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by robonerd 4y ago
From a CO2 perspective, synthetic fuels don't have an intrinsic advantage, unless you use biomass as your source of carbon. Traditionally, synthetic fuel has been made using coal or natural gas as the source of carbon. There is sti
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> I did recently bump into her new partner during the stroll with my new family which he confided that she was going to do everything in her power to destroy me financially and emotionally Brave man, to know that and still get involved
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I interpreted the capitalization of 'THEOLOGY' as an alarmed objection to the comparison.
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This is kind of cool, but I'm skeptical that these sort of planes will ever be practical as much more than rich people toys. The power density of even speculative near-future batteries favors small airplanes and short flights. This d
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In 1947 the Air Force supposedly flew a Douglas C-54 across the Atlantic Ocean fully under autopilot, including landing and takeoff. https://www.nytimes.com/1947/09/23/archives/robotpiloted-pla... Part
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They could turn this around if they gave up on the futurologist software bullshit and strived to simply sell battery-powered cars. Stop selling dreams of robotaxis, just sell cars.
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Tesla thinking this software is production ready shows a complete disconnect from either reality or common morality.
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> the driver must be fully in control at all times Yes, that's precisely what the manual said last time I checked. But it's not how Elon Musk has presented it, nor how innumerable Tesla drivers treat it.
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> The company doesn’t consider autopilot to be in beta That only makes it even worse.
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To be blunt, it doesn't really feel like a real world war unless there's substantial fighting in Europe. Other places as well of course, but particularly Europe.
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Hyperbovine didn't mention FSD. Let me spell it out for you: Autopilot is beta grade software at best. It drives straight into parked trucks.
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Decent chance the history books will say it has already started.
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Those weapons were designed, built and bought to destroy Russian equipment, and they are being used to destroy Russian equipment. The more they kill in Ukraine, the less they have to kill in the rest of Europe.
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I sincerely hope you're right and rationally you should be, but Putin seems deranged.
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Luddites were not strongman elites. They were working class labor rights activists, protesting the grossly unfair balance of power induced by rapid industrialization.
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If anything bad happens to Finland because of their delayed admission to NATO, I will not be on speaking terms with turks.
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> It's more that authoritarian elites in other city-states liked to write about how awesome Sparta was, than that Sparta had a good PR organization. Yes, that's my take as well. Xenophon particularly stands out in this regar
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I'm not really sure what distinction you're making between "reputation" and "actual historical record". When examining the military reputations of the ancient world, primary sources seem few and far between.
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Neither Xenophon nor Plutarch beat Sparta, nor were beat by Sparta. Plutarch was writing about things the Spartans had supposedly said or done a thousand years before. Xenophon was an Athenian mercenary and military commander who fought
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If that's what you want, then use it. There's nothing stopping you. Other people choosing to use something different should be no skin off your back, unless what you really want is some sort of suicide-pact.
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Monopolistic desire is a mind virus that people steeped in corporate culture acquire and bring with them into scenes like this. To a mind so afflicted, the premise that 'Linux' should be unified to maximize the chance of achievin
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> The explorer-like app that seems to have been the most stable is Finder. Dolphin has been basically the same for 16 years as far as I can tell/remember.
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> Sparta is famous for having a really, really good PR agency. This is a very figurative claim, yes? It seems untrue otherwise. I've never heard of Sparta having a propaganda organization, least of all an outward facing one. Ob
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by robonerd 4y ago
Whatever your agenda is, I didn't sign up for it. And if you truly have no agenda at all, then you have no business trying to 'herd' people. Either way, pound sand.
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Proudly. If your agenda is to take away my customization and make the Linux desktop into something with broad mainstream appeal, then I proudly sabotage that.
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> I don't care about your market share.. I care about the quality of my own experience. Exactly this. I've seen where chasing mainstream usability and appeal leads: ipadification. If you want an ipad go buy an ipad. I don&
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> The Linux community is like herding cats Stop trying to herd people? I didn't sign up for whatever agenda you're trying to advance, so of course I'm going to spit in your face when you try to tell me what to do.
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That didn't happen. They received orders to do all of this from civilian leadership.
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I first played Morrowind two or three years ago, a few years after I first played Fallout 4. No nostalgia glasses for me, I had negative interest in games like Morrowind when Morrowind was new. But playing Morrowind made me realize just
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> It seems pretty clear to me that in the video games industry (and pretty much any 'art' industry for that matter) great results are driven by singular, great people. Nah. What actually happens is you have one [or more] dri

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