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by themafia 7mo ago
> no paid media provides full articles in RSS anymore Substack does and it's first class. Patreon does a decent job.
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by themafia 7mo ago
> while continuing to maintain security. They continued to maintain the illusion of security. The underwear bomber and shoe bomber had no problem smuggling explosives onto an aircraft directly under their noses. Their idea of "secu
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by themafia 7mo ago
> Palantir has previously defended its work, saying it has led to about 99,000 extra operations being scheduled in the NHS No hard evidence of this was provided or is readily available. > helped UK police tackle domestic violence And
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by themafia 7mo ago
People were smoking weed even when it was socially unacceptable and illegal. Then they were going to jail for a decade or more because of it. This simply did not make any sense. I believe most of this is a backlash effect. Weed was the w
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by themafia 7mo ago
Even with just regular crowns. I've had a few root canals as I've gotten older. They scanned the old tooth, brought into 3d modelling software, modified it for purpose, checked it's resulting fit against neighboring teet
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by themafia 7mo ago
The second factor is your battery needs heat. So you may be forced to generate excess heat even if you aren't using it in the cabin. The point being is that EV cars are a great idea, but the American auto market was not a good _gener
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by themafia 7mo ago
Why wouldn't we just wire up all the parking spaces with sensors and then have a city wide parking app just for this? That seems far more efficient and safer over having a fleet of parking scout drones randomly flying throughout the c
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by themafia 7mo ago
> are you running the heater constantly? Something every car prior to this has been able to do without any impact on performance. > means I only lose maybe 15% range. Which could be a reasonable sacrifice if you choose to make it. It
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by themafia 7mo ago
> is about 1% smaller Isn't it 10%?
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by themafia 7mo ago
You're correct, but, the echo and canonical mode flags are literally in the same termios structure member. One is no more complicated to change than the other. You can also easily switch to character at a time read() which makes ha
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by themafia 7mo ago
> easier to turn echo on and off than to echo asterisks. One implies the other. You turn echo off. Then you write asterisks. > Not for security. Consider the case of copy and pasting parts of your terminal to build instructions or t
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by themafia 7mo ago
> would benefit A LOT from a live location of its target. There are very few attack modes which are enabled by this. The ship is a giant slow moving metallic object. You just need to get relatively close. Guidance will easily do the r
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by themafia 7mo ago
> computerized vision models The CIWS is radar guided.
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by themafia 7mo ago
> unless you can point to regurgitation of memorized code I have, on many occasions, gotten an LLM to do just this. It's not particularly hard. In the most recent case google's search bar LLM happily regurgitated a digital
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by themafia 7mo ago
Force the phones to be open so I can install my own OS on them. Then Google can do whatever they want with their OS and I can do what I need with mine. You might actually get phone OS competition. This is what the walled garden is actuall
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by themafia 7mo ago
> They were in a better position than anyone else to be able to make those calls. I don't trust blind appeals to authority. > But if they just threw everything away again No one suggested that. > This all feels like so much Mo
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by themafia 7mo ago
The testing function seems a little simple since branch density is a factor. I still love this reference: https://blog.cloudflare.com/branch-predictor/ Should be titled: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Br
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by themafia 7mo ago
I think one advantage is you can directly appeal a court ruling. To challenge an administrative order you need to sue the government. In some cases, you need to sue the government in a separate trial first, in order to get permission to
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by themafia 7mo ago
> They did what they thought was best. My problem with it is their proxy for "best" seemed to be "opposite of X11." This was not a solid engineering choice, and I think this post is trying to demonstrate, that had
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by themafia 7mo ago
> You can avoid a lot of accidents More than 1/2 of roadway fatalities involve alcohol or drugs. An oversized fraction of fatalities are represented by young men under 24. 1/6 of all fatalities are motorcycles. 1/6 of a
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by themafia 7mo ago
No this is about using children as pawns, not actually, like, protecting them or anything.
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by themafia 7mo ago
They should arrange a book burning too. Since they seem to believe that foreign words are inherently dangerous.
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by themafia 7mo ago
A court issued that ruling. Not an administrative agency. Pretty big difference.
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by themafia 7mo ago
The "whole industry." What, like 5 companies? This is a "monopolized sector." They absolutely forced it on you. In most cases, sure, not directly, but their influence is the only driving force. Absent this no one
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by themafia 7mo ago
> refuses to get a driving license because he wouldn't want a photo of himself in a database. I refuse to get a "RealID" for nearly the same reasons.
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by themafia 7mo ago
Fiscally uncorrupted. We have a high cost of living but we also have the highest taxes. Up to 10% depending on where you live. In return for that we get next to nothing. Public money is spent poorly, with no oversight, and no accountab
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by themafia 7mo ago
In the abstract consumer point of view a car is exactly a faster horse. They both have high up front costs, both require continuous maintenance and fuel, and they're inconvenient to store when you're not using them. Stationary
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by themafia 7mo ago
You get a "geofence warrant." They exist and are ubiquitous. You then go to Google or any other provider and you demand the data for a specific location in a specific time window. You then use the data to capture criminals. An
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by themafia 7mo ago
I have to give my age to my OS. Yet they can't write a law to make this basic practice illegal. Why do I feel like I'm not being represented _at all_?
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by themafia 7mo ago
This is why JFK considered it so important for the US to end it's imperial tendencies. It's like that 90's cocaine commercial. "Where'd you learn to do this?" "I learned it by watching you, allright?!&q

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