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by thx-2718 3y ago
Fortunately for us we can see them. Gravity waves are much harder to observe.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Should pipe it off to be a coffee cup heater.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Did you try going there? Inexplicably it's worse than I could have imagined. I found one thread with 9 comments. In the popular section. And it devolved into someone calling another an 'asshole'.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Yet Digg.com for whatever reason still exists. I wonder how these old websites that seemingly no one uses still churn out money?
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by thx-2718 3y ago
"(Oh and fun fact: recently I wanted to test out Moore's Law, and see how the RasPi 4 compared to that Core Duo laptop (that I still have!) Well, the 18y-old laptop still handily beat out the RasPi4 in single-CPU performance! Moor
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Lately I've been running Fedora. Early Ubtuntu & Mark Shuttleworth were a big part of my teens and my first real experience with a Linux Desktop and Philosophy tied to Open Source Software. It's been fun watching Ubuntu evolve
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by thx-2718 3y ago
2024 is preparing itself to one heck of a great election year. Twitter doesn't even attempt to stop the spread of provably false information. YouTube changed their policies on spreading election lies. Now AI imagery is being employed t
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Once upon a time you could go to Reddit and skip the link because the top comment both summarized the article and gave poignant relevant commentary. Often times from someone that had professional knowledge in that field.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
You're assuming it's not going to be a 'They Live' sort of situation though.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Scratches head at how framework laptop is less 'hackable' than a Mac but okay. "(in the sense that I can't make it do what I want and also be usable as a daily driver that lets me do stuff like pay for stuff, use public
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Sooner or later we'll catch them on a doorbell camera right? Or maybe they'll just sophisticated enough to be able to auto remove themselves from digital recordings similar to how we have AI to remove people in the background of f
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by thx-2718 3y ago
It's a weird balance right? You'd think letting 3rd party developed apps for your platform frees up resources you would otherwise put in to develop your own app. Individuals that use third party apps are probably power users so th
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Am I missing something there? Appears a browser is still required. i.e. at the moment these don't work with Firefox.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
What do you mean by 'hidden' knowledge? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_unwritten_doctrines Plato potentially 'hid' knowledge by not writing it down.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I guess those things wouldn't be included in 'Most' then.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Are beauty standards the same as what an individual finds attractive? Someone could very easily select partners on what the society standard is and disregard their own personal feelings or they could do the opposite. Seems to me there'
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Wouldn't that be an inefficiency of your organization? i.e. not following defined standards and verifying interoperability? Standards are made for a reason, I expect professionals to be informed of them and put effort into adhering to
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Well as someone whom had formal education taken from me at around 11-13 years I am not sure that I am better off having worked instead of going to school. In fact when I look around at my peers surprisingly they're more prepared for th
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Technology in the service of exclusion and harassment of the most vulnerable(laquadrature.net)
3 points by thx-2718 3y ago|0 comments
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by thx-2718 3y ago
'Grusch told the Debrief that he had filed a complaint with the intelligence community inspector general. That complaint contained classified locations, program names and other data, the Debrief said. Nick Pope, who spent the early 199
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Um am I not understanding what "Web App" means? "A web application (or web app) is application software that is accessed using a web browser. Web applications are delivered on the World Wide Web to users with an active networ
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by thx-2718 3y ago
> Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% in favour of active travel and being able to live without a car. I want to see governments invest in this properly. If you follow the money, however, governments invest massively in car infrastruc
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Is what a country or society outwardly values the same as what an individual instinctively finds attractive?
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Autonomous Waymo car runs over dog in San Francisco(arstechnica.com)
6 points by thx-2718 3y ago|1 comments
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by thx-2718 3y ago
The Federation's national interests are driven by two primary objectives: the enforcement of the prime directive and the expansion of our alliance through the discovery and inclusion of planets and civilizations. These noble pursuits h
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by thx-2718 3y ago
> and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values > Militarism has been a significant element of the imperialist or expansionist ideologies of many nations throughout history > predominance of the armed f
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by thx-2718 3y ago
> So maybe the solution is for VC companies is to hire fewer jerks? Why is this got to be the take? Maybe the more effective strategy is for female lead startups to hire more attractive women to promote their business getting funding.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
You didn't read past that clearly. If we can't even agree on the simple understanding and general meaning of a word or term it's kind of hard to have a useful discussion.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
So I think we're operating on different interpretations of the term 'militaristic'. Star Trek primarily depicts the Federations (of planets) Military on the frontier of their space. The society within the Federation is genera
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by thx-2718 3y ago
It is kind of interesting which parts of Roddenberry's creation people focus the most on. iirc He wanted to promote egalitarian values whilst portraying the efficiencies and comradery of a uniform service.

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