D-Coder

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by D-Coder 7mo ago
> If the average person does not know what an autopilot does The average person does know what an autopilot does, they're just wrong. I think the example you provided supports that.
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by D-Coder 7mo ago
A billion years of kludges.
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by D-Coder 7mo ago
> I don’t understand what the current crop of political leaders >thinks< There's your problem.
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by D-Coder 7mo ago
For news about things that are going right, I suggest https://fixthenews.com/ . You can get a free weekly email about progress in energy and the environment, national economies, health and medicine, crime etc (or pay for a l
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by D-Coder 8mo ago
If they have a family.
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by D-Coder 8mo ago
So: half (1+5) of them made it at least 50 days without cancer, and the other half made it at least 50 days with a smaller tumor? This sounds excellent to me. I agree that the sentence you quoted is overselling, though.
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by D-Coder 8mo ago
Humans aren't 100% perfect drivers. The question is not, "When will FSD reach 100%," it's "When (if ever) will FSD be better than humans."
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by D-Coder 9mo ago
You should definitely demand your money back.
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by D-Coder 9mo ago
I found that a weekly meeting for a language-learning group worked great. Your family and even your friends learn, "Oh Wednesday evening, D-Coder's busy."
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by D-Coder 9mo ago
I've managed to learn Esperanto fluently without ever moving to... er... um.
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by D-Coder 9mo ago
> They don’t have to censor because their sources censor for them. If the source has not put something on the web... how is anyone supposed to get past that? Or am I misunderstanding your statement?
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by D-Coder 10mo ago
Sending the tech from 100 years in the future to today is not directly comparable to sending today's tech 100 years back. By 2125, military aircraft will probably be silent, able to rapidly ascend to 100,000 feet (out of visible sight)
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by D-Coder 10mo ago
Here's my analysis: If an alien intelligence has reached Earth, it has technical capabilities at least a century ahead of ours. Either (a) they do want to be seen by us, or (b) they don't care if we see them, or (c) they do not wa
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by D-Coder 10mo ago
This article links to a longer, more detailed article: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/doge-elon-... .
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by D-Coder 10mo ago
"that one time I did the stupid thing in high school"? I think most highschoolers do a stupid thing about every eighteen minutes. You did great!
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by D-Coder 11mo ago
"Cars are a lot safer now" does not seem related to "40 years ago, it was common to fix your own car" to me.
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by D-Coder 11mo ago
My favorite is JANFU: Joint Army-Navy Fuck-Up.
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by D-Coder 11mo ago
That's what the boattrails are for. https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1668403778611-4f20c4afc816...
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by D-Coder 11mo ago
_Washington Post_ just had an article about why ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/12/america-r... ). "In 1984, a German historian compiled 210 explanations historians had suggested for
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by D-Coder 11mo ago
"The detective, the murderer, _and_ the victim."
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by D-Coder 11mo ago
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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by D-Coder 11mo ago
> which got me uninvited from a bunch of meetings. So, not a total loss.
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by D-Coder 1y ago
How do they know which five papers to read?
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by D-Coder 1y ago
Blame Alfred Nobel, he set up the original categories. According to Wikipedia his goals were prizes "which annually recognize those who 'conferred the greatest benefit to humankind'". Perhaps he didn't consider math
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by D-Coder 1y ago
There are probably 37,392 papers on this. So your "should" is probably just impossible for humans.
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by D-Coder 1y ago
Unfortunately HN does not support use of the Sarcasm font. /s
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by D-Coder 1y ago
"Beginning Oct. 1, motorists with a Clean Air Vehicle decal will no longer be able to drive solo in carpool lanes because the program was not extended by the federal government..." So it's a special EV privilege that is going
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by D-Coder 1y ago
> I don't understand the dig here. Is that that Elon is required to memorize the face of every single person he interacts with? That he is required (well, expected) to remember the faces of people he _fired_.
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by D-Coder 1y ago
> Funded primarily by US taxpayers via 6 NIH grants from the National Cancer Institute and NCATS Well, that will be fixed soon. Think of the billionaires!
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by D-Coder 1y ago
> $200 is still a lot when a bunch of cameras cost maybe $20. Anything except the lowest end car will cost $20K or more, so $200 is one percent of that price.

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