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by usrusr 6mo ago
Tax payer is funding a lot of resilience stuff. At least in places where resilience exists at all. GP is where emergency services will charge their radios once their generator fuel runs out. Or whoever the local community improvises as subs
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by usrusr 6mo ago
A bit sarcastic, but still too close to reality for comfort: For the managers, it's about a bonus. For engineers it's the existential question of future hirability: every future employer will love the candidate with experience in
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by usrusr 6mo ago
Better DEM than ancient SRTM have been available and used for a long time, by those who are fine with using different resolution in different areas. But they won't save you from the surface climb at a tunnel and unless your resolution
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by usrusr 6mo ago
Which of them are privately owned? In a publicly traded company, there's an inherent logic that people who believe that the company can get by with squeezing customers a little harder will end up with higher projections than those who
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by usrusr 6mo ago
Counter position (not sure it's better than yours): what are the chances that device makers would actually offer seriously local, and not just something that does work in airplane mode, but then still connects to their cloud later, if
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by usrusr 6mo ago
So that's what's keeping Microsoft from just running WINE on an MS-flavored Linux or perhaps a clean slate kernel as their next OS. I've been wondering for a while, this is by far the best explanation.
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by usrusr 6mo ago
If Valve started to routinely do Bad Things on Steam they'd be gone pretty quickly. Many would go to GoG, some just stop buying games. Bad Things do occasionally happen (bad things like those "oops, we don't actually have lic
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by usrusr 6mo ago
An interesting perspective: general, absolutely, just nowhere near superhuman in all kinds of tasks. Not even close to human in many. But intelligent? No doubt, far beyond all not entirely unrealistic expectations. But that seems almost lik
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by usrusr 6mo ago
Do you think that we should live in a world where investors who buy on a comical misinterpretation of an acronym are protected from their naivety? Why isn't there a minority shareholder lawsuit on the news because someone bought MSFT n
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by usrusr 6mo ago
It goes a little deeper than "does not care" though: worn out can also be a symptom of caring a lot. Caring in the way of having a strong desire to identify with the stuff worn, and newly bought stuff just not checking that box. T
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by usrusr 6mo ago
It's more than a game of scale: people who almost but not quite fall for the scam that follows the spam incur real cost to them. They don't want to trick as many people as possible with their mail, they want to trick only the most
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by usrusr 7mo ago
Heh, establishing an "opsec failure guy" on the boat with software on his Garmin that can be activated on days with special secrecy demands to translate his runs to a plausible fake location? I like that idea. It would actually fi
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by usrusr 7mo ago
When it started I thought it was one third Zuckerberg just being the romantic geek wishing to making his childhood gaming dreams a reality (and their adolescence continuation: becoming the best virtual swordfighter by merit of having commis
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by usrusr 7mo ago
As in when your secondary memory is fast enough, after the first 10% of the model are processed you can swap their memory with the part for 50% to 60% and when that is done you swap back to have the 0-10% ready in time for the next iteratio
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by usrusr 7mo ago
The beauty is that often used parameters don't live (and die) in .bash_history. They live on the file system. Sure, the same can be achieved by wrapping in a script, but that needs both a name and content and they better stay in sync o
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by usrusr 7mo ago
In Germany we have a term for entities headed by people who publicly say things Thiel and his gang say. It's verfassungsfeindliche Organisation. I really don't understand how they can still be considered government suppliers to pu
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by usrusr 7mo ago
> Your DB isn't going any faster by switching to something else, if that's what you think. Only true if none of the DB accesses are about stuff that could live as state across requests in a server that wasn't php. Sure, fo
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by usrusr 7mo ago
Almost seems as if microchips are approaching their "B-52 age": "Those things are still flying! Introduced in 1955!" "But that was the B version, all those that are still flying are the H version, so many iterations
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by usrusr 7mo ago
> Plus you then also need to get them all to rotate so that you can get the efficiency of normal flight. Not when you simply don't use them for horizontal flight. You just shut the VTOL hatches and forget that you aren't a conv
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by usrusr 7mo ago
These days my vote would go to a quad. Impeller fore, impeller aft and one in each wing. Behind doors, obviously, like the bays for retractable landing gear - this is a solved problem. They don't have to be efficient, because how much
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by usrusr 7mo ago
If it slows down Rust development it's not pragmatic. And if it creates a cultural schism between full commitment and pragmatic approaches, it's also trouble. Remember Scala?
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by usrusr 7mo ago
Counterpoint: if any language could thrive in that valley of despair between pragmatic and theoretical excellence you're referring to, it would be Rust. Because so much of the cost is already paid for once you have satisfied the borrow
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by usrusr 7mo ago
Do they go away or do they use the weak but good enough (for many) Google LLM response instead?
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by usrusr 7mo ago
What if the CEO isn't just telling the company how much to invest, but also has influence on how that money is used? Google's relative success, if it exists, I'd rather not judge, isn't from investing more than everybody
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by usrusr 7mo ago
So how much is the American household spending on Waymo, in average? It's totally insignificant.
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by usrusr 7mo ago
Valuable in what metric? I'm very much in the brownfield-has-the-lessons camp, but one of the lessons is that this experience has a very low market value. In fact it's so impossible to downgrade from "senior in $outdated&quot
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by usrusr 7mo ago
And yet there were a lot of games with procedural generation as their centrepiece that did not suffer from this at all. The original X-Com games come to mind. I guess we can somehow "feel" where it's simulation, where it&#x27
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by usrusr 7mo ago
Give it time: at some point nobody will be consumer except for the equity lords. Savings will reach them.
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by usrusr 7mo ago
In analogy to suspension of disbelief I'd like to postulate suspension of genericity: when I sink countless hours skimming text content in some The Elder Scrolls I'm not really convinced that much of it is a story worth consuming
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by usrusr 7mo ago
Yeah, let's look at it through the national lense. For every researcher who defects to the US to make their PhD there and most likely stay, taxpayers of the country they came from have paid for the education of hundreds of students. Be

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