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   by yodon 4y ago

   Asking how you could tell if Dinosaurs had a civilization like ours used to be a standard Geology Dept. PhD orals question. Their cities would of course be long long, so that's not a productive search area. The answer is you'd loo
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   by yodon 4y ago

   > what I think we need is all the browser features to be added to desktop operating systems. I trust you are aware Microsoft did exactly that, and the entire tech world exploded in annger, and the US Government took Microsoft to court to
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   by yodon 4y ago

   You might want to read up on Poe's law
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   by yodon 4y ago

   It looks like I was at Pole about 15-20 years before your earliest trips, back in the days when the Cold War was still a thing (technically just having ended, but still having been a major part of all of our lives). There were a lot of old
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   by yodon 4y ago

   I can't tell you why NASA funded it or on the basis of what calculations, only that they did. Large bureaucracies frequently do things that look irrational from the outside, as do those looking to prevent or win geopolitical conflicts
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   by yodon 4y ago

   It requires maintenance but it's not like the ice is going to melt in the South Pole "summer."
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   by yodon 4y ago

   >the shuttle could theoretically launch in a trajectory from Vandenburg, CA south towards and over Antarctica Having spent time at the South Pole, the ice runway at the South Pole Station was sized and built and in part funded by NASA to
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   by yodon 4y ago

   The doomsday clock was at 17 minutes to midnight during the Cuban Missile Crisis and is at 90 seconds today. The idea that the risk of nuclear war today is more than 10x the risk it was at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis (when the en
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   by yodon 4y ago

   Are you disagreeing with the deobfuscation that ChatGPT produced?
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    by yodon 4y ago

    Doppler looks interesting - are there other companies in this space doing good work?
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    by yodon 4y ago

    See Poe's Law [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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    by yodon 4y ago

    >If they can be trusted to over censor, why can’t they be trusted to censor to the extent required to avoid liability? Because the former is nearly impossible to avoid and the later is nearly impossible to accomplish.
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    by yodon 4y ago

    Extremely simple rules and policies make for great sound bites but they rarely handle complex problems well. The more dogmatically you apply a simple sound bite solution, the worse complex problems become.
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    by yodon 4y ago

    See for example [0] [0] https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra...
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    by yodon 4y ago

    It would be so nice to be able to just type "git discard my last commit that I havent pushed yet"
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    Ask HN: Better Git CLI using ChatCPT?

    2 points by yodon 4y ago|1 comments
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    by yodon 4y ago

    Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257150#34266486
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    by yodon 4y ago

    Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257150#34266486
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    by yodon 4y ago

    Hopefully someone else can find more context in the paper on left-to-right vs right-to-left sequencing (or animal-facing-direction or towards-the-head(?)-of-the-animal or ? sequencing). The most relevant quote in the paper I could find is &
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    by yodon 4y ago

    > Apple bets on XR video calls as ‘killer app’ I certainly have complaints about video conferencing but there's no issue with current gen video calls that requires a $3000 face mask with a tiny battery life as a valid "solution
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    by yodon 4y ago

    >Fly is way easier to navigate and use than AWS and its labyrinth of Cloud Scale™ horrors Give fly.io a couple years and it will end up forced to take on all the complexity and edge cases AWS and Azure have to deal with today. A shiny ne
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    by yodon 4y ago

    Great Obsidian plug-in as well
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    by yodon 4y ago

    If you think the author of Stratechery is uneducated in the field you probably need to do more research yourself
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    by yodon 4y ago

    This feels like the stack-exchange math-nerd's fitness version of "I wanted to be more productive so I spent 1000 hours writing this weird TODO app."
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    Earthquake M 6.4 – 12km WSW of Ferndale, CA(earthquake.usgs.gov)

    9 points by yodon 4y ago|0 comments
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    by yodon 4y ago

    Vercel for NextJS frontends and Azure Container Apps (hosted k8s that scales down to $0/month in hobby or light usage scenarios) for backends.
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    by yodon 4y ago

    >Website is just there to get feedback initially. To pick just one specific concern out of many, the text of the site suggests it was written by someone lacking critical experience with US and EU securities law. That suggests the site wa
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    by yodon 4y ago

    RustDesk looks to just have a generic AGPL license with no additional copyright listed beyond the Free Software Foundation copyright statement. IANAL but my read is that means RustDesk releases its code under a license that allows this type
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    by yodon 4y ago

    Thanks - it's also become apparent the repo is a fork of RustDesk, which isn't immediately obvious from either the site contents or the repo history.
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    by yodon 4y ago

    This issue suggests HopToDesk is a fork of RustDesk https://gitlab.com/hoptodesk/hoptodesk/-/issues/5