sandworm101

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by sandworm101 1mo ago
Or he was sharing other material that was kept quiet.
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
Does anyone honestly believe that Zuck doesn't have his own history with filesharing? Any computer nerd from that time would have deep knowledge of filesharing.
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
It had to be more complicated than simple copyright infringement for the cops to get involved.
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
They dont drive flash vehicles but they still do not drive junk. Thier car might be 20+ years old, but it is still a great car. Someone driving a well-maintained 90s BMW gathers more respect than anyone driving the latest model. Clarkson ha
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
I will give the heaviest electric, but it is nowhere near largestt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Pathfinder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_Helios_Prototype Wingspans basically d
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
Or just buy a 5060. This will run on most any 16gb card. Slower for sure but far cheaper than another subscription.
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
Small thing: there is a difference between a "test pilot" and a "maintenance test pilot" or MTP. A test pilot is an elite aviator who participates in the development of new aircraft and systems. An MTP is a pilot trained
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
>> or the far bigger next version of the PandaX detector, currently under development in China... Has there ever been an article about particle physics that didnt end with a statement about the "next and bigger" version of
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
And if they were intractable, motions would be so irregular that pheneomena such as billion-year stable orbits would not be possible... leading to a lack of evolution and life generally. So it is a very good and necessary thing that cows re
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
Legal to try, but massively impractical unless you are rich enough to setup an estate to police the matter. You need to have someone checking on the situation, forever. Courts have thrown out most wills that demanded children stay married
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
Those things are controlled by government, which you may change. You aren't confined to a single job/city because your dead father holds you their by contract, the penalty being you repaying for all the food you ate as a kid. When
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
Or you tax it. Or, more correctly, you remove the current protections that allow land to appreciate tax-free for decades. That would move capital out of land and free it for other uses. The current system was designed to put money/peop
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
I am not a fan of these super-natural art projects. It is one thing to make a statue that might stand for a thousand years ... or not. It is another to designate forest land and other resources, to attempt to lock them away from use by fut
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
If someone has physical access enough to install a modified tube, there are far simpler and less detectable means of recording audio.
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
You dont want to know your hours. Perhaps my greatest shame is the number of hours i have spent on factorio. I was afk for much of that (letting the factory run) but ... i would not want other people to see the number.
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by sandworm101 1mo ago
For now. And that is because humans are the only customers engaging with content. As agentic AI takes hold and is given credit card authority, bots will will engage. Bots will read the posts of other bots and use those when making purchase
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
"BC Place" is still BC Place. It was the only World Cup venue that didn't have to hang drapes over its real name.
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
>> programming is a branch of mathematics. I saw a cryptographer interviewed. She was maybe 20yo and was working onboard a US aircraft carrier. Installing and managing cryptographic systems does not make one a cryptographer. Doing mat
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
Yup. Few here read the article before jumping to the AI conclusion. Even fewer even know what Freedom Club was all about.
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
>> But with Wi-Fi 7 reaching a maximum theoretical throughput of 23Gbit per band No. Just no. That speed is only possible when standing at a Nevada test range, in late spring, on a ladder, holding the router above your head, with a bl
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
I want to live in that city! In one picture, there is a rail line, a stadium, a casino, a leafy boulevard, some large sculptures, public transport (busses running in the early morning) and parking sports. Actual open parking spots! Even the
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
More importantly, because the ads are not evil (no tracking attempts) then my adblocker and privacy plugins do not recognize them as any sort of threat. They are rendered just like any other honest jpeg. So these adds are more effective tha
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
>> That not how politics works. It is much slower and hidden process. And canada's prime minister is former head of the Bank of England. If there is a deep state, a system of backroom negotiations based on personal connections, C
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
It would, but smelting is not a process that likes being started and stopped. Once furnaces and other bits and pieces are up to temperature they want to stay there. Thermal expansion is a thing, but also letting them all cool down is throwi
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
It is going to get worse. Iron/steel and aluminum are some of the most common elements on the planet. They are literally everywhere. The cost is in the energy for production, and to a lesser extent transport. But energy is not only goi
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
Those are interesting precedents, not the binding ones that count and other courts must follow.
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
"That's like a toddler with a harpoon. There's a toddler wandering around in that office with a harpoon." The Thick of It s4e2.
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
It is a good thing canadians are so nice. Dropping US alcohol is a tiny thing compared to some of the weapons canada might deploy. Look at all the back-and-forth deals in recent years and you will see an exemption for oil and potash. Think
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
Selection bias. Notice how most present day groups are in hot and relatively stable climates, areas where one can hunt/gather all year. Look to past groups in the north where seasonal changes meant the window for any particular food so
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
Well, there are heaps of hunting structures left out there, and infamous places where animals were run off cliffs. But also, just watch anyone trying to catch an animal, be it a dog or a buffalo. Good luck trying to sneek within spear range

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