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by snerbles 1y ago
> Military service was one way, not the only way In the book it was said that if a blind deaf person in a wheelchair volunteered for service, the state would find something for them to do. Maybe tediously counting hairs on a caterpilla
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by snerbles 1y ago
I can hear the TTS reading of the second one in my head. The earnestness just borders on saccharine.
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by snerbles 1y ago
They have to be.
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by snerbles 1y ago
When I worked at an industrial integrator, we had a hard requirement for hard-wired e-stop circuits run by safety relays separate from the PLC. Sometimes we had to deal with dangerous OEM equipment that had software interlocks, and the solu
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by snerbles 1y ago
A coin-op vending machine is anonymous too. As were pay phones.
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by snerbles 1y ago
It's for security, like showing your ID at the airport! Airports have public restrooms, after all. (/s)
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by snerbles 1y ago
It's important that no one can accidentally sideload misinformation. No different than checking an ID at the airport, really.
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by snerbles 1y ago
Also seizures, personality changes and myriad forms of cognitive impairment. The 20 years of US adventures in Iraq & Afghanistan led to many traumatic brain injury cases analyzed by modern medicine, and the chronic symptoms are worse
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by snerbles 1y ago
For ipv6 you just start nuking /64s and /48s if they're really rowdy.
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by snerbles 1y ago
A balanced diet of hydrocarbons in your carbohydrates!
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by snerbles 1y ago
IIRC the RA1 skirmish mode AIs always had perfect information and resource multipliers based on difficulty. RA2 did it a little differently with "virtual ore purifiers" added for the high difficulty AIs. I'm sure a similar th
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by snerbles 1y ago
It'll be interesting to see what sort of Chewy-equivalents emerge after the pets.com-analogues collapse.
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by snerbles 1y ago
Most current DGX server assemblies are stacked and compression-fit, much higher density and more amenable to liquid cooling. https://www.servethehome.com/micron-socamm-memory-powers-nex...
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by snerbles 1y ago
Fallback is posting a confidently wrong answer on another forum to bait for angry correct answers.
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by snerbles 1y ago
Then the law is enforced selectively at the whims of the state.
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by snerbles 1y ago
According to the author it was mostly written on the train with his phone, that could explain the terse naming.
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by snerbles 1y ago
The California legislature is already working on forcing operating systems to attest the age of the user at the account level. See the recent gut-and-amend of AB1043 [0], which was a privacy bill [1] just a few months ago: > This bill
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by snerbles 1y ago
Sounds more like a Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline - defined as a set of practices that automate the process of building, testing and deploying software. Or rather, fonts in this case. A Content Del
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by snerbles 1y ago
I've seen tab restoration fail after those automatic updates, and even when the tabs do restore that doesn't mean that the actual state is preserved. Work is interrupted, and it's a burger full of crap when it happens. That
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by snerbles 1y ago
Unless you cross mount points, which uv will helpfully warn about.
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by snerbles 1y ago
A Lieutenant Colonel in an advisory role would have to engage in an astoundingly epic screwup to court-martialed under the UCMJ. They'll be counseled behind closed doors long before getting formally charged with Article 90 or 92. An Ar
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by snerbles 1y ago
Having been through both: AFROTC field training is about half the length of USAF enlisted basic. In fairness to the cadets, they attend training throughout their college years before and after Field Traning - the whole experience is more of
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by snerbles 1y ago
> One was a Marine who made a number of landings and was involved in a lot that “I wish I could forget”. My grandfather landed at Tarawa. He only talked about privately, it to family members that were in the service. > The doctor ...
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by snerbles 1y ago
That also strikes me as odd. When I was deployed, we had plenty of contractors/DOD civilians to handle various technical things, and to help maintain continuity while the rest of us rotated in and out of the theater. They didn't n
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by snerbles 1y ago
> [...] the four executives will all attend the Army’s six-week Direct Commissioning Course at Fort Benning, Georgia [...] Sometimes known as "fork and knife school". I can't speak specifically for the Army, but a particul
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by snerbles 1y ago
O-5 isn't that much power - as a battalion commander, that's leading about 300-1,000 soldiers. They wouldn't necessarily be leading troops, but instead be in advisory roles where the rank might have them be taken a little m
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by snerbles 1y ago
Mine was Hyperoid, which was left as a goodie by the local system builder who assembled my parents' 486: https://archive.org/details/win3_Hyperoid
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by snerbles 1y ago
When I returned to college ~15 years ago, my main laptop was a ThinkPad T60 running some flavor of Debian. I spent a lot of time with a full-screen terminal open in some sort of green-on-black color scheme. On several occasions some complet
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by snerbles 1y ago
There are rank-and-file members of the western intelligence community that watch/read Zeihan just so they know what their own leadership is ingesting.
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by snerbles 2y ago
> I wrote a simple BASIC program to emit a beep randomly every few minutes, started it running, and walked out the door. Some 15+ years ago ThinkGeek productized this as the Annoy-a-Tron, a small magnetic circuit board which could run on

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