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by teeray 3y ago
Depends what you measure. To keep things grounded in reality we can use measures involving “things about planes that airline customers universally consider bad”: the number of people killed by a model or the number of passenger items ejecte
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by teeray 3y ago
Fallacy of Relative Privation in this case. The correct question is: “Are you less safe on a 737 MAX than any other commercial aircraft?” The answer to this question for a properly functioning airline industry should always be “no.” Given t
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by teeray 3y ago
Probably not. Position of the antenna relative to the ground plane alters the radiation pattern. That’s why you’ll see police cruisers mount their antennas dead center on the roof—it creates an omnidirectional pattern. Mounting it to one si
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by teeray 3y ago
“We’re a family in this company… and when you betray the family, there are… consequences…”
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by teeray 3y ago
That’s why they call it FU money.
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by teeray 3y ago
“Command and Control” by Eric Schlosser was a fascinating treatise on this whole subject. You really get a sense that the nuclear arsenal is a giant machine that needs constant maintenance and supervision to ensure they are safe and usable.
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by teeray 3y ago
This is why I’m just going to the library’s DVD collection or picking up enormous hauls of secondhand DVDs for dirt cheap / free at the transfer station. Great content, pay once (if at all), always available.
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by teeray 3y ago
> Is this a serious issue? A bigoted store clerk might decide to apply different standards to trans people, to find a way to kick them out of the store. So yeah, my experience is similar to yours, but I don’t doubt that credit card names
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by teeray 3y ago
There really needs to be a federally protected “no” from engineering to keep the MBAs from “optimizing” away things they don’t understand.
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by teeray 3y ago
I feel like if you made a plane that has killed anyone recently through your fault, your company should enter a period of “time out” where you get zero exemptions from anything.
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by teeray 3y ago
> This means that everything from the window in your car to the screen on your laptop to the glass on your front door can now possess an invisible image sensor. Retailers, marketers, and data brokers are salivating.
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by teeray 3y ago
One AI hides Waldo, another AI finds him. Waldo finding time is used as proof of work. Shower me with VC money.
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by teeray 3y ago
Or a cheaper and smaller MRI that a hospital charges 3 times as much to patients to use.
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by teeray 3y ago
> The argument is a clear strawman; it's playing down what people have genuine concerns with and focusing on the range aspect that's obviously unimportant It’s not a strawman if suddenly it costs hundreds more to rent a car to
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by teeray 3y ago
There’s outliers in everything, but forcing people to go somewhere to gamble gets the cookies out of the house. Loved ones can notice the destructive behavior before it’s too late. It will not stop people from being ruined by it, but it w
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by teeray 3y ago
> “You can be gambling away your house on your mobile phone sitting at the dinner table, and not a single person will know until the devastation of your whole family is complete” That sounds like a reasonable means of control then. These
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by teeray 3y ago
Consumers deeply do not care about these quibbles. If the media is popular enough they will just pirate it.
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by teeray 3y ago
My dad is a car guy from way back, and laments today where “the computer fails in a new car and that’s it.” Entirely true. What he doesn’t see is the wonderful counterbalance we’ve had with open source in traditional computing against this
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by teeray 3y ago
> I'll search the most inane things, like lyrics to a song, and get results for local businesses Query: “I’m coming out of my cage…” Result (Ad): “You’ll be doing just fine with these amazing year-end closeout prices at Al’s Discoun
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by teeray 3y ago
> it just takes too long to get info from videos. I can’t wait until video transcripts get fed into LLMs just to eliminate the whole “This video is sponsored by something-completely-unrelated, more about them later. What’s up Youtube, re
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by teeray 3y ago
How can that be though? If there are users using your software where their nation imposes requirements you don’t want to deal with, you should be able to bar those users from using your software. Licensing is typically that mechanism. Think
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by teeray 3y ago
BASEMENT: This is a musty basement in need of repair. One wall appears more cracked than many of the others. > swing sledgehammer
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by teeray 3y ago
Not exactly my thoughts, but similar. The military trains doctors for troops and veterans. This would be for the benefit of civilians. One provides for the common defense, this would promote the general welfare.
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by teeray 3y ago
> mountains of school debt Is this, plus the liability insurance aspect, the root of the problem? I wonder if prospective doctors could “enlist” where the government pays for all this training and shields them on the condition that they
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by teeray 3y ago
Obviously it wouldn’t work for a project as large as Debian, but I wonder if there is some exclusion clause that can be inserted that forbids all users that would be covered under the Cyber Resilience Act from using the software?
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by teeray 3y ago
I wonder if this has implications on those applying for federal positions with extensive background checks where even one-time use would have been a dealbreaker.
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by teeray 3y ago
Yeah science! Yeah Mr. GPT!
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by teeray 3y ago
Some kids’ school bus is about to get a serious upgrade
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by teeray 3y ago
The new bed sensors post-Nokia are even better. I gave up on the Aura one and just use the new one now.
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by teeray 3y ago
> What's the point of having them then? Their purpose these days is to provide a way for anyone to reset your account credentials using public information or the answers to Facebook quizes to find out your secret pirate name.

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