirty dog (greyhound), s
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by pookha 3y ago
I've never seen this insanity anywhere in world except for California: https://nypost.com/2023/07/18/san-francisco-stores-lock-up-f...
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by pookha 3y ago
The average person has no idea how hard life was back then. I think something like 50% of a ships sailors would die from scurvy on long distance voyages. East Indian Company's ships could lose 70%. And a lot of these dudes were getting
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by pookha 3y ago
I doubt Ben Franklin the abolitionist was slave driving in the 1780's. And even though he was old as hell he was probably one of the most functional human beings in history.
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by pookha 3y ago
Yet it's been a god-send for nation-state authoritarians in the US.
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by pookha 3y ago
Had a massive amount of images that I was trying to process for a specific purpose. I wound up spinning up multiple python processes within a java wrapper using concurrent linked queues. Got the job done but it's not the proudest momen
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by pookha 3y ago
Gotten burned by that. Have a python utility that calls something that's very CPU intensive (GDAL) and I literally have to wrap this python process in java for real concurrency. Not a python expert by any means but I'd love to kno
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by pookha 3y ago
This reads like something out of "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg"...All of these virtuous experts racing to out-signify the other guy...Makes me want to root for the calculus\linear algebra over the breathless farty expert.
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by pookha 3y ago
California has the nations highest gas taxes yet worst roads... https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/state-tax/603259/states-with... https://ktla.com/news/california/these-states-have-the
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by pookha 3y ago
I suspect that you're probably not going to have a choice. At some point these things are getting installed into your car...Reminds me of AIS transponders on boats.
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by pookha 3y ago
The producer price index in the US was at 118 in 2020. It shot up to 140.72. In the US that corresponds to the producer having less purchasing power which directly ties into our consumer price index and the raw costs of goods. At one point
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by pookha 3y ago
I have a hard time believing this is supply-side inflation. Are they saying that multi-national corporations are inflating their own prices so-as to invoke cost-push inflation so that they can profit on the back-end? If that's what th

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