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by themgt 2y ago
Orbital launches in 2024: USA: 158 China: 68 Russia: 17 Japan: 7 India: 5 Iran: 4 Europe: 3 North Korea: 1 https://spacestatsonline.com/launches/country
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The Secret History of the War in Ukraine(nytimes.com)
87 points by themgt 2y ago|97 comments
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by themgt 2y ago
What needs to stop happening is people ignoring objective reality just because the results happen to align with the other "team's" position on something. "Out of a population of about three-quarters of a billion, under
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Why is Australia reburying ancient human remains?(spectator.co.uk)
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The complex history of reburying Mungo Man and Australia's oldest skeletons(abc.net.au)
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Alpine.js devtools no longer supported on Chrome(github.com)
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WLH-50(en.wikipedia.org)
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by themgt 2y ago
This is hilarious, the maven-lockfile project "Lockfiles for Maven. Pin your dependencies. Build with integrity" appears to have auto-merged a PR for the compromised action commit. So the real renovate bot immediately took the exf
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by themgt 2y ago
I've only played with it a bit but Nvidia AIStore project seems underappreciated: "lightweight, built-from-scratch storage stack tailored for AI applications" + S3 compatible https://github.com/NVIDIA/ais
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by themgt 2y ago
I was intrigued by an above comment about miniature jet engines - Iran last year announced a jet-powered Shahed drone variant, which uses an engine that has an interesting backstory: There are many variants of [the French Microturbo TRI 60
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by themgt 2y ago
War is a negative sum game. Peace is a positive sum game. The reality is China is now the top trading partner for most of the world. China is producing 50% of the world's steel. China has 200x the shipbuilding capacity of the United St
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by themgt 2y ago
What did we replace "legacy" ATACMS with we could use in a war today? PrSM? In November 2023, the Army delivered the first four Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) as an early operational capability (EOC). The Army shot two PrSM EOC
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by themgt 2y ago
fwiw microtargeting ads is extremely common, all presidential campaigns for the past 20 years at least have been doing this. If you're not cynical about ~everyone in politics you're probably drinking too much microtargeted kool-ai
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by themgt 2y ago
Is there / are you planning a way to set $ limits per API key? Far as I can tell the "Spend limits" are currently per-org only which seems problematic.
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Yeah there was a famous blog of some guy who went to Africa and intentionally gave himself a soil worm to cure IBD. Apparently some evidence for it: Intentionally infecting yourself with parasites may sound like an extreme way to treat int
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by themgt 2y ago
Better just short all legacy automotive and include Tesla in that group, but at that point you have to wonder about these economies more generally. Tesla is falling behind but the rest of these companies are barely even in the game. The ide
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by themgt 2y ago
> The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled
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by themgt 2y ago
A lot of this stuff just comes off as highly abstract and ideological, banging the same one-note drum over and over and not listening. Have you ever been to Barcelona? It's a real place, not just an abstraction. Here's a good phot
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Romania's Voided TikTok Election(dropsitenews.com)
1 points by themgt 2y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 2y ago
Yeah, as a layman this MSTR explainer was an "aha" moment for me: No, what is likely happening with all the convertible bond issues is that MicroStrategy prices the bonds in a manner to attract market neutral hedge fonds, meaning
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Tesla recalls 380k vehicles in US over power steering assist issue(reuters.com)
183 points by themgt 2y ago|167 comments
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by themgt 2y ago
You're right, that is "an announcement": At Docker, our mission is to empower development teams by providing the tools they need to ship secure, high-quality apps — FAST. Over the past few years, we’ve continually added valu
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by themgt 2y ago
I don't really get how this can shift your evaluation from using (and paying for) docker's registry to paying for your own registry Announcing a new limitation that requires rolling out changes to prod with 1 week notice should
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by themgt 2y ago
Malaysia's GDP per capita is now equivalent to Poland's in 2015 or Portugal's in 2001. It's honestly kind of offensive to just lump them in like this is some failed state being exploited by building modern datacenters. M
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by themgt 2y ago
Removing the network latency is a massive gain People are comparing sqlite to RDS or whatever which completely biases the comparison. We have small apps running in containers talking to Postgres in a container via kubernetes networking on
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Modification of mouse telomerase gene with human regulatory sequences(nature.com)
4 points by themgt 2y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 2y ago
You can run single-node k3s on a VM with 512MB of RAM and deploy your app with a hundred lines of JSON, and it inherits a ton of useful features that are managed in one place and can grow with your app if/as needed. These discussions a
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by themgt 2y ago
David Reich is widely acknowledged as a top if not the foremost leader in the field of ancient human origins, and he's talking about exactly the debate you claim is settled to everyone but crackpots. His interview with Dwarkesh Patel l
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by themgt 2y ago
Because there aren't "thousands of employees" with this kind of access, and few people who have had it were thoroughly vetted. I mean, we've had multiple classified info leaks by low-level employees, most recently a 20
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I had one interesting comment, conversation with Zyuganov... They talked about they don't want this NATO expansion. They know it's not in their security interests, and on and on, and said, well, if you do that, we may have to loo

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