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NTSB "Vehemently Opposes" Section of National Defense Authorization Act [video](youtube.com)
12 points by sbuttgereit 10mo ago|1 comments
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by sbuttgereit 10mo ago
This is a new issue for sure, but what trust is left to erode in the first place? We already are regularly asked to accept mere emotionally motivated opinion as information. Of course its relayed as "fact-based reporting", wrappe
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by sbuttgereit 10mo ago
I think your experience matches well with mine. There are certain workloads and use cases where these tools really do well and legitimately save time; these tend to be more concise tasks and well defined with good context from which to dra
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by sbuttgereit 10mo ago
I think I like Tim Maudlin's approach to the question. Time isn't all that mysterious: it's simply fundamental meaning it cannot be explained has being the sum of some things more fundamental. The argument is that's wh
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by sbuttgereit 10mo ago
I guess I have to ask what more you're looking for, perhaps hoping for, than: 1 second per second?
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
You know, I'm relatively social and I don't even go to school let alone a public school! How do I manage it? I engage with social groups in other ways. Homeschooling doesn't necessitate going into a dark room somewhere and
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
More of the state is not allowed than is... at least by geography. Also, there's a practical element. If I have to specify where they can't go, the default position is they can go anywhere... if I inadvertently leave an area out
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
You think avoiding these things are why people are thinking about homeschooling?! In San Francisco where I live the public school system made the decision to not offer algebra until later for egalitarian reasons. Basically since they could
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
Yes, the "Damned if you don't" faction is polling well against the "Damned if you do" faction currently. Either way, we're still just making a shit sandwich and arguing over the condiments.
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
From the article... "Language in a pending 2026 spending bill written by the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives goes further. It would make both the ACS and the regular 10-year census voluntary, and would also prohibit the ag
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
This is the most serious effort I've seen: https://ij.org/press-release/judge-rules-lawsuit-challenging... Not exactly trying to get new legislation passed but working within the courts to set some boundaries.
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
At least in PostgreSQL, both by alias and ordinal are possible: localhost(from SCB-MUSE-BOXX).postgres.scb.5432 [Sun Nov 16 12:02:15 PST 2025] > create table test (a_key integer primary key, a_group integer, a_val numeric); CREAT
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
What does happen in that situation sometimes is that if you're speeding along with everyone else, that sometimes gets allowed as a defense against a speeding ticket; basically the argument is that if driving the speed limit when all su
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
I'm reading this thread and there are a few things that come to mind. My sense is that SpaceX's goals with Starship are significantly more ambitious than what is being tried with New Glenn. I don't mean to underplay the diff
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
Beautiful launch and landing. I still can't stand the public relation heavy official stream... but even with all that static the rocket itself cut through.
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
This. When I go to an LLM, I'm not looking for a friend, I'm looking for a tool. Keeping faux relationships out of the interaction never let's me slip into the mistaken attitude that I'm dealing with a colleague rather
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
The one that I can share is at: https://github.com/MuseSystems/musebms A few things to keep in mind. This is a "labor of love" personal project... sure a large one... but that's what it is. Another thi
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
I do a lot of Elixir programming, which is different and not at the same time :-) . What I find is that it takes me longer to write the initial code than I might in, say, JavaScript, but that the refactoring and ongoing maintenance of code
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
...and LFE and Luerl and probably others that I'm forgetting.
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by sbuttgereit 11mo ago
It's a fair point. I actually posted the article mostly to get discussion... and before I realized exactly what the rest of the website was about. So I would urge taking things in that spirit, including feeling free to call out that
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BlackRock's Larry Fink: "Tokenization", Digital IDs, & Social Credit(thewinepress.substack.com)
90 points by sbuttgereit 11mo ago|83 comments
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by sbuttgereit 1y ago
> In the 1980s there were huge protests about jucelar weapons that actually resulted in detente and a relaxation of tensions. Really? Yes there were protests, in the west (that sort of thing was generally frowned upon in the Eastern Blo
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by sbuttgereit 1y ago
argumentum ad populum and argument from authority in one sentence... :-)
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by sbuttgereit 1y ago
This company must have some sort of marketing push underway... here's a video yesterday from Scott Manley that's basically the same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wncRFPd69rg
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Immunity: The Drug That Erases Consequences [Parody] Made with Google VEO 3 [video](youtube.com)
3 points by sbuttgereit 1y ago|0 comments
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by sbuttgereit 1y ago
> The booster part is actually just demonstrated For the second time.
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Bluesky civil war shows free speech is harder than it looks(unherd.com)
9 points by sbuttgereit 1y ago|3 comments
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by sbuttgereit 1y ago
In leasing to OpenAI, they aren't deploying those GPUs to other productive uses. The costs are not just the raw cost of the physical asset, but also the opportunity costs of doing "thing a" vs. "thing b". The GPUs w
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by sbuttgereit 1y ago
That Nvidia has to front the costs of the product at the beginning and arguably the risk that the allocation of assets end up not being paid off (bankruptcy, etc.) By carrying those costs early and the associated risk, Nvidia expects a ret
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Reaching the Far Lands After 14 Years of Walking in Minecraft(twitch.tv)
3 points by sbuttgereit 1y ago|0 comments

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