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Trump's BBB has $85M to move space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian to Texas(space.com)
17 points by zzzeek 1y ago|6 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I see a bunch of "nobody knows everything, this old man needs to appreciate modern technology stacks" comments, and in some ways I blame the post for this because it kind of meanders into that realm where it gets into abstractions
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I think it's a serious question because something really big is being missed here. There seem to be very different types of developers out there and/or working on very different kinds of codebases. Hypothetically, maybe you h
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by zzzeek 1y ago
> It could be an app where you press a button and the phone says "boo ICE" oh great, stealing my idea?
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Scientists tracking 'interstellar' object that's come from another solar system(independent.co.uk)
12 points by zzzeek 1y ago|2 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Totally my reaction - "I've worked with dozens of teams ....". Really ?
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Yeah I didn't say "richer" I said "better"
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by zzzeek 1y ago
pointless pedantry "free" means "no payment is due for medical care, regardless of how extensive the care"
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by zzzeek 1y ago
can bike to work without being run down by a 10 ft high pickup truck, I dunno sign me up maybe
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by zzzeek 1y ago
you get to live in France, have free health care and school for your kids (and I bet these underpaid researchers in france actually get completely unheard of in the US things like modest pensions). How much do you actually need to be paid?
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by zzzeek 1y ago
DOGE couldn't reveal what they found! ELON couldn't handle it and had to leave! The TRUTH....went deeper than Cigarette Man ever dreamed... The one man who KNEW IT ALL had only one job, to save the world. and his name? Big Bal
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Waste, fraud and abuse discovered during the Biden administration that absolutely dwarfs anything DOGE ever dreamed of. too bad FBI / DOJ et al are all run by right wing media clowns now.
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by zzzeek 1y ago
nuclear destruction of civilization vs. not, it's all just sides and ideology. maybe humanity doesn't deserve to exist and we should be pushing for nuclear annihilation. There's two sides and both should be discussed and ho
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Make Fun of Them(wheresyoured.at)
3 points by zzzeek 1y ago|1 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
as a lifelong depressive, the "sticky thinking" issue is the main reason why practices like mindfulness meditation are essential. Though MM I've been able to isolate what it actually "feels" like to resist letting
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Strike Set Back Iran's Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says(nytimes.com)
10 points by zzzeek 1y ago|8 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
THANK YOU. Please make robots. LLMs should be put to work for *manual* tasks, not art/creative/intellectual tasks. The goal is to improve humanity. not put us to work putting screws inside of iphones (five years later)
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Didnt want to say it in my comment above but I agree and I generally think even Oct 7 hamas attack might not have happened if iran were less isolated but netanyahu wanted oct 7 to happen pretty badly as it's kept him out of jail for a
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by zzzeek 1y ago
ruff does not support custom plugins so is useless to me
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by zzzeek 1y ago
because the US pulled out of the deal and reinstated the sanctions which were the whole reason Iran joined the JCPOA in the first place.
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by zzzeek 1y ago
only after Trump ruined the agreement by pulling the US out of it in 2018. Before then, Iran was complying.
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by zzzeek 1y ago
this is a misunderstanding of the full context. The US abandoned the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 under Trump's order to withdraw from the agreement (which was, IMO, strictly part of his package to ruin the legacy of Obama, who he desp
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by zzzeek 1y ago
first page of Sun Tzu, "Don't Tweet To The World that You're About to Attack"
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Officials concede they don't know the fate of Iran's uranium stockpile(nytimes.com)
125 points by zzzeek 1y ago|231 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
This is exactly what's happening and I wish people would say it more often. Plenty of reporting showed the IDF had indication oct 7 attacks were about to happen and warnings were ignored.
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by zzzeek 1y ago
the "law", OK well here's "law", TikTok was supposed to be banned from the US about six months ago and SCOTUS even upheld it. Arrests are supposed to be made with agents that identify themselves and even if it&#
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Well I certainly hope we can clearcut a few million acres and get some new fossil fueled datacenters up and running, my Copilot has been writing shitty code lately
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by zzzeek 1y ago
dont piss off any nation-states that would want to take your site down, should help
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Sure but who needs democracy anyway? Monarchy is the way of the future for famous tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel (and aren't we all just aspiring tech oligarchs on HN?). AI monarchs are the way of the future.
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by zzzeek 1y ago
but when Hunter Biden creates shell companies, it's the Biden Crime Family

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