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by simplicio 2y ago
Seems like the Nazis managed to do the Concentration Camps thing without facial recognition software.
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by simplicio 2y ago
"You periodically have to remove some snow" is a reality for basically everything in Wisconsin. Stuff still seems to get built there.
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by simplicio 2y ago
Aside from the "ban/don't ban" dichotomy, I think the other option is to basically add some legal friction to doing something to the point where those who really want to partake still can, but its difficult to the point
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by simplicio 2y ago
Is there any one or any time we can't already nuke with an ICBM? Not sure I really see what extra capability would be added by putting nukes on a space plane.
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by simplicio 2y ago
I've found this interesting as well. It's not really clear that "formal" mathematics is actually that useful to an ancient society, even ones like Egypt or Greece that embarked on large engineering projects (you don&#x27
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by simplicio 2y ago
I just got around to reading Howard's Conan stories a year or so ago and was surprised how much it felt like just reading a novelization of a D&D adventure. It feels like a much bigger influence then Tolkien, where the influence s
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by simplicio 2y ago
I've worked on (unrelated to nuclear stuff) computer simulation projects for the Navy where they had standard, notional models of the battleship which had the same sort of general properties you'd expect a battleship to have, but
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by simplicio 2y ago
They have a space port at 60'N Latitude? Isn't that extremely sub optimal for launching anything to orbit?
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by simplicio 2y ago
The AI was never good, but before Rome II it seemed like it either got a little better with each iteration, or at least, the parts that got worse had to do with incorporating new mechanics (Empire's AI was terrible, but it was pretty o
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by simplicio 2y ago
Adds "40 new levels" according to the article, which is basically how many the original game had. That said, agree I don't really get what the thinking was here. Seems like he'd be better off just releasing the new leve
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by simplicio 2y ago
FWIW, I finished a physics PhD 15 or so years ago, and 2/3rds or so of the people in the program with me have are married, and most of those couples have children. There are certainly challenges to having a family while pursing a PhD,
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by simplicio 2y ago
Think the parent meant the client companies probably won't generally be held liable. CrowdStrike is certainly going to be in all sorts of trouble.
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by simplicio 2y ago
The one I linked to? But that was just the first one that came up on google, seems to be a fair number of similar programs in other states.
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by simplicio 2y ago
There's a lot of Men-in-Teaching advocacy, in part because its thought having male teachers tends to be beneficial for male students[1]. I think stuff like that is the main reason to be worried about gender imbalances. A 40-60 imbalan
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by simplicio 2y ago
I mean, that's the effect of increasing the supply, but I doubt its the motivation for most people.
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by simplicio 2y ago
In defense of the parents, I think a lot of drownings are people who can swim, but not very confidently, and get into the panic response described at the link and end up being unable to recover without outside help. I've seen this hap
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by simplicio 2y ago
A lot of the co-working spaces around here let members host tech meet-ups for free, I assume because it serves as good advertising.
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by simplicio 2y ago
Yea, hadn't realized this till I had kids. People are basically constantly throwing sweets at them, and while Im not super-strict about regulating sugar, if I let them eat all the candy they were offered, it'd basically be all th
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by simplicio 2y ago
Think the main reason is that sea-recoveries are expensive compared to ones on land. I imagine there's at least some extra risk to a sea recovery as well (one of the Mercury capsules sank during recovery, though happily not with its a
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by simplicio 2y ago
The second one seems odd, or maybe Im misunderstanding. Most children develop the idea of abstract shapes well before they can read.
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by simplicio 2y ago
Sort of interesting to compare the US experience in WWI, where a program to deliver 20k planes by the summer of July 1918 managed to get a whopping 196 planes into service before the war ended that November. http://www.worldwar1.
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by simplicio 2y ago
Yea, looking at the list of "Computer Graphics Pioneers" on wikipedia, Mandelbrot and maybe Carmack are the only two I'd think would be recognized by the broader public, and Carmack is the only one I personally could tell you
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by simplicio 2y ago
And in Barnett's case, he'd been talking since 2019. Even if one thinks Boeing would be willing to have people murdered, the time to do so would be before they became public whistleblowers, not a half-decade later.
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by simplicio 2y ago
Is that their business? They've been around for 30+ years and I don't think they've ever successfully commercialized a product. So far as I can tell, they just hop from DARPA grant to DARPA grant and make cool videos of the
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by simplicio 2y ago
My understanding is that the excess cost isn't so much the safety device itself but that cheap, flimsy table saws can't handle the extreme torque created by stopping the saw more-or-less instantly, so the device is limited to high
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by simplicio 3y ago
Slowing birth-rates mean fewer kids means fewer prospective college students. Suspect this and a tight labor market are the two driving factors.
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by simplicio 3y ago
A, B and the line connecting them exist before you start the construction, and the author assumes there's no error there. Then to start the construction, you have to put one arm of your compass on the point A, and one on the point B.
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by simplicio 3y ago
But you start the construction with the line already drawn. Then you have to place the arms of the compass on the points, so you have error on both ends.
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by simplicio 3y ago
I think the construction is usually phrased: "given a line, to..", so it assumes a pre-existing line segment, rather then that being part of the construction itself.
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by simplicio 3y ago
Isn't increasing interest rates the opposite of printing money?

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