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by throw0101b 1y ago
>> It's an empty shell that's all about making a nice life for yourself at the expense of others. > At which point in history was it not about exactly that? Up until (at least) the 1960s. In the mid-twentieth century
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> “The reason they call it The American Dream is that you have to be asleep to believe it.” It was fairly real up until about the 1970s: every generation had it better than the one before it. After the 1980s, Gen-X and everyone after t
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> I wonder where does the idea of "fast" beign about throughput comes from. A cat video will start displaying much sooner with 1 Mbps of bandwidth compared to 100 Kbps: > taking a comparatively short time * https:/
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> So basically: Lower latency, lower bandwidth? No: DAC and (MMF/SMF) fibre will (in this example) both give you 10Gbps.
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Light speed is ~3ns per metre, so maybe the lowered speed through the fibre? Obligatory Adm. Grace Hopper nanosecond reference: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9iqF5uTFk&t=40m10s
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> What does "bringing light into the body" have to do with "injecting bleach"? The injecting part was for (chemical) disinfectants.
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> […] by the propagation of latency as the hops increase […] Which is why you get network topologies other than 'just' fat tree in HPC networks: * https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/07/15/super-connec
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by throw0101b 1y ago
Mujahideen of the 1970s/80s -> Taliban of 1990s. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden#Afghan–Soviet_...
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> An armed populace can stand up to a government. All you have to look at are the wars that the US has lost - Vietnam and Afghanistan come to mind. The US did not 'lose' Vietnam to a bunch of citizens/people: it was figh
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> I always ask "How do you destroy an M1 Abrams or F-35 with a licenced hunting rifle?". They usually say "Well at least they have that" then quickly move the discussion on to something else. In a historical survey
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> What has the US become? It has become what the popular and electoral college vote wished it to become. * https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt... * http://archive
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by throw0101b 1y ago
See also "DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship": * https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalizatio... "DOJ memo pushes for broader effort to revoke na
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> That's more like injecting it, rather than just rinsing, or even swallowing (not recommending) it. Yeah: > US President Donald Trump has been lambasted by the medical community after suggesting research into whether coronavi
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by throw0101b 1y ago
Interview with the author on PBS: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaCSbdNsLQk
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Jack Welch, the Man Who Broke Capitalism (2022)(forbes.com)
122 points by throw0101b 1y ago|97 comments
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Space is hard. There is no excuse for pretending it's easy(spacenews.com)
3 points by throw0101b 1y ago|2 comments
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> $5k for a LTO9 drive isn’t terribly bad; once you have any significant number of tapes. It's the library/robot is what mostly matters for volume (and being able to automate). Not sure what the price is on those (along with
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by throw0101b 1y ago
Would airborne radar be better able to find ships with these designs (at least relatively speaking)?
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> https://github.com/jgaa/openvalify I don't begrudge people writing a tool to learn, but it should be noted that this wheel has already been invented: * https://github.com/matteocorti/ch
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> (context: I used to be involved in the design of military radar systems for the Dutch navy) […] Most "stealth" aircraft are actually fairly visible from other directions. Is that different than ships, which in recent year
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> 2021, "The next big Wi-Fi standard is for sensing, not communication", 200 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29901587 See 802.11bf: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiFi_Sen
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> While I cannot agree nor disagree on the quality of BSDs (haven't used one in 20 years), I find it funny that in this case a design by committee is proof of quality. I don't think "design" is correct word: organ
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> […] * BSW (populist far-left, pro-Russia, anti-US) or AfD (populist far-right, pro-Russia).* An example of: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory ?
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Some functionality is not supported, such as […] storing config in LDAP using sudoers.ldap, and cvtsudoers. * https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs?tab=readme... Well that makes it useless for $WORK
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Now if FreeBSD (or indeed illumos) would get CUDA-support we could stop using linux for GPU nodes too. Could you not run Linux CUDA binaries under FreeBSD's Linuxulator?
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Without intel/amd/nvidia/ampere/qualcom what servers can one deploy? Without memory or storage chips from Asian manufacturers what servers can one deploy? I think Micron is the last (?) major US-headquartered make
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Perhaps it uses just the one star, the Sun, at daytime+clouds. For marine celestial navigation, there are fifty-eight stars that are regularly used / have been standardized on: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by throw0101b 1y ago
I'm curious to know why resurrecting (e)Loran seems to be a hard sell: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loran-C China built out a GNSS backup with it: * https://www.gpsworld.com/china-completes-nati
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by throw0101b 1y ago
Someone is working on restoring an astro tracker from a B-52 bomber: * Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkvN74wuT8w * https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb5_Gufx3xFN9... * https:/&#
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by throw0101b 1y ago
CIRA, who run the .ca ccTLD, has a service available for Canadians: * https://www.cira.ca/en/canadian-shield/

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