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by themafia 6mo ago
I'm sure availability of testing methods and equipment has come a long way since the 1860s. As well as quality and purity of materials.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> Iran put all the resources they poured into secret nuclear facilities and missiles Iran has agreed to open them for inspection several times. > into economic development, infrastructure, and education They're embargoed to a poi
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by themafia 6mo ago
Well that opened a bit of a rabbit hole. Looking at the source code I saw this which made me chuckle: RNUMBER DC F'16807' RANDOM NUMBER. Surely we wouldn't have DailyWTF quality code here. Looking fo
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by themafia 6mo ago
I thought the rate of mining was tied to the maximum transaction rate the network can support?
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by themafia 6mo ago
> that ship has already sailed "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are." Anyways, if you actually just say, "I don't have a smartphone" you'll be surprised at how accommodating the world
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by themafia 6mo ago
I give you Apollo 16: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuv6TVv0r44
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by themafia 6mo ago
> but it wasn't thought of or acknowledged by NASA as being risky until very late in its lifecycle. They understood it to be extremely risky immediately. They understood the ice issue early on as evidenced by the fact that they com
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by themafia 6mo ago
About 10% of the world uses ChatGPT. About 20% of the world speaks English. Yourself included, which is no surprise, because apparently 40% of Vietnamese possess basic English skills. These numbers are all worth thinking about. Further
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by themafia 6mo ago
> The world was one way before ChatGPT, and another way after. If you narrow the scope of "world" to "tech world." In the overwhelming majority of every other sector and profession the impact has been zero. In most
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by themafia 6mo ago
I'm sure they do believe they can successfully manipulate the market by lying to it. Elon Musk laid that groundwork a decade ago. If you meant their "core mission" then every one of their actions belies their complete panic
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by themafia 6mo ago
True; however, this is an aluminium alloy. These typically have lower corrosion resistance and are most commonly anodized because of it. The applied layer is typically 3 to 5x thicker than that formed by pure aluminium oxidization.
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by themafia 6mo ago
I look forward to running my _own_ software on a RISC-V computer.
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by themafia 6mo ago
Then there's the OS/400 approach: Build TUIs that allow the user to set arguments and then just run command the line tools on submit. It was a really nice blend of two approaches and made things like man pages somewhat superflou
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by themafia 6mo ago
> doing ANY kind of software That's not at all clear. JS escape exploits have high value in our current Internet so there's going to be a lot of prior art. It's not surprising at all that this is what their model found a
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by themafia 6mo ago
> All contributions must comply with the kernel's licensing requirements: I just don't think that's realistically achievable. Unless the models themselves can introspect on the code and detect any potential license violat
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by themafia 6mo ago
Who needs conspiracy? Microsoft has entitled itself to decide what I can and cannot run on the computer and OS that I paid for, this earns them no additional revenue, so they don't care to do a good job. This system will never work p
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by themafia 6mo ago
One of the issues I see with PFAS testing is that the legal limit is right at the lower limit of detectability for most test equipment. Signals at that level are difficult to read reliably and the accuracy of detection at that level is wor
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by themafia 6mo ago
The GNC loop runs several times per second. The desired output will consequently be increased by the working computers to achieve the target. The computer does not "dead reckon" anything. Travelling through Max-Q in Earth atmosp
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by themafia 6mo ago
Onedrive: "How would you like your files sorted?" Me: "Can I do alphabetical and perhaps by creation time?" Onedrive: "NO! Absolutely not! I will sort everything based on the last time you opened the document.&q
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by themafia 6mo ago
One of the things I loved about the Shuttle is that all five computers were mounted not only in different locations but in different orientations in the shuttle. Providing some additional hardening against radiation by providing different
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by themafia 6mo ago
In the Shuttle they would use command averaging. All four computers would get access to an actuator which would tie into a manifold which delivered power to the flight control surface. If one disagreed then you'd get 25% less command
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by themafia 6mo ago
you're thinking of Laissez-faire capitalism. The very existence of this term suggests that "capitalism" is a very broad term.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> For people who support this kind of ban I support the ability of local jurisdictions to create laws that are intended to benefit it's citizens. If that means banning a particular new and pernicious development in their borders,
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by themafia 6mo ago
> fundamentally capitalism demands Wall Street makes those demands. Those demands are backed up by court cases and precedent. Nothing about this is synonymous with "capitalism." > It’s a CIA wet dream. And they spend a si
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by themafia 6mo ago
So all your competitors can do exactly as good of a job as you. What's to differentiate your offerings from literally anything? Do you think customers are _eager_ to do business with a CEO less entity?
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by themafia 6mo ago
> Cameras move crime around. Yea, so the the next layer is, why are people committing crimes? I've made it clear I don't think you can just "turn on safety." > Wealth inequality raises crime risk So would we hav
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by themafia 6mo ago
So easy it should disqualify you if you fail this: Knowing your own name.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> 40,990 [2] innocent people died in the US in 2023, without significant outcry - that is, on the road, in car accidents. 1/6 of those were pedestrians. 1/6 of those were motorcyclists. 1/2 of those were people driving
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by themafia 6mo ago
Safety is best achieved by layering several systems on top of one another. Would we have such a problem with cameras if the videos were stored locally and not in the cloud?
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by themafia 6mo ago
It's consumer fraud. It's shareholder fraud. It's environmental fraud. Products like this simply shouldn't be allowed on the market. As if we need to destroy the planet so my Mother can enjoy looking at her 401k balan

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