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by walrus01 23d ago
As I understand it one of the reasons why PNG developed so many unique languages is the extreme geographic complexity of the place. This resulted in language developing in isolation. I have a personal theory that people living hunter/g
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by walrus01 23d ago
Well, in the sense that I'm resolutely opposed to the efforts of missionaries in general and personally believe they have caused a great deal of harm to indigenous cultures around the world, more like the anti-gospel .
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by walrus01 23d ago
Right, because before today, I have such an extensive history of commenting on missionaries or PNG. My HN history is replete with it! I'm so predictable.
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by walrus01 23d ago
I would bet $20 your parents were either evangelical missionaries or working with something directly adjacent to their efforts. Now at the risk of over generalizing, there's basically three major reasons why (presumably white, foreign)
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by walrus01 23d ago
I read it more as that a remote highlands PNG villager is not "innoculated" against the concept of, and is not aware of the methodologies that will be used by odd foreigners who have a well thought out plan to convert people to th
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by walrus01 23d ago
As a bit of an observation on that specific project... By hand as a human you could spend six months of the equivalent of a full time job doing that. Even if you had extensive knowledge in all of its discrete pieces. One of the things codin
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by walrus01 23d ago
With the "intelligence" of code focused and capable llm in the last six months, the main problem I'm seeing now is where some total amateur who has no previous knowledge of coding tries to one shot a project. People who have
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by walrus01 23d ago
At the risk of taking the bait, what percentage of PNG highland villagers living in grass thatched huts do you think have 24x7 electricity and broadband Internet and intermediate to advanced level literacy in one of the Internet's majo
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by walrus01 23d ago
To be clear I don't have a beef with the author of the article, but the missionaries themselves. I just thought it was odd to write an article about foreigners going up into the PNG highlands and not mention missionaries at all. Not su
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by walrus01 23d ago
Most consumers know Renault as an ordinary car manufacturer but also worth mentioning it's a major manufacturer of armored vehicles for the French armed forces.
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by walrus01 23d ago
And on the same day that a (very likely Russian) UAV had to be shot down in Lithuanian air space. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjx2zgk7edlzo
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by walrus01 23d ago
I read the article and I comprehend the English language. The article puts a specific emphasis on foreigners "discovering" that the rural interior of the country was populated, and foreigners going up into the highlands and contac
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by walrus01 23d ago
It's a very incomplete picture of the situation in PNG to describe it in a reasonably lengthy article (particularly the situation in the post 1945 modern era) without at least spending a paragraph on the presence and influence of missi
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by walrus01 23d ago
On the other hand, the MAF is a highly questionable organization that exists specifically to convert the local people away from their own belief systems into whatever brand of evangelical Christianity its supporters are peddling. There&#x27
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by walrus01 23d ago
I did a ctrl-f in the article for "missionary" or "missionaries" and found nothing. There's a real problem (in my opinion) with weird evangelical Christian missionaries who treat the population of PNG as some sort o
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by walrus01 24d ago
Not to be confused with "commercial paper" which is a short term promissory note in real money. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=finance+i...
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by walrus01 24d ago
https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/a/b/f/a...
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by walrus01 24d ago
My favorite term for this in general is "irrational exuberance". Plenty of it was seen during the most bubble-like days of the 1997-2000 dotcom boom. Anyone remember beenz and flooz?
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by walrus01 24d ago
Previously in the NY Times: "These Employees Like Their A.I. Boss. Its Shop Is Kind of a Disaster." https://archive.is/dRegk
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by walrus01 24d ago
At this price I don't think you can expect the high quality cameras and processing power needed to do AR.
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by walrus01 25d ago
ISP operations/back-end systems perspective, there's indeed tons of RRA files out there still getting charts drawn based off them with rrdtool, but increasingly everyone is trying to store metrics in things like influxdb and draw
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by walrus01 25d ago
Don't worry, I'm sure we can teach a slop generator how to emulate this style. LLMs already know how to use rrttool and mrtg! Coming soon to an Internet near you, faux-historical slop writeups.
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by walrus01 25d ago
https://archive.is/OBWsh edit: this entire article managed to FAIL to mention the word "Dubai" even once, if a cursory Ctrl-F is correct. Dubai is where Vy Capital is based. Any information on who their specific i
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Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)(pages.cs.wisc.edu)
108 points by walrus01 25d ago|15 comments
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by walrus01 25d ago
It doesn't solve everything but the 'full' desktop version of the ublock origin plugin runs just fine in Android on Firefox. I can't even imagine using any other mobile browser now. I don't know what the situation i
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by walrus01 25d ago
Yes, and I've also seen the absolute shitflood of horrible ads. Every time I see somebody else's system that isn't running ublock origin or similar... They clearly are prioritizing the ad revenue over any actual "don&#x
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by walrus01 25d ago
> 2) There are more ads going out then can be reviewed The "more than can be reviewed" might have been a logical conclusion in a purely human based workflow, even if you have the lowest cost per head click workers in like, an e
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by walrus01 25d ago
I don't disagree with you, I have tons of things that have public interfaces (as mundane as a fully patched wordpress where the wp-admin login is accessible to external blog writers), we get tens of thousands of random shit anything pe
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by walrus01 25d ago
Please read the article, it's not the volume of the NTP requests, they're actively sending exploit/attempt to compromise payloads. They're probing things in a way that you would ordinarily only do to your own internal in
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by walrus01 25d ago
Remember in 2003 when netgear hardcoded a university's NTP server into a ton of their products? Well.... https://www.google.com/search?&q=university+ntp+server+netge... https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~p

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