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by thereisnospork 7mo ago
Declaring "my position is a fact" doesn't make it so. Wanting something to be doesn't make it so either. Channel your indignation and anger into a more productive avenue, there's hardly a shortage of actual war crim
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by thereisnospork 7mo ago
In what world is sinking a warship in international waters a war crime? Because it isn't in this one.
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by thereisnospork 7mo ago
Future? I'm thinking a Borat style mockumentary in the present.
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by thereisnospork 7mo ago
Someone should dig up the corpse of project Loon to deploy networking balloons over warzonez. Would be perfect for psyops/intel gathering.
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by thereisnospork 7mo ago
I don't see the contradiction. Something can be both very important and not that difficult to learn and not known by a plurality of interviewees. People ask (and fail) fizz-buzz and that's hardly difficult.
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by thereisnospork 8mo ago
Surprisingly often you do get an interviewee who just won't accept the premise of the hypothetical. I've had people get hung up on the equivalent of 'but I'd just use excel' even with prompting/nudging/exp
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by thereisnospork 8mo ago
You need to recalibrate your sense of scale if you think that this is a geologically relevant usage of energy.
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by thereisnospork 8mo ago
Things are so bad that we can't even seem to manage to install a fall net[0] in a timely manner. [0] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-12/golden-g...
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by thereisnospork 8mo ago
We've probably answered wrongly. Even money aside, how many more people die in traffic accidents due to the extra miles driven because of delays in construction? Some regs are worth it, certainly, but being overly cautious is in itself
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by thereisnospork 8mo ago
A lot of people on this site clearly have never tried doing anything in California that involves more infrastructure than a laptop. Can easily be 18 months or more to get a permit to 'do things the right way'. If they'll even
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by thereisnospork 8mo ago
First: Get a 3d printer, if you don't have one. No quicker way to turn ideas into physical objects for prototyping and iteration. Second: Pick a project with modest but not trivial goal. Something that exists within the state of the ar
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by thereisnospork 9mo ago
Considering the justice to document ratio that's kind of on them regardless.
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by thereisnospork 9mo ago
Likewise, I was considering trying Polaris until I saw that example. The pandas example is a good approximation of how I think and want to transform/process data even if it is ugly under the hood. I do occasionally find numpy and panda
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by thereisnospork 9mo ago
Setting expectations and thinning the herd. If even half of items had a well hidden air tag, and the cops successfully followed up even half of tagged thefts: There would a. be less dumb criminals around to repeat offend and b. The smarter
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by thereisnospork 9mo ago
Oh, so is what-aboutism what we're doing today? Deflect the legitimate and obvious with 'the other side might've done something bad too once upon a time'? No, I don't think anything the Democrats have done at the fe
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by thereisnospork 9mo ago
>Are you saying the entirety of the DOJ apparatus could be politically steered to look for non-existent evidence or make frivolous referrals? Yes, have you not been paying attention? Politically motivated prosecution is modus operandi fo
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by thereisnospork 9mo ago
Depends on the false positive rate. Hypothetically one can 'just' tune the model so false positives are low. This will increase false negatives but those are 'free' as they don't require follow ups. So long as the d
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by thereisnospork 9mo ago
Depending how the costs of AI detection vs doctor, that genuinely might be enough to shift the math and be a net positive. If it is cheap enough to test 10x the current tested population, which would have lower, but non-zero rates of breast
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by thereisnospork 10mo ago
Pretty much zero chance of that. The complexity (moving parts, machined parts, number of generators, number of electrical interconnects (etc.) is so much higher per kilogram basis compared to pumped hydro. Much of the country does half of p
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by thereisnospork 10mo ago
Broadly agree. Would probably be much cleaner all around if in such cases the law dictated possession back to the property owner with ~ treble damages/attorney's fees/statutory damages/reversion of possession in the case
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by thereisnospork 10mo ago
> “Our officers will respond to investigate the nature of the call,” OPD said in a statement. “If our officers determine this is a landlord-tenant issue, the case will be referred to the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office for further invest
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by thereisnospork 10mo ago
I mean of course they could, and should[0] how is that a question? [0] Shouldn't - classic example of a tactical win being a strategic blunder. Killing the American president and would solidify American public support for the war - whi
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by thereisnospork 11mo ago
Of course I do? Across all my utilitarian devices, e.g. phone, desktop, laptop, I already find updates to be a large net negative except for the vague and nebulus 'security'. If a car 'needs' updates then it isn't d
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by thereisnospork 11mo ago
That's a pretty disingenuous interpretation. It's a lot more like: Company > we are selling something that's legal. Government > well now you have to do X. (Testing? Certification? Reporting?) Company > why? X indus
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by thereisnospork 11mo ago
It doesn't take 20 years to do that, it takes 20 years to do that and wade through the bureaucratic morass. The SR-71 went from initiation to deployment in under a decade, more than half a century ago. With the myriad of advancements i
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by thereisnospork 1y ago
You seem to be misunderstanding how language works? Can you please explain why you think the literal word entitled had to be said by you here? You listed a bunch of things which should be, an opinion, he says your not entitled to those thin
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by thereisnospork 1y ago
To be just a touch pedantic, that all particles of a certain size are harmful is a silly assertion. Water and sugar particles, for instance, are almost certainly harmless below some reasonable threshold.
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by thereisnospork 1y ago
Only if you happen to have the relevant skill set. Speaking as someone capable of designing the mechanical hardware and who is broadly electrically savvy but who is most definitely not an embedded engineer: I could bang out a few hundred ha
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by thereisnospork 1y ago
>They must have crazy margins on that camera and producing custom board is very cheap. It's expensive in time and expertise to do a custom board, and to debug a custom board. All to what, save 20$ on a bom which might not even be 1%
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by thereisnospork 1y ago
Yes. 5 figures were lit on fire, for a dumpster. Two, technically. Do you intend that isn't stifling, that a regulatory environment that requires spending 5 figured to house 2 dumpsters isn't stifling?

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